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This Recruitment Director is Revamping Secondary Apps

Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 349 As you’re preparing your applications, it’s important to understand how you as an applicant is looked at by medical schools. Carle Illinois College…

MCAT CARS Examines The Preoccupations of Protagonists

Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 41 Follow along as we read about how western literature describes its protagonists, from medieval social roles, to inner thoughts and feelings. Jack Westin…

Should You Address a Visible Pregnancy in Interviews?

Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 189 Are pregnant applicants to medical school seen differently? Are there any mechanisms to protect their chances for acceptance? The questions on this podcast…

What You Need to Know About Shadowing a Physician

Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 348 Dr. Elaine Reno is a professor of emergency medicine and mentor. She has put hundreds and hundreds of students through shadowing experiences –…

MCAT CARS Looks Into Open Office Spaces and Productivity

Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 40 Office walls are a thing of the past, and cubicles are distant memories. How do open offices impact productivity, and do headphones reduce…

Why Is This Menstruating Patient So Sick?

Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 26 A 20-year-old menstruating adult is tachycardic, somnolent, and hypotensive with GI symptoms and macular rash. What sort of organism do you suspect? As…

What is Breast Imaging Radiology Like?

Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 105 There are no typical days in radiology. Dr. Anjali Malik joins me to talk about breast imaging, guided biopsy, and what it means…

Where to Apply When You’re Applying: How to Pick?

Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 188 This applicant is not sure what information is significant when choosing a program. How do you pick a school when you don’t see…

Light, Optics, and More High-Yield Physics

Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 155 Today, we tackle a high-yield topic in physics, specifically about light and optics. We’re covering the electromagnetic spectrum, refraction, and understanding wavelength and…

The Expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe, a CARS reading!

Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts Session 39 Follow along as we use MCAT CARS reading and analysis skills to ask, how far can a narrative reasonably expand? Can non-linear plot…