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| 33 | + <p class="article-kicker">AAMC PREMED COMPETENCIES</p> |
| 34 | + <h1 class="article-title">How my five years map to the AAMC framework.</h1> |
| 35 | + <p class="article-date">Current as of the 2026 AAMC framework</p> |
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| 39 | + <p>The AAMC's <a href="https://students-residents.aamc.org/real-stories-demonstrating-premed-competencies/premed-competencies-entering-medical-students">Premed Competencies for Entering Medical Students</a> were refreshed in late 2023 and renamed again in 2026 (Cultural Humility → Self-Awareness; Cultural Awareness → Understanding Others). What follows is a literal mapping of my five years of pediatric scribe + ER scribe + Lead MA + neuroscience + building experience to each competency in the framework. The bullets are concrete because the work is concrete.</p> |
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| 45 | + <span class="ct-name">Service Orientation</span> |
| 46 | + <span class="ct-bullet">Five years of direct patient care: two years pediatric scribe (Children's Plano), two years pediatric ER scribe (Children's Dallas, 12-hour shifts), three years Lead MA in chronic-disease dermatology.</span> |
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| 50 | + <span class="ct-name">Understanding Others</span> |
| 51 | + <span class="ct-bullet">Multilingual, multicultural patient populations in the DFW metro. Biologic-access disparities by insurance status surfaced as a recurring pattern in derm prior-auth work.</span> |
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| 55 | + <span class="ct-name">Self-Awareness</span> |
| 56 | + <span class="ct-bullet">Built mahaclinic in response to a specific frustration — a print binder slowing patient visits — rather than to "build something." The restraint about what the tool does NOT do is itself the practice.</span> |
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| 60 | + <span class="ct-name">Teamwork & Collaboration</span> |
| 61 | + <span class="ct-bullet">Lead MA = literal team leadership; pediatric ER scribe = MD/RN team dynamics under acuity pressure. Mahaclinic deployment required coordinating with three practice sites' MAs to roll out without disrupting workflow.</span> |
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| 65 | + <span class="ct-name">Oral Communication</span> |
| 66 | + <span class="ct-bullet">Patient education conversations, especially biologic-injection counseling and infection-risk monitoring. ER patient handoffs across shift change.</span> |
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| 70 | + <span class="ct-name">Ethical Responsibility to Self and Others</span> |
| 71 | + <span class="ct-bullet">HIPAA/PHI handling in PWA design — explicit decision to store no PHI, see "what it does not do" in the case study. Patient-confidentiality reasoning in scribe roles.</span> |
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| 75 | + <span class="ct-name">Reliability & Dependability</span> |
| 76 | + <span class="ct-bullet">12-hour pediatric ER shifts; 3-year continuous Lead MA tenure with no gap. The 5-year arc is the proof.</span> |
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| 80 | + <span class="ct-name">Resilience & Adaptability</span> |
| 81 | + <span class="ct-bullet">Pediatric ER environment over two years. Continued building a clinical-tooling skill while working full-time; learning agentic AI tools through self-study during nights and weekends.</span> |
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| 85 | + <span class="ct-name">Commitment to Learning and Growth</span> |
| 86 | + <span class="ct-bullet">Self-taught agentic AI tooling (Claude Code, Codex) over the past year. Progression scribe → Lead MA → builder reflects a deliberate skill-expansion arc.</span> |
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| 90 | + <span class="ct-name">Empathy & Compassion</span> |
| 91 | + <span class="ct-bullet">Pediatric ER + chronic skin-disease patients living with visible disfigurement, body image, and overlapping depression/anxiety. Empathy in derm is mostly quiet — sitting with a patient on their fourth biologic — and that is its own skill.</span> |
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| 95 | + <span class="ct-name">Critical Thinking</span> |
| 96 | + <span class="ct-bullet">Translating FDA prescribing labels and registry guidelines into a usable clinician-facing PWA. Recognizing which information clinicians actually need at point of care vs. which lives in a footnote.</span> |
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| 99 | + <li class="ct-row"> |
| 100 | + <span class="ct-name">Quantitative Reasoning</span> |
| 101 | + <span class="ct-bullet">Weight-based and BSA-based biologic dosing, weight-cutoff thresholds for pediatric indications, dose-loading-vs-maintenance arithmetic — encoded into mahaclinic flows.</span> |
| 102 | + </li> |
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| 105 | + <span class="ct-name">Scientific Inquiry</span> |
| 106 | + <span class="ct-bullet">Neuroscience B.S. (UT Dallas). Reading FDA labels and post-marketing data when researching dose flows for mahaclinic. Reading immunology + dermatology literature to understand mechanism-of-action of biologic classes.</span> |
| 107 | + </li> |
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| 110 | + <span class="ct-name">Written Communication</span> |
| 111 | + <span class="ct-bullet">This site, the mahaclinic case study, and patient-encounter reflections. ER scribe documentation in real time, MD-paired.</span> |
| 112 | + </li> |
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| 115 | + <span class="ct-name">Human Behavior</span> |
| 116 | + <span class="ct-bullet">Neuroscience training applied to patient adherence patterns in long-term biologic therapy. Behavioral observations in pediatric ER (parent–child dynamics under acute stress).</span> |
| 117 | + </li> |
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| 120 | + <span class="ct-name">Living Systems</span> |
| 121 | + <span class="ct-bullet">Neuroscience B.S. plus the immunology load required to manage biologic patients (IL-23 / IL-17 / TNF-α / JAK-STAT pathways operationalized through dose decisions every clinic day).</span> |
| 122 | + </li> |
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| 127 | + <p style="font-style: italic; color: var(--text-deck); font-size: 0.95rem; margin-top: 2rem;">Mapping current as of the 2026 AAMC competency framework. Updates as AAMC revises the framework. Sources: <a href="https://students-residents.aamc.org/real-stories-demonstrating-premed-competencies/premed-competencies-entering-medical-students">AAMC Premed Competencies</a>, <a href="https://students-residents.aamc.org/media/15361/download">Refreshing the Premed Competencies (2023)</a>.</p> |
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