Dr. Finkel, the founder of Insider Medical Admissions, has incomparable experience. She is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Medical School. On completing her residency at Harvard, she was asked to stay on as faculty at Harvard Medical School and spent five years teaching at the world-renowned Massachusetts General Hospital. She was appointed to the Assistant Residency Director position for the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency where she reviewed countless applications, personal statements and resumes. In this role, she also interviewed applicants and made key admissions decisions. For over nine years Dr. Finkel trained medical students, residents and fellows, yielding her three Harvard Medical School faculty teaching and mentorship awards, including Best Faculty Mentor.
In addition to her medical accolades, Dr. Finkel has professional writing experience. She was selected for the prestigious Mass Media Fellowship in Science Writing sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has published in academic journals, on-line textbooks and as a science news writer for the Oregonian newspaper. Dr. Finkel is currently a board-certified, practicing Emergency Physician.
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Insider Medical Services for Medical School Applicants
Editing Services
Medical School Personal Statement, AMCAS®, Curriculum Vitae and Medical School Secondary Essays
Dr. Finkel assists you with content, organization, form, focus and syntax. Learn how to market your experiences with polish and professionalism, highlighting the salient points that that program directors and faculty desire. Each Editing Service includes up to three revisions of your written material. Dr. Finkel personally reviews every client's written materials.
Writer's Block Package
Your personal statement is critical to distinguish you from the swarm of competitive medical school candidates. A one-on-one advising session with Dr. Finkel before you compose your personal statement, followed by Dr. Finkel's expert editing, will make you a more compelling applicant. Prior to your advising session, Dr. Finkel reviews your background. During your session, she brainstorms individually-tailored essay topics, suggests an explicit outline, pinpoints how to highlight strengths and address weaknesses, and reviews clichés to avoid. Upon receiving your personal statement draft, Dr. Finkel's comprehensive edits tighten your organization, form, focus and syntax. The Writer's Block Package includes up to three revisions of your personal statement.
Mock Interviews
Having reviewed your application, Dr. Finkel helps you sail through the bread and butter questions and teaches you how to confidently formulate responses when you're thrown a curveball. Learn to comfortably respond to questions about potential weaknesses in your application so that your lasting impression is one of poise and polish.
With this service, you will also receive tips on pre- and post-interviewing etiquette to provide an additional advantage. After your Mock Interview, Dr. Finkel sends you an individualized document with the feedback discussed so that you can review on your own.
Strategy Sessions
A one-on-one conversation with Dr. Finkel about your medical school candidacy will make you a more competitive applicant. After reviewing your background, Dr. Finkel pinpoints how to highlight your strengths and minimize your liabilities, select effective faculty recommendation writers, choose distinctive personal statement topics, assess the number and quality of schools to target and create a strategic timeline for task completion. Dr. Finkel helps a wide range of medical school applicants, from those who will be applying in several years and want to create a detailed, long-term plan to those who are applying imminently.
The Complete Package
Utilize Dr. Finkel's expertise from the beginning to the end of the medical school admissions process and put yourself on the inside track to admissions success.
This comprehensive medical school package includes:
In addition to her medical accolades, Dr. Finkel has professional writing experience. She was selected for the prestigious Mass Media Fellowship in Science Writing sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has published in academic journals, on-line textbooks and as a science news writer for the Oregonian newspaper. Dr. Finkel is currently a board-certified, practicing Emergency Physician.
Check out client comments about Dr. Finkel's work here.
Insider Medical Services for Medical School Applicants
Editing Services
Medical School Personal Statement, AMCAS®, Curriculum Vitae and Medical School Secondary Essays
Dr. Finkel assists you with content, organization, form, focus and syntax. Learn how to market your experiences with polish and professionalism, highlighting the salient points that that program directors and faculty desire. Each Editing Service includes up to three revisions of your written material. Dr. Finkel personally reviews every client's written materials.
Writer's Block Package
Your personal statement is critical to distinguish you from the swarm of competitive medical school candidates. A one-on-one advising session with Dr. Finkel before you compose your personal statement, followed by Dr. Finkel's expert editing, will make you a more compelling applicant. Prior to your advising session, Dr. Finkel reviews your background. During your session, she brainstorms individually-tailored essay topics, suggests an explicit outline, pinpoints how to highlight strengths and address weaknesses, and reviews clichés to avoid. Upon receiving your personal statement draft, Dr. Finkel's comprehensive edits tighten your organization, form, focus and syntax. The Writer's Block Package includes up to three revisions of your personal statement.
Mock Interviews
Having reviewed your application, Dr. Finkel helps you sail through the bread and butter questions and teaches you how to confidently formulate responses when you're thrown a curveball. Learn to comfortably respond to questions about potential weaknesses in your application so that your lasting impression is one of poise and polish.
With this service, you will also receive tips on pre- and post-interviewing etiquette to provide an additional advantage. After your Mock Interview, Dr. Finkel sends you an individualized document with the feedback discussed so that you can review on your own.
Strategy Sessions
A one-on-one conversation with Dr. Finkel about your medical school candidacy will make you a more competitive applicant. After reviewing your background, Dr. Finkel pinpoints how to highlight your strengths and minimize your liabilities, select effective faculty recommendation writers, choose distinctive personal statement topics, assess the number and quality of schools to target and create a strategic timeline for task completion. Dr. Finkel helps a wide range of medical school applicants, from those who will be applying in several years and want to create a detailed, long-term plan to those who are applying imminently.
The Complete Package
Utilize Dr. Finkel's expertise from the beginning to the end of the medical school admissions process and put yourself on the inside track to admissions success.
This comprehensive medical school package includes:
- Dr. Finkel's personalized pre-review of your background information
- An initial, one-hour, one-on-one, live Skype® video Strategy Session in which Dr. Finkel assesses how to highlight your strengths and limit your liabilities
- Expert editing of your Personal Statement (up to 3 edits)
- Expert editing of your AMCAS® (including the Activities and Meaningful Experience Sections) (up to 3 edits)
- Expert editing of a full page of Secondary Essays (up to 3 edits)
- Two hours of one-on-one live Skype® video Mock Interviews
- A post interview written summary of questions practiced and strategic, individually-tailored responses
- Expert editing of your Letter of Intent
