Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 69 Do nursing courses count toward your medical school prerequisites, and is there any truth to low medical school acceptance rates for nurses? Our…
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Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 68 Our question comes from an applicant who has taken a somewhat winding path during her premed career. We’ll sort through grades, trends, and…
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Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 115 Today we have an interesting question from a student who is in a postbac but is looking at taking a class during the…
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Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 230 Chad, a 32-year-old student, shares his story about struggling with undergrad, being rejected from a Caribbean medical school, and his recent application success. A…
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Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 229 Renee had a successful career as a nurse educator. But she knew in her gut that she wanted to pursue medicine, so she applied…
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Brian shares his nontraditional path to medicine, which included teaching for 9 years before realizing that medicine was truly his calling.
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Liza Thompson started working with premed students 20 years ago. She has worked with directly with non-traditional medical students during that time with two different postbaccalaureate (postbac) programs at Goucher and Johns Hopkins. She now runs an advising company for medical school applicants and postbac applicants called Thompson Advising.
We’ve covered some non-traditional student stuff before. If you haven’t seen those posts and podcasts, check out the links in the main article.
We talk exactly about what a postbac program is, the different types of post-bac programs and some tips on selecting one. We also discuss do-it-yourself (DIY) postbac programs.
