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How are residency positions allocated among specialties?
Hi everyone, it’s been a long time since I updated the blog – something like 5 months. I’m in clerkship now, and it’s been very difficult to find time (and ideas) to write. I did, however, want to put in a plug for a fantastic new Healthy Debate article called How Specialty Positions are Allocated [...]
HD: Why Don’t More Doctors Do House Calls?
Just wanted to quickly promote an article from HealthyDebate called: Why Don’t More Doctors Do House Calls? In the middle of the article, it mentioned a survey: …Akhtar’s sentiment is backed by a recent survey she sent to the family medicine residents at the University of Toronto about the perceived barriers to doing house calls [...]
The Evolution of MedHopeful
It’s now been just over 3 years since I first started this blog. It’s amazing not only to see how much this blog has grown and evolved over the years, but also in reflecting, I’m fascinated by how much I have changed as well. I’ve written or thought things several years ago that I do [...]
10 Things You Can Do Today to Improve Your Medical School Application
Applying to medical school is tough. Really tough. There are more qualified applicants than there are spots. The number of applicants is increasing every year (and subsequently, the number of qualified applicants) while the number of medical school spots isn’t keeping pace. But if you want it bad enough, with a lot of hard work [...]
Are you succeeding? If not, maybe you’re measuring success the wrong way
Every action you undertake begins with three things: Motivation – Why are you doing this? What’s driving you? What’s the point? Goal – What do you hope to achieve? What does success look like? Action plan – How will you achieve your goal? What do you need to do? Most of us understand this template [...]
2 Years Down, 2 Years to Go – A Long and Much Needed Update
It’s been almost a month since I last blogged. It must seem strange to some of you, since it’s true, I am on “summer vacation” right now. It’s even hard for me to believe that I’m almost three weeks into the start of the summer. It really doesn’t feel like it. Blog Changes I’m sure [...]
5 Tips for a Successful Elevator Pitch
This past Monday and this morning, I was at the 2011 Canada-Wide Science Fair encouraging this year’s participants to try out the brand new SMARTS website. (When I started SMARTS in 2004, it was a plain website with information on a couple of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) opportunities myself and a few peers [...]
Stanford Admissions Video – Medicine, Business, Education and Law
Thanks to Gagan, one of our readers, who suggested sharing the following video: “February 8, 2011 – The deans of four Stanford graduate schools discussed the values of a liberal arts major and how that might impact a student who is interested in applying to professional school. They also talked about how their admission process [...]
Speaking Engagements!
I really enjoy speaking. A lot. I’m bitten by the bug and I’d love to do more of it. If you are a student, teacher, conference organizer or event planner interested in hearing me talk and share my experiences, about anything ranging from leadership to volunteerism to medical school, let me know! I’m happy to [...]
Video: Science Expo 2011 Talk
On Saturday, May 11, I delivered a keynote talk at Science Expo: a conference aimed at encouraging youth to explore science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) opportunities. At first I had the talk recorded as a video, but I wasn’t happy with the quality of how it turned out, both in my speech and in [...]
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