{"id":1397,"date":"2017-11-29T13:39:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T20:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersons.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/medical-school-requirements-5-tips-for-your-personal-statement\/"},"modified":"2021-11-03T06:03:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T12:03:02","slug":"medical-school-requirements-5-tips-for-your-personal-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petersons.com\/blog\/medical-school-requirements-5-tips-for-your-personal-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical School Requirements: 5 Tips for Your Personal Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re looking for expert assistance with your medical school personal statement, fear not! There’s a fantastic resource out there in EssayEdge, with its staff of experienced, knowledgeable, and Ivy League graduate essay editors! Visit EssayEdge today<\/a>!<\/p>\n

1. Develop an outline\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Medical school admission is extremely competitive, and the AMCAS statement is often the key differentiator when medical school admissions committees make their final decisions. It is crucial that you develop an outline for your AMCAS statement because you need to have confidence in what your statement will say before you develop the statement itself.\u00a0 Most importantly, the outline can keep you from committing the sin of \u201ctelling but not showing\u201d your committee reader your strengths, because in the outline you will make room for the evidence to back up your assertions.<\/p>\n

2. Offer the evidence<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the most important thing to do in your medical school admission essay. In the AMCAS statement the key thing to keep in mind is to provide specific examples when you are describing your strengths and what you bring to the program. Provide details in the form of the names of the doctors you shadowed, the focus of the research you performed, the names of any associated publications, and the specific names and settings of the places where you volunteered.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Don’t just “touch the bases”: touch the one base that matters <\/strong><\/p>\n

Medical school admissions committees see many five-paragraph AMCAS statements that \u201ctouch the bases.\u201d\u00a0 In the first paragraph one learns the candidate has always wanted to be a doctor (a major problem in terms of an assertion, but this does not keep many candidates from making it).\u00a0\u00a0 The next three paragraphs address (1) clinical experience; (2) community service experience; and (3) research experience, not necessarily in that order.\u00a0 The conclusion says that these experiences have all prepared the candidate for medical school.\u00a0 In this case, an uninspired format tends to suggest an uninspired candidate.\u00a0 Why not focus on the one thing you did best?<\/p>\n

4. Keep it simple <\/strong><\/p>\n

Beautiful English constructions that offer \u201cobservations\u201d about the nature of medicine will work against you.\u00a0 Keep the English and your story simple, the way you would for a good friend. Because making the reader your friend \u2013 not \u201cimpressing\u201d the reader \u2013 is your goal in the medical school admission essay.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 Don’t try to sound like a doctor <\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a bad idea because this is just another way of trying to impress the reader \u2013 which it is not your goal to do in your AMCAS statement.\u00a0 You want the reader to like you, and to want you in the program. Keeping it simple and straightforward is often the very best approach.<\/p>\n

EssayEdge is an expert resource for essay tips.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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