If you have a chronic illness that inspired you to want to become a physician—but it also caused you to take time off from undergrad—how should you write about that on your medical school application?
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Our student this week is preparing to apply to medical school with a chronic illness. How do you discuss your story when some med school admissions committees may view it as a red flag? We discuss:
• Do medical schools have access to your medical records?
• How much should you disclose about your chronic illness?
• What do you want to make sure NOT to do while writing about these issues?
• What are medical schools really concerned about here?
I also share a warning about discussing "bad physicians" in your personal statement! Just a side note, but an important one.
Here are the timestamps if you want to skip around:
0:00 Introduction
0:37 Student Question
2:36 My Answer
As always on the OldPreMeds Podcast, our question this week was taken from our nontraditional premed forum. (Ask your own questions at [ Ссылка ].)
