This is a stressful time for medical school applicants and residency candidates alike. I recently wrote a piece for Student Doctor Network with five suggested books for training doctors, reads that might relax you a bit while you learn something about your future career. I want to add another recommendation: Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air. Get ready to cry your eyes out, while appreciating beautiful prose and insightful content. Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer when he was a senior neurosurgery resident at Stanford. He chronicles his short life in a book that’s hard to put down.
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Insider Medical Admissions Searchable Blogs
Have a specific medical school or residency admissions question? Don’t want to rifle through blog entries individually?
I’ve been writing my blog since 2008 and have a wealth of answers to your questions – all free. But many folks do not know what I have two platforms on which my blog is published.
The first is on my website here. The entries are all tagged, so you can pick a topic and search using that tag.
The second is on Blogger here. This one allows you to search any phrase in the right margin (about a third of the way down the page).
Either way, feel free to use the blogs to get your questions answered easily and quickly.
Medical School Personal Statement
For those of you getting butterflies in your stomach just thinking about the medical school personal statement that you’re going to have to write soon, here is a recent article I wrote on the Varsity Tutors blog.
Post Baccalaureate Article
Post baccalaureate premedical programs cater to students who are pursuing a career in medicine and have already received their bachelor’s degree. There are two traditional types of post baccalaureate programs: First, there are those that offer students the opportunity to complete the science courses necessary for a medical school application. Second, there are those that help students improve their grade point averages. In the latter case, students have completed the required pre-medical coursework, but want to improve their academic records in order to become more competitive in the medical school application process. There are other less common post baccalaureate programs that are devoted to helping students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds and those who are from underrepresented groups. Read more ›
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Dr. Finkel is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Medical School. On completing her residency at Harvard, she was asked to
stay on as faculty at Harvard Medical School and spent five years teaching at the world-renowned Massachusetts General Hospital.
She was appointed to the Assistant Residency Director position for the Harvard Affiliated
Emergency Medicine Residency where she reviewed countless applications, personal statements and resumes. Read more
