To those writing PS....

[mx_599]

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Just my opinion everyone:

I think you should focus your AMCAS and AACOMAS on why you want to be a physician. Then just cut the extra BS out of the AMCAS more or less so it fits the AACOMAS. Then, when you get the secondaries for Osteopathic schools, you can let your compelling reasons shine for DO.

See this thread for secondary questions:

August MCATs and Application

Hope this helps everyone a little.

 

[stoleyerscrubz]

I'm volunteering in a hospital that has a lot of DOs and where DO students from PCOM and NYCOM rotate through. I hope I can experience some very compelling reasons to write in my PS, but it just may not happen soon enough. I'm going to stop by the OMM department because I am very interested in that as a personal trainer. also hoping to see something encouraging there.

I just want to be a doctor and at this point I am very open to the DO ideas. If I were in an interview setting and someone asked "why DO?" I'm not sure I could give compelling reasons for going this route. Are you saying that we should put "why DO?" in the secondaries and NOT in the AACOMAS PS?

Thanks for your comments.

Just my opinion everyone:

I think you should focus your AMCAS and AACOMAS on why you want to be a physician. Then just cut the extra BS out of the AMCAS more or less so it fits the AACOMAS. Then, when you get the secondaries for Osteopathic schools, you can let your compelling reasons shine for DO.

See this thread for secondary questions:

August MCATs and Application

Hope this helps everyone a little.

 

[stoleyerscrubz]

August MCATs and Application:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=204099

 

[mx_599]

I'm volunteering in a hospital that has a lot of DOs and where DO students from PCOM and NYCOM rotate through. I hope I can experience some very compelling reasons to write in my PS, but it just may not happen soon enough. I'm going to stop by the OMM department because I am very interested in that as a personal trainer. also hoping to see something encouraging there.

I just want to be a doctor and at this point I am very open to the DO ideas. If I were in an interview setting and someone asked "why DO?" I'm not sure I could give compelling reasons for going this route. Are you saying that we should put "why DO?" in the secondaries and NOT in the AACOMAS PS?

Thanks for your comments.

That is what I am saying. It might not be best for everyone...but think about it? First you are just telling them why you want to be a physician--period. Then you are getting more specific in the DO secondaries with reasons for why an osteopathic physician.

It works out well with you anyway. You said you don't have good reasons yet. By the time secondaries come you will!!!

Furthermore, why should you guys kill yourself trying to write 2 unique PS for osteo and allo when most of us just want to be physicians. If you rack your brain now on the osteo PS, that limits you on the secondaries. You might end up trying to reiterate the same crap. Wouldn't you rather have new stuff to hold the admissions attention???

They have no clue what you wrote on the AMCAS app!!! So don't stress over 2 unique PS. It is hard enough to write one!

I used to be a personal trainer as well. (CSCS certified) Play that up big time! PNF stretching techniques were prevalent in the demo I received at KCOM! Prevention, etc... Exercise science and DO goes hand-in-hand. I wish someone slapped me upside the head years ago...I'd probably be a 4th yr DO student by now! My degree is in exercise science and they loved that...so it seemed. They were all very nice anyway 🙂

 

[stoleyerscrubz]

LOL! I just took the NSCA-CPT exam today. I used to be ISSA but wanted to get a more professional cert. I stopped working out of gyms in the winter and now train clients in their homes. I plan to take the CSCS in the fall and hopefully I can update my applications with that info even though I dont get a certificate until I finish my BS(biochem).

Now I don't feel like an idiot putting that in my PS as qualifications that may help me as a physician.

I used to be a personal trainer as well. (CSCS certified) Play that up big time! PNF stretching techniques were prevalent in the demo I received at KCOM! Prevention, etc... Exercise science and DO goes hand-in-hand. I wish someone slapped me upside the head years ago...I'd probably be a 4th yr DO student by now! My degree is in exercise science and they loved that...so it seemed. They were all very nice anyway 🙂

 

[stoleyerscrubz]

that exam took me 2.5 hours and I feel burnt now. It was not hard but it was no duck walk either. I'm just trying to relax on SDN now even though I said I would study the MCAT today. 😳

 

[mx_599]

Now I don't feel like an idiot putting that in my PS as qualifications that may help me as a physician.

Definitely not. Try to correlate as much as you can to clinical exercise science. Not the athletic side. For instance...have any of your clients improved their hypertensive, lipid, or metabolic disorders?? Weight loss? Better diabetic management through physical activity increases. Waist circumference/visceral fat improvements, etc. Flexibility and strength improvements in the aged for Falls Prevention...

There is probably a ton you can write about along these lines. Unless you are only training athletes. Even then, DOs go well with sports medicine too!!

 

[mx_599]

that exam took me 2.5 hours and I feel burnt now. It was not hard but it was no duck walk either. I'm just trying to relax on SDN now even though I said I would study the MCAT today. 😳

After multiple MCATS, the CSCS wasn't really that hard...I am sure you did fine. Speaking of CSCS, I need to try and get continuing credits or I might lose certification. Someone told me you can submit college courses for credit if they are exercise science type classes. I wanted to hold onto my CSCS even though I will probably not use it...you never know.

 

[stoleyerscrubz]

Thanks for your insight. I was not sure where to go with the whole personal training portion of my PS but I did not even think of the metabolic benefits of training. I was going to concentrate on client/PT interactions,assessment, and program design. It was incoherent. Thanks! My PS is going to ROCK!

 

[mx_599]

Thanks for your insight. I was not sure where to go with the whole personal training portion of my PS but I did not even think of the metabolic benefits of training. I was going to concentrate on client/PT interactions,assessment, and program design. It was incoherent. Thanks! My PS is going to ROCK!

No problem...I would still include the interaction with clients. That is perfect for patient rapport...a doctor who can talk, touch, and interact with another human 😀 Which is much of personal training. Also...you can have a paragraph on a specific client and use their name to make it sound personal.

example:
I am reminded of a client who brought much joy to me in seeing her health improve before my eyes blah blah blah Her name is Carol, a middle-aged single mother of two. She sought my services as a health trainer at the suggestion of her physician who recently diagnosed her with diabetes. After working with her for a few months, we were able to keep her blood sugar in check without pharmacological intervention. Oh boy! 😀 Furthermore, the cardiovascular routine I set her up on lowered her SBP 10 points and DBP 4 points. blah blah...blah. Now I am happy to say she is out of the mild-hypertensive range. yippy 😴 Carol has been losing 4-6 pounds a month under my direction and I can see the happiness in her eyes. She reports less depression, better sleep, and she does not beat her bratty kids as much. Triglyceride levels have been dramatically improved as well. Carol has cut her soda intake by half and with the added exercise went from 437 to 189. 👍 As a final dietary intervention, I forced her to watch "Super Size Me" over and over again...in surround sound!

hehehehe you get the idea!

Oh yeah...I am not saying make your whole PS about training, health, and prevention and stuff...but I would see no problem with a good half of it about this or these experiences.