If you’re someone hoping do a PhD or MD-PhD, then research is absolutely necessary… but in the past, I’ve had some students ask me how to even get started. In this blog post, I’ll be sharing three different ways people find research opportunities. I will mostly focus on biomedical type research (i.e. neuroscience, cell biology, informatics, clinical research, public health research, etc.) because that is…
As the cycle goes on I will be sharing some of my interview advice for med school–if you have any suggestions on what questions I should break down, or any questions you’d want me to address, leave me a comment and I will take a stab at it. :) Today I wanted to talk about what is sometimes the last question during your interview–“is there…
I know it is still really early in the cycle since secondary essays have just gone out, but I wanted to share some advice on preparing for interviews. It’s important to start thinking about this early (especially if you have the bandwidth for it–I know it’s not always possible!). It can move fast–during my cycle, I received my first interview invite in August and the…
One of the biggest mistakes you can make while studying for the MCAT (and in fact, I made this mistake myself!) is spending too much time on content review. I spent a total of 10 weeks studying for the MCAT, immediately after I graduated from undergrad. My original plan was to spend the first half of those 10 weeks doing content review, and the second…
This is always a fun question to answer when people in my life ask me what degree program I’m in (or how far I’m in it… or how long I have left). So let’s break it down! In a nutshell As the name implies, the MD-PhD program is a program where you get both an MD degree, and a PhD degree. Typically, it can take…
Shadowing is an essential activity to include on your application (in fact, if you don’t have any shadowing hours, you should get some before applying to medical school!). Contrary to popular belief, however, you actually don’t need hundreds and hundreds of hours before you are competitive for medical school. It’s just important that you are able to demonstrate that you’ve had exposure to the field,…