OldPreMeds Podcast
Summary: The National Society for Nontraditional Premedical & Medical Students, Inc., better known by our website name, OldPreMeds.org or simply OPM, is a professional/pre-professional society and educational conduit for non-traditional students who seek to become Physicians. For those whose path to medicine is not the traditional high school to college to medical school, OPM's mission is to assist and advise on how to successfully prepare, apply, and succeed in both medical schools and residency training programs. Founded in 1998, our now over 10,000 registered members span from the very early premed through attending-level physicians. Many are enrolled or have graduated from medical schools, osteopathic programs, and other clinical health fields, here in the US as well as abroad. www.OldPreMeds.org, is a website community built upon peer-based forums providing resources for all levels of premedical students, medical students, medical residents, pre-health advisors, admissions officers, and other faculty & staff at undergraduate, post-baccalaureate, medical, and post-graduate programs.
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Podcasts:
Nontrad students typically are working, taking care of family and taking classes all at the same time. Where do you fit in extracurriculars? Should you apply?
If you're a nontrad student with limited time to commit to take classes, an online degree might seem helpful. Be careful though, because it may be a risk!
With so many choices of medical schools in the US, how should you narrow down your list of schools that you are going to apply to? We'll help you!
The medical school application waiting game is hard. If you've submitted your applications and secondaries, you may be waiting until Jan or Feb for an interview.
If you're a true "old" premed, then your classes may be old too. Many advisors say that your courses should be no less than 4 years old. It all depends though!
Postbac programs can help you with your GPA, but can you take the classes at a community college? How will medical school look at that? We'll cover that!
The curse of the early decision program. Should you apply, or should you not. The early decision program is a large risk, with some reward. We talk about it!
If you're thinking about grad school, or in grad school struggling to get by, we'll cover some things to think about to help you on your journey.
The MCAT is a big hurdle, so you want to make sure that you're doing everything you can to prepare for it. We'll talk about the different resources available.
We reintroduce Rich to you in this episode. We talked about his title in episode 1, but didn't give you his background and why he's a great source of knowledge.
This week we tackle another age question. Is is possible to do residencies like EM or Surgery as an older, nontraditional student?
Our question of the week is whether or not this nontraditional student should start at MD/PhD program at an older age. Listen to find out what we say!
If you're applying to medical school and have children, you probably want to know if you should mention that in your application. Ryan and Rich answer that!
This week we tackle a question about letters of recommendation from the OPM Forums. This can be tricky for nontraditional premeds
Ryan and Rich are back to answer the question - "When Should I Apply to Medical School?" This question was actually asked in the form of when to take the MCAT!
