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[paris2008]

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Hello every body.
Actually I have a problem in writing personal statement for psychiatry,iam not interested in this specialty but because i didn't match in my favorite specialty internal medicine,i will apply for psychiatry postmatch, can you help me please?


thanks.😍

 

[MaddieMay]

For the sake of your future patients, don't go into psychiatry unless you are interested in it.

 

[deleted77919]

I recommend going with what you wrote above. Nothing impresses people like honesty.

 

[manwhoisthursdy]

Hello every body.
Actually I have a problem in writing personal statement for psychiatry,iam not interested in this specialty but because i didn't match in my favorite specialty internal medicine,i will apply for psychiatry postmatch, can you help me please?


thanks.😍

This is a joke, right?

 

[OldPsychDoc]

This is a joke, right?

Check the date...

 

[ApolloDok]

I have to agree with the above posts.

For the sake of your own and all your future patients' mental health, don't apply psych if you have no interest in it.

Good luck!

 

[goodmedi]

You will definitely regret afterward. Hold on to your IM!!!

 

[deleted77919]

Um guys, you do see the date that the OP was made right? April fools day? Get it?

 

[MissAmanda]

I am currently an undergrad and will be applying to medical school this year; I will begin my application personal statement in the next few days or so, but am struggling with something:

I have always been interested in medicine, but in undergrad became especially interested in psychiatry, and many of my involvements during undergrad have been psychiatry related. For the last couple of weeks I have thought that writing about my interest in psychiatry and my involvements would be a great thing – it shows why I am interested, allows me to talk more about my activities, and shows my passion. I also have heard that there is currently a need for psychiatrists and perhaps that would help as well (not sure).

However, I was talking to a doctor the other day about medical school. I told him I am interested in going into psychiatry after medical school and he told me not to say that on my application because many doctors still look down upon psychiatry/think it’s not “real medicine”. Perhaps it is just the area I am living (small town on the east coast), but I am not sure what to do now that I have heard this several times. I plan to apply to schools mostly in California where I have aunts and uncles.

Anyway, I plan to pursue psychiatry regardless, but wanted your input/advice on if I should really be focusing my essay on psychiatry given this. Would it hurt my chances of admission b/c the person reading may look down on psychiatry? Or would it look bad to seem like I already know what I want to go into before I start medical school? I would really appreciate any honest & unbiased insight and advice you could provide me on this and anything you think I should be sure to include if I do write about my interest psychiatry. Please feel free to post or PM me.

Thank you! Amanda

 

[heyjack70]

Any medical school essay should include your desire to do primary care. The best advice I can give is say you are interested in primary care, you have done a number of psych related activities while in undergrad, but you haven't decided if you want to do, FM, IM, or psych. Don't mention anything about wanting to do ENT, or Ortho, or Derm.

 

[MissAmanda]

Any medical school essay should include your desire to do primary care. The best advice I can give is say you are interested in primary care, you have done a number of psych related activities while in undergrad, but you haven't decided if you want to do, FM, IM, or psych. Don't mention anything about wanting to do ENT, or Ortho, or Derm.

Thanks for the advice. Any reason btw not to mention ent, ortho or derm? Also I am unsure on how FM, IM and psych are related? psych doesn't seem so similar to the others? and most of my med activities, 3 of 4, are psych related - how can I say I have an interest in any of FM, IM, or psych when most of my exposure is in psych?

 

[cleareyedguy]

Admissions committees may not be enthused by someone who implies that they only want psychiatry since it can imply a lack of interest in learning the rest of medicine, which includes a lot of late-night studying and clinical work, much of which does not pertain directly to psych. And some fo them will think, "this person doesn't like science or medicine and should just go to psych grad school."

It seems better to describe a longstanding interest in communication, the patients experience, the science of behavior, multidisciplinary approach to health or illness, etc.

 

[whopper]

Admissions committees may not be enthused by someone who implies that they only want psychiatry since it can imply a lack of interest in learning the rest of medicine

Unfortunate but true. You tell them you want to be an Ob-Gyn or a surgeon, several faculty docs in medschool seem to be more favorable to that than psychiatry. This may not be the case with everyone on the admissions board, but I have noticed it in enough people in medschool to point out it happens.

 

[MissAmanda]

Admissions committees may not be enthused by someone who implies that they only want psychiatry since it can imply a lack of interest in learning the rest of medicine, which includes a lot of late-night studying and clinical work, much of which does not pertain directly to psych. And some fo them will think, "this person doesn't like science or medicine and should just go to psych grad school."

It seems better to describe a longstanding interest in communication, the patients experience, the science of behavior, multidisciplinary approach to health or illness, etc.

This is good advice, but how do I do this w/out addressing that most of my activities have actually been psych related?

 

[whopper]

but because i didn't match in my favorite specialty internal medicine,i will apply for psychiatry postmatch, can you help me please?

I didn't address the original post!

Don't go into this field unless you want to do psychiatry for real & are committed to good patient care.

I've had my fill with doctors who went into psychiatry because they thought it was going to be easier or becuase they didn't get into their first choice. (Some do though end up being good psychiatrists.)

You should go into a field because you want to do that field. If you want to do IM and didn't get in this year--try again. Only try psychiatry if its something you want to do.