(HELP) Medical School Adcom Lecture Video?

[golgiapparatus88]

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Hi all. I'm hoping someone here knows what I'm talking about. I recently (maybe a month ago) watched an online lecture video from an adcom at a med school. She went into a ton of detail about what med schools look for and what to write/what not to write on your personal statement and application. It was a great lecture that I really want to watch again. It was about an 45 minutes long. I can't remember where I saw it.. I hope it was here and someone knows!

 

[slatermd]

http://uwmedicine.washington.edu/Ed...pplicants/Pages/AdvicefromAdmissionsDean.aspx

 

[golgiapparatus88]

http://uwmedicine.washington.edu/Ed...pplicants/Pages/AdvicefromAdmissionsDean.aspx

AHH! Exactly what i was looking for!! 😀

 

[iSeeKnowledge]

great video, thx for bringing it up and thx to the one who found it

 

[Swiss Medical]

ohh.This looks useful.

 

[ozzi22]

good video👍

 

[Dipraman]

this is awesome...thanks

 

[gettheleadout]

Keep in mind this is the view of a single school, and in previous threads there has been disparity between UW's thoughts and those of LizzyM; both are equally valid, but different schools and adcoms will have different perspectives, preferences, etc...

 

[sector9]

Well, I figured I might as well post some info similar to this.

http://web.jhu.edu/prepro/health/Applicants/AMCAS.html
Johns Hopkins info for pre-meds about how to fill out AMCAS

http://uwmedicine.washington.edu/Education/MD-Program/Admissions/Pages/FrequentlyAskedQuestions.aspx
University of Washington info, similar to the UofW video that was posted above

I think it's also important to note that different schools like different things. For example, the general rule here on SDN is don't include high school stuff unless you continued it in college. Johns Hopkins says basically the same thing

High school activities should only be included if they were very important/significant and show continuity into college activities.

However, UofW is contradictory in their "Experiences" section

If you have a meaningful experience in high school, should you put it on your application?
Any meaningful experiences that you have should be included in your application. We have people who talk about things that happened to them in the third grade. Some of which are medical, some are not; some are just to let people know that they really like helping people. Anything that lets us know who you are is fine and it doesn't matter when it happened.

The point is that each school and each adcom member can have a different opinion
[ETA:+1 on what gettheleadout said]