Edward Chang

Edward Chang is the Co-founder and Director of Operations of ProspectiveDoctor.com. He graduated from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and is currently a urology resident at the University of Washington. He also attended UCLA as an undergraduate, graduating with a major in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology. If you are interested in contributing to ProspectiveDoctor.com, please contact him at edwardchang@prospectivedoctor.com. Follow him on Twitter @EdwardChangMD and Prospective Doctor @ProspectiveDr.

Residency & Beyond

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Coffee Reduces Risk of Oral Cancer?

Coffee drinkers rejoice! Recent research from the American Cancer Society states that coffee intake is associated with reduced risk of oral/pharyngeal cancer. The prospective study, which began in 1982, included 968,432 men and women who were cancer free at enrollment.…
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Path to Medical School Part 3: Pre-Med Advising

Please read part 1 and part 2 before reading part 3: As an underclassman, I really wondered about everyone else. What were their GPA’s? For the people who took their MCAT’s, what were their scores? What kind of extracurricular activities…
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Extracurriculars

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Path to Medical School Part 2: Pre-Med Volunteering

Please read part 1 before reading part 2: For some reason, people seem to think that grades during freshman year of college do not matter. Maybe this attitude at my school stemmed from the fact that for college admissions, University…
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Path to Medical School Part 1

To be completely honest, my initial decision to become a doctor was a relatively arbitrary thing. Near the end of my junior year and beginning of my senior year in high school, I was thinking a great deal about what…
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The Importance of Mentorship

While I was eating lunch with him, my research mentor, who is a renowned urologist, said to me, “I always learned from the person who was one step ahead of me.” This meant when he was an underclassmen, he learned…
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Time Management as a Pre-Med

Time management is everyone’s problem. In modern times, the difficulty has become “so much to do but so little time”. A lack of time management can lead to stress, anxiety and lack of sleep, which ultimately has a detrimental effect…
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Applying to Medical School

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Dropping Pre-Med Because of One Bad Semester

According to AAMC, the average GPA and MCAT of a U.S. medical school matriculant in the 2022-23 application cycle is 3.75 and 512 respectively. These statistics are pretty high given the fact that 3.75 is pretty much an A average.…
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Does Ethnicity Matter for Medical School Applications?

Does ethnicity matter for medical school applications? It is a simple question but a very complicated one. In 1978, Justice Powell, speaking on the case The Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, declared that race would be a…
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Is It Worth Going on Medical Mission Trips?

Medical mission trips sound impressive. Spending a couple weeks in a third world country and providing health care seems much more meaningful than volunteering at a “boring” clinic in the U.S. It is also enticing to think that going on…
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Pre-Med Academics

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Five Steps to a Better GPA

Like many of you reading this article, I am not a genius. I may have above average intelligence but by no means could I rely on my natural intelligence to excel during undergrad. Therefore, I needed to study hard and…
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