205: Why She Left the Premed Track, Became an NP and is now an M1
The Premed Years
Ryan Gray
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2016
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Ryan talked to Hanaan about why her lack of mentorship as a premed, switching to an NP program and then figuring out that she truly wants to be a physician.
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: Interview with Dr. Hala Sabry of Physician Moms Group.
- Related episode: Do I Have Enough Time to Be a Premed and a Mom?
- 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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| 0:00.0 | MapCon is right around the corner October 6th through 8th in Baltimore, Maryland. |
| 0:05.6 | It is an in-person event, unfortunately not virtual this year, but I'm going to give you |
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| 0:27.5 | back, I don't want it to be finances that cause you to not come to MappedCon. Go to MappedCon.com, M A P P P, C, O, N, dot com, and use the promo code |
| 0:40.4 | podcast to get your ticket for five dollars today. October 6th through 8th |
| 0:45.7 | MAPCon presented by Blueprint MCAT. I will see you there. |
| 0:50.0 | The pre-med year session number 205. Hello and welcome to the two-time Academy Award nominated podcast, The Pre-Med Years, |
| 1:08.0 | where we believe that collaboration, not competition, is key to your pre-med success. I'm your host Dr. Ryan Gray and in this |
| 1:14.9 | podcast we share with you stories, encouragement, and information that you need to |
| 1:19.5 | know to help guide you on your path to becoming a physician. |
| 1:24.0 | Now before we break into today's episode, I want to tell you about episode 2008. |
| 1:33.4 | Now if you're quick with math, 2008 divided by 52 is 4. |
| 1:38.7 | Episode 2008, which is coming out in three weeks, will be our fourth anniversary of this podcast. |
| 1:46.2 | It's been 200 and it will be 2008 weeks since we released episode one way back in November of 2012 and I want to do something |
| 1:58.9 | special to celebrate 2008 and that requires you. But there's a little bonus kicker here. I want to have a |
| 2:08.0 | contest and in that contest I want to give away some things. I want to give away some mock interview prep with me, a |
| 2:17.0 | four pack of mock interview prep, also probably give away a single session. I want to give away personal statement editing. I want to give away |
| 2:27.3 | some of my mock interview courses and I want to I want to give away a lot. |
| 2:33.5 | So if you are interested in winning some mock interview prep with me |
| 2:38.6 | or personal statement editing from me or my interview course or whatever I have coming down. We can even figure it out |
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