Experiences & Activities

Overview

In this section, you can enter your professional experiences in several categories, or types. Review the type definitions below, consider the duties you performed during the experience, and use your best judgment to determine which category your experience falls into.

Note that you can enter any non-medical employment and hobbies and interests in those applicable sections of the application.

Experience Types

Advocacy

Any experience working to support a cause for social, economic, or political reasons.

Extracurricular Activity or Club

Related activities you would like your selected programs to review; for example, specialty interest groups and student clubs.

Military Service

Professional experience gained during service in the armed forces.

Research

Any experience working on a research project, preferably in addition to or outside of regular curricular work. This may include student research positions, research technician positions, summer research internships, etc.

Teaching/Mentoring

Experiences in which you were in charge of instructing others, such as a teaching assistant, tutor, etc.

Volunteer/Service

Volunteer work done inside or outside of the health care field; for example, working for Habitat for Humanity, tutoring students, participating in or working for a fundraiser walk or blood drive, etc.

Work

Paid work or internships in a health or health-related field.

Enter Your Experience

  1. Click Add Experience.
  2. Select the appropriate experience type from the drop-down.
  3. Enter a title for your experience.
  4. Indicate if it is a current experience and the date or date range in which the experience took place. Note that your experiences will not display on your application in any specific order, regardless of the dates entered.
  5. Enter additional details about the experience, including a description/key responsibilities and the time commitments. When adding experience domain and competency, select the options that you feel are most appropriate for the experience. Experience domain refers to the specific area or field in which the experience was gained, while experience competency refers to the skill you gained or achieved within the domain.
  6. Enter the average weekly number of hours that you completed for this experience during the date range that you indicated.
  7. Enter information about the organization where the experience took place.
  8. Select Yes or No to indicate a release authorization to allow your selected programs to contact the organization.
  9. Select if this experience was most important to you. You can select up to 3 experiences to highlight as your most important.
  10. Click Save.

Note that you cannot repeat hours between experience types. So, if position duties encompass more than one section, enter the position in both sections and divide the hours and duties accordingly.