USMLE STEP 3ONE-ON-ONE TUTORING

Dr. Ramirez was born and raised in East Los Angeles County, California. He graduated with honors from the University of California, Irvine with a degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2013. During his time at the University of California, Irvine he participated in peer-tutoring, mentorship programs, and he served as a teaching assistant for numerous pre-medical and biology courses. He received multiple awards for excellence in tutoring and research. After graduating, he spent a year working aboard an ambulance as an emergency medical technician in Los Angeles County prior to matriculating to the top-ranked University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.

In medical school, he continued to teach, mentor, and advise undergraduate and medical students. He spent a year between his third and fourth year of medical school as a National Institutes of Health TL1 Clinical and Translational Research Fellow. During this time, he became intimately involved with USMLE education, tutoring, and preparation. He received a 266 on Step 1 (99th percentile), 265 on Step 2 CK (95th percentile), 255 on Step 3 (98th percentile) and he scored in the 90th percentiles on all of his shelf exams. He also received honors in nearly all of his clinical rotations.

Collectively, he has been teaching a wide range of subjects for more than ten years and has experience tutoring for several board exams, including all of the USMLE exams. He is a passionate educator and strongly believes that with hard work, good direction, and resilience, every medical student has the opportunity to succeed and pursue their dreams. In his role as the Director of Medical School Tutoring, he strives to ensure that all of the tutors at MedSchoolCoach have the training, tools, support, and resources that they need to provide their students with an exceptional experience.

In addition to his passions for education, he has been intimately involved in medical school admissions. He has served on the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine admissions committee and has extensive experience reviewing applications, interviewing applicants, and providing recommendations for admission. In this role, he enjoyed learning how to review applications holistically and how to view each applicant as a unique individual, each with their own experiences, skills, and passions.

He is currently an integrated vascular surgery resident at the University of California, San Francisco where he continues to be intimately involved in medical and surgical education. He is interested in academic vascular surgery and is committed to continue being a leader in medical education. In his free time, he enjoys running, swimming, weightlifting, and exploring San Francisco with his friends and family.

Austin Jolly is from Lakewood, Colorado and is a current MD/PhD student at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. As a Colorado native, Austin attended the University of Colorado at Boulder for his undergraduate studies, where he majored in Integrative Physiology and graduated with Honors distinction. During his time in Boulder, Austin was an undergraduate teaching assistant in the human anatomy labs where he facilitated dissection learning and helped students master the organization of the human body. Austin was also a resident advisor in Boulder. He demonstrates a passion for helping students achieve success in their pursuits.

Austin received multiple offers from MD/PhD training programs from around the country but chose to stay close to his home in the Rocky Mountains. As third year MD/PhD student at Anschutz, Austin has excelled thus far in his studies, receiving top Honors grades in all his courses and scoring a 256 on USMLE STEP 1. Austin serves on the Education and Training Interest Group where he advises first-year medical students on how to navigate through their first year in medical school. Ultimately, Austin has a serious passion for connecting with students and inspiring them to believe in themselves as they prepare for exciting challenges in their professional career. Austin is currently funded with a Pre-Doctoral fellowship to fund his thesis research.

Kieley was born outside of Syracuse, NY and grew up with a love for the outdoors. She graduated from Harvard cum laude with a BA in Social Anthropology where she captained the Harvard Club Lacrosse Team and directed an after-school tutoring program for Boston youth. Prior to medical school, Kieley was a full-time, private tutor for high school students in Greenwich, CT and NYC.

At the Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, Kieley participated in translational and basic science research and played a key role in the development of a novel immunotherapy for metastatic prostate cancer. She also worked as a nutrition counselor for patients with chronic disease, coached in a youth running club, and helped design and implement a course in emergency first response skills for medical students in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

She is a passionate teacher and remained an active peer tutor throughout medical school. To date, she has tutored over 100 students and especially loves working with students longitudinally. She scored 263 on Step 1, 270 on Step 2 CK, and in the 90th percentile on all of her shelf exams. She also earned Honors in every clinical rotation.

Kieley is now a pediatrics resident at Boston Children’s Hospital. Her clinical interests include medical education, pediatric gastroenterology, and studying the role of a plant-based diet in the prevention of disease.

Outside of medicine and teaching, Kieley loves hiking and biking with her friends, yoga, vegetarian cooking, and watching stand-up comedy.

Dr. Rao graduated from the University of California: Davis in Davis, California with a BS in biomedical engineering where he was involved with peer advising at both the departmental and college level. He then moved to Michigan and received his MS and PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan. He then completed his MD at the University of Michigan and served on the admissions committee during his 4 years of medical school. He is now completing his Pediatrics residency at UCLA and will be moving to Stanford in July 2020 to complete a Pediatric Hematology-Oncology fellowship.