Welcome to the Best of MedHopeful – an archive of our most popular articles. Enjoy!
High School
- Applying to University
- Extracurricular Activities
- Scholarships
- What Major Canadian Scholarships are Available?
- How to Write a Winning Scholarship Essay:
- Mastering Interview and Application Questions: The Art of Questioning the Question
- Scholarship Aftermath: Dealing with Loss and Disappointment
- Scholarship Interview Advice: Loran Award
- Scholarship Interview Advice: TD Canada Trust Scholarship for Community Leadership
- Tips for the Scholarship Application – Video Series
- (1) Queen’s Major Entrance Awards (Nov. 10, 2008)
- (2) Millennium Excellence Awards (Nov. 20, 2008)
- (3) York University Awards of Distinction (Jan. 3, 2009)
- (4) University of Western Ontario National Scholarship Program (Jan. 8, 2009)
Undergrad
- How I Aced First Year University Science:
- Course Selection
- Studying
- Test Taking
- 10 Lesssons for Undergrads:
Medical School
- General
- The Giant Med School Admissions FAQ
- Why Medicine?
- The 7 Traits Medical Schools are Looking for in Applicants
- 10 Things You Can Do Today to Improve Your Medical School Application
- 7 Tips for Completing Your Medical School Application
- Is medical school admissions basically a lottery?
- What’s up with premed altruism?
- If I ran a medical school, this is how I would do admissions
- Extra Curriculars
- GPA
- MCAT
- Essays
- Mastering the University of Toronto Medical School Essay:
- Making Sense
- Essay Writing: The Importance of Writing with a Purpose
- The 5 Biggest Mistakes Applicants Make on Medical School Essays
- How to Become Great at Writing Essays
- Reference Letters
- McMaster CASPer
- Interviews
- Rejections
- Clerkship
Education
- What Makes a Good Lecture?
- The Benefits of Teaching and Mentoring
- It’s Okay to Look Like an Idiot
- Why You Should Job Shadow
- High School Courses that Should Exist but Don’t
Leadership
Skill Development
Success
- The Secret to Consistent Success:
- To be Successful, You need to Keep Putting Yourself in Position to Succeed
- Achieving Your Potential
- The Power of Marketing: Because Perception is Reality
- Understanding Expectation and Avoiding Being Results Oriented
- Managing Risk
- First post and first impressions
- The Fear of Failure and Why You Need to Stop Being Afraid to Lose
- Planting seeds: get what you want by asking more
- Setting and Achieving Goals
- The Importance of Prioritizing
- Why do we fail and how do we move forward from it?
- The 6 Key Qualities for Success
Random Thoughts
- Work and Happiness
- Thinking in Terms of Ranges
- Theory on Friendship
- The Meaning of Life vs. a Meaningful Life
- Sensitivity
- Appreciation, niceness, and generosity – why being kind is best
- Hidden Luck
- May to May – a year in the pursuit of happiness
- Why You Need to Think Critically about Advice and Who You Get it From