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00:00 Introduction 00:26 Meet Dr. Jessica Freedman 01:28 Preprofessional Competencies 02:01 Service Activities: A Must 02:43 Minimum Amount of Service and what MedEdits Star Students Have 02:53 Clinical Exposure: A Must 03:41 Minimum Amount of Clinical Exposure and MedEdits Start Students 04:11 Research Experience: A Must 04:39 Minimum Amount of Research and MedEdits Star Students 04:56 Themes in Experiences and Interests 05:33 The Importance of Impact 05:59 The Importance of a Spike 06:18 Triangulated Experiences 07:48 Putting it all Together Join MedEdits Facebook Group:   / premedparentsandstudents   Download your FREE Guide: The Ultimate Guide to Medical School Admissions: https://mededits.com/free-downloads/ Still have questions? Sign up for a FREE 15 minute consultation: https://mededits.com/free-15-sign-up/ Find out what three premed extracurriculars you must have to be a competitive medical school applicant. Discover how many hours you need to have for each experience type and how many hours will really set you apart from the competition. You will also find out the numbers of hours students accepted to top-20 medical schools have earned. While grades and MCAT scores will earn you interviews, your extracurricular activities will distinguish you from the sea of medical school applicants! Below are the major extracurricular categories needed to be a competitive medical school applicant. Pre Med Research Most medical colleges, even those that are not major academic medical centers, want applicants to have research experience. Most students engage in basic science research (either for credit, during the summer, or for employment) or clinical research. However, research in other disciplines will also allow you to learn how to think critically, analyze data, evaluate the literature, solve problems, and ask and then answer a question through experimentation. If you can’t find a basic science or clinical research experience, consider research in another discipline of interest – psychology, art history, anthropology – or whatever else piques your curiosity. What you learn through research in any discipline can be applied to future research endeavors and help you to practice evidence based medicine. You will also be able to evaluate current studies, which will be necessary throughout your medical education, training, and career. Medical schools are placing more and more value on the importance of scientific inquiry, analytical skills, and the ability to apply knowledge practically. Therefore, significant research experience will be more, and not less, important in coming years. Volunteering/Community Service Lending your services to help others in need is always a worthwhile endeavor. Medical schools are seeking people who are compassionate, caring, and empathetic. Demonstrating these traits through community service or volunteer work is important. Medical schools also seek applicants who want to help others in need, including the underserved. Physicians also play significant roles in their communities. Therefore, medical schools value students who demonstrate a commitment to serve their communities. Extracurricular activities medical school Service work can be performed in medical and non-medical settings, and both are considered desirable. As mentioned above, medical schools value volunteering in a free clinic, nursing home, hospital, or hospice. Spending time in non-clinical settings, such as a soup kitchen, a tutoring program, or helping to build homes for those who are less fortunate, also demonstrates a commitment to serve. Physician Shadowing and Exposure to Clinical Medicine All medical schools want to see that you have varied clinical exposure. This can take the form of doctor shadowing, volunteering in a free clinic, or working abroad in some capacity. Some applicants have difficulty getting accepted to medical school because they never shadowed a physician. If you have never set foot in a doctor’s office or a hospital it is tough to convince someone that you want to be a doctor. Admissions committees want to be sure that you understand what it means to practice medicine in a variety of settings. I often suggest that students seek out shadowing experiences in emergency departments (EDs). I don’t this because I am an emergency physician but because emergency departments are open 24/7, are always busy, and have a variety of patients with varied clinical presentations. The key is to shadow a spectrum of specialists in different settings. Other Extracurricular Activities To show you are an interesting, curious and engaged person, you should ideally demonstrate other passions in the admissions process. Medical schools want to have a group of diverse medical students so having other passions can be appealing.