个人陈述

个人陈述

Because virtually all health professional schools require a personal statement, the information on the AMCAS personal statement is generally relevant, the only differences being in the stipulated length 和 the focus.

A. 重要性

This is probably the single most important page you will ever write so it deserves your best effort. Because both the health professional schools 和 applicants from all over underst和 this, the expectation is that your statement will be error free 和 well written. 你不仅要用拼写检查器检查, but you should have committee members or others you respect criticize it to catch errors in grammar, 拼写(不会被拼写检查器发现), 模棱两可, 等.，以及整体影响.

B. 长度

AMCAS only provides space for approximately 5,300 characters or one full page. You do not have to use up all of the space, but you will almost certainly want to use most of it.

C. 目的

1. 展示(和推销)你自己.
2. 展示你的沟通技巧.
3. 作为你面试的基础.
4. 表现出积极性.
5. To demonstrate your underst和ing of what a career in medicine entails.
6. 来解释你学业记录上的违规行为.

D. 基本类型

Personal statements tend to fall into three basic types but can incorporate elements of more than one. 无论你采用哪种方法，都要制定一个“游戏”计划.

1. Introspective – This is the best 和 also most difficult to write. 在这, you demonstrate your underst和ing of the qualities required to be a good medical student 和 a good physician 和 evaluate how you think you measure up.
2. Biographical – This explains how you became interested in medicine 和 what you have been doing to prepare yourself for such a career, 包括课程和辅助课程. 不可避免地, 个人陈述有一些传记元素, but these are more powerful if combined with an introspective approach. 传记材料可以按时间顺序呈现, 哪种方法最简单, 或局部, 哪一种可能更有效.
3. Inspirational – This is the “Wouldn’t it be wonderful to become a doctor 和 save the world” approach. It is fundamentally naïve 和, therefore, may actually do you more harm than good.

E. Dos

1. Write a draft as soon as possible so that, if necessary, we can steer you in the right direction. Do not worry if it is much longer than one page since the extra material might be useful to the committee, 可以在编辑过程中轻松删除, 以后可能会在准备你的二次考试时用到. Write an outline 和 then, 和 only then, attempt to organize your thoughts better.
2. 如果你有写作障碍, free write; that is, scribble as rapidly as you can in pencil all the thoughts that come into your head that might be relevant. 如果你找不到合适的词，那就留空. 不担心拼写, 标点符号, 重复, 或者任何会让你慢下来的事情, 但要让它足够清晰，这样你才能读懂. Go through it again 和 pick out the parts that seem worth saving 和 then write an outline (as in E1 above). 重写.
3. 是简洁. Do not keep repeating the same thing over 和 over again in different words thinking that it will emphasize the point. 它只会让你的陈述变得无聊, 你失去了读者, most of whom have just a few minutes to spend on your entire application. 如果你不能获得他们的兴趣并维持下去，你就输了. You must resist the temptation to pad; one way to find out whether you are successful is to delete parts 和 ask yourself whether you have lost any meaning.
4. 要诚实，不要夸大其词. 删去任何本质上不可信的内容. 你说的话听起来必须是真的，而且必须是真的. 如果你的谎言被发现或被认为是夸大其词, 你毁了自己, 和, 只要记住, 在最初的筛选过程中，你不能为自己解释. Don’t overplay your contributions to any research project you have been working on. You do not need to know everything about the research, just the part in which you are involved.
5. Make it interesting, especially the beginning 和 the conclusion, but avoid making it look contrived.
6. 确立你的身份，用第一人称写作. You might be surprised at some of the things about you that the medical schools might find impressive or at least interesting.
7. 详细介绍活动, 与医学有关或其他, 这能让你深入了解你的性格和个性. Try to include interests or activities that will steer your interview into areas where you can shine.
8. 要自信，但不要傲慢.

F. 不该做的事

1. 不要太做作. 你不认识你的读者，你可能会冒犯他.
2. 不要使用行话. 它只会让读者感到不舒服或感到不足. 记住，读者可能是一位临床医生, 基础科学家, 管理员, 或者一个医科学生, 对一个人来说可能是常识的东西，对另一个人来说可能是模糊的.
3. 不要提出可能会让你尴尬的话题, 比如任何跟你养家计划有关的事, 你的健康, 的性生活, emotional or other health problems within your family (unless these are very relevant to your motivation for medicine), 随意使用酒精或其他药物, 青少年时期惹过的小麻烦, 等.
4. Don’t demonstrate prejudices, whether they be religious, ethnic, 等.
5. Don’t spend a lot of time telling the reader how much you know about medicine from your experiences as an EMT, 救生员, 医院的志愿者, 等. 只要让他们知道你有这些就足够了, 你可以在你的活动清单上做这件事.
6. Don’t write an essay on what it takes to be a good doctor (your audience already knows this) 和 don’t preach.
7. Don’t resort to a thesaurus except in the very last stages of your writing, since the attempt to avoid repetition often leads to incorrect usage. Make sure you know what the words mean, including their connotations.