This Could Make or Break Your Application Cycle | UC Davis Pre-Health Conference

Come along on my fourth year going to the UC Davis Pre-Health Conference! 3,000+ premed students come together each year for it. Really, it's a conference put on BY premeds and FOR premeds. Along with some great talks, you can meet and network with representatives from so many different medical schools.

Watch my whole talk from the UC Davis Pre-Health Conference here:    • What It Actually Takes to Get into Me...  .

Here is a podcast episode I did about WHY you should go to premed conferences, even as a nontraditional premed: http://opmpodcast.com/156

Two more great pre-health conferences out there are AMSA PremedFest and the AMSA Convention. UCF also does an annual Medical School Admissions Symposium, which is smaller. Cal State University San Bernadino has a MAPSS conference each year (http://www.csusbpremed.com/). And there are others. Talk to your premed advisor and other premeds in your area, and ask what's happening in your area.

Here are some other topics touched on in the vlog:
- when to take gap years before medical school, and when not to
- how to cold email physicians to shadow them
- how to deal with discouraging premed advisors and other sources of discouragement
- why medical schools care about the obstacles you've overcome
- why preparing for the CARS section of the MCAT will help you with the whole test
- why I believe in collaboration over competition
- why so many PAs and NPs want to go back to medical school
- when to apply to out-of-state public medical schools, and when not to.

Takeaway message: It's so powerful to go to a premed conference and be around other premeds and representatives from medical schools. It can completely change the results of your application cycle, and it can give you friendships and collaborators for a lifetime. Do it!

For more, check out all my Meded Media podcasts at http://premedpodcasts.com!