You don’t have to submit a resume as a part of your application. What you do have to complete is the experiences or activities section.
For all of your experiences, it’s important to describe what you did in that activity, what core competencies or skills you developed and used, and what you took away from that experience. Space permitting, you might be able to tell a story from that experience, and highlight why it’s been meaningful to your journey to health professions school.
You will be able to list activities you’ve participated in during college and provide relevant information including:
For medical school and the AMCAS application:
That’s up to you. Schools don’t prefer one format over the other. Most applications will not allow formatting (like bullet points), but a list or a paragraph is allowed.
While job titles may generally be the same across the country, actual job duties (and their depths) may vary greatly from position to position. Applicants should never assume that schools know exactly what they have been doing based on job title alone and they should always (though briefly) explain their key responsibilities and activities within the designated sections.
You should focus on experiences that you participated in during college and beyond. If you started an experience in high school and continued in that experience throughout college, it’s fine to include hours accumulated during high school in the total hour count.
Quality of experiences is more important than quantity. It’s fine not to fill out all the experiences spots available.
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