Please put timestamps for students to have an easier time to jump to parts they are struggling in!

I think it’s important to note the structure of his personal statement was interesting. It was simple but it flowed really well. 1) Start off with a seed and include a sentence explaining how it helped you want to explore what it’s like being a physician. 2) Show how you investigated the job of a physician-Discuss how a shadowing experience really fascinated you 3) Show how a clinical experience really confirmed you wanted to be a physician. 4) Conclusion: Explain your remaining thoughts as to why is it important to you to become a physician, wrapping up the personal statement. I think it’s also important to note that he showed genuine empathy, compassion, and enthusiasm in his personal statement and continuously reminded the reader how everything he put in his personal statement can be used to answer why he wants to be a doctor.

Me watching this after working as a insurance sales vp for 7 years considering medical school right now was so perfect

Dr. Gray what do you think about making a hobby (running) most meaningful?

Hello Dr. Gray, what do you advise when students combine all shadowing experiences in one section? because I did different shadowing in different places but I want to put them all together.

Yay Idaho!!

MCW is private. Loved the straightforward but well crafted personal statement.

22:00 calling the mans church group hogwartz is wild

You said you had someone in your team who had seeveral f’s but is now in medical school. Can you explain it further?

@user-bx9ri2qv3y

Жыл бұрын

I'd guess that the individual in question probably did a post-bac as well as a Master's, or had a significant upwards trend in their grades. Medical schools are usually holistic, and look at your situation as well as the context surrounding it. Maybe the individual had a death in the family, and struggled that one quarter, but came back and kept a 4.0 GPA following that. Those kinds of stories are ones that medical schools love reading and love giving interviews to, because it shows the individual has tenacity and grit.

I have a question about the clinical experience ending just before application being a red flag. I am applying this round and I had a student position for a year as a surgery scheduler. Due to it being a student position, when I graduated at the end of April, my position had to end as well because I was at that point no longer a student at the university. Would it be enough that I note in the description that it was a student position and the application shows I graduated that month?

@areeshahasan8549

Жыл бұрын

I also am curious about this, because I recently quit my clinical experience because I'm starting up a research program for over this summer. Is it really that big of a red flag that I stopped the clinical experience

@musicmeister1313

Жыл бұрын

sounds like a good reason. you can maybe try to pickup another experience if you're worried.

You said that sales relates to being a physician. But in another video you literally told someone not to compare an extracurricular to being a physician because they are not the same thing. Can you explain why the sales example is different?

@chloebenjamin3750

11 ай бұрын

I think he basically thinks you should not force connections when writing your activity descriptions. Basically don’t conclude every description activity with “I think this experience will help me be a doctor b/c…..” It’s best to focus on what you learned from the experience and any impact you were able to make on people’s lives through the activity….and of course, you should focus on positives in these experiences.

Did he get into MD schools? I loved his applications but it was unclear if his acceptances were from 5 DO or a combination of DO and MD schools.

@chengalvalavenkata2401

3 ай бұрын

Not yet (I don't know) though he got 1 MD interview. He did get multiple DO acceptances though. DOs are still good doctors.

Working in the hospital as what?

If clinical hours are so important, then how did my ex-colleague who was a student athlete with very little clinical service but worked in a lab for three summers with a high mcat get into an Ivy League med school. Or do Ivy leagues don’t care about service and helping patients

@chengalvalavenkata2401

3 ай бұрын

Clinical experience is NOT the only way to show that you know what you're getting yourself into although it's by far the best way. Some medical schools focus more on research (though most don't) and he/she was a student athlete (which shows excellent time management skills and explains the lack of clinical service)

@theindianstallion6134

3 ай бұрын

@@chengalvalavenkata2401 then why not go for a PhD/Master’s, etc. last time I checked physicians are clinicians first and then have the potential to be researchers. Why physician scientist programs are a thing