maymay
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Hi friends,
Could you plz help me to answer these questions? It's so difficult to me.
1/ What're the characteristics or things most residency directors want to see in a Personal Statement?
2/ What's the best way to write about the career plans? What outside interests should I have?
3/ What contributions can I make to the Radiology and the residency program?
Plz help me, Thanks so much.
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| adeelmd
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1) Personal statement can hurt you, but they don't help you. Being ""vanilla" (meaning not offending anyone, not taking a risk by writing a poem) is best. The only reason one could take a risk is if you have a great life story to tell "I built a hospital while working to put my brother and sister through college" type of stuff.
2) Do not write about career plans, only broad strokes. If you don't know what you want, why are you lying? Better to tell a story of who you are and why you want to be a radiologist. Don't lie, just the truth. "I liked medicine, when I was in med school I like looking at films. I felt I was a detective. I like computers;" Vanilla.
3) You risk making yourself sound overconfident if you say "I will give this and this to my department and radiology as a whole" Just say you would like to be a vital part of the residency program, and would not hesitate to help out a fellow resident or attending; because helping others is in our nature.
Again, Unless you have some remarkably great story, try to keep it vanilla, without any spelling mistakes. If you are an IMG, have one AMERICAN college-graduate level person read it ( if you do British *ie colour" type of mistakes it will look bad)
NOONE ever got a program because of their personal statement. Even people who claim they did, got it because of the accomplishments they made that they could put into the statement:
'I got interested in radiology because the x-ray machine broke at my local clinic, and I studied the books and managed to fix it. I became fascinated with imaging technology. I then went on to patent some designs for MRI and CT scanners, which are being used in your department."
It is the accomplishment, not the prose that will make this a great personal statement. Since most of us don't have such great accomplishments, writing a normal bland vanilla personal statement is perfectly acceptable. Just try to tell the best story that you have.
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