new2018 Posted October 29, 2014 Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 Does this question pertain to your CV (what more experience you can have?) or is it more self-reflecting (what character trait can you improve upon etc.)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunAndMoon Posted October 29, 2014 Report Share Posted October 29, 2014 I think it's very much up to you, but I would tend to go with the CV improvements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphyraph Posted October 30, 2014 Report Share Posted October 30, 2014 Both are good. They probably ask these questions ambiguisly to give you many options and make your personal narative as personal as posible. I personnaly went with the caracter trait last year got in. Now does it mean it is the way to go ? Absolutely not. I just felt that writing someting along the lines of "I should have done more volunteering in blabla or I should have won more awards" was a tad meaningless, but maybe you'll have a way of writing it that makes it more relevent than what I wrote. Good luck with your application ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arztin Posted October 30, 2014 Report Share Posted October 30, 2014 Could be both, and add if you can what can be done (or what you are already doing) to improve these aspects about yourself. It doesn't have necessarily to have to be directly connected to your CVPN. It doesn't necessarily have to do with medicine. e.g. I would like to discover more about painting e.g. I'm always late Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
new2018 Posted October 30, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2014 Altight thanks! I was thinking of going along the lines of what I can know/learn more about. I was just wondering if it would be better to portray it as: - a specific activity made me realize i wanted to know more/learn more about it OR - I realized that I didn't know much about the subject and that activity was a start to my involvment in the field (sorry if it sounds vague) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arztin Posted October 30, 2014 Report Share Posted October 30, 2014 What I did last year was 1 trait that I would like to improve and 1 subject I'd like to know more about (since it's interesting and I know next to nothing about it), more for personal interest (pretty much entirely unrelated to medicine) Again, there is no right or wrong answer, but do sound mature, and explain why rather than just list stuff. I'm sure many people wrote completely different things than I did. So don't think of what I did as THE RIGHT THING to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamsnortscocaine Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 Should the responses to each of the 3 questions be approximately equal in length? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wishfulMED Posted October 31, 2014 Report Share Posted October 31, 2014 Should the responses to each of the 3 questions be approximately equal in length? Not necessarily Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thsc Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 By the way, did you guys specifically write the corresponding letter to the respective question when you answered them (i.e. A) asfdasdfsfd sdfasdfas C) adfasdf) or did you just write one coherent narrative that addressed all those points without actually writing the question's letter beside the corresponding paragraph? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
new2018 Posted November 1, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 No I did 1) 2) and 3) just to make it more structured Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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