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It would help me greatly if you all could inform me of the process you've taken to get where you are now (medical school or graduates) and what you wish you had or hadn't done. Thanks!
~Beth
~Beth
...I've been a schoolteacher, a martial arts instructor, EMT, computer tech, English teacher, junior anthropologist, diabetes researcher along with even more esoteric positions... Now I really want to be a physician.
I just can't decide which kind...
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Why am I not surprised?
Originally posted by kris:
•they advised me just as they would have any undergrad. That was an expensive lesson for me.
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kris,
What would you do differently as a grad student as opposed to an undergrad?
Originally posted by mpp:
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kris,
What would you do differently as a grad student as opposed to an undergrad?•••
I'm a little short on time here, but briefly I'll just say that I was in grad school in the humanities. My advisors thought I could apply without being finished with my degree; they were wrong. Many med schools explicitly don't want applications from grads not yet done with their programs. There are several threads about this alone floating around in the SDN archives.
Being from the humanities, many of my science courses were rather old. My med school wanted me to take 1-2 years of upper level science classes to better prepare for the transition, and perhaps to prove that I could. Then there's the fact that any science rec letters were also several years old coming from undergrad science profs.
That's the short of it.
--kris