Considering Medicine
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Admission Tips & Secrets
Three unique ways to stand out for medical school applications and interviews
By Amit Patel, MD Getting into medical school requires more than just getting stellar grades and good MCAT scores. Many…
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Alternative Paths
Difference Between Advanced-Practice Providers and Physicians
What are advanced-practice providers (APPs)? What is the difference between advanced-practice providers and physicians? To be honest, many physicians don’t…
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Applying to Medical School
Try to Submit a Unique Medical School Application
By: Pamela Heshmati Dreaming of medical school? Becoming a doctor is something you’ve planned for a long time, so it’s…
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Applying to Medical School
How to hold on to the med school dream
By Daphne Metellus, MD Do you know what I think is the hardest part about fulfilling a dream? Making the…
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Admission Tips & Secrets
How to curate killer extracurriculars (aka: do what you love and you won’t work a day of undergrad)
By: Mandy Gleason, MD As a senior resident, I do doctor things every day. So when I interview med school…
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Admission Tips & Secrets
Writing a personal statement for medical school
By: Elliot Stein Setting out to write a personal statement for medical school is a daunting task. Fret not! You…
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Applying to Medical School
Getting a Graduate Degree Before Medical School
There are generally two groups of people who get graduate degrees before medical school. The first group consists of people…
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Applying to Medical School
Acing Academics Freshman Year
“I feel overwhelmed.” I heard this often from my advisees when I was a freshman adviser at Duke. This didn’t…
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Applying to Medical School
Extracurricular activities during college: should I aim for breadth or depth?
By: Nick Deebel This is a question I am frequently asked. In addition to possessing a strong undergraduate GPA and…
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Applying to Medical School
How to Begin Deciding if Medicine is for You
By: Akshita Mehta So you’ve decided that a career in medicine may be for you. You’ve done some research online and…
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