Whether you’re crafting a compelling personal statement, developing a narrative for your secondaries,or even portraying your value through update/intent letters, MedSchoolCoach has the expertise necessary to make your application stand out.
When our physician editors help you brainstorm and edit your essays, they are putting their admissions knowledge to work for you. Our advisors know how significant the writing portion is, and as a result, work tirelessly to ensure you get the attention needed to create a masterpiece.
Craft the perfect medical school personal statement
PHYSICIAN ADVISORS
At MedSchoolCoach, you only work with advisors who are actual physicians.
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98% of students who used MedSchoolCoach last year to develop their personal statement received at least 1 interview invite.
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We believe in working comprehensively with our students, so we work until the application is great
PERSONAL ATTENTION
Your advisor will get to know you inside and out. This helps in putting together the most cohesive application possible, one that accentuates your strengths and gives you the best shot at an acceptance.
Our advisors use our comprehensive intake form and spend time getting to know you on a personal level to find out what makes you unique.
Step 2
Brainstorm
Using your individualism, advisors work with you to brainstorm a cohesive narrative throughout your application.
Step 3
Edit
Once you’ve developed a draft, advisors will then critique and enhance what you’ve created.
Step 4
Finalize
After a few drafts, advisors will refine and correct small imperfections standing in the way of excellence.
Step 5
Acceptance
With the help of your physician advisor, you will have crafted an application to get you accepted into the school of your choice.
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Dr. Marinelli was an admissions committee member at UC Irvine
Meet a few advisors
Physicians with admissions committee experience
Ed Lipsit MD Associate Director of Advising
Dr. Lipsit served on the Virginia Commonwealth University admissions committee and was also Chief Resident at The George Washington University Medical Center.
Undergraduate: BA- Yeshiva University Medical School: MD- Georgetown University School of Medicine Residency: The George Washington University Medical Center Fellowship: The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
SPECIALITY
Radiology
FUN FACT
Dr. Lipsit obtained coaching certification and has coached youth hockey with his team a Grand Finalist in the Maryland FreeState Tournament.
Dr. Lipsit served on the Virginia Commonwealth University admissions committee and was also Chief Resident at The George Washington University Medical Center.
Coach's bio
Dr. Lipsit graduated from Yeshiva University in New York and obtained his medical degree from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Following a residency in Diagnostic Radiology at The George Washington University Medical Center as Chief Resident, he pursued a fellowship in Diagnostic Ultrasound at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. He then returned to The George Washington University Hospital to become the Director of Diagnostic Ultrasound. Dr. Lipsit is Board Certified in Diagnostic Radiology and for 20 years served as President of Washington Radiology Associates, the largest provider of outpatient medical imaging in the Washington metropolitan area.
Dr. Lipsit has published articles in peer reviewed medical journals and texts and has lectured both domestically and abroad. Dr. Lipsit retired from active clinical practice in 2016 and is currently an Associate Clinical Professor of Radiology at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He serves as an educational consultant to multiple organizations and has been on the clinical faculty and a member of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. Dr. Lipsit has been involved in admissions consulting for the past few years, joining the MedSchoolCoach team in 2015. He brings with him a wealth of experience and tremendous enthusiasm to help applicants gain admission to medical school and become physician leaders.
Aubrey Jordan MD Master Advisor
Dr. Jordan served on the admissions committee at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.
Undergraduate: BA- Johns Hopkins University MHS- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Medical School: MD- University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine Internship: Family Medicine at Ventura County Medical Center
SPECIALITY
Psychiatry
FUN FACT
Dr. Jordan was named after an 80s soft rock ballad by a group named Bread.
Dr. Jordan served on the admissions committee at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.
Coach's bio
Dr. Jordan graduated with honors from Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in Women, Gender, and Sexual Studies. She began mentoring junior students as a General Biology mentor and tutor, and was met with such high remarks from students that she was hired as a General Biology lab TA for three semesters. Once graduating, she attended the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health as a part of their Master’s of Health Science in Reproductive and Cancer Biology program. She then moved to Chicago to attend the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, where she served on the admissions committee among many other research and curricular commitments. She has extensive research interest in qualitative studies of communication between physicians and patients, and has published the first-ever medical ethics investigation of the relationship between surgeons and patients’ family members in the preoperative period in a top peer-reviewed journal. She graduated from medical school with the distinction of being awarded membership in both the Alpha Omega Alpha and Gold Humanism Honor Societies. Dr. Jordan has recently completed her intern year in Family Medicine at the #1 ranked Ventura County Medical Center program in California.
Henry Ng MD
Dr. Ng was an assistant dean and member of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Admissions Committee.
Undergraduate: BS- Michigan State University Medical School: MD- Michigan University, College of Human Medicine MPH- Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Residency: MetroHealth Medical Center/Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine
SPECIALITY
Pediatrics
FUN FACT
Dr. Ng is a happy cat dad of 3 4-legged friends, Dorito, Thirteen and Dobby.
Dr. Ng was an assistant dean and member of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Admissions Committee.
Coach's bio
Dr. Ng completed his BS and his MD at Michigan State University. He completed his residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine/Pediatrics at MetroHealth and joined the faculty in 2006. In 2012, he completed a Master’s in Public Health degree at Case Western Reserve University with an emphasis on Health Promotion/Disease Prevention for LGBT populations. He attained the rank of Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He most recently served as the Assistant Dean for Admissions at the School of Medicine working on diversity and inclusion initiatives and was the Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at MetroHealth Medical Center.
Dr. Ng’s clinical and academic work focused on delivering culturally and clinically competent care to medically vulnerable populations. In 2007, he co-founded and has since served as the Clinical Director of the PRIDE Clinic, Ohio’s first medical home for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) patients.
Dr. Ng’s academic interests are in LGBT Health, health disparities and public/population health. He served as an associate editor for the journal, LGBT Health and had directed the LGBT clinical elective “PRIDE Clinic” at CWRU School of Medicine since 2008. Dr. Ng was a board member and past president of GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality and was involved in medical education and mentorship. He has also served on the National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Dr. Ng has received a number of community and academic awards including the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award (2009), the Cleveland Human Rights Campaign Leadership Award (2013), the Gender Equity Award (2016) and the Transforming Care Medical Provider Award (2017).
Dr. Ng is fluent in English, Spanish, Cantonese and American Sign Language (ASL).
Currently, Dr. Ng is an LGBT health consultant, medical writer and developing a concierge LGBT health practice.
Our sole focus at MedSchoolCoach is medicine. Period. Because of this, we have developed unparalleled experience in everything related to medical school.
In combining our experience as premeds, applicants, medical students, admissions committee members, and physicians, we are able to give better, more sound advice than any other advisor you can find.
As physicians, we’ve taken the Hippocratic Oath to share what knowledge we have with those who are to follow. There’s no better promise than the one sworn by us as physicians to give the ultimate care and dedication to our students.
Your editor will be one of MedSchoolCoach’s physician editors with admissions committee experience who have extensive experience evaluating and editing essays. Other companies have
“English editors” with absolutely no medical experience. Remember, our advisors are actual physicians, the same physicians who evaluate your application during the admissions process. Each is also a published author with multiple academic publications.
Yes! All our essay editing packages come with brainstorming time with your physician advisor.
We use a project management portal called Basecamp to provide essay edits. When you upload your essays, your physician advisor will review them in detail and then provide constructive feedback on how to improve them. As you get closer to a final draft, we will help with things like word choice, sentence structure and grammar.
Advisors provide feedback within 24-96 hours of submission. This allows enough time for actual in-depth edits, not simply word changes.
Conversion to Osteopathic Personal Statement (if needed)
Sahil Mehta MD Founder
Dr. Mehta is the founder of MedSchoolCoach and has guided thousands of successful medical school applicants. He is also a practicing physician in Boston where he specializes in vascular and interventional radiology.
Dr. Marinelli has practiced family medicine, served on the University of California Admissions Committee, and has helped hundreds of students get into medical school. She spearheads a team of physician advisors who guide MedSchoolCoach students.
Dr. Flick was an admissions committee member at UC Irvine School of Medicine. He is board certified in family medicine and also works as a flight surgeon for the U.S. Army.
Dr. Katzen was an admissions committee member at George Washington University School of Medicine, as well as the president of Oncology-Hematology Associates in Maryland.
Dr. Lipsit served on the Virginia Commonwealth University admissions committee and was also Chief Resident at The George Washington University Medical Center.
On June 25 2020, the AAMC announced VITA or Video Interview Tool for Admissions. It's an initiative by the AAMC to help medical schools during the COVID-19 pandemic assess applicants without the need for traditional in-person interviews; essentially, it's a one-way virtual interview!
The AAMC developed and will administer this one-time, one-way video (recorded) interview designed to help medical schools assess applicants’ pre-professional competencies important for success in medical school.
How exactly the text will be utilized by medical schools is still up for debate. With the addition of the VITA, as well as the SJT (situational judgment test) and the CASPer exam, there are now multiple "pre-interview" tests that a pre-med may have to take. While the SJT is only being piloted to two schools, the VITA test will be used by many medical schools for the 2020-2021 application cycle.
What are the VITA Exam Specifics
There are many specifics of the exam that are covered on the AAMC website, but a few highlights include that you must be selected by at least one medical school to complete the AAMC VITA interview. Schools will notify the AAMC that you have been selected to complete the AAMC VITA interview, which will initiate the process. You only have to take the AAMC VITA test once and it will be available for all schools to review.
The AAMC VITA interview will be done on the HireVue platform, which is an online interview platform that typically is used by recruiters for job interviews. The AAMC has adapted the format to reflect a one-way medical school interview. You will not need to schedule a specific date for this portion of your medical school interview, which will really allow travel to become a non-concern for students. It's not clear yet whether medical schools will still require an in-person interview in addition to the VITA interview.
How Will the Exam Be Scored?
Medical schools will likely score this interview similar to how they score other interviews. While AAMC will not grade it, each medical school will evaluate your responses using its own school-specific process. There is no guarantee that a medical school that selects you to interview will view or evaluate your responses. As with a traditional in-person interview, you may not receive feedback from a medical school about your interview performance.
Sample AAMC VITA Questions
What motivated you to choose a career in medicine?
Please describe a time when you disagreed with a coworker or classmate. How did you resolve the situation?
If you were in a situation where you did not agree with how an attending was talking to a patient, what would you do?
We have many more sample VITA questions coming up. Check back for regular updates!
What the VITA Exam Means for Pre-Meds
Overall, this is a much-needed step for medical schools to take, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Traditional interviews involved a high cost to students, requiring them to fly to different parts of the country (and occur large expenses). It is possible that schools will take this instead of the traditional interview, or in conjunction with Zoom interviews for this application cycle. Some schools may still require in-person interviews, but that seems less likely given social distancing, the ongoing number of infections and restrictions on travel. Regardless, students should prepare for the AAMC VITA interview like they are preparing for an actual medical school interview and consider utilizing the MedSchoolCoach Virtual Interview Simulation, which will be available shortly.
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