Why Writing a Great Medical School Personal Statement is Important

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• Why Writing a Great Medical School Personal
  Statement is Important

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• Those who are applying for a university program
  face the question How to write the best
  residency personal statement?.

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• One part of applicants doesnt pay a lot of
  attention to it, while another part tries to do
  all the best to write a great medical personal
  statement.

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• Of course, the second part has higher chances of
  being accepted. So, why a personal statement is
  so important for medical schools like Johns
  Hopkins University School of Medicine?

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• The thing is, it is important not only for
  medical programs but also for each program in
  universities like Harvard and Stanford.

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• Just imagine hundreds or even thousands of
  applicants each year desire to become students of
  Yale medical school and, as a result, hundreds of
  similar names, dates of birth and other details
  are read by the admissions tutors. How could one
  stand out from a huge number of people?

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• Right! With the help of a qualitative personal
  statement fellowship. First of all, that is a
  great opportunity to explain why are you the best
  candidate for the program.

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• Also, that is a good way to prove that you want
  to study and that you have a huge motivation for
  that.

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• And, of course, it is an exceptional way to show
  your uniqueness as well as creativity and to
  create a right first impression as a real person,
  not as a name written on the piece of paper.

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• Speaking about creating a fellowship application
  personal statement that is not a fast and an
  easy process. You should make several drafts
  before you will have the final variant. What
  should be included and how should it be written?
• Here are some tips for you.

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• The most important constituent of your personal
  statement is your subject. Whether you write a
  radiology application essay or a pathology
  personal statement you should write about
  relevant experience, knowledge, skills and so on.

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• For example, an internal medicine residency
  personal statement and a personal statement for a
  dentistry differ a lot.

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• Focus on the fact that the statement is personal.
  You dont have to put too many emotions in that,
  but your main task is to show your personality
  and uniqueness. Distinguish yourself from others.

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• Dont undervalue the problem of plagiarism. You
  could use some online checkers to make sure that
  what you have read one day in online samples is
  not now in your statement.

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• Remember that capacity is limited you have only
  4,000 characters for writing a personal statement.

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• Define why you want to be accepted for the
  course? How your skills fit to study the course?
  Mention your experience which is not connected
  with the school (but only that experience which
  is relevant to the course).

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• Prove that your skills and the chosen course (and
  the desired career) have a strong and
  understandable connection.

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• It is a good idea to show your critical thinking
  by analyzing what you have done and how that
  influenced you.

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• Hope those tips would be useful for writing a
  best medical personal statement. If you want to
  learn more you can read this book.

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