Residency Personal Statement Tip # 5: Don’t use SemiColons in your essay if you don’t really understand how! A resident (or intern) will spend a lot of time writing notes and signing progress notes,...
Internal Medicine Residency Personal Statement My strong desire to improve people’s lives led me into medicine at the five-year M.D. program at International Medical University, one of the nation’s most prestigious medical institutions. During...
Orthopedics Residency Personal Statement “My wife wore out my hips,” the elderly man stated with a mischievous grin while his wife rolled her eyes. Later that week I had the opportunity to assist in...
I peered through my living room window at the street crowded with tanks and marching soldiers. A storm of light slashed across the night’s sky’s shock waves from distant explosions shattered a deceptive silence,...
In the summer of 2002, I visited my country of birth, African Nation, for the first time in 12 years. I discovered was a war ravaged country with shelled out homes, extreme poverty and...
In an old cottage on an isolated island with one of my home care patients, with tears in her eyes she blessed me saying, “I have nothing valuable to give you, doctor, but please...
Residency Personal Statement Tip # 4 : Learn to Capitalize Properly A resident (or intern) will spend a lot of time writing notes and signing progress notes, operative notes, or other notes all day...
Residency Personal Statement Tip # 3 : Avoid the “Growing Up in the Boonies” Introduction Sometimes residency applicants like to start off their residency personal statements by explaining where they were born, which is...
Residency Personal Statement Tip # 2 : Don’t Discuss Irrelevant Achievements. Sometimes applicants have a tendency to discuss things that are completely irrelevant to the practice of medicine. Talking about winning your high school...
Tip # 1 : Don’t Talk About the Value You Place On Education. Everyone in medicine obviously values education a great deal. You don’t need to emphasize this or think you’re the only one...
