Personal Statement for Prelim Programs

[rsa21]

Can I just send my anesthesiology personal statement to the prelim medicine and transitional year applications? Or should I have separate personal statements for those programs?

 

[HotFratBoy]

i hear you can use the same one. but i added an extra paragraph to make the essay more friendly towards prelims.

also, how many prelims do people generally apply to?

 

[mack bronson]

Yeah I heard you can use the same one. A couple of the residents said they don't really care.

 

[InductionAgent]

When I applied three years ago, I did separate statements for prelim/TY and anesthesiology programs. This seemed only natural to me, since my anesthesiology statements included more discussion of why I was interested in anesthesiology than seemed germane to prelim apps. I believe I copied portions of the statements that overlapped.

 

[Pades]

I applied to 14 TY/PY programs, used the same statement. was originally going to to personalize all statements, but after a while i questioned if it was really worth the effort, and just wanted to be finished, so we'll see how it goes i guess

 

[lushmd]

Going on the advice of people that have applied in past years, I just used the same PS (seemed kind of silly to write a new PS describing my yearning to complete an intern year...).

 

[mack bronson]

Going on the advice of people that have applied in past years, I just used the same PS (seemed kind of silly to write a new PS describing my yearning to complete an intern year...).

I like your style lush.