Choosing a Medical School As A URM Student
Congratulations! You survived the MCAT, AMCAS, secondaries, interviews, and months of waiting. If this cycle did not not work out
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Second Looks and Fantasy Gap Years
As CCOM’s second-look day (which we call Get Acquainted Day) approaches, Aline Sandouk, LJ Agostinelli, Miranda Schene, and Danial Syed
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Is Your Previous Career A Strike Against You?
Admissions committees care most about what you got out of your experiences, less about what exactly they were. Here’s a
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How To Find Someone To Shadow
Applying to a health profession education program is a major decision, and schools will want to be sure that you
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AAMC Fee Assistance Program: What’s New in 2019
The cost of preparing for and applying to medical school can be daunting. At the AAMC, we believe that this
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The One About Trigonometry | MCAT Tips and Tricks
I’m guessing that by this point in your MCAT preparation you feel like you’ve parked a dump truck full of
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Staying Organized for Success in Research
Close your eyes for a second and picture the last research lab you were in. Odds are the image you
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Unit Conversions In Eight Easy Steps | MCAT Tips and Tricks
Unit conversion questions are so common on the MCAT that they deserve their own post. Test authors love having you
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Considering the Physician Assistant Path
When thinking about a career in medicine, those who are leaning towards getting an MD often consider the Physician Assistant
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How To Develop Interpersonal Communication Skills For Better Interview Performance
“When I reviewed the interview performance of over 200 students who applied to our training program in the last 5
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How To Demonstrate Service Orientation
Medical school admissions committees look at many different factors that go beyond your grades and test scores when evaluating your
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3 New Year’s Resolutions for 2019 Medical School Applicants
Though New Year’s resolutions have the reputation of falling by the wayside come February, they can represent a starting point
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Quickly Calculate Logarithms Without a Calculator | MCAT Tips and Tricks
Logarithms are one of the most difficult math topics on the MCAT because many of us haven’t studied them since
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How The Humanities Make Us Better Physicians
At the end of sophomore year in college, I punched in my biology and chemistry grades on a calculator and
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How to Discuss Volunteer Experiences Without Sounding Problematic
Welcome back to Equity Matters, the monthly column exploring a range of topics related to health equity, public health, global
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Five Myths about Applying to Canadian Medical Schools
Premed (and even high school) life can be full of rumors about medical school admissions. Some myths are overly optimistic
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Finding a Research Project that Fits Like a Glove
Welcome to “Research for the Rest of Us”, a column about navigating the complex intricacies of life in the lab.
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King Henry What?? | MCAT Tips and Tricks
An awesome trick for remembering metric prefixes and converting between units in the metric system Preparing for the MCAT requires
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What Kind of Clinical Experience Should Premeds Get?
Medical School Admissions Offices Weigh In What kind of clinical experience do you need to get into medical school? Often,
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Getting into Medical School, From High School
Yep, you read that title correctly. But go ahead and read it once more! Direct medical programs come packaged in
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