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YOUNG LEADERS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
The National AIDS Memorial Grove Young Leaders Scholarship Program (YLSP) recognizes, supports and encourages the educational efforts of young people committed to active roles of public service and leadership in the struggle against HIV/AIDS. YLSP is open to current high school seniors and college undergraduates who have demonstrated an active commitment to fighting AIDS (for [...]
Tips for the MCAT
The MCAT is one of the most feared exams as an undergraduate medical student. Your score on this exam can ultimately decide your chances of being accepted into medical school. Unfortunately minority students tend to underperform on this exam. I personally took the MCAT once. I had paid for a course to take over the [...]
Inspiring Stories : Amanda Colbert
Amanda Colbert Name: Amanda Colbert Undergraduate university: The University of Michigan, 2010 Medical school: Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, 2016 As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? I have wanted to become a physician for as long as I can remember. What led to your interest [...]
Holistic Review — Shaping the Medical Profession One Applicant at a Time
Modern medicine has been characterized by rapid and accelerating progress in biomedical sciences as the foundation for clinical practice. In 1910, the Flexner Report established these sciences as the core of medical education. Admissions committees at U.S. medical schools have, for the past century, focused their attention largely on predictors of success in the foundational science [...]
The Changing Face of Medical School Admissions
At an assembly during my first week of medical school, one of the institution’s venerable deans took to the podium to announce that our class marked a turning point in the school’s history: nearly half of us were female. My classmates and I were unimpressed. For while our genders might have been mixed, it hadn’t [...]
How Do I… Create a Budget?
How Do I… Create a Budget? Printer Friendly Version See All Fact Sheets Let’s face it. Money will probably be tight during medical school and residency. That’s why a realistic budget—one you can stick to—will be critical to your financial wellbeing during the early years. Remember, if you stick to your budget and [...]
3 Inexpensive Ways to Study for the MCAT
It’s safe to say medical school is a costly investment. Tuition can reach as high as $50,000 or more per year. Prospective students’ wallets often take a hit from simply preparing for the medical school entrance exam: A quick online search reveals test preparation courses ranging from $2,000 to $11,000. “Commercial prep courses are very expensive,” says Lynne Holden, [...]
Reforming Premedical Education — Out with the Old, In with the New
The most consistent and strident calls for medical education reform over the past century have focused on premedical preparation. The first attempt at standardizing requirements for medical school admission came in 1904 from the American Medical Association’s Council on Medical Education. In 1910, Abraham Flexner recommended requiring biology, chemistry, botany, and physics, and by 1930, [...]
How Do I… Decide Where to Apply?
There’s an old saying, “If you’ve seen one medical school, you’ve seen one medical school.” What is meant by that is that all medical schools are unique. They vary in mission, location, size, and countless other variables. Deciding which medical schools to apply to is a very personal decision [...]
The importance of reading and writing English
Medical education in the United States, compared to that of other countries, is lengthier for various reasons. Like so many of you, throughout high school I struggled with English courses. My sentence construction was mediocre, in due part to lack of exposure to diverse texts and reading materials. The following tips of knowledge are exercises [...]
