Personal Statement

[OHMAN0125]

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Does anyone know if you need a separate Personal Statement when your applying to Prelim programs? Or is it sufficient to just use ur Specialty one (ie. Radiology). Any help is appreciated.

 

[PeepshowJohnny]

I've seen this asked both here and on AuntMinnie. Most people say the PS is fine, but some people do add a line about "A good prelim year that exposes me to clinical medicine will make me a better radiologist blah blah blah".

Basically, prelim and transitional year pds know no-one is applying to them because they WANT to do them, so they don't expect it.

 

[premd2010]

Anybody else have any thoughts on this? I was wondering the same thing.

 

[synapse lapse]

I'm applying Rads, and am using the same PS from my rads app without changes. I know people who did it both ways, and it didn't seem to affect matching. This seems to be the general consensus on auntminnie as well.