Brandon is a UBC med student whose non traditional path to med school included a dual degree in music composition and biology and a gap year studying music composition in Paris. Watch to hear his advice for other non traditional med school applicants. Going forward, I want to show a diversity of paths in addition to science-> med, such as a variety of majors, extra years, gap years, etc. We filmed and edited this a while back so the video doesn’t include words of support. Please check out some educational resources and donation link regarding the Black Lives Matter movement. Read More
Tag: premed
How to deal with failure as a premed, med student or pharmacy student
It’s Jamie and Shanna again. Since some got heart breaking rejection letters from med school, today is the perfect day to talk about how we learned to view failure and critical feedback as learning opportunities, set aside to feel down about the failure and then let go, and how to be kinder to ourselves and our team when failures occurs. We also share a couple light stories of times we felt like failures but these failures turned out to be nothing in the big scheme of things. (Mine was definitely petty in retrospect but my 17 year old self thought Read More
Non-Traditional Path to Medical School in Canada, and Fear of Failure
I interviewed a UBC Med Classmate about her journey that involves studying Piano Performance to become a Professor in Music, spending 5 years switching from piano to medicine, and applying to and getting into medical school. We also spend the last five minutes of the video discussing fear of failure.
When to write the MCAT
Disclaimer: I am not an expert on and do not possess insider information on the MCAT or on medical school admissions. This is only based on my personal experience. I am merely provide some opinion that might help out a fellow premed out there. A highly motivated reader sent in a question on when to write the MCAT. This is a follow-up to my original post: How to study for the MCAT Many people I know have written it first or second week of August, and I was planning to do so. I did notice on your blog, that you suggested Read More