Your videos have been very helpful I do have a question about the order you decided to enter your activities. The order we upload presents what we think is most important and I'm having a hard time deciding where my awards should be listed in comparison to my experiences.
I love your videos and your cheery personality! I am aiming for med but I just found out that my first semester GPA is about a 5.4. Do you think my medical journey is over? Any advice?
1) what are the requirements to get into a pre med school/college? 2) how many years it takes to do pre med in Canada? 3) is it possible to do pre med form Canada and then pre clinical and clinical from Korea 4) is their any fully funded scholarship for international students in Canada to do pre med?
Thanks so much for this awesome video 🥰🥰👏. I just wanted to clarify; so for research activities, you only put it under the research category if it was a published paper or presentation? What if you were a research assistant on a project that is still in progress (there's no paper/presentation)? Would that go under volunteer or extracurricular instead? Also one more question, if you did an undergraduate research paper (so published in an undergraduate journal which does not require a faculty supervisor), would it make sense to include it under research or extracurricular (I also presented the review in an undergrad research conference)? Thank you for all your help!!
Hi, Melissa here! Glad this was helpful! As for your questions: For if research activities have to be published/presentation - it depends! If you or your research team is working on a manuscript, you can likely still do a research entry saying a manuscript is "in preparation". Back when I applied (many years ago!!), OMSAS rules used to kind of frown at this but everyone still did it. Last I checked, recent rules say you can write "in preparation" no problem. But regardless of whether you do a research entry formatted like this or not, you should definitely have an employment/volunteer/extracurricular entry for your research assistant position. If you do a research entry and an employment/volunteer/extracurricular entry, it's basically like a permitted "double dipping" that is mentioned in the Part 1 video 🙂 Just make sure your descriptions are different enough. I forgot to mention this possibility in the video now that you bring it up. One approach could be: the employment/volunteer/extracurricular entry would probably include more of the experiments/skills/tasks you did and then the research entry would talk about project objectives and research impact. For the undergraduate journal, it could also depend! 😋 What was the content of the paper (a literature review vs more reflective piece without diving into published research? or original research?) Was it a peer reviewed student journal? If the piece has some scholarly aspect to it (original research or a lit review/well-cited or well-informed commentary) and was peer reviewed, I think you can safely put it as a research entry. Your presentation alone would also be an independent research entry - and that also makes me think the published paper would qualify for research as well. The only thing you need to watch out for is who would be your verifier. It's easier if you had a faculty supervisor, but in this case you might have to touch base with the journal's editors-in-chief and have them agree to your ABS entry (unless you had a co-author and want to go that route). My answers are also very research-leaning because that's an area students tend to not have a lot of entries on. So I always encourage to try and think of reasonable experiences that can be put in research. But if you feel like your volunteer or extracurricular fields need more entries and your research experience is otherwise strong, feel free to tailor the entry more for those former categories. Hope this helps and definitely feel free to ask additional things if something isn't clear!
@@melissaphuong426 Thank you so much for your thorough response; definitely clears things up! So to reiterate, the research section is for actual "products" of the research (papers/presentations) including those in progress (so working on the "product"), but the actual position (so day-to-day tasks, position duration, etc.) Is in work/volunteer/extracurricular. As an example, if you volunteered at a university lab to help out with tasks on a big long term project but were not involved in any poster/presentation/paper, it would not go in the research category. Regarding the undergraduate research, yes it was a speed literature review & the student journal was peer-reviewed (we had editors & we had to edit our work before publishing). I think I'll add it to research since I don't have too much there. Thank you so much!!!
@@katherine6206 Yup, I tend to view the Research category as the research products like you said, based on the things you would need to fill out for that category, especially "Title" and "Type of publication". But the position role itself would probably fit better under the Volunteer category. There could be flexibility and perhaps people moved their experiences around and it worked out well for them, but you then need to make sure your phrasing properly answers the things OMSAS asks of you. Depending on the tasks you helped out with, if it was experiments or analysis, ideally you're getting authorship down the road! It may not be the first 3 authorship spots but regardless, it could be something worthwhile to put in the app unless your research section happens to be oversaturated. Again, it's situation-specific, but something to keep in mind.
@@melissaphuong426 this is so helpful! Thanks so much 🥰🥰 One more question if you don't mind, a bit unrelated but for the top 3 activities uoft essays, I have two positions (volunteer + work) in the same organization that kind of build off on each other. Would it be ok to talk about both positions as one of my top activities for one of the essays or would I have to pick one? Both of them have some responsibilities unique to the position but they're in the same org and I got the work position because of my volunteering. What do you think? Again thank you so much, this video series has been the most helpful things I've found for the OMSAS ABS!! ❤❤❤
@@melissaphuong426 thanks again for your advice! Will definitely keep it in mind when writing my application. Can't wait for more videos from the Community of Support RU-vid channel!!!
Most medical schools in Canada do not have a required program that you have to graduate from, but some may have prerequisite courses. It's best to look at the websites of the schools you want to apply to and see what their requirements are. If there are none, the best program is one that you would enjoy and can do well in (in terms of GPA and general wellness).
This video is so so knowledgable! I have been trying to research for a video similar to yours that breaks down the ideas in this video! 👍Your explanation totally is similar to the content of this informative health enthusiast Dr. Ethan. Ethan's demonstrations are totally useful and I really learned a lot for midterms! He is the helpful health enthusiast in Nottingham and he teaches health and health symptoms. You should see his RU-vid out and give the health enthusiast a like over here! ➡️ #DoctorEthanQandA
You seem like such a lovely person, and will surely transition to become a fantastic physician as well. Thank you for sharing your experience! ( I also wanted to do teaching.. until I tried it haha)
I want the real tea.... how are you maintaining your skin routine cause it’s poppin! & I didn’t know you get exposed to all the different kinds of medicine in your first year. This was really cool though! I liked this inside look, kind of made things look normal....but serious at the same time! Love to see more ! Ps congrats on winning the position!
