154: Two Acceptances, MD vs DO, One Tough Choice
The Premed Years
Ryan Gray
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Saidat joins us to talk about her traditional journey to medical school which ended with her having two acceptances - one from a MD and one from a DO school.
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| 0:44.6 | October 6th through 8th, M. Con presented by Blueprint, |
| 0:47.8 | M-Cat. |
| 0:48.7 | I will see you there. |
| 0:50.7 | The Medical School Headquarters Podcast, Session Number 154. |
| 0:55.0 | Hello and welcome back to the Medical School Headquarters |
| 1:05.4 | Podcast where we believe that collaboration not competition is key to your |
| 1:10.5 | pre-med success. I'm your host Dr. Ryan Gray and in this podcast we share |
| 1:14.8 | with you stories, encouragement and information that you need to know to help guide you |
| 1:19.9 | on your path to becoming a physician. |
| 1:24.7 | You know, it's been several months since I was in Fort Worth, Texas. |
| 1:29.5 | I was there for a podcasting conference called a podcast movement and I was nominated for a |
| 1:37.2 | top podcast in the science and medicine category and I don't think I've ever shared |
| 1:42.4 | that on this podcast live. I know I've shared it in emails out to the community. I've shared it in the Facebook group, which if you're not part of, go to Medical School HQ. That's HQ. But I just want to take a second to thank you for listening to this podcast and supporting |
| 2:00.1 | us every day, every week that we come out with a new episode because if it wasn't for you |
| 2:06.3 | guys listening we wouldn't be doing this and we wouldn't have been |
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