Premed Extracurriculars As a premed student, you might ask, if I do really well in my classes and rock the MCAT, what more do I have to do?! Enter the…
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Dr. Saguil now works at the ‘Military Medical School,’ located in Bethesda, MD, right outside of Washington, D.C. USUHS has been around since 1972 and has graduated 5000 physicians. It is an allopathic (MD) granting degree. USUHS is part of the AMCAS application which is used to apply to the majority (except for Texas) allopathic medical schools.
USUHS doesn’t charge for applying! But that doesn’t mean you should apply, just because it’s free. You should truly have an interest/desire to be part of something bigger/something other than yourself.
1/3 of students have some prior association with the military, ROTC, Academy or prior active service.
I was asked to speak at the 2013 OldPreMeds and OldMeds National Conference, their 13th Annual. The theme of the conference was military medicine and I was able to meet some great people, including the founder of SDN, Army Lt Col (Dr.) Lee Burnett.
The subject of my talk was about my journey to being a Flight Surgeon in the Air Force, including accepting the HPSP Scholarship.
I was able to record the audio, and have put it together with my slides. I hope you enjoy!
Medical school is expensive. There are no two ways about it. Fortunately there are scholarships available. We already covered the Air Force HPSP scholarship in session 18. For this session, we are talking with the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) from the US. Department of Health & Human Services.
Authorized in 1974, the NHSC was created to address the shortage of primary care physicians, especially in rural America.
Today, Will from the Lost in PreMed Podcast (lostinpremed.org) released an episode of his podcast that featured an interview with ME!
Will asked a ton of great questions about what it’s like to be a flight surgeon in the United States Air Force, what I thought about the HPSP (health professions scholarship program) and we talked about this website a little.
In this session of The Premed Years I give a brief introduction to the origins of MedicalSchoolHQ.net and why it was started. I talk about why I think podcasting is the next step in bringing great premed information to the masses.
I also take you down my path to becoming a physician and the obstacles that I (like many others) had to overcome.
Read MoreAccording to the American Medical Association (AMA), the average debt facing medical school graduates in 2011 was $161,290. At the current professional student loan rate of 6.8%, you are looking at almost a quarter million dollars in total cost of medical school. The cost of tuition has gone up 50% over a 20 year period for private medical schools and 133% for public medical schools[1]. Paid over 10 years, the total price of the current average loan is $222,735. What are your plans to pay for this? A mortgage, a car payment and student loan payments, it is no surprise that doctors are struggling paying their loans.
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Freshman/Sophomore years
- Ensure all pre-med requirements will be met in your schedule. Remember, each medical school will have slightly different requirements. If there are certain med schools you are thinking about attending, please review their requirements. Here are the basic pre-med requirements that most medical schools require:
- Physics (1 year)
- General Chemistry (1 year)
- Organic Chemistry (1 year)
- Biology (1 year)
- English (D.O. schools require. Most M.D. schools recommend)
- Psychology (1 semester) – In Preparation of the 2015 MCAT
- Sociology (1 semester) – In Preparation of the 2015 MCAT
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