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Believe In Yourself
Into Action: Substantiating Your Claims In YourApplication
Let’s Review
• So far, you have:
– Fired your inner critic
– 17 Principles of Success, Napoleon Hill
– Allopathic, Osteopathic, Caribbean options
– Competition and problems with training
– Ideal Pipeline Program
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INTO ACTION!
• Career Brainstorm– Creative vision
– Past documentation
– Functional Skills inventory
• Success Story Process
• “Tell Me About Yourself” Process
• Mindmap Strategy to Balance the App.
Career Brainstorm
• “There are no bad ideas when you’rebrainstorming.” Imagination Movers
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Career Brainstorm
• Master Application Binder• Past resumes and CVs• Functional Skills Inventory• Positive performance evaluations• Research your field with creative vision
– Literature searches for your specialty– Find programs that lead the field– Networld and network
The Success Story Process
• Situation/Action/Problem/Opportunity/Task
• Action
• Results
SARsThe bulk of your work and interview
practice happens here.
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Mindmap Your Application
• Organize where each piece of yourstory will go.
• Prioritize what the application asks for:– Volunteer
– Research
– Employment
Tell Me About Yourself.
• Choose your most meaningful SuccessStories.
• Craft a 1-3 sentence description thatsummarizes your memorable story.
• This will be included in your personalessay.
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Tell Me About Yourself.
• Remember these are Success Stories.
• Significant volunteer, research, oremployment can be mentioned in bothplaces, but:
– The emphasis will be different.
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Clinical Experience• Shadowing• Rotations
• Mission Trip
Volunteer• Meals on Wheels
EmploymentEmployment
EmploymentEmployment
Employment
• Unpublished• PublishedResearch
Personal ExperiencesPersonal Experiences
Personal ExperiencesPersonal Experiences
TMAY:
•Most meaningful?
•Career drivers?
Clinical Experience• Shadowing• Rotations
• Mission Trip
• Meals on Wheels
• Employment EmploymentEmployment
EmploymentEmployment
• Unpublished• PublishedResearch
• Personal Experiences
Personal ExperiencesPersonal Experiences
Personal Experiences
Success Story = AppTMAY = Essay
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Clinical Experience• Shadowing• Rotations
• Mission Trip
• Meals on Wheels
• Employment EmploymentEmployment
EmploymentEmployment
• Unpublished• PublishedResearch
• Personal Experiences
Personal ExperiencesPersonal Experiences
Personal Experiences
Success Story = AppTMAY = Essay