International Medical Aid

Medical school letters of recommendation are one of the few parts of your application where someone else speaks for you. Unlike your GPA, MCAT score, or personal statement, LORs offer admissions committees an external, credible perspective on who you are and how you work. For the 2027 application cycle, with AMCAS and AACOMAS primary applications opening in May 2027, the time...

A hospitalist is a physician who specializes in caring for patients during their hospital stay, from the moment of admission through discharge. What is a hospitalist in relation to an attending physician? The short answer: every hospitalist is an attending physician, but not every attending physician is a hospitalist. The confusion between these two terms is one of the most c...

The AMCAS work and activities section is one of the most consequential parts of your medical school application, and it is also one of the most misunderstood. You get exactly 15 entries, each capped at 700 characters, to show admissions committees the experiences that have shaped your readiness for medicine. Three of those entries can be designated “most meaningful,” unlockin...

Becoming a doctor in the United States takes a minimum of 11 years after high school and can stretch to 16 years or longer depending on the specialty you choose. That figure includes four years of undergraduate education, four years of medical school, and anywhere from three to seven years of residency training, with an optional fellowship of one to three years on top of that...

Your AMCAS application is submitted. The relief lasts about 48 hours before reality sets in: secondary applications are coming. For students targeting the 2027 matriculation cycle, pre-writing secondaries during the weeks between your AMCAS submission in early June and the arrival of those first secondary invitations in late June or July is not optional. It is the most practi...