Sample Student Resume for Medical School Admission - Before
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Name: Adam Sommers
Situation: Established Professional
Resume type: The skills I have come from a number of sources
Address: 100 Lincoln Square, Washington, DC 20001
Home Phone: 2025551212
Work Phone: 2025551213
Special skills: Work experience abroad; Medical background/interest
(applying to medical school for Fall 2003); strong academic background,
ability to live/work abroad in developing country, discipline (study
habits), writing (I've published one paper), research (I work in
a research lab)
Personal attributes: Passion for international relief/assistance,
work ethic (3/4 course load while working 30 hr/wk at two jobs),
developed interest (well studied) in International Affairs
Like most: I intend to work as an MD in international relief.
This degree is necessary
Objective: acceptance in MHS program
Three qualifications: research experience, experience abroad,
work ethic
Company name1: Optical Research Foundation
City/State: Washington, DC
Job title1: Laboratory Technician / Lab Manager / Co-investigator
Description1: -collect data (young subjects - 5 years old -- come
in with parents for electroencephalographic analysis of visual
cortex . . . procedure takes ~1 hr and involves technical and personal
skill with young subject and parents) -manage lab (have accountant
and secretary under me and principal investigator over me BUT am
the only one competent in nonprofit management and the technical
aspects of our research) -maintain elaborate computer system and
research equipment -write manuscripts for publication
Accomplishment1: Invited to Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
to be trained in Motion Symmetry Visual-Evoked Potential Analysis
(MSVEP analysis) equipment. Written two manuscripts on research
(one published, other recently submitted). Independently completed
two courses in electronics for equipment maintenance*"built
the lab" constructed a complex highly controlled visual environment
for subject testing, assembled state-of-the-art custom-designed
computer-driven EEG analysis equipment, and did custom scientific-grade
(low-noise) electrical wiring of the lab.
Begin date2: same as Optical Research Foundation
Company name2: Virginia Optical Center
City/State: Richmond, Virginia
Job title2: Director of Physiology
Description2: EEG Technician
Manage Lab
Accomplishment2: Integrated equipment from successful research
trials into clinical practice
Company name3: Maps, Inc.
City/State: Louisville, Kentucky
Job title3: Project Manager
Description3: Designed a computer program for digital travel guide
Research in Global Positioning Systems (politics and technical
issues)
-I directed experienced programmers to write the software for
my program
-Put together a team for gathering GPS coordinates to sell to travel
guide-books
Accomplishment3: Produced THE prototype for a GPS-managed digital
travel guide. Recognized as expert in GPS technology
Company name4: The LEARN Program (see resume)
Activities1: Founded DC Ophthalmologists for International relief
(D.C.O.I.R.), a nonprofit organization created to assist existing
agencies dedicated to ending preventable blindness worldwide by
actively recruiting local eye-care specialists for volunteer activities
here and abroad
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