The following sections are designed to parallel the application instructions of the professional health schools. These should be experiences since you last completed the Committee process and were chosen in an effort to enrich your preparation for the professional health school.
The Work and Activities section of this application is designed to give you the opportunity to tell the Committee what new and current work experience, extracurricular activities, and/or publications you have completed and would like to bring to the attention of the professional health schools to which you are applying.
The experiences are divided into these sections:
- Clinical Research, Volunteering and Shadowing
- Employment
- Hobbies and Interests
Enter only your latest and notable experiences. Professional health schools will be interested in quality, not quantity. Enter each experience only once.
Experience Name: Enter the name of the experience or the title you help during the experience. If this experience has no generalized name, choose a name that you feel best describes the experience (i.e., shadowing, internship, volunteering, etc.).
Experience Type: Enter the type of profession this experience involved, if it was interactive, if it was a workshop or what you did during this experience.
Experience Dates: Include the start and end dates for each experience. Some experience types, such as presentations/posters and publications, require only one date. For current experiences (those in which you are still involved and which do not have a known end date), write "Until Present" for the end date.
Organization Name: Enter the name of the organization through which this experience occurred.
Average Hours Per Week: Enter the number of hours each week that you devoted to this experience. If it was a seminar or a one-day experience, enter total number of hours.
Contact Name: Indicate a person the professional health schools may contact to verify that this experience occurred. For example, you may enter your supervisor or the individual coordinating a particular program,. If the experience was a student-organized group and there is no advisor, you may list a staff member in the student affairs/activities office who can verify your experience. You are required to provide a phone number and/or email address for this contact person.
Experience Description: This section is where you will describe your position, your duties, and how this helped you to guide you and support your decision for this profession. Be sure to include the location of the facility. The suggested format is:
- Describe the nature of the organization or experience.
- Describe what you did or accomplished.
- Describe what you learned.
- Describe how you feel this experience has further assisted you in preparing for this particular profession since you last applied.