In addition to your AMCAS and secondary applications, one of the major components of MD and MD/PhD admissions are letters of recommendation. This can often be a confusing topic, as each college might have different formats for letters (individual, committee, packet, etc) and then each medical program might have different expectations as well. Thus, we… Read More Letters of Recommendation
After you submit your primary application through AMCAS (read more about that here), you will begin to receive secondary applications! While there is only one centralized AMCAS application, almost every school you add to AMCAS will have their own supplementary (secondary) application. These secondary applications will include more essays and sometimes a little bit more… Read More Secondary Applications
Congratulations!! If you’re reading this post, you might have just finished interviewing for MD/PhD programs. This alone is a huge accomplishment. Be very proud of yourself! In this post, we outline a few things about what to expect after you’ve interviewed for an MD/PhD program. We’ll give a general timeline of when schools tend to… Read More Acceptances and the Post-Interview Period
On Saturday, April 8th, the Anatomical Donor Program at UAB held a memorial service to honor those who have selflessly donated their bodies to medical education. In life, these compassionate individuals made the decision to donate the most precious gift they had so that they could be the “first patient” of many future healthcare professionals.… Read More Anatomical Donor Program: A Beautiful Memorial Service
As the end of the admissions season approaches for 2016-2017, we asked a few of our current students why they chose the UAB MSTP. Here’s what they told us! (Responses compiled by Emily Hayward, MS-1) “I chose UAB because they not only support interdisciplinary collaboration but also push for it… an important quality for… Read More Why UAB MSTP?
Before starting my journey at UAB this year, I was really curious about what a typical week looks like for a medical student. I knew there would be lots of studying ahead, but I wondered how much time students spent in class, what types of classes there were, and more. Thus, to help future generations be… Read More A Week in the Life of an MS-1: How do classes work?
***To listen to a podcast made by UAB medical students about the 2016 White Coat Ceremony, please click here! This podcast was produced/edited by GS1 Corey Duke and features MS1 students Emily Hayward and Shreya Kashyap.*** On August 14, after completing a two-week introductory course entitled Patient, Doctor, and Society (PDS), the first… Read More Reflections from our MS1s: The White Coat Ceremony Experience
