- Start journaling now. Once a week, answer this question: what happened over the past seven days that reconfirms my vocation for medicine? Jot a few thoughts down; write it out in bullet points. Quality prose does not matter at the moment. Simply start keeping track.
- Your personal statement MUST include one of your most fulfilling experiences from the AMCAS activity sheet and, ideally, that experience is clinical. If you have had a hard time finding clinical experience during COVID, check out these virtual shadowing opportunities.
- Your letter writers must be specific. Help them out! Create a dossier with the following items:
- a few specific examples of what you have learned from their mentorship and pedagogy . What skills did you gain or hone by working with or learning from them?
- a few specific anecdotes of the ways in which you have met three key AMCAS competencies. Ideally, this will overlap with the strengths you note in your personal statement.
- give them a sample of your best work from their class or from research if they are a PI (poster presentation, etc.)
- obviously, your resume and, when possible, a draft of your personal statement.
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