How to position your Aequitas Health fellowship, community health project, and published work on your CV for maximum impact in residency applications.
Your Aequitas Health fellowship belongs in the Honors & Awards section of your CV — not under Activities or Volunteer Work. It is an elected honor, not a club membership. List it as:
If your CV uses a combined "Honors, Awards, and Distinctions" section, place it alongside Alpha Omega Alpha, Gold Humanism Honor Society, and other elected honors. The fellowship is a lifetime credential — it belongs on every version of your CV from medical school through practice.
Your fellow project is research and service combined — list it under Research Experience or Community Health Projects, depending on your CV format. Include:
If your project resulted in a publication, it should also appear in your Publications section. Do not choose one or the other — list it in both. The project entry shows initiative; the publication entry shows scholarly output.
In ERAS, you have specific sections that map to your Aequitas experience:
Honors/Awards: List the fellowship here with the full name "Aequitas Health Fellow — National Medical Honor Society for Health Equity." ERAS reviewers may not recognize the name yet, so the subtitle does the work.
Research: List your fellow project with measurable outcomes. Programs want to see that you can design, execute, and complete a project — which is exactly what the fellowship requires.
Publications: If your work was published in the Aequitas Health Journal, list it with full citation in AMA format. Include the journal name, volume, issue, and year.
Meaningful Experiences: This is where your fellowship story comes alive. Describe a specific moment from your project — a patient interaction, a community partner meeting, a breakthrough — that shaped your understanding of medicine. Programs remember stories, not credentials.
Program directors evaluating your application are looking for evidence that you can:
1. Complete what you start. Your fellow project demonstrates follow-through — you designed it, executed it, and published the results.
2. Work with communities, not just patients. Health systems increasingly value physicians who understand population health. Your project shows this.
3. Contribute to scholarly work. A journal publication during medical school — even in a smaller journal — signals that you can write, think critically, and contribute to the evidence base.
Frame your fellowship around these three qualities. Avoid framing it as "passion for health equity" (too abstract) and instead emphasize the concrete skills and outputs: project management, community partnership, scholarly publication.
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