Posts Tagged ‘personal statement’

Although RookieDoctor.com focuses mainly on what happens after you’ve already been accepted, I cannot ignore all of the requests and concerns about actually getting in. So, I debated with myself… Do I start a whole line of things dedicated to getting into residency programs and potentially lose focus on RookieDoctor.com’s mission? Or, should I seek out services to recommend? Well, I don’t want to lose focus, so I chose to try out a bunch of services and come back with recommendations. And here’s the first of them… Accepted.com. The following, is an article by one of their writers… good stuff.

4 Must-Haves in Residency Personal Statements

Provided by Accepted.com, the leading admissions consultancy. Written by Cydney Foote, Accepted.com editor and co-author of Write Your Way to A Residency Match

To get into medical school, you explained why you wanted to be a physician. Now that you’re an M.D./D.O., you need to show them you’ve got what it takes to be a valuable addition to a medical team. To that end, your personal statement should give the residency committee a taste of what you’re all about, and make them want more.

Easier said than done? Here are four critical pieces of a residency personal statement to get you started.

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OK, now that we’re in the thick of the residency application season and people are gearing up for their residency interviews, RookieDoctor.com has a Twitter-Only special. Here’s how it works…

If you’re not on Twitter, sign up… it’s free and it’s cool. You can read more about it at my first blog post about Twitter. Once you sign up, follow RookieDoc.

Then just send me a direct message through Twitter. Just type a letter “d” in the Twitter message box, followed by my user name “RookieDoc”. Then type your message and send it.

Your message should look something like this:

d RookieDoc Sign me up for the personal statement review.

If you are one of the first 5 to respond, I’ll send you a direct message notifying you of the next step (how to get your CV and/or personal statement to me, etc). All of this is free, of course, but for the first five only. Go to Twitter.com and sign up now.