Premed Webinar: How to Show, Not Just Tell Writing a Successful and Standout Personal Statement

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Okay, thank so we're going to start now. Thank you so much for joining JAMAMA tonight for our meeting on how to show not just tell writing a successful and standout personal statement with Dr. Jacobs. The Jewish Orthodox Women's Medical Association is a dynamic organization of over 800 Jewish Orthodox women in medicine dedicated to professional growth and community service and advancing healthcare knowledge through education, mentorship, and advocacy. JOMA empowers its members and promotes health and well-being really glad that everyone joined tonight to learn what to do with a personal statement. So tonight is going to be interactive. It's going to be constructive. We're going to work with text. We're going to talk about ideas. And hopefully by the end of the hour, you'll have an idea of where to start or how to keep going on your personal statement. And please feel free to ask questions, keep yourself off of mute. I want this to be a conversation. And um again interactive so that everyone gets something out of tonight. Okay. So tonight is about idea generation and it's interactive. So I'm very excited to present to you all. So tonight all the information is actually coming from US News and World Report. We found in JMA that when we bring in deans of medical schools and we bring in people who tell you exactly what the committee is looking for, the information comes right from the source. So, what I wanted to do tonight was bring in direct quotes, direct information right from the source. The quotes that I'm about to show you and what people are looking for are US deans from medical schools from Colombia to University of Maryland to Minnesota to Stanford. So, these are really specific targeted quotes that

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1. 0:00Okay, thank so we're going to start now. Thank you so much for joining JAMAMA tonight…
2. 5:49or their brainstorming sheet because hopefully by the end of this you'll have the tools or…
3. 11:03can demonstrate that this is sincerely why you wanted to go into medicine or this specific…
4. 16:21would start as early as you think you But I would plan on average around 3…
5. 21:36about and learn more. And so if they ask you in an interview about something you…
6. 26:52compliant with their medications? What happened? They were non-compliant because they didn't have a way to…
7. 32:03she is. It shows her mother's in there. Her real grandparents live in Hawaii. So, whose…
8. 37:22if someone just said to you, "Oh yeah, I wrote my medical school essay about this…
9. 42:40one I couldn't imagine giving up. Almost a year later, I visited Haiti with Project Medicare,…
10. 47:54was just another transition into another stage of life. Maybe that wasn't so necessary to include.…

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