The shadowing vs clinical experience debate rages on in this post. This nontrad student wants to know how many hours of shadowing she needs for her apps.

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• Related episode: How to Effectively Shadow a Physician as a Premed Student
• Related episode: What Is the Best Paid Clinical Experience for Med School?
• Related post: Premed Clinical Experience: Shadowing vs Volunteering
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If you're thinking about going to medical school and being a surgeon but worried about how old you are, check out our latest episode!(Hint: Age doesn't matter)

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• Related episode: How Old Is Too Old to Start Medical School?
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What types of questions will postbac programs ask during your interview and how should you format your resume? Those are the questions we cover today.

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The Premed Playbook: Guide to the Medical School Interview

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If you've taken some science med school prereqs at one school, how important is it to take the rest at the same school? That is what we're covering this week.

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Our poster today is looking at his med school application timeline and wondering if completing his prereqs after he applies will hurt his application.

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The military, like any job, can get in the way of you achieving your goal of becoming a physician. Our question today revolves around what to do to make it work.

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The Premed Years Podcast

If you're like most nontraditional premeds, you probably don't have a lot of time to shadow. If you can't build great relationships for LORs, what do you do?

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• Check out my Premed Playbook series of books (available on Amazon), with installments on the personal statement, the medical school interview, and the MCAT.
• Related episode: How to Get the Best Letters of Recommendation as a Nontrad.
• Related episode: Do LORs from Optometrists Count as Physician LORs?
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If you needed an extra 4-5 years to get above a 3.0 GPA, what would you do? That's what our nontrad premed student is asking on today's podcast episode.

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• Related episode: From a 2.7 Undergrad GPA to First Year Medical Student
• Related episode: Carribean Medical Schools: What You Need to Know
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Our poster today is a working professional but wants to now go to medical school. He's caught in the dilemma of continuing to work or quit his job to be premed.

Some postbac programs market themselves as overing a certificate of completion. Does this certificate mean anything when it comes to med school applications?

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