When the Path Exists: Inside the JAMP Scholar Experience
Through mentorship, internships, and community, JAMP supports Texas students at critical points along the path to becoming physicians.
34 - Planning Your Next Steps: Preparing Your Marketing Campaign
Here are the 3 steps to figuring out your next move in the application cycle:
- Research the schools
- Research the profession
- Practice your interviews
- Research the schools
- When were they established?
- What’s their history?
- What is the school’s mission?
- What are their values?
- What does the curriculum look like?
- Why did they choose this curriculum?
- What makes this school unique?
- Now think – how do I fit in?
- Research the Profession
- Are you up on changes to healthcare?
- Is there a philosophy that strikes you?
- Why does Osteopathic medicine speak to you?
- Why do you want to help people as a dentist?
- What breakthroughs have helped veterinary medicine?
- Read Journals and articles on changes to healthcare
- Practice for your interviews
- The interview invitation is coming – are you ready?
- Practice your handshake – firm, confident, not overbearing!
- WHY DO YOU WANT TO BECOME A DOCTOR/DENTIST
- See if your advisor or career center offers mock interviews
- Find questions online you can practice with a friend
- Practice your reaction when you get caught with a question you have to think through.
- Keep control of body language! Avoid: Nervous ticks Saying um Laughing/Crying Fidgeting Always practice patience, kindness, and courtesy.
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About the author: The Texas Health Education Service amplifies TMDSAS and JAMP’s missions to serve students, collegiate advisors, and professional schools in Texas by providing students with accurate educational resources to enhance their preparation for a career in the health professions, and supporting efforts by advisors and professional schools to reach students and enrich the applicant pool.
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