Neurophiliac Posted May 21, 2021 Report Share Posted May 21, 2021 Hey everyone! Firstly, huge and sincere congratulations to all who received an offer this year to join the UBC Class of 2025! I am personally very excited to welcome you to the UBC med family and meet you soon However, this time of year is very bittersweet, as the majority of people unfortunately do not receive the news they were hoping for. Being there many times in the past within my own journey, I can understand how discouraging and devastating this feels. Were it not for the tremendous amount of support I received along the way, I simply wouldn't be here in my position today. As a way to try to give back and pass on this support, myself and a few dear friends within the Class of 2023 and Class of 2024 have considered holding a panel dedicated to UBC pre-meds who would like to connect and have some of their questions answered. This session is coming straight from our hearts and is an honest attempt to help anyone thinking of pursuing medicine. There would be absolutely no monetary/financial gain for the panelists, nor any non-financial gains. As stated, the only motivation is to help. The panel would be around 1-1.5 hours in length over Zoom dedicated to answering questions regarding MCAT prep, general application advice, the panelists' perspectives on medicine as a career, what comes after receiving an offer (i.e. what's next), and more based on our personal experiences. Please note the following disclaimers: 1. The panelists will not discuss in-depth application advice/tips that may place attendees at a significant advantage. 2. The panelists will not discuss interview advice/tips/content that may inadvertently break the non-disclosure agreement. 3. None of the panelists are associated with the Medical Education Committee nor the MD Admissions Subcommittee, specifically. 4. The panelists are neither experts nor claim to be experts; whatever will be shared is based on personal perspectives and experiences only. With this in mind, we'd love to see how many people are interested in a potential panel as described above! Please feel free to either like this post or comment if you're interested If there is enough interest, we'd be more than happy to plan the details soon and share them here! wanderforhelp, Nontradphd, struggling2getin and 5 others 6 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neurophiliac Posted May 24, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2021 Alright, the event is set and ready to go! The panelists including myself are really excited to see you Please find the details below: The panel will be a total of 1.5 hours. Date and time: Wednesday, June 2nd @ 5:00 PM, Vancouver Time Register here: http://bit.ly/ubcmed-panel As soon as you register, you will automatically receive an email with the link, meeting ID, and passcode to the event. Please feel free to share the registration link with anyone you know who may be interested in such a panel and may find it useful! This is definitely not a formal event, so don't stress about preparing anything official. All you need to bring is your wonderful self + questions If you have any questions about the event itself, please feel free to PM me. Also, we are planning to create a Facebook event for this in order to reach out to more pre-meds, so you can also look forward to that as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neurophiliac Posted June 1, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2021 Friendly reminder that this is happening tomorrow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
potato98 Posted June 11, 2021 Report Share Posted June 11, 2021 Can you offer more panels in the future please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neurophiliac Posted June 12, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2021 22 hours ago, potato98 said: Can you offer more panels in the future please? For sure! Based on the feedback we received, people found the panel very informative and helpful. We’ll try to hold another one in the coming months. potato98 and soccermed123 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neurophiliac Posted August 2, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2021 Exciting news -- we are back! On behalf of some of my colleagues in the Class of 2023 and 2024, we're happy to announce that we've organized a Part 2 to this Q&A panel. We received great feedback for the last session and numerous requests to host another one, so here we are. The panel will be held on this coming Sunday, August 8th, at 5:30 PM Pacific and will be very similar to the previous. This is our honest attempt at passing forward the support each of us received during our application journeys. Please feel free to share with and invite anyone you know who is applying to medicine or thinking about doing so in the future. If you have any questions about the event, please feel free to comment below or PM me. The details are below: Link to Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/286716639880698/ Direct link to Zoom registration page: https://bit.ly/ubcmed-panel2 soccermed123 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neurophiliac Posted August 7, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2021 Final reminder about this panel happening tomorrow! Please note that this session will not be recorded. On 8/2/2021 at 2:39 PM, Neurophiliac said: Exciting news -- we are back! On behalf of some of my colleagues in the Class of 2023 and 2024, we're happy to announce that we've organized a Part 2 to this Q&A panel. We received great feedback for the last session and numerous requests to host another one, so here we are. The panel will be held on this coming Sunday, August 8th, at 5:30 PM Pacific and will be very similar to the previous. This is our honest attempt at passing forward the support each of us received during our application journeys. Please feel free to share with and invite anyone you know who is applying to medicine or thinking about doing so in the future. If you have any questions about the event, please feel free to comment below or PM me. The details are below: Link to Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/286716639880698/ Direct link to Zoom registration page: https://bit.ly/ubcmed-panel2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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