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The pre-med year session number 360.

Hello and welcome to The Premid Years years where we believe that collaboration not competition is key to your success.

I'm your host Dr. Ryan Gray and in this podcast we share with you stories

encouragement and information that you need to know to

help guide you on your path to becoming a physician.

Welcome to the pre-med years, my name, as I mentioned earlier, Dr. Ryan Gray, thank you for taking the time to join me today.

Before I get started in today's episode, I want to give a little shout out to pre-med scholarship.com. If you don't know about pre-med

scholarship.com you should. It's a way that you can enter to win through an essay, up to $4,000 at this point, right, as we're recording this mid-October

2019, our prizes for first, second, and third place are $4,000 for first place, $1,500, for second, and five hundred, four, third.

And as I mentioned this now is because I just finally announced the winners from our second contest which ended at the end of June.

Took a little while to get our scores and we built a new rubric to score the essays

to make sure that our reviewers are looking

at the essays in a standard way.

And we came up with our three winners finally

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