FullText A century ago, the American Medical Association created the Council on Medical Education and published the first minimal standards for medical schools and an ideal medical curriculum. Then, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching funded an evaluation of medical school performance...
US News Education, and the AAMC’s Medical School Admission Requirements website are all comprehensive resources that are available to medical school applicants. How many schools should I apply to? It varies, but the national average is around 12-15 schools. This number can be limited by the ...
Students who take these recommended pre-med courses will be more appealing to medical schools and will likely have an easier time in medical school (in the long term, these courses also make for more well-rounded physicians). For example, in addition to the requirements above, Hopkins ...
Interestingly, the MSAR database (Medical School Admission Requirements) has data on the age range first-year medical students at each. Using this data and defining a non-traditional student as anyone over the age of 24 (the average age of a medical school matriculate), we can calculate the...
Students say that they're pre-med to let others know about their career goals and to make sure they're taking the correct classes to get into med school. If you tell your advisor that you're a biology major, she'll focus on making sure you get all the requirements for that major com...
MedCerts isn’t just an “online” school, we produce state-of-the-art educational content and put our students first with 1-on-1 support from start to finish. Since we do things a little differently, we sometimes get questions about who we are and why we operate the way we do. Below...
If you’re still finishing your first degree, includeinformation about your high schoolat the bottom of this section. Alright, but what aboutGPA on your resume? In general, the rule of thumb here dictates you should only include it if it’s higher than 3.5 or so. And since some med sc...
范可馨:关于如何写Statement of Purpose, 其实一些学校申请的网站都会提供详细的指导,比如UCB(https://grad.berkeley.edu/admissions/steps-to-apply/requirements/statement-purpose/)和Caltech(https://future.cce.caltech.edu/documents/16422/Statement_of_purpose_handout_2017_1.pdf)。大家可以参考一下上面的内容...
andHaemophilus influenzaetype B disease have nearly disappeared in the U.S. A group of experts has reviewed the history of immunizations in the U.S., the evidence that supports immunization requirements, and current threats to our successful immunization program. Their report includes the following...
Aspiring med students have to take five to six math and science classes to meet application requirements, but does one major give you an advantage? Looking at the data from the AAMC, choosing a popular major—like Biological Sciences—doesn’tgive you an advantage. Out of nearly 30...