How many hours do you actually need for med school?
There’s no magic number — and no official cutoff for clinical, shadowing, research, or service hours. This free guide shows you how to tell if your experiences are actually strong: what counts, what matters more than the number, and where to spend your energy. No fake requirements, no anxiety-bait.
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Everything I’d tell my own students about whether your hours actually count — no fluff, no fake requirements. It’s yours. Download it below.
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This guide shows you how to read your hours. Preceptorly reads your whole application.
The same honest read, for your whole application — school strategy, personal statement and secondary essays, mock interviews, and one advisor who reads your entire file. No fake odds, no hype.
An honest read. Zero fear-mongering.
Why there’s no universal “right number” of hours — and what schools actually weigh instead.
The three things that matter more than the count: exposure, duration, and reflection.
Why 100 hours ≠ 100 hours — how two identical totals read completely differently.
A 2-minute self-check to see where your experiences really stand — and your highest-leverage next move.
Not sure an activity even counts as clinical? That’s a different question from how many hours — try the free What Counts? classifier →
Built by Jonathan Kelley, DO — a practicing physician who got tired of watching premeds chase hour counts nobody can actually name. Preceptorly is the honest med-school admissions platform he’s building; this guide is a free piece of it.
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Preceptorly is the med-school admissions platform built on real data and straight talk — school strategy, personal statement and secondary essays, mock interviews, and one advisor who reads your whole file. The same honesty in this guide, for your entire application.