Check out this hilarious (and sad) piece in the New York Times about helicopter parenting and note that two of the anecdotes are physician related. (Can you imagine interviewing for an attending position with your dad present?)
My policy at Insider is to work exclusively with applicants (not parents or spouses) to maintain confidentiality, avoid redundancy, and ensure candidates assume primary responsibility for their work. It’s a winning strategy.
Thanks to NYU’s announcement that it will be eliminating tuition at its medical school, other institutions are reassessing their costs and graduates’ educational debt, as some experts predicted. Recently, Kaiser followed suit with a free tuition plan for their new medical school in Pasadena. Now, Yale is making overtures as well, lowering the financial burden for needy students by covering more costs with scholarships, instead of loans. Keep your eye out for what will likely be a revolution as more and more medical schools note that to compete for strong applicants, they must offer robust financial support.
I recommend reading this piece in Emergency Medicine News by Dr. Graham Walker. He writes about a physician colleague who recently committed suicide. The article notes that anesthesiologists and surgeons are the most likely to die by suicide, and emergency physicians come next in the specialties.
As a follow up, this NYT piece on physician suicide is also worth a read – old but still relevant. Sadly, it notes that pre-meds enter medical training with mental health profiles similar to those of their peers but end up experiencing depression at greater rates.
I’ve written about depression in doctors before and would like to reinforce the importance and urgency of seeking professional help for depressed clinicians.
While I’ve written before about my (and Malcom Gladwell’s) hesitation with school rankings, I do reluctantly use them in listing where my clients have been accepted because they are more illustrative than alphabetic order.
Please note that the top 25 schools are all represented on the Insider accepted list (plus many, many more).
If you are a previous Insider medical school admissions client and you do not see all of the schools that accepted you on the list, email me.
Great news! Insider clients have already been accepted to Georgetown Medical School, Ohio State University College of Medicine, Virginia Tech Carilion, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, University of Arizona-Tucson, and UMass Medical School.
Current clients, please make sure to email me with your updates!
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
