Dr.Luck
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I just finished a nice personal statement which has about 8000 characters i.e about 3 pages (while eras allows 28000characters)....but now I have read somewhere that please your personal statement should not be more than 1 page long as Program directors get bored of reading long PS.....is this true.Should I delete stuff from it although I believe it's pretty interesting ?
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Dr.Luck going for 2008 match
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| medicus_81
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Hey Dr. Luck,
I had a brief conversation with a PD and he said (quote): "keep it interesting and short. I don't want to know if you grew up in a family with 11 siblings, if you starved and if you walked 5 km to school every day to prove me that you had a hard life". He wanted to know your drive without eleborating on several pages what a battle you had in life, and his advise: don't present yourself as a victim of circumstances.
My opinion on this is also to keep it short- if you sum up the documents for each applicant(CV, PS, LORS) you can easily come up with 10 pages per applicant or even more...now in a small program with no more than 100-200 applicants to read all this info seems kind of doable, but in a competitive program with several hundred , up to a thousand applicants...I am not sure.
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| Dr.Luck
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thanx medicus_81...u are here for help again....may God bless u.
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| medicus_81
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you are very welcome!
It will be good to hear what other people think...
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| kity
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hi dr.luck... hope you are doing well...
GL for match..
Thanks a lot medicus_81... for helping me too..
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| kity
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I think PS should really be no more than 1 page... as no one has time to read all of it.. & small & sweet always leaves a strong impact ..
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| robin082006
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Mine is only 500 words
I attended a workshop in Kaplan and people there advise maximum is 1 page.
Programs have to read lots of stuff, long PS make them bored and not impressive.
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| azygous
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1 page to 1.25 max...period..just be in the shoes of PC/PD and think..
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| Dr.Luck
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thanks everyone for all ur replies....i'll keep that in mind but what are we supposed to write in that 1 page I mean to say about our professional life or about our personal life?...i know this sounds stupid but when u r filling out all those 11 pages of eras CAF form & all that crap u start getting bogged with all the info & in the end ain't sure what's right or worong!!!!....ao I'll appreciate ur response.....
Hey kitty...I am good. How about u.U must be busy in the match prep as well...phew I hope it ends soon but with all of us matched at our programs of choice inwhichever specialty we all wanna go into....AMEN.... 
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| sarika
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hey dr luck let me borrow half of ur excess PS..as i have absolutely nothing to write
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| priyagrove
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medicus_81 wrote:Hey Dr. Luck, I had a brief conversation with a PD and he said (quote): "keep it interesting and short. I don't want to know if you grew up in a family with 11 siblings, if you starved and if you walked 5 km to school every day to prove me that you had a hard life". He wanted to know your drive without eleborating on several pages what a battle you had in life, and his advise: don't present yourself as a victim of circumstances. My opinion on this is also to keep it short- if you sum up the documents for each applicant(CV, PS, LORS) you can easily come up with 10 pages per applicant or even more...now in a small program with no more than 100-200 applicants to read all this info seems kind of doable, but in a competitive program with several hundred , up to a thousand applicants...I am not sure.
Your answers are really smart medicus. Thanks for the post. I'm sure you will do very well in the match, good luck!
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| medicus_81
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priyagrove wrote:
Your answers are really smart medicus. Thanks for the post. I'm sure you will do very well in the match, good luck!
Thanks, priya! I hope everyone of us is going to be a winner at the end of this exhausting experience!
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| GLO MD
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No more than one page.
3 paragraphs
Remember to start with a "bang" something that caughts the reader attention and makes them want to keep on reading it.
first paragraph: At the end of your paragraph your reader has to be clear about your reasons to have choosed that particular specialty and how much you like it and want that...the trick is...you should not say it with those words but use a story of your personal life or something interesting to let the reader know this things.
Second paragraph: This allows you to tell the reader how well you are suited for the specialty ( that you are smart, talented so on and so forth)...trick is again you should not put it in words...it should be sutile with a story also that let the reader know that you are amazing without saying soooo jajajaja tricky ja?
Third paragraph: Summary..... this also allows you to say with words what you said in your first 2 paragraphs now you can say you are smart, responsible bla bla bla with your own words..Try to do a summary meaning you will say ...I want to do x specialty because ble ble, I am a great candidate because ble ble ble... let them know how hard you want it and how good you are that they should not let go the opportunity of having you around...also you can say in this paragraph you future carrier goals.... finish with a bang and be sure that you are remembered and sound like a very interesting smart person they would want to meet once they read your page.....
Hope that helps it helped me a lot.
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| azygous
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@ glo that was really a good way to put PS..
my game plan
1st para==start with a personal story
2nd para=some more stories in med school/ clinics ( real personal)
3 my grades and my scores...get me in..
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| GLO MD
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jijijiji that is very good that's exactly what I did...well I did not include my grades but that is a personal deal and if you can adress them there I think it would be just fine....good luck finding your interesting stories to tell, I also used med school personal stories and clinical experiences.See ya around
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| Dr.Luck
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thanx guys that was of GREAT help!!!
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| hypomanic
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Hi Dr. Luck-
I got a lot of help from the Medfools
site and essayedge- just sesrch in google for them and they should turn
up- best of luck
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Books for Residency:
1.) The Successful IMG: Obtaining a US Residency
2.) Iserson's Getting into a Residency: A Guide for Medical Students
There are lots of books out there for residency. I HIGHLY recommend the first book for for IMGs. The time might seem SHORT to read a book about residency now. However, the interview period might be SHORTER. And waiting for the March result in March 08, might be SHORTEST - if you found out you did not use all the available info at your disposal!
Good luck to you all.
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| drkeyur
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HI..I am IMG from India.I am applying for this coming year.I just wanna know whether different IMG friendly hospital list that are available on internet or somewhere are useful??Can u suggest me some good one??
Thanks for the reply.
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