<p>my son will be going to college in the fall of 2011...he hopes to apply to med school one day...he would like to begin building a resume this summer ...he is an eagle scout and is considering working on staff at a Boy Scout summer camp for several weeks...he is also considering working with a local mission's summer camp program that deals with under privileged children in a poverty stricken area...each summer he would like to add to his EC's...
i realize that each student should do something that they are passionate about....a list of the many things that others have done from local inexpensive EC's to costly and worldly EC's would be appreciated...thanks</p>
<p>Are you asking about medically-related ECs that med schools might want to see?</p>
<p>I think may pre-med students shadow other doctors and volunteer at hospitals. Some do medical research.</p>
<p>D1 got her EMT-B and EMT-I certification thru our local CC and joined Mountain Search & Rescue (she’s s skilled climber) as an EMT volunteer. (Climbing is her passion.) She did volunteer work at a couple of local hospitals. She spent 3 months working full time as ER EMT in Capetown, SA. She’s tutored math & science & SAT prep for at-risk children in our community. She still tutors math & science, but now at the local CC.</p>
<p>D2 has been a community service volunteer in various capacities since middle school, mostly working with children, the mentally disabled or on environmental issues. Currently she volunteers in the neuro-rehab ward of the hospital near her university where she assists patients with their various therapies. She’s a therapeutic mentor for a young adolescent female with multiple psychiatric disorders. She’s been her mentor for 3 years now. (She was a Big Sister during high school too.) She helps coach a high school math team and recruits college students to proctor and grade at regional math team competitions. And she helped to organize and run a bone marrow registry drive at her uni. (One of her best friends freshman year was diagnosed with cancer–this is what spurred the bone marrow drive.) D2 is my outdoors kid. She worked in Yellowstone the summer after her freshman year of college and hiked the entire 221 miles of the John Muir Trail last summer (just her and another girl!). This summer–if she doesn’t get one the research fellowships she’s applied for–she’ll likely go abroad as part of a service volunteer program, either as a medical volunteer or as an assistant trip leader.</p>
<p>Additionally, both girls have done research related to their majors. And both girls paid for/will pay for their trips abroad with their own money earned thru their jobs.</p>
<p>yes…i am looking for EC’s that will benefit medical school a resume…but a variety of things, some of which may not be in the medical field</p>
<p>thank you wayoutwestmom, that type information is exactly the information that i am seeking.</p>
<p>Anything you are passionate about can be beneficial for your resume. </p>
<p>That being said, here are some of the things that I did. Use the things you read on this thread as a sounding board for one’s own interests rather than a way to attempt to piece together the perfect resume (no such thing).</p>
<p>3 Years (including vacations) in an Insect Behavior Lab. 2 posters, 3 presentations, honors thesis, and an upcoming publication. I was awarded a ~$15,000 grant.</p>
<p>Student Co-founder of an Internship with Mayo Clinic during the academic year. </p>
<p>Kaplan Teacher.</p>
<p>ER volunteering. A few shadowing experiences a year after that. Also got to see an autopsy.</p>
<p>Dancer in several Latin competitions.</p>
<p>Performed in modern dance pieces.</p>
<p>Vice president for 2 years and president for one of a tutoring organization that I’ve been involved in for all four years. Standard stuff, went to the inner city and tried to be a good role model for kids. </p>
<p>Traveled with a concert band and choral group throughout Europe. I was a Bass soloist and also did some barbershop in conjunction with the standard chorus stuff. I also was in my universities choral group for a few years.</p>
<p>Did a summer of studying abroad in China. </p>
<p>Did a lot of recruitment for my University.</p>
<p>I’m sure I did other less memorable stuff too, but these were the big points that I used in my application process.</p>