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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What bothers me is some of these “requirements” are a joke and don’t add value. Just made up stuff like we do to get into college.  It shouldn’t be a requirement for medical school.

Shadowing?  What exactly did the kid do?  Mission trips?  What did the kid actually learn. Sure they sound good but we know how these things really go down. [/quote]
Shadowing: i have shadows. Some of them drop premed after shadowing. They hate blood and bodily functions. Best to establish that. 
Mission trips in the context of med school apps are nothing like high school mission trips of the 00s. They encompass traveling with doctors (docs without borders or similar) learning and doing real 3rd world medical skills. These students come in more prepared than those who haven't. A kid who has done it is highly unlikely to be aiming for medicine for the $ or any other false reason. 
Research, any science: evidence based medicine is the core of practice. Understanding how research is done is extremely important especially for anyone who wants to attend one of the T100 or so research-based MD schools. 
Volunteering: domestic violence , food  insecurity/homeless, nursing homes, addiction clinics: all part of the raw humanity of real medicine. You have to have evidence you can handle humans in their most desperate and unpleasant states. [/quote]

Agree shadowing can give some better idea if this is what they really want to do...but do you really think it takes hundreds of shadowing hours to determine that?[/quote] 
Some of you have not even looked at AMCAS. The generally recommended range is 40-100 hours shadowing. That is 1-2.5 weeks. Accomplished easily over a winter break. Much above 100 does NOT ADD anything valuable to the application. Clinical hours are much more important after the 40-100 shadowing: EMT, CNA, phlebotomy, nursing home assistant. [/quote]

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