Medical School
The Transition
Today marks the transition as I begin my journey to becoming a physician. Though I guess you could say that my journey really began years ago when I was fascinated by the surgical operations I saw on TLC. Or maybe it was when I did my first ever major school project on the brain and [...]
Mastering the University of Toronto Medical School Essay – Part 4: How Your Premedical Studies have Prepared You for Medicine
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 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 a grain [...]
Why You Need to Think Critically about Advice and Who You Get it From
Sometimes I read advice online for medical school admissions from medical students that I think is fundamentally wrong. Of course this would seem counter-intuitive – how could someone be wrong about advice if they got in? Consider a game of rock, paper, scissors (yah yah, how many times have I used this example now?). Imagine [...]
Is medical school admissions basically a lottery?
If you’re an avid reader of this blog, you can probably guess what my answer is. But to me, the answer itself isn’t as important as understanding how we get that answer, because it is only by knowing the process of finding the answer that we will be able to answer similar questions correctly in [...]
Interview Advice: The Importance of Being Memorable and Telling Stories
I was once asked in an interview to talk about an accomplishment I was proud of. Prior to the interview, I had come up with a list of practice questions and what my general approach to them would be – the “accomplishment question” was one of them. I had planned on mentioning my TD Canada [...]
Medical School Admissions: How important are non-academic components really?
After reading Medaholic’s great post on why grades are the most important component of the medical school admissions process, it got me thinking about how important the non-GPA/MCAT components actually are. And the more I think about it, the more it seems like they are significantly less important than most people realize. Now, let me [...]
Medaholic.com – Why Grades Matter
The following is a guest post from my good friend over at Medaholic.com. He is currently a first year medical student and is involved in his school’s admissions process. His blog is fantastic, so check it out! Why do grades matter so much when it comes to getting into medical school? We’ve all seen people [...]
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