Welcome to AMSA!
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Welcome to AMSA!American Medical Student Association
UC Berkeley Pre-Medical Chapter
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Your Path to Medical School
Adapted from the AAMC: www.aamc.org
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First Year
• Get acquainted with campus pre-health resources
• Attend pre-health meetings on campus• Seek opportunities to shadow a physician• Consider identifying research opportunities
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First Year –Get acquainted with campus pre-health resources and attend pre-health meetings on campus
• AMSA weekly meetings• AMSA website resources• AMSA weekly email newsletters
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First Year – Seek opportunities to shadow a physician
• Physician mentor• Physician panels at UCB Pre-Health
Conference
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First Year – Consider identifying research opportunities
• “How to get involved in research” general meeting presentation
• AMSA weekly email newsletters
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Second Year
• Plan remaining pre-medical coursework• Make sure you are on email lists to receive
relevant information and updates• Pursue meaningful clinical and volunteering
experiences• Develop relationships with faculty, advisors,
and mentors• Consider summer opportunities
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Second Year – Plan remaining pre-medical coursework
• Telebears advising night• Website discussion forums
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Second Year – Make sure you are on email lists to receive relevant information and updates
• AMSA weekly email newsletters
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Second Year – Pursue meaningful clinical and volunteering experiences
• “How to obtain volunteer positions” general meeting presentation
• Service trip• Community service opportunities
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Second Year – Develop meaningful relationships with faculty, advisors, and mentors
• UCSF mentorship program• Physician mentor
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Second Year – Consider summer opportunities
• AMSA General Meeting Presentations
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Third Year
• Investigate the medical school application process
• Learn about the MCAT• Consider a more substantial leadership role• Research medical school programs• Consider the possibility of a gap year and
research available opportunities• Prepare for and take the MCAT• Learn about combined-degree programs
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Third Year – Investigate the medical school application process
• Career center workshops
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Third Year – Learn about the MCAT
• Kaplan partnership
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Third Year – Consider a more substantial leadership role
• AMSA committees• AMSA Officer Board
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Third Year – Research medical school programs
• Davis Conference• National AMSA Conference• UCB Pre-Health Conference• Medical school admissions committee
representative presentations
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Third Year – Consider the possibility of a gap year and research available opportunities
• Conference workshops
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Third Year – Prepare for and take the MCAT
• Kaplan partnership
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Third Year – Learn about combined degree programs
• UCB Pre-Health Conference seminars• UCB Pre-Health Conference graduate program
fair• Co-hosted Career Center graduate program
information sessions
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Fourth Year
• APPLY TO MEDICAL SCHOOL!!• Prepare for interviews • Receive acceptances and make a final decision
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Fourth Year – APPLY TO MEDICAL SCHOOL!!
• UCB Pre-Health Conference workshops
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Fourth Year – Prepare for interviews
• Mock interviews at UCB Pre-Health Conference
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Fourth Year – Receive acceptances and make a final decision
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How to Join
• registration form: amsa.berkeley.edu• print registration form• bring cash or check (AMSA ASUC) to general
meetings– Thursdays, 7-8pm in 2063 VLSB