pawpaw
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Hi!
I'm applying to the transitional year residency program and would like to ask help on how to go about the personal statemenet. I'd like to pursue Family Medicine or Pediatrics after and my current personal statements focus on them. Can I use these PS for applying?
If you have samples of transitional year program PS and would be willing to share it with me, I'd greatly appreciate the help.
Thanks.
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| harrish
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Dear Match applicant,
The Residency Match is around the corner, and many
applicants will begin working on their Personal
Statements with little or no knowledge of where to
begin. The Personal Statement will be given very
serious scrutiny by the admisssions committee in its
evaluation of your application for a residency
position. The unique aspect of your Personal Statement
is that it is the one document over which you actually
have full control. In this respect it is not like your
test scores, graduation year, or a set CV. It is a
blank piece of paper upon which you are free to
formulate an accurate, convincing, and attractive
portrait of yourself on your own terms, and thus it is
crucial that you take complete advantage of this
opportunity to introduce yourself to the program.
Certainly you must ensure your grammar and spelling
are error-free. Any errors in a Personal Statement can
be very costly to an applicant indeed. No program
wants a resident who will be recording sensitive
patient information in charts which in fact possess
the weight of legal documents with a poor grasp of the
English language.
Also, try not to compose a Personal Statement that is
generic in format or content or that contains trite
cliches. We cannot tell you how many IMG personal
statements we have seen that either begin with a quote
from a famous writer or a disclosure from the the
applicant that his or her parents are physicians whose
influence was responsible for the decision to become a
doctor. Many applicants look at sample personal
statements on the Web, and base the content of their
statement on these. If you are doing this, you can
imagine that others are as well, and that other
Personal Statements the admission committee might see
may sound suspiciously like yours. These kinds of
Statements will not allow you to stand out from your
peers and may place you in the dangerous position of
committing plagiarism.
Many individuals have stated that their scores were
mediocre and their application generic, yet it was the
strength and uniqueness of their Personal Statements
that set them apart from other applicants.
Edited by Aashi on 07/03/07 - 07:47 AM. Reason: Ads NOT allowed in this forum.
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| yolanda
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PAWPAW, Just one question...if you want fam med or peds why go for a transitional year?
Just curious...good luck
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