This interview is the latest in an Accepted.com 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 Rishi Kumar… Accepted: We’d like to get to know you! Where are you from? Where and what did you study as…
Humor And Happiness In Medicine: A Med Student Reflects
This interview is the latest in an Accepted.com 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 BurntOrangeScrubs… Accepted: We’d like to get to know you? Where are you from? BurntOrangeScrubs: I’m originally from Texas, but spent a…
Elliptical, Meet Med School: Interview with Andrea Tooley
It’s not easy being a med school applicant. Or a med student. Or a resident. Meet a woman who manages to pull it off in style. Andrea Tooley is an Ophthalmology resident at the Mayo Clinic, avid blogger and youtuber, and a fitness and nutrition buff. And she sleeps. Want some inspiration? Listen to the…
Give Yourself Every Opportunity for Success: IV with a Med Resident
This interview is the latest in an Accepted.com 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 Elena Welt… Accepted: We’d like to get to know you! Where are you from? Where and what did you study as…
Residency Application Tip: Settling, and How To Avoid It
Have you ever “settled” in a relationship? You know what I mean – you’re with someone who’s not perfect, but they’re good enough. You might not feel much passion, but you’re comfortable, moderately happy, and that’s… well, that’s good enough. The thing is, the person on the other end of this deal (and that might…
An Emergency Medicine Resident’s Journey to Med School (and the Armed Forces!)
We’d like to introduce you to Emily Fleming, an emergency medicine resident at Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium. Learn all about Emily’s fascinating med school adventure by reading our interview below, as well as Emily’s blog, The Doctors Fleming. Thank you for sharing your story with us Emily! Accepted: We’d like to get to…
The Mrs. The Mommy. The M.D. Shares her Residency Application Experiences
This interview is the latest in an Accepted.com blog series featuring interviews with medical school applicants and students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at the med school application process. And now for a follow up interview with Jasmine Johnson who just completed her last year of med school and who will be starting her residency this summer….
Med School Blogger Interview: Medaholic
Next up in our series of featured med school bloggers is Medaholic, who recently finished med school and has begun his residency. Enjoy Medaholic’s thoughtful answers and use them to help you make your way through the med school and residency admissions process. Accepted: First, can you tell us a little about yourself – where…
Plagiarism in Residency Essays: Just Don’t
The WSJ’s Health Blog recently posted “Study: Medical Residency Applicants and Plagiarism” which cites a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine by a team of researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The researchers found “evidence of plagiarism” in 5.2% of residency application personal statements by comparing the essays to publicly available material…