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Jan 2013
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8: Medical School HQ Podcast - Non-Tradi...

RYAN GRAY
About this episode

In today’s episode, Ryan talks with Torray, a postbac student at Charles Drew University (affiliated with UCLA) and a former teacher. Like Russel in Session 6, Torray shares his experience as a nontraditional premed student.

Links and Other Resources:

Full Episode Blog Post

Charles Drew Post-Bac

Torray’s Research on PubMed

Atul Gawande’s Books

MSAR®: Getting Started Medical School Admission Requirements

Med School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Medical School Experience: By Students, for Students

If you need any help with the medical school interview, go to medschoolinterviewbook.com. Sign up and you will receive parts of the book so you can help shape the future of the book. This book will include over 500 questions that may be asked during interview day as well as real-life questions, answers, and feedback from all of the mock interviews Ryan has been doing with students.

Are you a nontraditional student? Go check out oldpremeds.org.

For more great content, check out www.m

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