So, You Want To Be A Doctor?

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Episode 14: Life after the medical school application? How to preempt the unexpected with a surprising amount of foresight!

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The medical school application is only one phase of your life. In this podcast and blog, I put this event in to the context of the entire medical school application process, give you some things to look forward to and prepare for, as well as direct you to where you can find an entire archive of tips like these all in one place.

By the time you submit your medical school application, you deserve a pat on the back. After all, you’ve completed the MCAT (in most cases), most of the medical school prerequisites and college, and overcome a large part of the mind game – talking yourself out of it. Many people change their mind and a growing trend is for ill informed pre-health advisers, with no qualification to speak on the subject, to discourage attending medical school.

From the time you submit your medical school application to the time you start your first day of medical school, there are a lot of activities that take place.
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Medical School Life Lessons: What I would different if I could.

Posted in March 3rd, 2009

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Episode 13: Steps you can take NOW for balance in your medical career. You decide what’s important and implement a plan to keep it that way…
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Announcements:
Dropping a hint about my big project…got a hish speed internet connection?

Also, for simplicity all CD’s will be mailed out during the last week of the month.

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Podcast topic

“If you had it to do all over again, what would you do different?”

This is a question I get a lot, in different forms. In fact my new big project I’m coming out with in the next few months is exactly geared toward answering this question – in all it’s detail.

See, feedback from my podcasting has made me realize that my experience with the premed obstacles you face is fodder for you cannon! I get just as excited with you as I coach students and reawaken their dreams of becoming a physician.

The biggest tips I can think of to answer this question with brevity are the following:

1. As an undergrad, write out what my life’s priorities are. Establish from the beginning and keep the document handy for editing as time passes.

Osteopathic Physician Training: What’s so special about it, anyway?

Posted in January 13th, 2009

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Episode 12: Ostopathic Medicine Training: What’s so special about it?

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There is more than one way to become a physician: Allopathic and Osteopathic. Today’s discussion is about the pathway to doctor of osteopathic medicine (D.O.)

In addition to all of the traditional aspects of physician work that you’re familiar with, osteopathic physicians theoretically have a few other tenants that they emphasize:

1. The human body systems need to be in correct relationship with one another (really just normal physiology)
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MCAT Rapid-Review: Over 2,000 Pre-Med Questions and Answers

Posted in January 11th, 2009

This is only available to outsiders by joining the upcoming Medical Mastermind Community or in the How To PreMed DVD Course.

Sign up in the upper right for Early Notification of how to join!

How much would you pay for someone to write all of your MCAT notecards for you?

These are the pertinent MCAT questions that appear in the undergraduate, Pre-Med curriculum. Use them as a supplement to undergraduate courses and you’ll discover the secret to using your time wisely – HIGH YIELD return!

Get ALL of this for only $0.42 as a member of the PreMedical CD of the Month Club. Sign up in the upper right!

This is only available to outsiders by joining the upcoming Medical Mastermind Community or in the How To PreMed DVD Course.

Sign up in the upper right for Early Notification of how to join!

BENEFITS:

Know that your method works! Hey, I used these and aced these classes!!!
Quickly find the section that relates to your upcoming exam!
Save tons of time learning medical material now, while it correlates with your UnderGrad courses
Figure out why you have to take all those prerequisite courses in the first place!
Spend more time with family and friends
Organize yourself to ace all of your board exams from the very beginning of your PreMedical and Medical education!

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Ever wonder what an internship was? Then, this MP3 is for you!

Posted in January 5th, 2009

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Episode 11: From MCAT to licensing – Overview of the entire medical education process. MCAT, First Year of Medical School, USMLE – and beyond…

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Announcements:
Happy New Year!
It’s now been 9 months of podcasting and we have over 21,178 downloads. I’m very encouraged by your emails and support.

In that short amount of time, hundreds of your questions have been answered and organized into a mindmap. With your help we put together a comprehensive, individualized PreMed coaching program. Visit www.PremedicalUniversity.com for more information.

The PreMed CD of the month club now has a link on the right of MedicalMastery. There is room for 11 more people right now. First come, first serve. That link will only be available intermittently when seats are available.

Live Teleclinics now available. Sign up for the free PreMed eBook on MedicalMastery.com and you’ll also get email notification of upcoming teleclinics.

Submit topics in the online survey “Grill the Guru”. The Ebooks is 16 chapters emailed to you weekly with other, exclusive PreMed strategies and insider

advice also. In total, you’ll get over 3 months of PreMed email content that you can save, store, and search in your email service for years to come!

DON’T DELETE the emails.

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Podcast topic

The first teleclinic we did had a nice video slide that covered all the steps in the medical education process. The new website that will host the free teleclinics.

After you’ve mapped out when you’ll be finished with college and all of the prerequisites for medical school, the next available August would be your first potential entering month and year. Plan to take the Medical College Admissions Test the year before.

You can successfully back-schedule from this date all of the necessary preparations so that you have time to do everything you need.

The first year of medical school is perhaps the hardest of all. You will be forced to adopt different learning styles for different types of information on the fly. The focus is on how the body works normally.

FIRST YEAR CLASSES:
Biochemistry
Cell development and tissue biology
Community health
Epidemiology / biostatistics
Family medicine
Gross anatomy
Growth and development
Health care policy
Hematology
Histology
History of medicine
Immunology
Interviewing
Introduction to clinical skills
Medical ethics
Molecular biology
Physiology
Preclinical electives
Problem-based learning

The second year is when you learn what goes wrong with human physiology.

SECOND YEAR CLASSES:
Addiction medicine
General pathology

What is medical school really like? Is it like the TV shows, such as Grey’s Anatomy, ER, and Scrubs?

Posted in November 30th, 2008

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Episode 10: Part 2 of the interview with the second year medical student Celeste
Whisenant. She answers all your questions from the Grill The Guru survey.

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This is Part 2 of a telephone interview with Celeste Whisenant, a second year medical student.

She answers all the tough questions about what each year of medical school is like (at least year 1 & 2 that she knows about) and compares them to TV shows in some surprising ways.

This interview is part of the Grill the Guru series, in which I ask questions directly from the survey on medicalmastery.com.

Here is the rough outline of the questions I put together for this interview:

***Tell us about your self. “What school are you attending? How did you decide to attend that school over the other schools at which you were accepted?”

(we’ll have to explain the rank here)

***“What is med school really like? (as an ms1, ms2 etc.)” “What is the daily workload like? How much sleep do you get?”

***Is med school similar to what is shown on TV shows? (humor, the dating, drama, characters, hours, stress, family/home life)

***What do you know about D.O. schools, if anything?

Enjoy and email me if you have any questions!

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Mission Statement
“Medical Mastery seeks to podcast meaning into medical education by combining faith, high-quality lectures, and charity.”

Drastic Changes In The Med School Matching Process

Posted in November 18th, 2008

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Episode 9: Major changes to the way Texas medical schools accept their students. You have to know this or you could be missed! Interview with Celeste Whisenant, a second year medical student who almost learned this lesson the hard way!

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Topics in this podcast:

Announcements

Introduction of Celeste Whisenant – covered in the audio only

The Dreaded Interviewer – covered in the audio only

Current Strategy for the Medical School Match (Sign up for the Free eBook in the upper right and you will get access to photos of the ranking system online and learn exactly how to avoid the problem Celeste had.)

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Time Sensitive Announcement

Posted in November 10th, 2008

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Live Teleseminar FREE! The PreMed event of the year!

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This is a time sensitive announcement from MedicalMastery.com.

On December 2nd at 6:00PM Central time in the USA, I will be hosting a live teleconference. Hosted by the American Medical Student Association, the lecture topics will include:

Overview Of Medical Education Process

Myths About Getting Into Medical School

Differences Between College & Med School

Four Reasons To NOT Go To Medical School

Posted in November 4th, 2008

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Episode 8: Interview with Tyler Relph, a former PreMed, covering the meat and potaoes of medical career decisions that all of us face. The interesting twist is that he chose to go to Chiropractic school. Explore your options and listen now!

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ANNOUNCEMENT:

I’m almost finished with my complete, A-Z, PreMedical video tutorial course! If you’re not already one of the hundreds in the exclusive email list receiving chapters of my FREE PreMed eBook, sign up in the upper right of medicalmastery.com now. Very soon, only people who have signed up will get the details on this video course!

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This episode is the first in an interview series that was suggested by you – our listeners! Use the Grill The Guru survey on medicalmastery.com to submit your questions for future medical students and doctors I will interview.

Now, we’ll get right to the interview with Tyler Relph – a former PreMed tells us why he changed his mind. To hear the rest of this interview, join the CD Club online today!

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50 Listener Questions and Special Requests: The Power Of Exploiting Your Competition!

Posted in October 8th, 2008

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Episode 7: 50 Listener Questions and Special Requests: The Power Of
Exploiting Your Competition!

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In this episode:

ANNOUNCEMENTS
PODCAST UPDATE
Pre-Med E-book now a 17-week FREE course
$0.01 Pre-Med CD lays the groundwork for EVERYTHING Pre-Med!
LISTENER REQUESTS
Q & A