premed_throwaway_pnw
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Cumulative GPA: 3.64, upward trend (3.8+ junior and senior year at T20 Research State School)
Science GPA: 3.53
MCAT Score: taken once, 519 (130/131/129/129)
Research
- 1 year in top dermatology clinical research lab, no publications or posters. Mainly calling patients/digging through medical records to maintain database, helping med students/post-docs with their wet lab work, transporting tissue samples from hospital to lab
Volunteering (clinical) – include hours/sites:
- 100 hours as a patient-family liaison at a level one trauma center neuroscience ICU. Mainly rounding on patients and asking them if they want a book/newspaper/just to talk, then helping families secure housing nearby and find showers in the hospital
Physician shadowing – include hours/specialties:
- 64 hours of rural primary care
- 8 hours of pediatrics
- many, many hours of urgent care where I work as a scribe/MA
Non-clinical volunteering:
- approx. 100 hours of piano lessons to college kids that couldn't afford
Extracurricular activities:
- 2 years of rowing every morning before class at three separate rowing clubs, including briefly for the university itself
- 18 years of classical piano, performed at everything from weddings to funerals
- Director of Academic Affairs for large fraternity, nationally recognized for bringing house GPA from bottom 5 on campus to top 5
- Neurobiology club sophomore and junior year
- Senior class gift council
Employment history:
- Clinical cancer research lab - part time during school year, full time during summer for one year
- Scribe/MA - will have 1 year, includes extensive 1-on-1 time with patients, phlebotomy, urine/stool sample collection and rapid testing, assisting with minor prodecures (cutting sutures, etc)
- Kitchen Assistant at sorority - Not much more to say about this but it was the job I had freshman/sophomore/most of junior year
Immediate family members in medicine? (y/n): No
Specialty of interest: Primary Care
Ethnicity/gender: White male
Science GPA: 3.53
MCAT Score: taken once, 519 (130/131/129/129)
Research
- 1 year in top dermatology clinical research lab, no publications or posters. Mainly calling patients/digging through medical records to maintain database, helping med students/post-docs with their wet lab work, transporting tissue samples from hospital to lab
Volunteering (clinical) – include hours/sites:
- 100 hours as a patient-family liaison at a level one trauma center neuroscience ICU. Mainly rounding on patients and asking them if they want a book/newspaper/just to talk, then helping families secure housing nearby and find showers in the hospital
Physician shadowing – include hours/specialties:
- 64 hours of rural primary care
- 8 hours of pediatrics
- many, many hours of urgent care where I work as a scribe/MA
Non-clinical volunteering:
- approx. 100 hours of piano lessons to college kids that couldn't afford
Extracurricular activities:
- 2 years of rowing every morning before class at three separate rowing clubs, including briefly for the university itself
- 18 years of classical piano, performed at everything from weddings to funerals
- Director of Academic Affairs for large fraternity, nationally recognized for bringing house GPA from bottom 5 on campus to top 5
- Neurobiology club sophomore and junior year
- Senior class gift council
Employment history:
- Clinical cancer research lab - part time during school year, full time during summer for one year
- Scribe/MA - will have 1 year, includes extensive 1-on-1 time with patients, phlebotomy, urine/stool sample collection and rapid testing, assisting with minor prodecures (cutting sutures, etc)
- Kitchen Assistant at sorority - Not much more to say about this but it was the job I had freshman/sophomore/most of junior year
Immediate family members in medicine? (y/n): No
Specialty of interest: Primary Care
Ethnicity/gender: White male
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