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Are you writing a personal statement expressing your interest in pathology for your med school application?
See, expressing an interest at the pre-med level in pathology will not necessarily sway med school admissions committees. Some of the reasons for that can be found here.
There is more to it, of course - and I don't mean some sinister conspiracy.
See, expressing an interest at the pre-med level in pathology will not necessarily sway med school admissions committees. Some of the reasons for that can be found here.
There is more to it, of course - and I don't mean some sinister conspiracy.
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very insightful. good work shts.deschutes said:
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I thought you did a fantastic job on the MD/PhD essay, poopoohead.AndyMilonakis said:
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Hmm...that's interesting considering that I never showed you my MD/PhD application essay. In fact, I don't even have a copy of it anymore.deschutes said:
Go you! You should make yourself a taco.
I'm a premed/future pathologist ( 😉 ) and what I did after I realized I wanted to become a pathologist 3 years ago was attend clinical conferences in pathology and shadowed oncologists/radiologists (the correlations are STRONG). While doing that, I met the Chief Surgical Pathologist who hired me to do research for her for the next 2 years. I also attended pathology meetings and shadowed pathology residents.oceankim said:
My med school personal statement doesn't mention pathology specifically (just a broad interest in oncology and health disparities) but my MD/PhD applications have pathology "written all over them"!!!! 😉
This doesn't really answer your question, but I think if you mention pathology you'll need to be able to back that up with relevant experiences!
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