LAW STUDENT applying to medschool. Please help!

aunt_bea
Wed, 30 Sep 2020 20:27:17 +0000

BTW, if you hate reading & writing, you’re wrong to believe that medicine will get you away from this. Physicians read constantly. Medicine and medical research is happening constantly. Physicians are always reading to keep current on new knowledge in their field. And doctors are always writing–they write detailed treatment plans, they write justification for those treatment plans for insurers, they write patient notes, they write handoff notes…Documenting everything is a way of life for physicians.

THIS^^^!

My daughter is a pharmacology student and is constantly frustrated at not having enough time to read and write up drug counter-indications. Her med/professional school liked that she did a pharmacology “internship” in Spain.

They asked her a lot of questions in her interviews about her community experiences. She also worked every Saturday at a “free” Diabetes Clinic throughout her undergrad, serving low-income, very ill individuals while continually seeking/advocating funding for clinic medical supplies. She was also the driver for the other students who didn’t have transportation. During her undergrad, she worked in the university labs, for pay, sterilizing equipment. In high school, she took biotech courses and volunteered doing labs for a local vet. FWIW: there were ~1000 science graduates (bio, physiology, health) listed in her graduation program.

It wasn’t about just getting strong grades and strong test scores.

It’s the combination of everything that gets you into med school.