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Nowadays, splendid USMLE scores do not guarantee you will get into a program. So what does, then? Well, today, the admission officers pay extreme attention to the medical residency personal statement the applicant submits. Plus, you have to provide them with an admission application, evaluation letters, and, at times, a list of your extracurricular activities. A combination of your PS and USMLE scores, if both are satisfactory, results in success.Why is writing a good medical residency PS essential to increase your admission chances?While writing a personal statement for medical residency is an onerous job, it is essential. Why? It is due to the current selection criteria, which imply a proficiently written PS. Frequently, it plays a major role in decision-making. Below you can find a remarkable medical residency personal statement example to understand better what makes a great paper.What requirements should you follow to write a perfect personal statement for medical residency?Before getting down to work on your PS, you first need to discover all the specifics of how to write a personal statement for medical residency. Since there are lots of requirements, you must be aware of those. Here is what you should keep in mind:● Adhere to the medical residency personal statement length. Generally accepted word limit is 47 lines (500 words). Nevertheless, it may be different at certain universities, so check this information before writing your PS.● Discover whether you are allowed to come up with your topic or choose it among the available options.● Sometimes, you will be asked to reply to specific questions that the committee will want to know your answers to.● Go through the formatting instructions. These may vary as well.● Don’t lie.Do not ignore these tips about writing a personal statement for medical residency, and success will be achieved!Where can you find an expert to get a professionally-written medical residency personal statement and some great samples?A trustworthy residency personal statement writing service is hard to choose. By scrolling through various websites, you will find tons of services. Lots of them, however, are amateurish or even fraudulent.According to many different customers, Residency Personal Statements is a truly reliable service among others.To omit risks, have your PS written by a qualified specialist, review several medical residency personal statement samples, and be assisted throughout the whole process, try out the abovementioned service!

I recently served as an external evaluator for applicants to the PhD programme for the university where I completed my doctoral studies. I was sent all of the documentation provided by the applicants (CV, bachelors and masters transcripts, certificates, CVs, letters of motivation, letters of recommendation etc), along with the description of the prospective PhD project. I had to evaluate a total of 12 candidates. I’m quite sad to say that whilst there were maybe two excellent applications, (where the candidates presented decent academic records, ample evidence of the skills and experience necessary to meet the demands of the project, and most importantly, demonstrated a clear interest in the project offered and linked the demands of the position to their past interests and experiences), about half of the applications were impossible to evaluate by virtue of being either: 1. incomplete, 2. littered with errors and mistakes, or 3. simply irrelevant, generic and made no attempt to demonstrate the suitability of the candidate.Having not previously served in any capacity as an examiner, I assumed that most candidates took their applications seriously, as I did and my peers did when we were in their shoes, so I was truly shocked to see how sloppy such a large proportion of the applications were. The first one I evaluated was, in hindsight, not so bad, in that the candidate had at least some previous experience in a field related to that of the project and decent examination grades, but that was where the positives ended, with the letter of motivation being a rambling narrative autobiography with plenty of obtuse phrasings, that made no reference to the project beyond the first few lines, and even managed to get the wrong country when explaining how much the candidate would like to come to our university. As I said, it didn’t seem so dire in hindsight, that one was probably in the top half of candidates I evaluated, at the time I was expecting it to be one of the worst of the 12, I had no idea of what was to come. Several applicants referred to the wrong programme at the wrong university in their letters of motivation. In many cases, the “wrong” programme wasn’t even remotely related to the actual position being offered, or the past experiences of the candidate. I was evaluating some of candidates to take up a PhD position fabricating sensor devices to measure levels of air pollution - one of the candidates was an architect with absolutely no experience in materials science or nanotechnology, another was a computer scientist who described in his letter of motivation how s/he was “addicted to computer science” and how s/he wanted to be a “top researcher who can change the world by his brilliant ideas”, despite this being totally irrelevant to the project in question; the aim of the project was to fabricate new sensor materials and there was no mention of any particular need for an experienced computer scientist. I’d like to think that these applicants just sent their applications off to the wrong email address by accident and that there was another project being offered by the university that would be at least tangentially related to their research interests, but I’m sorry to say I fear that probably wasn’t the case. One applicant even appeared to provide fraudulent letters of recommendation; the general text of the letters were generic and complementary of the applicant, but all the signatures from lecturers, deans and supervisors were suspiciously presented on a slightly-out-of-focus panel at the bottom of the letter with a different background colour to the rest of the letter, as well as a sliver of the last line of text above the signature that had been unceremoniously digitally cropped from a genuine letter from the academic who allegedly supplied the candidate’s reference letters, I presume that the main body of text had in fact been written by the candidate him/herself.In every case, I really tried to give the candidates the benefit of the doubt, but even so, there was so little positive to note of top of so many negative points I ended up rating most of them as being inadequate. Being as generous as I can, I think that these candidates sent the same generic application documents to every single position opening at hundreds of different universities worldwide hoping to “play the numbers game” and that one of them might slip through the net. Obviously, that didn’t happen. If I, as the external evaluator, felt like throwing their application straight into the bin, I’m pretty sure that the prospective PI who is actually looking for a high quality candidate to contribute his/her research team will be doing the same, and with far less concern for trying to carefully weigh up the scant positives against a deluge of negatives.There were over 100 other external evaluators, and I only examined 12 applicants, so perhaps that’s too small a sample size to draw any conclusions, but it was depressing to see how poor so many of the applications were. As a piece of general advice to prospective candidates: please don’t be tempted do the same - many universities are required to have some kind of external auditing of their applications procedure, the same processes which exist to make sure that PIs aren’t selecting candidates on racist/sexist/homophoebic/religious grounds also very conveniently help to weed out those applications which are well below standard, so “slipping through the net” just isn’t going to happen. Also, even if we do imagine somehow a scenario where that does happen, prospective candidates should consider how much they’re going to enjoy being stuck for 3+ years in a research project that is way out of their depth and which they’ll really struggle to write a coherent thesis about when the time comes that the university is expecting to see some sort of output for the money they spent on the student and resources for the project. Like most things, doing it honestly through careful hard work tends to be the best approach, applying for a PhD is no different - look for a project you like and can relate to at a university you would like to be part of, be genuine, focus on what your existing skills can bring to the project (there doesn’t have to be 100% overlap, but it is essential that the candidate demonstrates having thought about how they can contribute), and tailor each application letter to the position being offered, most PIs have enough emails to read without having extra spam to deal with. On the plus side, it also makes it much more interesting for us evaluators when we can review applications that we’re qualified to evaluate rather than candidates whose expertise lies in a field that relates to neither the project , nor my own scientific background…

For every person who writes a book, there are at least 10,000 who start a book, and don't have what it takes to finish. 99% of the ones that do, will submit books that are not publishable.A few pages are not proof that you can produce a finished book, or that it would be worth a publisher's interest if you did. Right now you have a dream, not a novel.When you are either an established author, with a track record of producing marketable novels, or a new author with a finished manuscript ready to show someone, then you will research how that publisher wants your work to be submitted, and follow those instructions to the letter. He may want a whole manuscript. He may want a plot summary and sample chapters. He may want it submitted through an agent, and only an agent. He may want something else that will enable him to evaluate your work. What he will not want is "a few pages to pique his interest"Finish your novel. Then worry about the rest.