tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30359229054588755312009-08-19T04:50:03.042-07:00<center>Useful Tips for your Residency Personal Statement / Statement of Purpose / SOPs / Personal Essays<br><br> Give yourself the cutting edge... <br><br> *** Copyrighted *** </center>Digitaldoc, MDnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3035922905458875531.post-35855590446880627482008-12-14T09:44:00.000-08:002008-12-14T10:15:22.090-08:00

This comes from an old-timer reader who chooses to be anonymus, who did not give details about interviews / matching, but did sound very happy and thankful for USMLEtoMD.com. I erased out the identifiers from the body, but here goes:"I have an eye for details, I love working with technology and investigating tissues under the microscope captures my curiosity to no end. This is why, when a recent

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My sleep often tends to behave like what they taught us about gas in Physics - it occupies all space available ;-) When it comes to personal statement, MyERAS allows a limit of upto 28,000 characters to fit in per statement - which amounts to approximately 8 pages in a 10-pt. size Courier New font - BUT do not occupy all that space available !Since we are living in the era of evidence-based

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A critical part of your Personal statement for residency and even fellowship applications is explaining why you decided to choose or why do you like that particular specialty. I have already compiled some sample scripts from the Internet to help you deal with the same question on the Interviews.And you can rope in ideas from the same scripts while framing your personal statements too.The reason

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And before you begin to doubt my sanity, let me clarify the title of this post.Remember that MyERAS is programmed to automatically log out after 15 minutes of inactivity. And unless you are doing a totally shi##y job on your statement, you will take more than those few minutes to build, polish and repolish your personal statements. Mostly you will lose track of time and forget to save it now and

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That blank statement screwing your head ? I heard a song by a band called Michael Learns to Rock (MLTR), which goes: "A man stands next to at great wallHe's too close, he can't see at all" That's right. When you start writing your personal statement, you need to back off a bit from that sheet and get the whole picture first.What I am trying to say here is , it is much better idea to first lay

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Awrite Guys ! The moment has come ...you are relieved, smiling and smug because you just wrote that Personal Statement. Now lets put that statement through an acid test see if it can get better :-)As long as your answers are a loud "YES" for any of these quick self-questions you are on safe waters - the moment you hear yourself say a quiet "No" , we got a problem that needs urgent fixing :-) -

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1. Making the Personal Statement an expanded definition of the specialty you are applying for = **YAWN**2. Writing the Personal Statement look like a Reading Comprehension test on your Resume = Dude, if the CAF is your Resume, why write this personal statement ?3. Spelling error s = Nope, Not a single spelling error please...you had ALL the time in the world to write that statement, didn't you ?

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