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Get Paid to Study for the MCAT with DrSmarts!

Dr. Rashid Taher from DrSmarts.com joins Ryan to talk about his path to becoming an Opthamalogist and founder of Dr. Smarts, a leading site for MCAT prep.
Getting into Medical School with F's on your Transcript

Overcoming 12 Withdrawals and 5 F’s as a Premed

Matt tells his story of a failed start as a premed undergrad career and how he turned it around. Now he has a med school acceptance. Listen to his whole story!
Develop Your Patient Skills with an Incredible Gap Year

Develop Your Patient Skills with an Incredible Gap Year

The Center for Patient Partnerships offers an amazing experience to premeds, medical students and physicians to together with patients, advocating for them.

7 Reasons Premeds Don’t Get Into Medical School

Ryan is flying solo to talk about 7 top reasons premed students fail to gain acceptance to medical school. The third reason is the most inexcusable!

How This Nontrad Beat a Bad MCAT Score and Low GPA

Listen to Ben share his story not doing well in undergrad, changing to premed, and finding out how to succeed, overcoming a low MCAT score to get an acceptance!

Listern Q&A – How to Balance Being a Mom and an Attending

Allison and Ryan answer a question that was emailed in from Grace. She asked how Allison balanced being a new mom, and an attending. We discuss this in detail!
Dr. Pho of KevinMD Talks About His Path and Medicine Today

Dr. Pho of KevinMD Talks About His Path and Medicine Today

Kevin Pho is most known for his blog, KevinMD, is still a practicing physician. We talk about healthcare today and what you should know about it as a premed.
Dr. Tom Peteet Shares His Nontraditional Premed Path

Dr. Tom Peteet Shares His Nontraditional Premed Path

Tom Peteet in an internal medicine resident who take a roundabout way to get to medical school. He shares his premed path with us and his plans for the future.
How to Earn Awesome Grades with Thomas Frank

How to Earn Awesome Grades with Thomas Frank

Thomas Frank is the publisher of College Info Geek and host of the podcast by the same name - helping undergrads be awesome at college. He can help premeds too!
Books for Premeds

More Books (and Articles) Premeds Should Read!

Gaining insight into the medical profession and being a physician can be hard for premeds. We've picked out some books that will help you see what medicine is like, how to improve yourself and gain knowledge about the ACA.