community service

The AAMC Core Competencies are a groundwork for personal achievements and skills that can underscore your qualifications to enter medical school. This blog post will break down the intrapersonal competency of Service Orientation. Why is it significant and why do medical schools focus on your service when you seemingly have so many other tangible qualities to offer?

Community service should only feel obligatory when it’s court-mandated. If your service in college feels like the metaphorical equivalent of picking up trash on the freeway, then you’re doing something wrong.