AMCAS® FAQs

Contact information for each Activity/Experience entry is required so that medical schools can verify your experience.

If the original point of contact for the experience cannot be reached or if you do not have the person's contact information, you may choose to include the email or phone number for someone else who can validate the experience. This could be the current contact person where the experience took place, your Student Affairs/Activities Office, or your Prehealth Advising Office. If there is no one to contact, you may list yourself as the contact person, explaining in the description why there is no longer a valid contact person for that experience.

If you participated in an experience more than once, check Yes next to the Repeated? field for that particular entry. You may then enter up to three additional date ranges.

When listing repeated experiences, you should list the most recent contact in the designated contact fields (name, email, phone, etc.) and list prior contacts in the body of the experience description.

You may enter “0” Total Hours for these entries in the Work/Activities section of the AMCAS application. However, if you spent a measurable amount of time on one of these activities, i.e. at a conference or event, use your discretion to indicate the number of hours that you participated in this activity.

Please refer to this guide, which provides instructions for entering Completed and Anticipated experience hours. Information for first-time applicants and reapplicants, as well as examples, are included.