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Hi all,
At the moment, my 3 most meaningful experiences are:
Research Experience
- 800-1000 hours leading my own imaging project in a BME Lab across 3 years. No pubs, but presented a poster at the highest conference in my field. Benchwork, imaging analysis, specimen dissection, I did it all. I'm proud.
Nonprofit that I founded and run
- 400 hours from Aug 20 to May 21 founding, building, and driving my own nonprofit. We're 501c3 exempt and have raised enough funding to operate for a year. We distribute meals to food pantries across 2 states. By June, we'll hit 1000 meals distributed. Extremely proud. This was really hard but we honestly took a stab at food insecurity during COVID and I couldn't be happier. Might be my most unique experience.
Leadership
- 400 hours across 7 semesters - chair of member development of my fraternity. I led a spiritual discussion group that I am extremely proud of and plays into my PS/why I want to be a physician. It also does a great job of incorporating my Philosophy degree and demonstrates that I'm able to connect with people, I think. I also built and ran an academic support system from the ground up that brought my chapter's GPA from the bottom of IFC to the #2 position by graduation, extremely proud of this.
None of these are clinical. I've been advised by some people online to swap the fraternity experience for ED scribing, which I did for ~150 hours. I mention scribing in my PS, but it honestly wasn't as transformative/longitudinal an activity as my fraternity programs were, and I feel slightly uncomfortable stretching it to an MME. However, I can definitely see the common sense of 'if you want to enter medicine, I would expect that your clinical experience would be one of your most meaningful experiences to you'
@Goro @Faha , what is your wisdom on this? There are few SDN threads on this, which are composed of mostly other students saying not to worry. How would you react if you saw someone with these MMEs, or with no directly medical/clinical MMEs?
Thanks for your thoughts.
At the moment, my 3 most meaningful experiences are:
Research Experience
- 800-1000 hours leading my own imaging project in a BME Lab across 3 years. No pubs, but presented a poster at the highest conference in my field. Benchwork, imaging analysis, specimen dissection, I did it all. I'm proud.
Nonprofit that I founded and run
- 400 hours from Aug 20 to May 21 founding, building, and driving my own nonprofit. We're 501c3 exempt and have raised enough funding to operate for a year. We distribute meals to food pantries across 2 states. By June, we'll hit 1000 meals distributed. Extremely proud. This was really hard but we honestly took a stab at food insecurity during COVID and I couldn't be happier. Might be my most unique experience.
Leadership
- 400 hours across 7 semesters - chair of member development of my fraternity. I led a spiritual discussion group that I am extremely proud of and plays into my PS/why I want to be a physician. It also does a great job of incorporating my Philosophy degree and demonstrates that I'm able to connect with people, I think. I also built and ran an academic support system from the ground up that brought my chapter's GPA from the bottom of IFC to the #2 position by graduation, extremely proud of this.
None of these are clinical. I've been advised by some people online to swap the fraternity experience for ED scribing, which I did for ~150 hours. I mention scribing in my PS, but it honestly wasn't as transformative/longitudinal an activity as my fraternity programs were, and I feel slightly uncomfortable stretching it to an MME. However, I can definitely see the common sense of 'if you want to enter medicine, I would expect that your clinical experience would be one of your most meaningful experiences to you'
@Goro @Faha , what is your wisdom on this? There are few SDN threads on this, which are composed of mostly other students saying not to worry. How would you react if you saw someone with these MMEs, or with no directly medical/clinical MMEs?
Thanks for your thoughts.