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Beyond Clinical Experience and Research: How Other Activities Create Well-Rounded Students

Beyond Clinical Experience and Research: How Other Activities Create Well-Rounded Students

John Fierst
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 14
ISBN13: 9781668459690|ISBN10: 1668459698|EISBN13: 9781668459706
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5969-0.ch004
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Fierst, John. "Beyond Clinical Experience and Research: How Other Activities Create Well-Rounded Students." Handbook of Research on Developing Competencies for Pre-Health Professional Students, Advisors, and Programs, edited by Rohini Ganjoo and Lisa S. Schwartz, IGI Global, 2022, pp. 62-75. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-5969-0.ch004

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Fierst, J. (2022). Beyond Clinical Experience and Research: How Other Activities Create Well-Rounded Students. In R. Ganjoo & L. Schwartz (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Developing Competencies for Pre-Health Professional Students, Advisors, and Programs (pp. 62-75). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-5969-0.ch004

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Fierst, John. "Beyond Clinical Experience and Research: How Other Activities Create Well-Rounded Students." In Handbook of Research on Developing Competencies for Pre-Health Professional Students, Advisors, and Programs, edited by Rohini Ganjoo and Lisa S. Schwartz, 62-75. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-5969-0.ch004

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Abstract

Health professions schools eagerly look for applicants who demonstrate a commitment to service, the potential for leadership, and the ability to work effectively with others as reflected by their core competencies. While these attributes can be developed through clinical experience and research, there are myriad ways for students to gain these important skills in many other contexts as well. Health professions advisors are uniquely positioned to help students explore the activities they would like to pursue and guide them in identifying how their extracurricular endeavors and employment will positively contribute to their development as future healthcare professionals. This chapter offers the importance of community service, leadership, employment, and extracurricular involvement in creating well-rounded pre-health students and suggests strategies that pre-health advisors can use to aid their students and their own offices in these areas.

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