JOWMA Canada presents: Applying to medical school

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maybe instead of like asking you all the specific questions like i feel like maybe i'll just ask you to kind of talk about what you were talking about in the videos and then if there's anything you can cover then i'll ask you those specific questions i feel like it might just be like tedious yeah perfect okay everyone who's here thank you so much for joining we'll wait a couple more minutes and we'll get started soon okay let's wait two more minutes and then we'll get started i mean i'll just start off by explaining how it's going to work um so we have three amazing panelists here with us and three amazing panelists here with us and i'll introduce them briefly um and adina's actually if you can see she can explain the situation but she's in the airport and she might have to hop on a flight crazy delays and stuff so i'm just gonna we're gonna get adina to go first and just give us a little bit of an introduction on applying to canadian medical school and then and then we'll go back to amanda and stephanie to talk about the u.s and israel and at any point if anyone has any questions that they want to ask you guys questions that they want to ask you guys can post them in the q a and then at the end um we'll if there's anything that we haven't covered yet then we'll make sure to get all your questions answered so we can get started my name is abigail capsack i am the chair of joma canada um and i founded this with nakamura liskin who is also just a graduate of the of uc med and i'm a second year medical student at u of t and so if adina does have to run and you have questions about canadian

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1. 0:35maybe instead of like asking you all the specific questions like i feel like maybe i'll…
2. 7:23tell you like what the differences are in terms of applying so sorry i'll start with…
3. 13:07message me on facebook or reach out or any of these um women here because we're…
4. 18:47emailed probably like a hundred different doctors and a few got back to me and one…
5. 24:27i didn't take english in undergrad um so that was one of the reasons why i…
6. 30:02guatemala and like specifically for my school helped a lot because our school is like does…
7. 36:14much into like um incorporating mind body and spirit like really treating the patient like they're…
8. 41:47what about your personal like research experiences or extracurricular volunteers yeah so i was really lucky…
9. 47:24into yet just because i only just finished my first year but um i know that…
10. 53:03and i was really trying to seek out the answers the conclusion that i got is…

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