How to Discuss Childhood Trauma in Your Personal Statement | Ask Dr. Gray: Premed Q&A Ep. 110

Today we talk about the dos and don’ts of discussing childhood trauma and related events in your personal statement. Be sure to check out this related video on how to discuss trauma in medical school interviews, as well:    • How to Discuss Trauma in Medical School In...  . If you found this video helpful, be sure to subscribe and check out all our Meded Media podcasts at http://premedpodcasts.com. This week on Ask Dr. Gray: Premed Q&A, we talk with a student who took about 10 years off from the premed track after college to focus on herself and work a job she enjoyed with people with intellectual disabilities, due to some issues from childhood trauma that were coming up. In more recent years, her passion for becoming a physician was reignited, she got a 4.0 in a premed postbac, and she's getting ready to apply to med school in 2021. Her main question is about how much to talk about her childhood trauma in her med school application. Is it going to make the med school admissions committees too uncomfortable? How can you tell your story in a way that is also conscious of how it will land on the reader? Are there any concerns that medical schools might have with her story? We also discuss some other premed issues like: • Is there a way to get in-person shadowing or clinical volunteer hours during the pandemic? • Do you need clinical volunteering if you already have a clinical job? • What else she should do to strengthen her medical school application. For more episodes of Ask Dr. Gray: Premed Q&A, check out http://askdrgray.com.