130: A Canadian Premed Talks about His Journey to Med School
The Premed Years
Ryan Gray
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2015
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Darby joins Ryan on the podcast to discuss what life was like as a non-traditional applicant to Canadian medical school, and life as a Canadian premed.
Links and Other Resources
- Full Episode Blog Post
- Check out my Premed Playbook series of books (available on Amazon), with installments on the personal statement, the medical school interview, and the MCAT.
- Related episode: From Canada to the Caribbean: This Doctor’s Journey.
- Related episode: Two Canadian Medical School Acceptances for This Premed.
- Need MCAT Prep? Save on tutoring, classes, and full-length practice tests by using promo code “MSHQ” at Next Step Test Prep!
Transcript
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| 0:44.3 | October 6th through 8th, MapCon presented by Blueprint |
| 0:47.6 | M-Cat. I will see you there. |
| 0:49.8 | The Medical School Headquarters Podcast Session Number 130. Hello and welcome to the Medical School Headquarters Podcast |
| 1:07.0 | where we believe that collaboration not competition is key to your |
| 1:11.7 | pre-med success. I'm your host Dr. Ryan Gray and in this |
| 1:15.2 | podcast we share with you stories, encouragement and information that you need to |
| 1:20.2 | know to help you on your path to becoming a physician. You'd think after 130 |
| 1:27.3 | episodes I wouldn't butcher the beginning of a podcast but I almost did there I |
| 1:30.9 | don't know if you got that. |
| 1:32.8 | Anyway, thank you for joining us today or joining me today. |
| 1:37.8 | There is no Allison today. |
| 1:39.2 | So if you're listening for Allison, |
| 1:41.7 | you can join us again another week because she will not join us but |
| 1:45.5 | I do have an amazing guest and I will tell you about him in a minute but before that |
| 1:51.1 | I want to let you know if you are interested in one on one |
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