nontraditional applicant

For those nontraditional applicants who wonder if they are too late, too old or too handicapped to change careers and enter medicine, this one is for you. Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, PhD, wrote a splendid little book entitled: The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science By...

Hello there! My undergrad career has been a journey of discovery. All throughout high school, I aspired to one day become a doctor (sounds a bit peculiar, but as my father is an MD, it's not so out of the ballpark). However, once I got into college, I started exploring other science careers and...

So I applied last year pretty late in the cycle and ended up getting an interview and was placed on the waitlist. There are a lot of reasons why I applied late, I was sexually assaulted by a doctor I shadowed and I pressed charges against him which meant I had to fly to New York a lot..this...