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Will USMLE changes affect the MD/Phd? How?

August 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Medical students and MD/PhD applicants have likely heard the rumors: the USMLE program sequence will be changing.  This news quickly draws the attention of those starting down the regimen of a MD/PhD program.  Most MD/PhD students currently take 2 years of medical school basic science and the USMLE step 1 exam before heading down the [...]

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Writing the AMCAS essays for MD PhDs

July 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments

The best thing you can do is have these two essays reviewed by your laboratory PI and the post-docs you work around. While it may be frightening to open yourself up for criticism, they will be able to help you establish clarity more so than most of your peers and people outside the field.

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