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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!
M Prep is a small company that competes against the big boys like Kaplan and The Princeton Review. I’ll review their Anytime eCourse here and show how I think they are a company that you might want to look towards when looking into your MCAT preparation needs.
You may already know of M Prep from their free MCAT question of the day service they offer on their site – mcatquestion.com.
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.
Dr. Greg Polites must wander around the campus of Washington University in St. Louis with a flock of adoring fans like Justin Beiber anywhere in public.
Dr. Polites is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine. He’s also on the admissions committee and the coursemaster for the Practice of Medicine course for 1st and 3rd year medical students there.
For premeds at Wash. U, he’s the instructor for MedPrep, a course that has very similar goals as we do here at the Medical School Headquarters. Upwards of 90% of all premed students at Wash. U take the MedPrep course on their way to medical school.
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.
Want to go to medical school for free? Travel the world? And fulfill your passion of being a physician? Ok, enough of the sales pitch. Session 18 of The Premed Years is an interview with TSgt Satinksy. She is the Air Force Health Professions Scholarship Program recruiter for the New England area.
This is a topic that I covered a little bit with the Lost in PreMed Podcast, and something I probably could have covered myself.
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The Premed Years had the opportunity to talk to Chris Manuel from The Princeton Review. He talks about the key things to know about the MCAT – how to prepare for the MCAT, do’s and don’ts and more. Take a listen to hear from somebody who scored in the 99.9% (he thinks he missed 6 questions overall).
Even if you are going to take Kaplan or any other MCAT Prep course, listen to this podcast. We do go over some of the ways The Princeton Review can help you, and some of the advantages it may have over other test prep companies, but Chris also explains a lot about what and how he teaches MCAT Prep to his students and other teachers.
Chris also gives some great tips for all pre med students, including what to major in to get the best GPA, the type of volunteering to do, and even jobs to get in the hospital. To top it off, he also talks about what to write about in your personal statement.
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