WayOutWestMom

^^ Maybe not.....D2 is in Kenya working w/ female AIDS patients. All are women who have been infected by rape, by unfaithful sexual partners or via prostitution because it's the only way they feed their families. Some are young teenaged girls--younger than her-- who have been sold to older men. She's doing hospice work mostly. D2 is very tender-hearted and the work is very difficult for her. She says she comes home at the end of the day and cries. It's making her rethink her future in medicine.

entomom

That's really tough work, both the the situations she deals with and the fact that it's end of life care. What is her interest, to do Intl. work? Work with AIDS patients? I'm sure she knows that what she's doing is about as difficult as medicine gets, but meaningful as well. Best to her with her work and in figuring out what direction she wants to head.

mcat2

^ Thanks for sharing the touching story. Talking about Kenya, a few days ago there was a CNN article covering miserable lives of some girls:

Activist battles Kenyan tradition of rape 'beading' - CNN.com

Not all families/societies will "protect" their youngsters. Sigh...

DS said he would like to join some student-run clinic which helps the poor. (Isn't it really late for a post-premed to do this? LOL. This is his "pace" by his nature. He did earn some money and donated to some organization which helped the poor -- again, after the application.)

Let's see if he could find time while as a busy MS student. (and where will he be?! Still not very sure.)

WayOutWestMom

D2 thought she wanted to do Peace Corp after college, but now probably not.

Her area of interest is neurology. Most of her previous medical experience has been doing rehab with stroke and head injury patients.

I have no clue why she volunteered for this program. I think she was expecting to be doing something different from what's she's actually doing. She thought she was going to be doing testing & education.

bigreddawgie

got to rewrite my personal statement. fun stuff

joesboy

DS is attending a medical school open house today. He grabbed the opportunity even though it is a bit of of a drive. It is so rare for a school to open it's doors to interested students before interviews.

bluedevilmike

Re #56: GA, I wrote back a few hours after you sent your note. Did it get through okay?

GA2012MOM

^

Yes it did, thank you so much for that, she really took the advice to heart and especially took notice of what you said about location. Great advice, as always.

kristin5792

Busy and stressed out with applications? Do yourself a favor, take a break, and read this CC classic

Clam fart!!!!!!!! Oh my God... What did I do?!

PS: results can be found on posts from 4/3/08

pccool52

Submitted the primary today. Let the waiting game begin!

bigreddawgie

i've submitted my primaries also. my committee packet is also in. im just waiting on my transcripts to get in. they were supposedly sent last week. i also ordered a transcript for myself, and I havent received it yet even though I live 30 min away from my school. it's driving me nuts, and im afraid they didnt even get sent out

ChemFreak

For the work/activities section did you guys end up using all 700 characters? I'm a little confused as to what I should put in the description. Like shadowing seems like it doesn't need a description.

pccool52

It definitely depends on the activity, but most of mine were more than 600 characters with a few near 700. For shadowing descriptions, I described some of my observations and how they compared to other doctors that I shadowed.

kristin5792

ChemFreak, this is what I wrote for shadowing:

Shadow Dr ABC in his outpatient surgical oncology clinic and melanoma clinic at State Cancer Hospital. Focused on the formation of a strong doctor/patient relationship, especially at bedside. Observed outpatient procedures such as punch biopsies, removal of port-a-caths, and draining abscesses. Will observe a mastectomy and a wide local excision of a melanoma in August 2010. Learned about surgical treatments for various cancers, especially breast cancer and melanoma. Learned about running a busy clinic, especially working with nurses, clinical research staff, residents, other referring physicians, medical students, and undergraduates. (hours per week for this many weeks; total hours)

meddaughter

I would like to get an opinion- my daughter is in a combined BS/MD program at a state school which is not binding. She finished her junior year with 3.98 GPA and 30 MCAT and lots and lots of leadership,research, clinical experience etc.Her goal was to apply to at least 10-15 private schools and see where she ends up with.She now realizes one thing that stands in her way is her MCAT score which is not good enough for the schools she was going to apply to. She registered for the retake for July 29th.She is okay to matriculate to state school- it is not in state for us so the fees is so high. She thinks she can achieve 34-36 for retake.She took it the first time with full courseload. She is only doing full time research in the summer. BDM,CURM, Kristin, Miami and others-What are your thoughts? I do not want to discourage or get invoved in her decision making but give some practical advise. thank you for reading the long post