Session 10

Every week, we answer your questions here on the OldPreMeds Podcast where Ryan and Rich Levy again dive into the forums over at OldPreMeds.org, pull a question, and deliver the answers right on to you.

Today, however, is a fun and unique episode as we re-introduce Rich and get to know him more in-depth…

Here are the highlights of the conversation with Rich Levy Rich’s path to the OldPreMeds.org

• Having the epiphany of wanting to go back to medical school in 2002
• Coming across the website for the National Society for Nontraditional Premedical and Medical Students, otherwise known as OldPreMeds.org, a small online group that he got involved with
• By 2005, Rich took over as the group's business manager, running conferences
• Rich has helped develop the organization into a much more solid and effective resource for nontraditional students
• Getting to see all the sides of the medical school application process giving Rich a different view and understanding

Factors that did not allow Rich to go to medical school

• Personal relationships
• Monetary considerations
• Financial crisis

Lessons learned from taking the postbac

• To prove to medical schools that he can do it.
• To prove to your yourself that you want to do it, willing to work this hard and long to get to some place

Major takeaway from this episode

Consider postbac as much expensive place, time, effort, and resources to answer that question and realize in your first year that you can't really do this.

Links and Other Resources

Check out Tim Horeczko’s podcast The Pediatrics Emergency Medicine Playbook

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