The Premed Years

Dr. Bryan Vartabedian from 33charts.com joins us to discuss how premeds, medical students and physicians need to take advantage of their online presence

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Episode 59 – MCAT Retakes – Change and Improve to Get the Score You Want

Episode 87 – 5 Things You Need to Do to Start Preparing for MCAT 2015

Dr. Bryan Vartabedian’s blog 33 charts

Get Dr. Vartabedian’s book The Public Physician.

Connect with Dr. Bryan Vartabedian on Twitter @doctor_v

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What a great two-year journey it has been for the Medical School HQ Podcast. Yup! This 104th episode actually marks the second year anniversary of our podcast.

Four episodes ago we played the 100th podcast, where we featured stories from our listeners. Today, let this episode be our opportunity to express our heartfelt gratitude for what amazing journey it has been for us as physicians as well as being able to help medical students walk through their medical school journey. Sure there are challenges and the future may seem bleak, but there is always light at the very end of the tunnel so let’s continue to hold on to each other.

There is so much negativity in the physician world today where physicians would discourage students to go to medical school and that’s sad. We started this podcast with the aim to show you everything you need to know about getting to medical school: all the triumphs, struggles, and what not. And as long as you’re doing it for the right reasons? It should all be worth it!

At at that time during the initial podcast, our website had over 50,000 page views. Fastforward to today, we’re over 600,000 page views and over 200,000 podcast downloads. Wow! We continue to grow everyday and that’s because of you listening right now who still continue to give us feedback . We have over 220 5-star ratings in iTunes. For all of you guys taking the time to go to medicalschoolhq.net/itunes, giving us reviews and sharing us to your friends, THANK YOU! We wouldn’t have grown as big as we are today without your help.

So in this episode, we are talking about the things we are thankful for in general.

• Given the opportunity everyday that she can make a difference, no matter how small it is, still it’s a difference!
• The feeling of a patient telling you that you have helped them improve their quality of life.
• When you’re seeing people who are dying and you’re trying to help the family ease through the suffering - it’s rewarding.
• Working with a team especially in an inpatient setting
• The way medical teaching structure works

• His ability to reassure patients that everything’s going to be okay is a huge part of healing in of itself.
• Being in a room, behind closed doors, and be one-on-one with a patient
• Their podcast helping students get to medical school

If you just started listening to this podcast, go back to start and listen to Episode 1. We guarantee that the information you will get from the podcast will help you get into medical school. And congratulations to all the listeners who have made it to medical school and who have take the time to let us know how we have helped them in their journey. We are so honored to have been a part of your journey and thank you for letting us know.

• Yes, you can be a physician and still be thankful for being a physician.
• On a sad note, there was an article written on medical students who committed suicide. It’s not an easy road. But hold fiercely your dreams and desire to do this because it is worth it!
• Do it for the right reasons. Get informed. It’s not all rainbows and sunshine. There are challenges definitely! But it’s all worth it if you do it for the right reasons.
• Let’s continue to be supportive of one another. There are days you feel like quitting, so let’s all support each other. It’s collaboration that’s going to make us better.

Join the Academy, we’ve got 5 members who already got to medical school and that makes us proud to be able to help them in some ways. We will give you the support that you need. We will review your personal statements. We do mock reviews. We’ll meet once a month for office hours. And we would be happy if you too could jump on board and take us along your medical school journey.

Episode 1 - Welcome to the Medical School HQ Podcast

Episode 98 - Time to Get Touchy Feely - Let’s Talk Physical Exam

Episode 45 - 5 Reasons to Go to Medical School, and 5 to Not

Shay is the author of the book Getting Into Medical School: The Ultimate Guide for the Anxious Premed. Listen to her journey and how she overcame mistakes.

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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: Overcoming Obstacles on Her Way to Medical School.

Related episode: 54-year-old Med Student Overcame 5 MCATs, Rejection, and More.

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Neal was a minister, but wanted something different when he was interaction with others in medical environments. Listen to his journey back into school & more!

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The Academic Medicine journal had a great article about the habits and attitudes of physicians, things you can start doing now as a premed! We talk about them.

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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: 5 Traits Patients Want Their Doctors to Have.

Related episode: 10 Traits You Need to Succeed in Medical School.

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Session 100!! Your premed stories are shared this week! 6 different listeners called/wrote in to share their premed journey to medical school. You must listen!

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For more episodes full of premeds calling in and sharing their stories, check out the Premed Diaries podcast!

Related episode: 1st Year of Medical School for a Nontraditional Premed.

Related episode: Zig or Zag: There Are Multiple Premed Paths to Medical School.

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Thomas, a listener of the podcast, emailed in a great question about balancing family life and being a physician. We give our thoughts on the subject and more!

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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: Medical School Mom: Prioritizing Family, School, and More.

Related episode: How to Provide for Your Family as a Premed.

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Dr. Danielle Ofri has a great piece in the New York Times titled "The Physical Exam as Refuge." Allison and I discuss this and give our thoughts for the premed.

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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: Welcome to Your 3rd Year of Medical School.

Related episode: Prescription Writing 101 (with Example Prescriptions).

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In this episode, Allison and Ryan answer listener questions about choosing an undergrad, clinical volunteering, what to do before medical school and much more!

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Any questions? Record a voice message, call us, or simply write an email over our “Ask Us a Question” page. www.medicalschoolhq.net/question

To download the 30+-page report with tricks and discount codes for MCAT Prep go to www.freemcatgift.com

MSHQ Podcast Episode Mentions:

MSHQ Podcast Episode 3: Picking an Undergraduate Program

MSHQ Podcast Episode 12: Shadowing Secrets for Every Premed and Beyond

MSHQ Podcast Episode 46: How Relationships Change in Medical School

MSHQ Podcast Episode 64: An Interview with Dr. Ginger Campbell

MSHQ Podcast Episode 89: How to Choose Which Medical Schools to Apply To

MSHQ Podcast Episode 96: An Interview with Dr. Rivera from NYU

Book: Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

List of Medicine-Related Podcast:

• The Brain Science Podcast - Dr. Ginger Campbell
• EM Basic - Dr. Steve Carroll
• EMCrit Podcast - Dr. Scott Weingart
• The Art of Medicine Podcast
• ERCast

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Dr. Rivera, Director of Admissions at NYU, talks about their innovative 3 year MD program and what it means for the future of medicine. Hint - It sounds great!

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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: 3-year PA-to-DO Accelerated Medical School at LECOM.

Related episode: 10 Traits You Need to Succeed in Medical School.

Need MCAT Prep? Save on tutoring, classes, and full-length practice tests by using promo code "MSHQ" at Blueprint MCAT (formerly Next Step Test Prep)!