Tagged: career

David C / Medicine / Pre-Med Advice / Reflections

October 25, 2013

Writing a Christian Personal Statement: Part 2

My essay for admission to medical school was brutally honest. I talked about my low GPA, my relationship with my parents, my obsession with the problem of suffering, quotes from my personal journal, and how it was all driven by a radical faith in Jesus Christ (and images in my...

David C / Medicine / Pre-Med Advice / Reflections

August 23, 2013

Helping People Is Not Enough

[This is the second post in a series on becoming a Christian physician, originally written for the ESN blog. The series began with Do You Want to Be a Doctor?] “Why do you want to work in healthcare?” “I want to help people.” This dialogue is the most common conversation...