Claire Cain Miller’s recent New York Times article, “Why So Few Women In Silicon Valley?” is a good read with some great anecdotes. The subject is very applicable to the medical field.
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Physician – Writer
Sheri Fink MD just won the Pulitzer Prize in the investigative category for her article on doctors’ care at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Her article, “The Deadly Choices at Memorial” was published in the NYT in August of last year. Sheri was a colleague of mine at Harvard and completed the American Association for the Advancement of Science Media Fellowship several years after I did. Although Sheri’s accomplishments are clearly exceptional, her achievement demonstrates that those with an MD can accomplish a lot in ways other than clinical.
Tags: April 2010
Emailing Your Letter of Intent
In a previous entry, I recommended sending your letter of intent (LOI) both by snail mail and email – the latter if the institution has not explicitly banned electronic correspondence with them. If you are sending your letter by email, ensure that you send it in the body of the email – not as an attachment. Even one more step (opening the attachment) might impede your document’s being read.
Contact me for LOI editing help.
Tags: April 2010
Medical School Admissions: Apply Early
Because getting into medical school continues to get harder each year, the submission of a strong medical school application is critical. Following a timeline and getting your materials in early can assist you in improving your candidacy and thus, your chances of success.
Some medical schools use a rolling admissions process. These institutions will let applicants know about admissions decisions fairly soon after interviewing. Others – like Harvard Medical School – make final admissions decisions at the conclusion of interviews. Read more ›
Language Proficiency
A tip for your CV and the application process in general:
Unless you are prepared to conduct an interview exclusively in another language, use the term “proficiency” instead of “fluency” when describing your foreign language skills. You do not want to face embarrassment (or worse) regarding an overstatement of your abilities.
Tags: April 2010
Dr. Finkel is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Medical School. On completing her residency at Harvard, she was asked to stay on as faculty at Harvard Medical School and spent five years teaching at the world-renowned Massachusetts General Hospital. She was appointed to the Assistant Residency Director position for the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency where she reviewed countless applications, personal statements and resumes. Read more
Listen to Dr. Finkel’s interview on The Visible Voices podcast:
Listen to Dr. Finkel’s interview on the White Coat Investor podcast:
Listen to Dr. Finkel’s interview on the FeminEm podcast:
