work experience

[Deleted member 237747]

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I have 3 years of work experience. It is in field not related to medical or dental field. How much should I elaborate in my application? I intend to put couple of bullets on this as I thought the experience is not related. Wondering how others handle this?

 

[2Pints]

I have 3 years of work experience. It is in field not related to medical or dental field. How much should I elaborate in my application? I intend to put couple of bullets on this as I thought the experience is not related. Wondering how others handle this?

Have you checked out the Work Activities post for 2014-2015 applicants? It has a lot of information. http://forums.studentdoctor.net/thr...ork-activities-tips-thread-2014-2015.1062704/

Think about the characteristics and skills you have developed with your work experience. Anything with customer service, for example, would develop useful communication skills among other things. Since you didn't post your specific experience it's difficult to assist how you could spin it.

 

[Shjanzey]

I didn't mention much of my previous 10 years experience. I did use a slot in the work/extra curriculars to write down every job I had since graduating. I think I mentioned how I learned about working with a team, data analysis, and possibly one more thing. I didn't really focus too much of what I am going away from 😀

 

[LupaCupcake]

How does it apply to being a physician....how did it improve YOU as a person?

 

[Elewynne]

I worked in another career for a while prior to medicine. I summarized what I did briefly, but spent most of my space emphasizing the characteristics and skills it gave me that are applicable to any career and medicine in particular such as leadership, decision making, etc..

 

[wholeheartedly]

Work experience is relevant to being a physician, as indicated above. So yeah, things like leadership, project management, teamwork, so on and so forth.

 

[Mad Jack]

I have 3 years of work experience. It is in field not related to medical or dental field. How much should I elaborate in my application? I intend to put couple of bullets on this as I thought the experience is not related. Wondering how others handle this?

The same way you would on a resume. Be short and to the point but make yourself sound good at the same time.