209: Taking a Gap Year Before Medical School? Should You Do It?
The Premed Years
Ryan Gray
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Ryan answers two emails that came in on the same day about gap years and decided to dig into what it is and the pros and cons of taking one. Check it out!
Links and Other Resources:
- Full Episode Blog Post
- Harvard Crimson article about students taking gap years before medical school.
- Related episode: What Are Some Good Gap Year Ideas?
- Related episode: Develop Your Patient Skills with an Incredible Gap Year.
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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. |
| 0:44.6 | October 6 through 8th, MappedCon presented by Blueprint, |
| 0:47.8 | M-Cat. |
| 0:48.7 | I will see you there. |
| 0:51.1 | If you're applying to medical school in 2022 to start medical school in 2023, |
| 0:56.0 | join me Wednesday or Thursday, Wednesday night at 930 p.m. Eastern or |
| 1:02.0 | Thursday at 11 a.m. eastern or Thursday at 11 a.m. eastern at pre-med workshop.com go |
| 1:07.6 | register today. I'm going to show you how to tell your story in your |
| 1:11.7 | application. |
| 1:12.6 | Again that's pre-med Workshop.com. |
| 1:14.4 | If you are applying to medical school in 2022, |
| 1:17.4 | be there or be square. |
| 1:20.6 | If you're a non-traditional student, |
| 1:22.1 | check out the old pre-meds podcast over at old premeds.org. |
| 1:26.6 | This is the pre-med years where we believe that collaboration not |
| 1:42.4 | competition is key to your pre-med success. where we |
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