Work Experience

[oar2386]

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Do you include all work experience when filling out the apps, even if it has no relevance to the medical field. For example, I worked a summer in a department store in college. I could technically fit it into working as a team, learning chain of command, ect. Or will the boards just see this as BS? Is it even right to put these things down?
Thanks for the help guys

 

[rddoms]

I posted all work experience I had during college, mainly to show that I wasn't doing anything but studying. Some people will tell you to use only medically relevant experience, while others will tell you to use all work experience.

The main question is this: Does listing your non-medical experience add anything to your application/story?

 

[JustAGuy]

I included professional work and the tutoring and lab jobs I had in college.

 

[jm192]

I would count everything that took up my time during college. It shows you can balance time. Working at mcdonalds 8 hours takes up the same amount of time as working at the hospital for 8 hours.

 

[ArkansasRanger]

I'll put work experience (teaching, part-time EMS, law enforcement) because that's what I've done with my life for the last seven years since college.

 

[kdhmed]

I put everything. Bussing tables, valet-ing cars, research, docs offices, shadowing. I did an archaeological dig that I put on there. Put that I had recorded a CD with a band. Anything to stand out.....

 

[st2205]

Everyone volunteered in the ER and was in the pre-med club. Fewer people worked in a steel yard, which I got asked about more than anything academically or medically related.

 

[jphwki82]

I lumped all my part time jobs, which were not medically relevant, under one E.C. category. Listed them by name and dates of employment. Then I wrote a sentence above that I was employed, while attending school, at 30+ hrs per week. Saved the reader time, and I didn't need to describe job duties that were irrelevant to the reader.