Many new medical students wonder when they should begin studying for the first of three licensing exams – the USMLE Step 1. There are a lot of opinions out there regarding how long students should be preparing for this exam,…
Preparing for the USMLE Step 1: During Basic Sciences
Hey There! It’s Been a While!
Hello everyone! I’ve really missed being able to blog over the past year. I had a post in draft waiting for a different post that I wanted to publish first, and that one didn’t happen until this past week haha….
Medical School Without a Science Background: Can It Be Done?
You may know by now that I do not have a hard science academic background. My undergraduate degree was a Bachelor of Arts in Speech and Language Sciences, and I minored in Psychology. My graduate degree is a Master of…
Acceptance to Medical School: The Enrolment Process
Hello readers! Thanks for bearing with me while I finished up my basic sciences instead of spending my time blogging haha. So, I left off explaining the process of accepting an offer of admission and promised that I would, next,…
Acceptance to Medical School: Official Acceptance
The process between completing your medical school interview, and receiving a response from the SJSM Admissions team is prompt, just as the response after submitting the initial application. In this post I’m going to combine the steps of confirming your…
