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I've been working on writing my activities for AMCAS, and I'm having some trouble picking out my 3 MME's. My adviser wants me to pick one clinical experience, one non-clinical volunteering experience, and one research experience. He pretty much brushed off my suggestions for my MME's, since they either didn't have enough hours (~50 hours over the past year tutoring kids) or they weren't related to medicine/volunteering (4 years in a sports club).
My only significant clinical experience is being a scribe for a year, but I don't feel like it's something I'm passionate about. I realize the importance of having clinical experience and I definitely learned a lot on the job, but at the end of the day it's not an experience that had a profound effect on my personal growth or my decision to go into medicine. If an interviewer asked me about my time as a scribe, I think I'd honestly give a pretty superficial answer (i.e. "I helped docs write their charts and learned to work in a high stress environment").
Do adcoms specifically want those 3 types of experiences to be our most meaningful? Would it be a bad idea to substitute my scribe experience with intercollegiate sports or something? I wasn't super competitive, but it was a large part of my undergrad experience.
My only significant clinical experience is being a scribe for a year, but I don't feel like it's something I'm passionate about. I realize the importance of having clinical experience and I definitely learned a lot on the job, but at the end of the day it's not an experience that had a profound effect on my personal growth or my decision to go into medicine. If an interviewer asked me about my time as a scribe, I think I'd honestly give a pretty superficial answer (i.e. "I helped docs write their charts and learned to work in a high stress environment").
Do adcoms specifically want those 3 types of experiences to be our most meaningful? Would it be a bad idea to substitute my scribe experience with intercollegiate sports or something? I wasn't super competitive, but it was a large part of my undergrad experience.