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What is the Hardest Part of Each Year of Medical School?

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Medical school students in a classroom wearing scrubs.

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What is the hardest part of medical school in each of the years? I wish there was a simple answer to this question. I get it every time I meet with pre-med students.   Any answer I give will lack the external validity required to be generalized to every school...

How to Ace Medical School Secondary Essays

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A medical school applicant working on her secondary essays in a library.

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After completing the AMCAS primary application, you may understandably feel exhausted! However, despite your accomplishments thus far, there is one last step in the application process before you can start interviewing. You will now start receiving secondary applications and medical school secondary essays.   Unlike the AMCAS, secondary applications are...

Hindsight Advice for Building a Strong Med School Application

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A premed student working on his med school application, sitting in front of a laptop.

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Ready for the understatement of the year? Medical school is tough to get into. The Med School application process is no joke.   Look, the unfortunate truth is that getting good grades and smoking the MCAT won’t automatically get you one of those coveted medical school acceptances. It’ll help, but...

How Can I Differentiate Myself With Other Medical School Applicants

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A premed student at his medical school interview.

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If you’re currently applying to medical school to become a student, you probably know that you need a competitive GPA, MCAT score, and good extracurriculars to get in. But a few thousand people applying probably know this too…   So how do you stand out as a medical school applicant?...

How Common is Remediation in Medical School, & How Can Tutoring Help

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A medical school student meeting with his learning advisor to talk about remediation.

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Remediation can be an anxiety-inducing term. The thought of failing a portion of your medical education and needing to formally address it may evoke a sense of dread. However, remediation is quite a useful concept. Rather than viewing it as a form of punishment, it is best to think of...

How To Determine Which Area of Medicine Is Right for Me

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Medical school students speaking with a medical professional to better understand if their specialty is right for them.

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Choosing an area of medicine or a specialty is one of the most important decisions you will make throughout your entire medical career. And so you may find yourself asking "Which area of medicine is right for me?"   Unlike most other professions, you cannot switch to a different area...

Becoming a Holistic Applicant: How Collecting “Unfair Advantages” Can Make You a Better Medical School Applicant

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A doctor doing yoga on the beach, practicing to make herself a more holistic applicant to residency programs.

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You may have heard the term “holistic” being thrown around in the context of medical school admissions, usually in the context of becoming a better, more attractive medical school applicant. I recently participated in a pre-med interest group Q&A where one student remarked: “We keep hearing that we should be...

Add Value as a Medical Student During Clinical Rotations

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A group of medical school students on clinical rotations standing in a hospital wearing scrubs.

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I must confess that I did not enjoy my clinical rotations. Well… at least not in the very beginning. This was largely due to my feeling that I was not adding value to my clinical rotation team as a medical student. You see, I had grown accustomed to the objective...

Make Your Medical School Group Study Suck Less

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A group of medical school students wearing scrubs, sitting at a large desk with laptops and study books in group study.

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I can’t tell you the number of times during medical school I had to feign diarrhea to get out of a terrible group study session. You have to be intentional in your approach to group study or else you run the risk of wasting a lot of valuable time. The...

Which Medical Research Opportunities Should I Partake In

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A premed student working in a lab to fill her research requirements.

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As a premedical student, countless commitments such as coursework, volunteering, shadowing, teaching, and, leadership activities might take up your time. In such a demanding context, adding research on to your busy schedule can seem like a daunting task. However, there are ways in which you can maximize the value you...

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