207: This Med Student Took a Leave of Absense and started Osmosis
The Premed Years
Ryan Gray
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2016
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Shiv Gaglani started medical school knowing he was interested in business. Two years later, he co-founded Osmosis and is now making an impact in the world.
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: Entrepreneurial Premed Stands Out for the Ivys.
- Related episode: 5 Reasons to Go to Medical School, and 5 Not To.
- 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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| 0:44.6 | October 6th through 8th, MappedCon presented by Blueprint, |
| 0:47.8 | M-Cat. |
| 0:48.7 | I will see you there. |
| 0:51.8 | Have you entered to win yet? |
| 0:53.0 | Session 2008 is next week, and that is our fourth anniversary here at the premed years. |
| 0:59.0 | And to celebrate four years, I'm giving away a lot. |
| 1:02.0 | I'm giving away a lot. I'm giving way coaching and my interview course and books and a lot of other things. |
| 1:09.0 | Go to Medical School HQ.net slash contest to join. This is the Premide Year session number 207. |
| 1:17.0 | Hello and welcome to the two-time Academy Award nominated podcast, The Pre-Med Years, |
| 1:30.0 | where we believe that collaboration, not competition, is key to your pre-med success. |
| 1:35.4 | I'm your host Dr. Ryan Gray and in this podcast we share with you stories, encouragement, |
| 1:40.6 | and information that you need to know to help guide you on your path to becoming a physician. |
| 1:47.0 | Now this week I have the awesome opportunity to talk to two people that are involved in a project slash business that is looking to upend how medical |
| 1:59.3 | information is disseminated online and they're doing that through open osmosis which you can find it open dot osmosis that's o s m o sis open dot osmosis. Osmosis.org. |
| 2:14.8 | You're going to hear all about Shiv and his journey to medical school, |
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