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Accreditation at Osteopathic and Caribbean Medical Schools

Accrediation For Osteo Caribbean Med School

Osteopathic medical schools are accredited by a different organization from the allopathic medical schools. The American Osteopathic Association’s Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA) conducts on-site visits, generates reports and evaluates how well the schools are meeting their expectations. COCA meets annually to update their standards. They met last June; you can read the updated …

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The Journey From India to Harvard MBA [Episode 220]

Mba podcast HBS Shantanu Misra

What’s it like to be a Harvard Business School student and Google Intern? Let’s find out in today’s podcast! Our guest today is Shantanu Misra, currently a 2nd-year Harvard Business School MBA student who just completed a summer internship at Google and will serve this year as the product manager for the Harbus, the independent, …

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What I Look for When I Interview a Candidate for Medical School

Med Interview Look for In a Candidate

This year, I’ve had the unique pleasure of interviewing prospective medical students, reviewing and scoring completed applications, voting on our Admissions Committee, and seeing several students’ dreams come true at my university. It’s such a surreal feeling sitting in the interviewer chair when just two and a half years ago, I was the one being …

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One Older Med Student’s Path: From Grief to Growth to Giving [Episode 219]

med podcast deborah horenstein

Our guest today has a very unusual path to medical school. I’m going to let her tell her story with very little intro from me. All I’ll say now is she once upon a time had a career in finance, did her postbac at Columbia and attended Rutgers New Jersey Medical School where she earned …

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This Internal Medicine Resident Has a Recipe for Success and Healthy Balance

med student interview with Samantha

This interview is the latest in an Accepted blog series featuring interviews with medical school applicants and students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at top medical schools and the med school application process. And now, introducing Samantha Armstrong… Accepted: We’d like to get to know you! Where are you from? Where and what did you study as …

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Virginia Commonwealth University Medical School Secondary Application Essay Tips

Secondaries VCU Med School

VCU has a unique mission statement in that it focuses equally on the process of becoming an excellent care provider as it does on the content—the curriculum they offer and the expectations that they have for the students they graduate.  It’s a well constructed and thought out statement similar to their curriculum, which they cover …

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Up Close and Personal with Berkeley Haas at the 2017 AIGAC Conference

Berkeley Haas AIGAC Post

Last month, the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants – AIGAC – held its annual conference, and Berkeley Haas generously hosted our first two days. This “host” role included a valuable opportunity to interact with Dean Rich Lyons (just announced he will step down), Haas adcom members including Executive Director Morgan Bernstein, and Haas students. …

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