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  1. ApplyPoint

    Application Tips with Apply Point: Start Prepping for Secondary Essays

    It’s easy to want to kick back and celebrate once you finish your Personal Statement and Work and Activities section. And you definitely should! But don’t let this sense of relief stop your application momentum. Get started now on your Secondary Essays by drafting responses to recurrent themes...
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    Need Clinical Experience? Consider a Medical Scribe Position.

    If you’re a pre-med on the hunt for some high-quality clinical experiences, medical scribing could be an excellent fit. This paid position can help you to develop a strong network of provider relationships, gain an excellent foundation in medical terminology, observe clinical decision-making...
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    Qualities Medical School Admissions Committees are Looking for in Applicants

    Throughout your medical school primary and secondary applications, you will want to highlight the following skills and qualities. Leadership. This is a key quality that separates physicians from other members of a healthcare provider team. Throughout your application, you will want to showcase...
  4. ApplyPoint

    Crafting Your Medical School Personal Statement: Lessons from Memoir Writing

    A memoir requires more than a recounting of events from your life. Rather, you must show the reader that you’ve experienced transcendence. Marion Roach Smith calls it the “golden rule” of memoir. She writes, “Memoir is not about what you did. Memoir is about what you did with it.” The experience...
  5. ApplyPoint

    Waiting or Waitlisted? Try to Maintain Your Enthusiasm

    If you're still waiting to hear from a medical school or you are on the waitlist, you can bolster your chances by continuing to demonstrate your enthusiasm for the program. After sending a letter of intent or update letter, consider the following ways to showcase your interest. Follow the...
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    Medical Schools and LGBTQ-Focused Curriculums

    Studies show that individuals who identify as LGBTQ report worse health care experiences and poorer health outcomes. But in following the lead of the AAMC, medical schools are working to remedy these health inequities by incorporating more LGBTQ-focused initiatives into their curriculums...
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    AAMC’s President and CEO Addresses Top Challenges Facing Academic Medicine

    Last weekend, the President and CEO of the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC), David Skorton, MD, addressed over 4,200 leaders in academic medicine on the “four things that keep me up at night.” These include structural and cultural inequities in academic medicine, deteriorating...
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    Study Finds Perseverance the Most Common Theme of the AMCAS W&A Entries of Highly Successful Medical Students

    Earlier this year, researchers Joseph M. Maciuba, Yating Teng, Matthew Pflipsen, Mary A. Andrews, and Steven J. Durning published findings from early research into the qualitative differences in the AMCAS applications of medical students identified as high performing (via entry into a medical...
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    The Medical School Application: Sending an Update Letter

    The autumn is often a waiting game for medical school applicants. You will wait for interview invitations and admissions decisions. It can be excruciating! But there’s more to do. You can begin writing your update letters. If you haven’t heard anything from a school for six weeks (after...
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    AMCAS Work & Activities Section: Hobbies

    Hobbies. They are not a make or break component of the medical school (and later, residency) application, but they are an opportunity to provide the admissions committee with a view of the person beyond the test scores. Hobbies are also an effective way to demonstrate how you will add to the...
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    Are you a Premedical Student with a Nonscience Major? Check Out These Schools.

    All premedical students are required to take prerequisites in life sciences before applying to medical school. But the humanities also offer valuable preparation for prospective physicians. In the fall of 2020, about 12 percent of the entering students in the U.S. News top 10 programs in...
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    Despite Stress and Burnout, Most Students Feel that Medical School Prepared Them Well for Board Exams and Residency

    In Medscape’s 2022 Medical Student Lifestyle report, which included responses from over 2,000 medical students, many respondents reported experiencing burnout: 37 percent of students reported occasional burnout, while a full third of respondents (33 percent) reported frequent burnout, and 12...
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    Let’s Talk About CASPer. Medical School Admissions

    To gauge an applicant’s ability to critically evaluate a complex scenario and employ sound judgment and effective communication skills, a growing number of allopathic medical schools (currently, more than 40) have turned to CASPer. What in the world is CASPer? CASPer (Computer-based...
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    Last Year’s Graduating Medical Students Reported Satisfaction with their Education, Fewer Instances of Bullying, and Less Debt

    The 2022 Medical School Graduation Questionnaire is an annual survey that asks graduates of accredited U.S. Allopathic medical schools about their medical school experience. Last month, the aggregate results for 2022 were released, and included responses from over eighty percent of the medical...
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    Current Events: AMA and AAMC Urge Supreme Court to Continue Allowing Medical Schools to Consider Race/Ethnicity in Admissions Decisions

    The U.S. Supreme Court is taking two cases that could prevent medical schools’ current practice of considering race/ethnicity in admissions decisions: Students for Fair Admission Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admission Inc. v. University of North Carolina...
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    The Medical School Post-Interview Thank You Note

    After completing your medical school interview, you will want to follow up with your interviewer(s) by handwriting a thank you note. This is just another opportunity to express gratitude for their time and consideration, emphasize points of connection you had during your interview, reiterate...
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    The Medical School Interview: Preparing for the Multiple Mini Interview (MMI)

    Many medical schools, including those at Duke, NYU, University of Massachusetts, and Rutgers, are using the Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) to evaluate applicants. This is because it is an effective way to evaluate an applicant’s ability to process a complex scenario or issue under pressure and...
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    The Medical School Interview: Preparing for the Traditional One-on-One Interview

    Begin preparing for your interview by thinking through your most meaningful experiences that will help demonstrate your skills and abilities in the areas of critical and creative thinking, problem solving, leadership, teamwork, and empathy, as well as those that reinforced your commitment to the...
  19. ApplyPoint

    Medical School Interviews: An Overview

    Your medical school interview will be the most influential component of your application. It is your chance to showcase your personality, drive, and commitment to a medical career as well as those characteristics that will benefit your medical school class and future patients. Scheduling the...
  20. ApplyPoint

    Temple’s Katz School of Medicine Incorporates Local Community Into Medical School Admissions

    For the selection of the Class of 2026 at Temple University’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine, the admissions team included members of the surrounding community. This made Katz one of the first medical schools to incorporate the opinions of local residents in admissions decisions. Among the five...
  21. ApplyPoint

    New Study Casts Light on Higher Attrition Rates for Underrepresented Groups in Medical School

    A recent JAMA Network Open study found that medical students from underrepresented groups have an attrition rate that is over three times higher than other students. The study analyzed allopathic medical student cohorts in years 2014-2015 and 2015-2016, and divided students into groupings for...
  22. ApplyPoint

    Tips for a Successful Virtual Interview

    According to the AAMC, medical students should still expect some virtual interviews this year. There are obvious pros to this format—reduced travel costs, scheduling flexibility, and the comforts of home—but in order to connect most meaningfully through a computer and make a lasting impression...
  23. ApplyPoint

    Trends in Medicine: Understanding Implicit Bias as a Component of Patient Care

    In 2020 Maryland’s state legislature passed a law requiring all health care providers in perinatal units to receive implicit bias training once every two years. Delegate Joseline Peña-Melnyk, the law’s sponsor, cited the striking disparity in maternal mortality rates (four times as high for...
  24. ApplyPoint

    Complimentary 30-Minute Medical School Application Consultation with Apply Point!

    At Apply Point, we will help you craft a compelling application so you can get where you want to go. Next week, July 11th-15th, we will be offering a limited number of free, 30-minute, one-on-one consultations. You’ll meet with a member of our team, experienced in medical school admissions, for...
  25. ApplyPoint

    Allopathic Medical School Applicant Guide to Secondary Essays

    After you submit your AMCAS application, you will begin to receive secondary essay prompts. Some schools send the prompts automatically, while others are the result of a pre-screening process. It may seem overwhelming at first, but many of the schools will use at least some of the same prompts...
  26. ApplyPoint

    Medical Schools are Looking for Students Who Can Embrace Discomfort and Accept Tough Feedback

    An op-ed published by the AAMC, by Srijan Sen, MD, PHD, suggests medical residency programs need to implement systemic changes on top of current efforts focused on building individuals’ resilience and wellbeing. Dr. Sen, along with collaborator Connie Guille, MD, analyzed data collected via the...
  27. ApplyPoint

    You are more than your MCAT score

    While the MCAT is typically the first concern of a prospective medical student and an important component of the medical school admissions process, there are other factors—competencies in interpersonal communication and professional behavior—that can be a much better predictor of an applicant’s...
  28. ApplyPoint

    Apply Point Medical School Admissions Consulting

    If you are considering medical school, our team at Apply Point would love to speak with you. As an Apply Point client, you will work closely with a team of two experts throughout your time with us—a former medical school admissions director and a communications professional with extensive...
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