Archive for July, 2009

Mastering the University of Toronto Medical School Essay – Part 3: Why Medicine and How Did You Prepare

Disclaimer: I will be a University of Toronto medical student starting this fall, but I am not on the admissions committee and never have been. All of the advice I will provide here is based on my own opinion and personal experience with the application process, so please take anything I say with a grain [...]

Mastering the University of Toronto Medical School Essay – Part 2: Background, Interests, and Experiences

Disclaimer: I will be a University of Toronto medical student starting this fall, but I am not on the admissions committee and never have been. All of the advice I will provide here is based on my own opinion and personal experience with the application process, so please take anything I say with a grain [...]

Mastering the University of Toronto Medical School Essay – Part 1: The Secret

Disclaimer: I will be a University of Toronto medical student starting this fall, but I am not on the admissions committee and never have been. All of the advice I will provide here is based on my own opinion and personal experience with the application process, so please take anything I say with [...]

Why You Should Job Shadow

The other day, someone asked me if I could write an article on shadowing. While I don’t have any real advice for finding mentors to shadow besides “just asking”, I remembered an article I wrote a few years ago about my experience shadowing a physician, and why I thought job shadowing as a whole [...]