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How to Write a Competitive Personal Statement?

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The personal statement reflects your personality to the program you are applying for. So always take the personal statement very seriously, this represents you before you meet your interviewers face to face for the interview. Make sure there should be no plagiarism, no grammar mistake. Start writing it as early as possible and proofread it multiple times. Start early, finish better.

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  • Personal statement
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  • Grammar
  • Program director
  • Specialty
  • Plagiarism
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  1. 2018 NRMP Program Director Survey. 2018. www.nrmp.org. Accessed 7 Feb 2019.

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  1. Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences, Ahmednagar, India

    Sorabh Datta

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Datta, S. (2020). How to Write a Competitive Personal Statement?. In: Govindarajan, R., Bhagavan, S.M., Ramaswamy, S.B. (eds) International Medical Graduate and the United States Medical Residency Application. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31045-5_13

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