By: Danielle Purtell Medical school admissions committees are swamped with qualified applicants. Many students apply with the same highly competitive MCAT scores and GPAs. Trying to get noticed by admissions committees can feel even more daunting if you’re a non-traditional applicant. If you took a gap year (or two, or three…), are changing careers, or had an…
Month: August 2016
8 Tips to Create a Better Resume When Applying to Med School
According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, med school applicants and enrollments improved at a record pace in 2014. This means more competition for you as a potential med school applicant. With this in mind, you’re going to need to dazzle admissions if you’re going to be accepted to the program of your choice. One…
Medical Ethics: What Really Matters & Why You Should Care.
By: Ann Freeman Cool, Ph.D. Presented by: AMSA Professionalism & Ethics Committee I still remember the look on the young physician’s face when I invited him to talk about the ethical issues he faced in caring for his patients. He explained: “Nothing in medical school prepared me for some of the decisions I have to…
Wellness Wednesday: Standing in Solidarity to Prevent Physician Suicide
“The United States loses the equivalent of one small medical school or a large medical school class to suicide each year.”1 Fellow medical and pre-medical students, this is a call to action to stand together to help change the culture of education in our schools and that of our future workplace environments, to remove the…
