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[Cornfed101]

I’ll start out by saying I don’t have a journalism background. I do, on the other hand, have a non science background. My advice would be to not spin it to fit into medicine if it doesn’t. Just talk about the experience in the context of how you contributed to it and how it affected you. What did you learn from that? What drew you to journalism?

Having different life experience is interesting and it will set you apart. Don’t try to fit your experience into a typical pre-med box. Schools are always looking for diversity, and this is actually great experience to answer the very common secondary question, “what diversity do you bring?”

 

[IsleyOfTheNorth]

I have a friend who went D.O. with a Master's in Journalism. I'm not sure what was in his essays though.

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[_Cloud9]

try giving this post a read: How To Get Into Med School As a Non-traditional and/or Mature Applicant

good tips for pursuing medicine from a non-traditional background! hope that helps, happy new year

 

[kritten]

easiest angle is probably thinking about the similarities that medicine and journalism have. Both are about human experience - one about telling the experience and one about improving it. Shouldn't be too hard to get some great essays out

 

[smallpremed]

I also did student journalism pretty extensively, though I spent some time on the health/science beat so it was easier to fit it into the medical school application context. If you can, bulk up your health/science focused portfolio. Explaining a health topic to a non-expert audience is what both physicians and health journalists do every day!