
Evaluate bad reasons to pursue medicine, such as parental pressure and family expectations, and weigh intrinsic motivation against extrinsic motives like money, power, and prestige.
Navigate your first days at university with a focus on orientation, academics, and research, while planning a flexible trajectory and a plan b in case medical school paths shift.
Prepare for orientation day by preloading course information, using a degree tracker, and planning course registration and deadlines; map your schedule with advisors, clubs, and support services.
Create a cohesive, longitudinal extracurricular narrative by clustering activities you love, demonstrating growth, and mapping a two-year roadmap that emphasizes leadership, communication, professionalism, and CanMEDS.
Learn what the MCAT is, its four sections, and how scores and percentile cutoffs influence medical school admissions. Understand reporting requirements to ensure your applications are complete.
Master critical analysis and reasoning skills (cars) for medical school prep by learning analysis, synthesis, and inference strategies to extract meaning from passages and tackle questions.
Break down the medical school application, outlining overarching timelines and strategies, components like your activities listings and verifiers, and how to optimize references and Casper test prep.
Navigate a yearlong medical school application roadmap: plan schools, prep GPA and MCAT, draft applications in summer, pay fees, secure references, and manage interviews and timelines.
Explore role play stations that train medical school applicants to enter in character, assess scenes, admit fault, and diffuse tense scenarios with empathy and nonjudgmental listening.
Engage with policy stations that blend ethics and role-play to analyze ethical issues, weigh stakeholder perspectives, and propose balanced courses of action with pros and cons.
Navigate from pre-clerkship to clerkship as you explore memorization strategies, study techniques, extracurricular maintenance, shadowing for career-path decisions, and clerkship design to secure residency.
With each year, medical school acceptance is an increasingly competitive process for premedical candidates. Circulating strategies are beginning to be overused and easily recognized. This course is here to assist applicants genuinely put their best foot forward each time on their journey through medicine.
What is this course?
It is a detailed and comprehensive plan to take prospective applicants from high school into independent medical practice. It will cover big picture layouts of the ‘marathon’ ahead and will drill down into the nitty gritty details of crafting an application. It is also the only course of its kind that assists Canadian medical school applicants. This course has existed for 5 years on Udemy and has since been re-recorded to include AI-augmented strategies to optimize applicants journeys.
How is this course different?
Preparation: The more well prepared you are, the less stress you will endure throughout your premed years. This course is an investment to get you to be on top of things. Other courses only gloss over preparation (or just tell you to be well prepared) without walking you through concrete examples and exercises. This is what I want to change. You’ll see this in the way I teach, I use stories to communicate exactly what I mean, and provide the AI tools I wish I had when I was in your place.
Full of examples: I am a big believer of show, don’t tell. So I filled this course to the brim with examples from my life, and the lives of other doctors around me.
Actionable: There’s nothing that wastes my time more than a presentation that only talks about abstract concepts. The examples I include are practical and orient you exactly where to click
Reflection: Other courses don't ask you the deeper questions, or push you to explore your motivations. This does not make an authentic applicant out of you. Being fed someone else’s well prepared answer makes you a weaker candidate in the long run and sets you back when you are ultimately required to provide your genuine reasons for pursuing medicine.
Self-Mastery: Much advice out there is focused on making you THE best applicant. Sadly, this makes you indistinguishable from the rest of the students that have received this advice as well. This course will teach you to be the best version of Yourself, which benefits you beyond your medical pursuits
Canadian: As a Canadian premed, I struggled to find the same detail of advice online as was provided to my American or UK counterparts. As a result, I wanted to create a helpful presence for my peers.
Why have I created this course?
I reached my career success due to the generosity of dozens of mentors I sought out - they took hours to explain specific nuances to me, and showed me where I could find the best opportunities to build my portfolio. I have paid that generosity back by an order of magnitude, having mentored enough students to fill all the seats of a medical school admission year! With every year I find myself answering the same questions and soothing the same anxieties. This is a place where I put answers to every question I ever got asked, with dedicated videos and examples to help get you here too.