342: Discussing the Application Cycle With an Admissions Expert
The Premed Years
Ryan Gray
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Today Sunny joins me to discuss and give advice on mistakes applicants make, personal statements, premed advisors, and more! This is an episode you don't want to miss!
Links:
Read Sunny’s blog: Tough Love for Your Personal Statement: Advice from a Medical School Dean
Read her other blogs on Reflective MedEd.
Follow Sunny on Twitter @DrNakae and find out more about Sunny here.
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| 0:00.0 | MapCon is right around the corner October 6th through 8th in Baltimore, Maryland. |
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| 0:45.7 | MAPSCPCON presented by Blueprint MCAT. I will see you there. |
| 0:51.0 | If you are interested in getting some great experience outside of the classroom, I encourage you to check out the University of Colorado School of Medicine's Wilderness Medicine program, one that I teach at. |
| 1:05.2 | I go for an hour and a half, two hours and teach all about the application process, the |
| 1:11.1 | pre-med process, personal statements, etc. |
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| 1:19.9 | help treat trauma patients and learn how to do wilderness medicine if that is something that you can do. |
| 1:26.2 | You get some shadowing experience and EMS ride-alongs, tons of great experience and they also offer scholarships if you qualify. |
| 1:35.4 | You can find out more information by texting the word wild med to 44222. |
| 1:41.9 | Again if you text the word wild med, all one word to 4422, I'll get you a link to the University of |
| 1:49.2 | of Colorado Wilderness Medicine course and you can use the promo code M-S-H-Q to save some money on that |
| 1:57.5 | course as well. The pre-med year session number 342. Hello and welcome to the Premed Years, where we believe that collaboration, not competition, is key to your success. |
| 2:15.0 | I'm your host Dr. Ryan Gray and in this podcast we share with you stories, encouragement, |
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