Informal "Get-to-know-you" Interviews

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 |

I just got an email from one of the three Pre-Medicine advisors here on campus. On Tuesday, May 10, Dr. Stephen Nyirady will be visiting hte campus. If I remember correctly, he is the Vice President for admissions from Loma Linda University School of Medicine.

One of the things he will be doing while on campus is presenting at an "interest" session. The second thing he will be doing, and I'm sure the one most people are a little bit nervous about, is conducting interviews. I'm told that for those who are planning to submit an application this summer (to begin Med school in Fall of 2006), this interview is a more informal one just to "get aquainted."

LoL. No pressure, huh?

Well I shall see how it goes. I'll probably sign up for an interview and try to find out about how the school operates; it'll be useful to know ho classes operate, class size, how many students get into their first choice for residency... that sorta thing.

Semper Pertinax -- Why I started this blog

Monday, April 18, 2005 |

Semper pertinax. It's Latin for "always persistent" -- a quality that everyone needs regardless of what profession you choose. It's a quality that will get students through the drudgrey of undergraduate studies, through medical school, through residency and into a rewarding career as a physician.

As I begin this blog I am in the third quarter of my junior year of college. My summer won't be a pleasant one. It'll be spent studying/cramming for the August MCAT.

And so as I sit here at my desk thinking ahead to the summer that will pretty much decide my destiny I wondered about what resources are out there for students who are thinking about choosing to become a physician.

I got the idea of putting up my own personal blog, to chronicle my journey as I try to get into medical school. And hopefully, assuming I get in, the blog will evolve into a journal of what to expect once in medical school.

I got on blogger.com and started filling out the form when I noticed that my first choice for a URL was taken. It was started by a student in 2002. It had one entry and looked like the author had the same idea I have now. But only one post. This happened two more times. I guess the idea is an old one...but no one has ever carried it through.

Well lets just wait and see. Maybe this one will stop after this first post. Maybe I will become one of the thousands of students who don't get into medical school. But hopefully not. And hopefully this site will be able to help others thinking of starting down the path towards a career as a physician.