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Idk why I'm watching this, I'm not planning on going to med school lol.

Alright well I don't care if adcoms care about my stats because I do so get lost adcoms

nice new mic

Doctor I am so inspired by you and wish to get a full ride to Kaiser in the future

How do I craft a pre med “narrative?”

Saw that your video was sending people over to my new mcat video, so I had to check this out. Your title captivated me, and I liked the format. Ad Meliora -- Toward Better Things!

I wish I knew this my freshman year!

This is helpful, I’m not even in college yet

What are school lists?

So how do we find out the schools standards requirements. Is this the average gpa and mcat score?

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Crazy, I began to apply for the program hosted by your crew and I really raised the point that I’m behind. Then I see this a day after, crazy. Definitely working on that resume, have a good day/night.

the only thing that put me off abt doug taylor is that he said don’t talk about a family illness in a personal statement. like yeah it may not be unique but that doesn’t mean it is/cant be meaningful

i was going to email you asking for this yesterday

Hey Michael! I got into DGSOM this cycle!! So happy

Seriously? Hospital volunteering is considered bad? Ridiculous

I needed this video thank you!

Not just pre med and I hope you continue to grow. Good words.

Even if you start early its getting harder to have competitive ECs + take the MCAT before your senior year. The standards just keep rising.

I learned that when I take “small breaks” after studying intensely for 45 minutes, I get distracted with my break and stretch it from 10 minutes to 20 minutes.

You mean a college sophmore right? Or am i screwed?

Hi Michael I have been watching your videos and I couldn't help but share my experience. I just graduated with my BSN and I'm eager to start my nursing career. However, I have always had an interest becoming a doctor. Considering that I still have to take some med school prerequisites such as organic chemistry and biochem, I am about 4 years from applying and I'll try to use that time to build up my application. The reason I have been delaying for so long is largely because I am trying to become as competitive as possible. In addition, different advice from premed advisors have made me confused on how to approach this whole process. I have been involved in various leadership and clinical experiences throughout my undergrad career such as nursing intern, treasurer & community outreach officer for a club that focuses on performing free blood pressure screenings for the unhoused as well as creating resource kits for them once a semester, scribing at a general surgery clinic, and even teaching HOCPR to students at my university. Any suggestions on what I should do for the next 4 years? I am planning on continuing my clubs as an advisor role, being a med-surg nurse (possibly moving up to ICU), starting research, and even starting to take on healthcare volunteering roles using my RN credentials. Some questions I wanted to ask: The biggest thing I don't have is research. I was wondering if it would hurt my application if I were to start research even after graduating? I want to continue to make an impact in my activities but even if i made a small impact, should I still put it on my application? I know from your videos you said to have that premed "X-Factor" but I feel like I haven't found that yet even through my clubs and activities? Thank you again for your helpful videos. Your advice is different and more specific than most pre-med advisors.

Loved the Video!! Always learning something new

Great and informational video as always

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Have to ad a comment about med students being promised to work on a research project with a PI. As a grad student, I was assigned to mentor a med student on a research rotation. It was the worst three months of my grad experience. The guy was beyond taking advice from anyone. I kept explaining the importance of a lab notebook- recording which artificial extracellular solution recipe you used, how you specifically made it, and titrated it to correct pH, which pH meter you used, that you calibrated the meter or at least confirmed it was reading properly in the range you were using with a standard solution and so on- basically we need a record of every step you took to do anything. These are needed to make sense of what was actually done for that gigabytes of computer files generated in the various experiments we did in the sensory physiology/electrophysiology/neuropharmacology focused lab I worked in. The lab notebook made clear if it was mg.so4 or mg.so4x7h2o that was used which could drastically affect how certain ion channel receptor complexes are working. But no. His notebook was such a bad record even the med student often could not make heads or tails of his ever changing notation system or lack of recording anything. Anyway, at the end of the students rotation, I was left to weed through the garbage notebook and data and see if anything was salvageable. The student was convinced he had enough data for a peer review paper. That can happen in three months. But it almost never will happen with a newbie with no relevant experience. I managed to decipher enough data for a decent first time poster at a conference. I met with the student. Showed him the graphs generated from the data and the dude went nuts. He kept arguing that there was a whole set I had dismissed, which would at least make for a more through poster if not be the meat of a paper. I explained he had an unequal number (n) of experiments and the statistical analysis of variance requires an equal n of data points for the analysis. That left two options, either you come back and do some experiments in the evening, or we remove experiments from the other groups. He of course did not want to do more lab work, our experiments are tedious and take three hours at least of prep work before you actually do anything useful. So, he chose to delete data from other groups. He then pointed to the experiments he wanted removed. I said you can’t do it that way. You are cherry picking experiments that biases results in a way to show what you want the analysis to show. You have to randomly remove data to be scientifically ethical. So I labeled experiments from each group with a number unknown to the student, and then told them to pick a number from the range of possible numbers. We did that and what was left showed no significance. The med student was enraged. I kept saying you can’t cherry pick, it’s dishonest, either do more experiments or this is what we have to work with because I can’t do an ANOVA on data sets with an unequal n. That just the way it is. We argued in person, by email and through those in the lab for weeks. The guy was convinced I had sabotaged his chance at a publication. Nope. He just did sloppy work. Not my fault. And I’m not going to bias data to show what I want it to show. About four months after the guy finished the rotation, I heard through the grape vine he had had an arm amputated just below the left elbow. Turns out the guy had stolen some 25 year old sodium pentobarbital we had in an ancient desiccator. Apparently he hit an artery instead of a vein when shooting the most likely toxic crap into his arm, the vessel collapsed and a lack of blood flow made things go necrotic. No surgery career for this guy. And it came as no surprise at all to me As for washing labware. It’s a common place to start in a lab. If you can’t follow procedure for something as simple as doing lab dishes, why should anyone waste their time teaching you anything more complicated? I did chromatograph with a very sensitive threshold subject to lots of noise. I could not even change the soap I used to wash my hands with without affecting baseline. The procedure for cleaning glassware was critical. Finally, the chances of a med student actually continuing to do research is nominal. most PI’s don’t want to wast their time training anyone who isn’t going to do research the rest of their life, and I’m not talking about low threshold clinical research that is more akin to education research than basic biomed science research. This is such a hard fast reality that the medical school I attended had a policy- you will never use a PhD as a gateway to enter med school. Absolutely no PhD student who graduated from my school would ever be admitted to attend as a med student. That is because the cost of a PhD is all free with a stipend for living expenses. Your mentors grants pay for everything. The grad programs are designed to generate new scientists, not new clinicians. The thousands in free tuition and living expenses are considered wasted unless they produce someone who will spend a career in research.

Do medical schools offer full ride scholarships and if so, why? Can you ask the school you plan to go to for one or is that rude?

How do you view overcoming a bad semester. Let's say the first semester was a struggle and then rest of college straight A's are achieved, coupled with good clinicals, research, extracurriculars, volunteer, and MCAT.

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U cant even take the mcat more than twice a year tf

Having many hours in scribing, and EMT definitely do count, you just need to be able to take away meaningful lessons that you can write about. It's so much less about what you do than how you write about it. I got 22 interviews and 7A's with basically no research and a huge emphasis on volunteering (kind of generic things, but I think I wrote about them well). I think your advice might only be relevant at esteemed academic institutes. A lot of schools care about having holistic students more than people who have checked all the boxes.

That's the thing that probably contributed to my struggle of getting in- those darn 3 P's. I enjoy helping people, but I could care less about serving a certain population in particular. I was not jumping out in my personal statement and secondaries to help anyone in particular (and this was back in 2021). Then again, I admit I have some antihumanistic and nihilistic opinions that I try to keep to myself- someone dies in the USA every 12 sec or something like that, hate is rampant, but the world goes on. I'd go on to barely get in, and that's nice. Then again, I am against the notion that doctors have an obligation to help certain people even though adcoms demand it. Major flaw in the system I strongly oppose- we are not responsible for complex social problems in society.

Could you do a video with applicants who have a higher varience in gpa (i will not be able to get a 3.9)

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great video !!

hy would you like to tell me everything.

step 1: bring food to the staff step 2: get in to medical school step 3: profit - JD™️