Using Sample Medical School Essays Effectively

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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 [...]

Sample Personal Statements about Medical Specializations

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Effectively Discussing Your Dream Medical Specialization in Your Essay with the Help of Sample Medical School Personal Statements If you are a student aiming for acceptance to a top medical school, one good theme you can write about for your personal statement is on “medical specialization selection.”  This is all about a medical practitioner selecting [...]

Life-changing Experiences in Personal Statements

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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 [...]

Coping with All-nighters in Medical School

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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 [...]

Qualities of Successful Doctors

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“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 [...]

Do You Need to be a Science Major to Be Accepted in Medical School?

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Majority of the students who apply to and get accepted in medical school are science majors. They spend their college years studying vertebrate anatomy and organic chemistry to prepare themselves for medical school. So, what if you took up journalism or political science in college only to find out that a career in medicine is [...]

A Quick Guide to Using the AMA Style

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The AMA style is the proper format used in citing references used in the text. Developed by the American Medical Association, the AMA style is used in writing research papers or documents on science, medicine, and other health-related topics. This citation style is not only used by medical practitioners and medical journalists but also by [...]

Benefits of Joining Study Group Sessions in Medical School

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Got a study group invitation lately? Well, if you did, then you should say yes right away. Joining study group sessions is not only a great opportunity to meet potential partners, but it is also a good chance to improve your study habits and academic perforamce. And in the stress-filled world of medical school, study [...]

Tips on Medical School Admission Interviews

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It is generally known that well-written sample medical school personal statements will help you get admitted to the medical school of your choice. But what are the other requirements for admission? Aside from your sample medical school personal statements, another medical school admission requirement that you need to worry about is the interview. Here are [...]

The Foreign Students Guide to Applying at US Medical Schools

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American and foreign students are given equal opportunity in US medical school admissions. It is because the admissions committees of medical schools consider academic excellence and medical school potential as criteria in looking future medical students. However, admission requirements for American and foreign students are not always the same. If you are a foreigner who [...]