The Best Tips for Writing Your Personal Statement for Residency Plus My Actual Personal Statement!

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@bxj7724 9 ай бұрын

Hi Doctor Lijia, I watched this video (and all your other videos) when I was applying for a surgery elective at Stanford Medicine a few months ago. Thank you so much I won't be able to finish my PS writing without your help. Today I got that elective offer from Stanford! I want to share this good news with you and express my gratitude. Thank you so much for making these videos and sharing all the knowledge. You really helped a lot of stressed students. Hope all is well with you!

@lijiaxie 9 ай бұрын

I'm so glad your hard work paid off and this played a small part in your success! Congrats!

@RaineFoulkes Жыл бұрын

thank you so much!! this video is incredibly helpful. as someone with ADHD, the template you provide has provided the foundation I needed to start writing. I appreciate you generosity in time and sharing your own personal statement (which is great btw--i would want you as my doctor)

@chrisbutler5129 Жыл бұрын

^^^ OMG RIGHT! So helpful!

@mytube785 8 ай бұрын

Through this high quality video, I can see Dr. Xue is a very passionate, thoughtful and caring person, and exemplary as a model for medical students who apply to match with a residency program. Really appreciate it and look forward to seeing more of your videos 😊

@elzeinMD Жыл бұрын

Thank you Dr. Lijia for this valuable information and thank you for sharing your PS. This helped me tremendously 🙏🏽🙏🏽

@abhaykapoor13090 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Dr. Lijia , I binge watched all your youtube videos after watching this one and all of them were amazing ! Keep at it and this is gonna be something big super soon ☺️

@doctorLijia 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! That's so kind!

@onedown4294 2 жыл бұрын

This was really informative and this will help a lot of students. It was a really good idea to explain it with your personal statement. I'm eagerly waiting for you next video. We appreciate your help.

@carlose0318 Жыл бұрын

The structure you're suggesting makes a lot of logical sense for a good persuasive essay, but the feedback I keep hearing is that EVERYONE will be using a similar format and writing a persuasive essay is not a good way to stand out. I'm in the process of writing mine now for IM and the whole idea of "show don't tell" really can get hard. I'm trying to stick to using my own unique voice and telling a story no one else can tell. I know my experiences make me a good IM candidate, and it's just about what story do I tell that would stand out as interesting? On revision number 3 and have totally overhauled it to make it sound more unique. I have to believe that hearing something different - as long as clear elements of why you're interested/good for a specialty are there - will be what helps you earn an interview over someone with similar stats. I know no one is going to read this I'm just trying to hype myself up lol I hate this process so much. But we're better for it I guess

@thesickdancer Жыл бұрын

I read what you said. Thank you for sharing your perspective.

@lawyerdoctor Жыл бұрын

I’m writing mine as well. I have wrote a lot of personal statements, in law and medicine. Revision is important, which you’re doing. Let the writing be your voice. Your experience is what makes you. I would stay within the customary style of personal statements. Unless you have something exceptionally amazing, like one in a million unique story, don’t try to remake the mold, just fit your experiences within the established format.

@lijiaxie Жыл бұрын

I agree with @lawyerdoctor. It's totally ok to use a standard format and actually being a little boring is better than being too weird. You want to express your own unique narrative and reasons for why you want to pursue this difficult but rewarding career, but not use a unique structure...you don't want to stand out for being too weird in your format. For example, I've read PS that were each like 1 line stanzas like a poem and stood out in a bad way! or one that was like a comedic essay about their bowel movements using the word sh*t repeatedly!! All hurt their application unfortunately.

@carlose0318 Жыл бұрын

@@lijiaxie no totally, I hear where you’re coming from. I guess what I was trying to convey was this: don’t make it too obvious you’re trying to persuade someone of anything. I think a PS should read like a story. I think as long as there’s a thread that’s personal and effectively captures your motivation I feel like I am just trying not to explicitly say “I want to be an internist because…” I want to avoid stating the obvious. I think it’s possible to use a persuasive format but by showing and not “telling”

@carlose0318 Жыл бұрын

@@lijiaxie I know this is a long-shot, but what are the odds you could take a quick look at my PS just to tell me if I need to consider totally re-structuring it? ERAS submission is this week and I'm proud of what I wrote but also going through terrible anxiety and self doubt about it for some reason. My career advisor and a preceptor have told me it's good but I feel like I need at least one more professional signing off on it

@iCanonKiD 2 жыл бұрын

Please post more videos!! They’re super helpful and I think you have a lot to share ❤🙏🏽!! Personally, I’d like to know what you’ve done or would’ve done to retain all the information we’re suppose to learn in medical school. Thank you!

@lijiaxie Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I am all for goofy mneumonics. 1st generation cephalosporins: ZOOlander drives a lEXus for cefaZOlin and KefLEX or whatever works for your brain!

@ciararobb8049 10 ай бұрын

This was so helpful. Thank you.

@Regi323 Жыл бұрын

This video was really helpful, thank you!

@TheAlfieSandoval 2 жыл бұрын

Dr. Lijia I love all your videos and advice and find your style very refreshing. I wanted to suggest please getting a mic to continue listening your awesome advice. In some of your videos i have to crank up the volume to listen. Thank you for all your tips, from a very stressed residency applicant.

@lijiaxie Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the feedback!

@Skepticalstudent45 Жыл бұрын

With the new section in ERAS to discuss challenging and/or significant experiences, would you still recommend addressing something like a low step score in the PS or would it be alright to place it as a challenging academic experience in that separate place within ERAS? Thank you!

@abdulhamid-ux5fl Жыл бұрын

Thanks doc,so helpful

@rochanaacharya2082 6 ай бұрын

Thank you Dr. Lijia. Grateful ❤

@sweetpour Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your skills. it really helped

@lawyerdoctor Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing.

@ziadal-amiry4114 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much to your kind advice😊

@Khan1998 6 ай бұрын

Thank you Dr Lijia

@jamesbo7510 5 ай бұрын

Hi Dr Lijia, I'm Dan song, from Shenyang China. I just watched your wonderful video and I'm so exited to find a person like you. I need some help if you don't mind. I'm 46, graduated from medical school in 2001 in China. I moved to America couple years ago and got green card now. I've been working in a small internal clinic for 4 years as a medical assistant. I passed step 1 and step 2( 240) this year. Now I'm preparing the OET test and application for residency program. My question is: Will the working experience in a small clinic help? Will the recommentation letter from my boss there gonna be good enough? Do I need to find a intership or observationer program in a hospital to jion now? I'm so exited and grateful while I'm writting this message to you and looking forward to see your advice. Thank you!

@MysticMango412 Жыл бұрын

I loved your personal statement! We're you able to keep this PS under one page?

@lijiaxie Жыл бұрын

I think it was a little over a page. I recommend using standard 12 size point, Times New Roman or Arial. I wouldn't try to use size 10 font or something just to get it under a page.

@samarmahmood5865 Жыл бұрын

Loved going over your personal statement with you. I don't know if I missed this detail, but could you please tell me how many words your's was? Mine is currently 800 words. Will that be okay?