How did you prescribe eyewear as a HS student? You need to be a licensed medical professional to write prescriptions.
Not trueâŠthe student Iâm referencing got into some good BS/MD programs.
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Because if some Dr. will claim that he is otolaryngologist, ophthalmologist, psychiatrist, neurologist, pathologist and internal medicine specialist it may work only in 3rd world conuntry with very poor medical system. If some dr. will claim such things in the US, than he is unfit to practice.
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They may be dishonest, exaggerating or what have you, put please do not describe people as âmentally illâ. It leads to a continued misunderstanding and stigma of those with true mental illness. And no doctor AFAIK has claimed such a thing.
402 âclinical/OR shadowingâ experiences in 9 different areas is going to raise red flags, especially in HS. It is hard enough for college students to gain so many hours in so many specialties.
Prescribing âeyewearâ will also raise red flags, as HS students do not write prescriptions. How were you able to write prescriptions? If true, this will not only raise red flags but might get people into legal trouble. Also how did you check hemoglobin levels as a high school student?
First author and co-author will also raise red flags. My daughters undergraduate research was not published until a year or more after she graduated. What you wrote does not make sense to me. Where did you publish? Did you begin in middle school (being sarcastic)? None of this makes sense.
While you state you can do âanythingâ in Kenya, this is not going to help you in any way here. It appears unethical, looks like privilege, naivety, and exploitation.
My advice is to list your accomplishments without exaggerating. If in fact a physician pushed the limits (putting it mildly) and allowed you to do certain procedures etc, personally I would leave it out.
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Totally agree, I did not mean to offend anybody. I will edit post.
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This really isnât my place but I know seniors at my hs who have done the health science pathway and are CNA certified and they canât even do 1% of the stuff you listed, just a thought.
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Not true. While you can likely do more than US regulations allow here, the fact is that you were able to do this for two reasons: The American doctor was crazy enough to let you; and the locals also did so because you were American.
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I donât really think weâre getting the full story, I have a CNA-certified friend with me on a Facetime right now and they say itâs either fake or OP is overexaggerating what could just have been just watching the surgery and then asking the surgeons some questions post-op haha.
In which case Iâve heard lying on your college app is grounds for expulsion later on if you do get accepted.
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I also started to read - an anesthesiologist (I reached out to in the LA area) invited me to Kenya to do research. And a parent would send this kid to Kenya with a stranger?
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Yeah haha, also I donât think anesthesiologists in any area reach out to high schoolers with stats like OPâsâŠ
There was only one guy at my school who did research last year and that was with a chemistry professor at an instate college, something about toxicology and he was extraordinary, I mean for starters he got a 1600 SAT first tryâŠ
One of my junior friends also recently got a NASA internship and his SAT score and GPA are also very high (1550 and I believe either 3.9 or 4.0)
It just doesnât sit well with me that not only is OP putting illegal things on his application but he also has the wildest backstories to some of these outlandish extracurriculars
I donât know much about all of this in general, and benefit of the doubt to OP but I feel like most people would be on a different plane of existence if doctors were reaching out to them individually 
, and then all of the surgery stuff?
AddingâŠthis anesthesiologist is not a surgeon or an eye doctor specialistâŠso how did you end up doing things that were unrelated to your supposed research task with him or herâŠand for so many.
If this was allowed in Kenya, perhaps you could consider applying to medical schoolâŠin Kenya.
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To clear things up⊠I did not go to Africa with some stranger⊠he is my uncleâs business partner. And he is an anesthesiologist. I shadowed 7 different doctors there each with their own different specialty.
My Dâs HS had a program where aspiring pre-meds went on medical mission trips in South America. It was coordinated through local physicians with ties to the school. But, the extent of the studentsâ roles were getting to observe medical procedures, practice their foreign language skills, and play with the patientsâ children. They also collected schools supplies to bring with them and donate to local communities. I canât imagine HS students doing much more than that.
I was a certified medical assistant in college and worked in my schoolâs health center for three years. I brought patients to rooms, took vitals, cleaned exam rooms and set them up for the next patient exam, sterilized equipment, and occasionally âassistedâ in exams by handing equipment to the physician. Thatâs it.
If this student was allowed to do what they claim, the physician supervising them should at very least be investigated.
The advice to not put these details in a college application or talk about them during an interview is very sound!
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Your uncles business partner is an anesthesiologist and invited you to Kenya to take part in these things? This sounds off to me. Your recent post says that you shadowed, while your original post says something quite different
It also makes you look privileged, which is not an admirable quality.
Iâm not sure why you tagged me aboveâŠbut I ask a couple of questions.
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Were you and this anesthesiologist part of a humanitarian group that provides medical care in third world countriesâŠor what?
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How long was this trip to Kenya.
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yes, and a little more than a week
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What humanitarian group allows high school untrained and unlicensed high school students to do what you say you did.
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And you did this ALL in a little over a week? This is not believableâŠespecially since you claim the primary purpose of your trip was research.
SorryâŠnot believable.
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