It may sound premature to think about residency when you’re not even in medical school yet, but I have a quick tip, and you will thank me later.
Save, save, and resave your medical school application materials. AMCAS information, personal statement, Secondaries – all of it. This will come in very handy when you are applying to residency and trying to remember which action verbs you used to describe the organizations with which you were involved in college! The past employment history will also come in handy. Moreover, you will likely never be a better writer than you are now, and you will be amazed at how many nicely written sentences you may want to pluck right out of your personal statement for medical school and drop into your residency application.
If you’re not already familiar, dropbox.com is a great place to store things like this given that the computer you’re using now will probably not be the one you’re using 4-5+ years from now.
(And of course, saving your materials is also a good idea in the short-term in case you are a re-applicant in the future.)
Save, save, and resave your medical school application materials. AMCAS information, personal statement, Secondaries – all of it. This will come in very handy when you are applying to residency and trying to remember which action verbs you used to describe the organizations with which you were involved in college! The past employment history will also come in handy. Moreover, you will likely never be a better writer than you are now, and you will be amazed at how many nicely written sentences you may want to pluck right out of your personal statement for medical school and drop into your residency application.
If you’re not already familiar, dropbox.com is a great place to store things like this given that the computer you’re using now will probably not be the one you’re using 4-5+ years from now.
(And of course, saving your materials is also a good idea in the short-term in case you are a re-applicant in the future.)
