The Medical School HQ Podcast: Premed | Med School | Residency | MCAT | USMLE | COMLEX
Summary: The Medical School HQ Podcast is an extension of MedicalSchoolHQ.net. Started by Ryan Gray and his wife Allison, who are both physicians, it is another means of bringing valuable information to pre med students and medical students. Interviews with deans of medical schools, chats with trusted, valuable advisors and up-to-date news, The Medical School HQ Podcast and MedicalSchoolHQ.net are the go-to resources for all things related to the path to medical school. We are here to help you figure out the medical school requirements. We will show you how to answer the hard questions during your medical school interviews. What is a good MCAT Score? What is the best MCAT Prep? What the heck is the AMCAS? What is the best undergraduate program? What is medical school like? What do you do to volunteer and shadow? Get your questions answered here.
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In the 6th installment of The Medical School HQ Podcast I had a great conversation with Russell. He is a non-traditional student, 35-years-old and a schoolteacher with a wife and 3 children. He decided to pursue a career in medicine late in life and is now accepted to Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine! We discussed the path to music that Russell originally took in life and some of the struggles he had when looking for information and connections in the medical field. Russell shared his experience building a DIY Post-bac program without really knowing what a Post-bac program is. We also talk a lot about Russells experience during the interview process at both D.O. and M.D. schools and he shares why he thinks D.O. schools are more open to the non-traditional student.
In session 5 of The Medical School HQ Podcast I talked to Richard Levy of OldPreMeds.org (OPM). OPM is the #1 resource of pre med and medical school knowledge for the non-traditional medical student. A non-traditional medical student comes in many varieties and usually is somebody that is coming late to the game of medicine. It could be somebody that didn't know they wanted to be a physician until later in life, or it could be someone who had to take some time to increase his/her grades to have a better chance at getting an acceptance into medical school.
In session 4 of The Medical School HQ Podcast I talk to Eric and Amy about their pre med path and what drove them to start creating MCAT for Me. Listen to this podcast to learn about the MCAT, volunteering, picking a pre med undergraduate school, research and more.
In today's session I talk about choosing an undergraduate school and how to weed out the almost 5 million results from google when searching on the subject.
In this session I talk about MCAT basics. I talk a little bit about the long history and beginnings of the MCAT. I then talk about the new format of the 2013 and 2014 MCAT in preparation for the big changes in the 2015 MCAT. We then talk about MCAT prep. I talk about how free MCAT practice tests are the best place to start, even if you haven’t picked up an MCAT book yet. I give some good resources for free MCAT questions emailed directly to your inbox and we talk about more traditional MCAT prep courses, books and others.
In this session of The Medical School HQ Podcast I give a brief introduction to the origins of MedicalSchoolHQ.net and why it was started. I talk about why I think podcasting is the next step in bringing great premed information to the masses. I also take you down my path to becoming a physician and the obstacles that I (like many others) had to overcome.
