Using Sample Medical School Essays Effectively

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

How to Come up With an Effective Essay with the Help of Sample Medical School Personal Statements
If you are a student planning to pursue a career in the field of medicine and are now preparing for your application essays, you could make use of some tips for effective essay writing.  You can make it as [...]

Life-changing Experiences in Personal Statements

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

Discussing Recent Life-changing Experiences in Your Essay with the Help of Sample Medical School Personal Statements
Are you a college student in the process of writing your own essay or personal statement for medical school admission? Well, if you just can’t seem to think of a good topic that will trigger the interest of the admission [...]

Medical Schools in the Hot Seat: Cornell, GW, and OSU

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Weill Cornell Medical College
Located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, students studying in the Weill Cornell Medical College are not far from the social and cultural happenings of New York. This less than a century old institution has been paving the way towards breakthroughs in the medical field, earning accolades for the Pap smear, [...]

Checking Out the Medical Schools of Penn State, ATSU, and Hofstra

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

Penn State College of Medicine
In the middle of the chocolate empire stands a veritable medical and academic institution that has been churning out medical professionals since the late 1960s. The Penn State College of Medicine has produced outstanding physicians and other medical professionals who specialize in the study and research in key areas such as [...]

Spotlight on Medical Schools: Yale, Baylor, Carver

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Yale School of Medicine
Aspiring medical students are always on the clamor to get into this almost 200-year-old institution that has been producing top-notch medical professionals throughout its illustrious history. However, medical students of the Yale School of Medicine are far from leading a charmed life as the education and training that they undergo is pretty [...]

Why Interpersonal Skills or People Skills Are Very Important in the Medical Profession

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Many aspiring doctors spend too much time on medical textbooks and scientific concepts that they tend to forget one of the most important qualities that every doctor must possess: people skills. Your job as a doctor is not limited to making diagnoses, administering medications, or performing operations. The medical profession expects you to be more [...]

Medical Graduates in the Corporate World

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Not all medical graduates pursue a career in medical practice. Turning away from emergency rooms and laboratory testings, however, doesn’t mean that you have to throw away everything that you learned during your four years in medical school. You can still use your medical education in a non-hospital setting. Here are some alternative career options [...]

Coping with All-nighters in Medical School

Monday, November 10th, 2008

All-nighters are unavoidable in medical school. With overwhelming medical school work given in very limited time, you have no other choice but to pull an all-nighter. Many medical students even consider it as a “rite of passage” to the medical world. Losing hours of sleep to get work done is not the healthiest thing to [...]

Glossary of Common Terms Associated with Hospital Staff

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Thanks to Dr. McDreamy, surgical drama Grey’s Anatomy is currently one of the most-watched television shows in the US. Aside from the tangled love lives of the main characters, another source of confusion among the non-medical viewers of the show has to do with the differing titles of the doctors. Why is George still called [...]

Qualities of Successful Doctors

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

“What are the qualities of successful doctors?” is the question that both practicing medical doctors and medical students want to be answered. Of course, you are curious. After all, you want to be a successful doctor too. So, what makes them successful? Is it their excellent choice of medical schools? Their outstanding grades? To give [...]