Creating the First Draft of Your Medical School Personal Statement

Have completed your outline and are now ready to write the first draft of your personal statement? If so, or even if you haven’t, join MedSchoolCoach advising and writing advisors, Ziggy Yoediono MD and James Fleming, as they help you take the leap.

In this workshop, we’ll help you make the leap by:

• Showing you what common pitfalls to avoid.
• How to discuss difficult situations in your personal statement.
• What type of language to use in your writing.
• Answering as many of your questions as we can!

Presented by:

James has over 20 years of experience as a professional editor and writer and 18 years of experience as a college and graduate writing instructor.

Dr. Yoediono was a Duke University pre-major advisor, and an adcom member for Duke University School of Medicine, the University of Rochester School of Medicine and the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Program.