While medical schools need to see clinical experiences in your W&A section, they’re also looking to see non-clinical experiences that highlight your abilities in critical thinking and innovation, teamwork and collaboration, leadership, and empathy. The roles that we highlight throughout this week will demonstrate the wide-ranging experiences and qualities that you have to offer to your medical school community.
Science-Related Anything: A science-related club or volunteering experience will be attractive to schools because it shows a passion for scientific study. Tutoring and mentoring looks especially good because teaching is a big part of medicine. We had a client who spent a year's worth of Tuesday afternoons helping high school students learn about physiology. It improved his ability to break down information. You'll be teaching med students as a resident, residents as a fellow, fellows as an attending, and you'll be translating complexities for a layman patient daily.