Workshops
Getting ready to apply to a professional/graduate school? Looking to get help writing application essays, preparing for interviews, best practices for applying or steps you should be taking to be the most qualified candidate? Join the College of Health Sciences Advising and Career Services Staff during our live events and check out the previous workshops. Each is chalked full of fabulous information.
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Professional/Graduate School Personal Statement Writing Workshop
Looking to get help writing application essays. Join/listen to the College of Health Sciences Advising and Career Services Staff and learn about best practices to write your personal statements and essays. Sponsored by the Future Physicians’ Club. All professional/graduate school pathways welcome.
Spring 2020 Professional/Graduate Personal Statement Workshop
- Presentation Slides for Personal Statement Workshop – It is suggested upon opening to select the settings and view speaker notes. In the case of Activity 1 and 2 please take five minutes for each step.
- Activity 1 and 2 worksheet for Personal Statement Workshop
Activity 1 – Name an experience that you have had (professional, volunteer, academic) that has helped shape why you want to pursue healthcare. Use sentences, a mind-map, bullet points, keywords, etc. to describe/brainstorm this experience. How did this experience impact you and how did you respond?
Activity 2A – Workshopping this experience – Discuss your experience from Activity 1 with a partner. When discussing your partner’s experience, please feel free to use the prompts below to help them think deeper about how this experience was meaningful to them. When discussing your experience, continue to add to your notes from Activity 1.
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- How did (or didn’t) this experience help you understand yourself or understand others?
- Did it help you understand different areas of the community you like to engage with?
- Did it challenge you to learn something new or go out of your comfort zone?
- How did this experience make you feel? Why did it make you feel this way?
- What stood about this experience over others that you’ve had?
Activity 2B
Using your partner’s feedback, create a topic/thesis sentence that you could use to build a paragraph around this prompt: Name an experience that you have had (professional, volunteer, academic) that has helped shape why you want to pursue healthcare.
- Personal Statement Workshop Session Video – please note that you will want to pause the video to do the activities at 14:04 minutes (writing activity) and again at 26:20 (discussion activity) we do suggest that you find someone to discuss your activity with you can most certainly do activity 2 after the rest of the video.
- Personal Statement Transcript
Professional / Graduate School Interview Preparation Workshop
Looking to get help preparing for your interview(s) to graduate or professional schools. Join/listen to the College of Health Sciences Advising and Career Services Staff and learn about best practices to be polished and ready for your interview. Sponsored by the Future Physicians’ Club. All professional/graduate school pathways welcome.
Spring 2020 Professional/Graduate Interview Preparation Workshop
- Presentation Slides for Interview Preparation Workshop – It is suggested upon opening to select the settings and view speaker notes. Please see the activity worksheet and description below referenced in the presentation.
- Interview Activity worksheet
Using the chart below, map out your experiences. This should give you a solid foundation to answer one of the most common interview questions: Tell me about yourself.
| Past Experiences | Present Experiences | Past + Present = Future Goals |
| Put it all together: |
Interview Prep Workshop Session Video
Interview Preparation Transcript – Link forthcoming
Professional Graduate School End of the Year Pre-Dental Panel
2020 Panelists
Marlee Harris – Post Bacc – Accepted to University of Kentucky
Scott Caine – Biology BS, Dec 2019 graduate – Accepted to Roseman University
Will Foxcroft – Finance BBA, May 2020 graduate – Accepted to Creighton University
Panelists spoke about their reasons for choosing dentistry, the application process and the experiences of being a pre-dental student at Boise State University.
Professional Graduate School End of the Year Pre-Medical Panel
2020 Panelists
Tyler Smith – Biology, Human Biology, December 2018 – Accepted to Des Moines University
Catie Bautista – Health Science Studies, May 2019 graduate – Accepted to University of Utah
Elena Paz Munoz – Chemistry, May 2019 graduate – Accepted to Oregon Health Sciences University