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Applying to Medical School
The Primary Application
The Primary Application The entire medical school application process can be stressful but being well-informed can help reduce your worries. Unfortunately, many applicants make unnecessary errors on their primary med school application, which ultimately hurts them in the long run.…
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Should I Apply to DO schools?
More and more medical school applicants are choosing to apply to and enroll in osteopathic medical schools. In the past 6 years, osteopathic medical school enrollment has been steadily increasing from 14,409 in 2007 to 20,663 in 2012. As awareness…
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Difference Between MD and DO
The main difference between MD and DO physicians lies in their fundamental philosophy. DOs emphasize preventative and holistic medicine based on these tenets: 1. The body is a unit, and the person represents a combination of body, mind and spirit.…
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What Is Osteopathic Medicine?
If you are interested in becoming a doctor, you might have heard of a DO (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine) degree. This article discusses what exactly osteopathic medicine is including its history and status today. There are two main forms of…
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How To Write An Undergraduate CV
A curriculum vitae (CV) is considered a comprehensive replacement for a resume in academic and medical careers. Therefore, if you are a college student and you are interested in academia or medicine, you need to know how to write an…
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Common Interview Mistakes
Here is a list of common interview mistakes that medical school applicants make: 1. Not preparing beforehand 2. Dressing inappropriately 3. Arriving late 4. Inability to properly answer why you want to become a doctor 5. Rambling on when answering…
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Example Letter of Intent
*All the specific names in this letter are fictional. Please do not copy this letter. This is only an example letter of intent intended to guide medical school applicants on how to write their own letters. ||Learn how to write…
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How To Write a Letter of Intent
If you want to inform a certain medical school that they are your top choice, you must write (now usually through email) them a letter of intent. The letter of intent is important because medical schools want to accept applicants…
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Extracurriculars
Why Should I Volunteer?
“Why should I volunteer? I heard all you do is clean rooms, shuttle papers, greet patients and/or hand out food. You can’t really gain any significant clinical experience. I will most likely do it but only because it is an…
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Reasons to Not Be a Doctor
In my last post, I shared reasons to be a doctor. The following are reasons to be not be a doctor. The result of Medscape’s 2012 survey show that 54% of physicians would choose to enter medicine again as their…
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