Summary: Episode 55: Learn the most common age range and mentorship exposure duration that increased medical school admission rates by 93% at Functional Medicine Associates. Download transcript: Study finds 93 percent increase in medical school admissions 55 Matriculation The End is in Sight Today’s episode is about the research study that showed an increase in matriculation that is acceptance into medical school. I’m about to give some facts that need a little bit of a warning. You may notice a little bit more of an edgy flare to the podcast. That’s because I’m nearing the end of all of my training and a senior resident which I’ll be in a few months is going to be a person to give it to you straight. The pressure is lessening and almost over. The end is in sight. That very long path to becoming an independent license practitioner, that physician that you’ve always dream of being is getting brighter and brighter with every day and the frustrations and headaches along the way come out. There’s sort of an edginess to the senior resident and that’s kind of right where I am. It’s a unique time for the Medical Mastermind Community and it’s a time we’re capitalizing on. Getting in to Medical School Let’s talk about the matriculation of medical students. Firstly to get into any reputed medical institution, it’s essential to score beyond exceptional on the gamsat, especially if it’s an Australian, British or an Irish university you want to get in. In the last two out of the three last podcasts have highlighted a couple of other studies that I’ve done with the Medical Mastermind Community and one of them had a population that was sort of not seeking help. It was that University of Houston’s American Medical Student Association Premed Chapter that I dealt with. That was the very first contact with Mastermind Research. I did not know it was really going to turn into the Mastermind Community at that point. They weren’t having trouble. They weren’t having struggles. They had a premed club of pretty successful folks that had people from their premed club get accepted into medical school every year. I’m sure many of them are in now are finishing. The other study was looking at intentional selection of folks in medically underserved areas, kind of opposite ends of the spectrum. Those without a lot of resources or access to larger university campuses or premed advisors that could give them appropriate guidance. The literature supports what you already know that there are bad premed advisors out there in the world and I am talking about faculty. I’m probably talking about your faculty. Who really gets accepted? The point is that this study needs a little bit of warning that I’m going to go ahead and read the raw data to you, but then we’re going to go back and interpret it and do a little subset analysis to get sort of a proper perspective. Just like the last one that showed that the Mastermind Community access increased GPA and MCAT scores within one year which is quite an accomplishment in itself. There was a separate Mastermind cohort recruited in a similar way. It’s the underserved population as I defined it previously in that podcast. The outcome measure in this study is matriculation into medical school. It sounds great to raise an MCAT score. It sounds pretty good to raise the GPA especially if you’ve had Cs or Ds in the past, but what do you really care about as a premed at least in terms of your career. The only thing you care about is getting into medical school, so that’s what this study was focusing on is matriculation. Did you get into medical school? Yes or no and so we recruited some folks. Let me just jump straight to the results, similar study one year access, fill out the survey for the Mastermind Community and we have followed them and have done serial surve[...]
