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Most medical school admissions experts would tell you that premed advisers rarely give good advice.

But what surprised me was not just how bad the advice was, but also how confident they were inset advice, truly, the Dunning Kruger Effect at play.

I was inspired to make this video after spending time with them because, to be frank, I found myself quite uncomfortable by the fact pre meds were being given such misleading information.

I'm committed to providing pre ments with the most accurate, unbiased and honest guidance.

It's simply the right thing to Dio.

I'll be the first to admit, however, that they do have utility.

Every university has nuances with schedule and courses, including which courses are impacted and therefore how to navigate the class enrollment process most effectively.

For this reason, premed advisors aren't important resource in making sure you graduate on time and complete your degree requirements and pre med prerequisite courses.

But beyond that there unqualified to provide accurate or meaningful premed advice, you'd be far more knowledgeable just by washing the free YouTube videos on this channel or reading the free block post on our website.

That's not an exaggeration.

Cream it advisers may say, Don't major in biology because it's too common.

I say it's more complicated than that.

And there's pros and cons ultimately making for a highly personal decision.

Have a video on that with data supporting my conclusions.

They say Caribbean isn't a bad option, but that's because they don't understand the nuanced pros and cons.

They're easily swayed by a few presentations and an all expenses paid trip to a tropical island, which I spoke about on my other channel.

It seems like a relatively simple job for premed.

Advisors help their pre med students get into medical school.

So where does it all go wrong?

To be a premed advisor, you don't receive any formal training.

Turns out it's just on the job training.

No formal degree, no comprehensive training.

No need for a science or statistics or education background.

Majored in art history.

Fantastic.

You could be a premed adviser.

A bachelors degree is all that's necessary.

Something like a master's in education is optional, but from my experience This does not necessarily improve the quality of advice.

For example, one adviser informed me that every student she met with she tried to steer them away from biology.

After all, she said, it's far to comment, and she wants her students to stand out from the rest.

This overly simplistic interpretation is ultimately harmful.

There are some students who should pursue biology or similar life, science, majors and others who should not.

Pre med advisors don't have experience with premed coursework.

They weren't premed themselves.

They didn't apply to medical school.

I asked one of the pre med advisors about how he advises students when going to Ostia Pathak medical schools.

He focuses on two aspects.

First, what specialty does the premed want to pursue?

And second, are there any Dios?

In that speciality, this adviser pulls up.

Find a dio dot com to look up specialties and see if there are any Dios in that field.

Look, we found a dio plastic surgeon.

If you want to be a plastic surgeon, you can do it through a dio program again.

This is concerning for a few reasons.

First, over 50% of first year medical students will change their intended specialty.

By the time they graduate, I was one of them initially planning on pediatric gastroenterology and changing gears completely to reconstructive plastic surgery.

Basing application decisions off of what specialty you think you want to pursue as a pre med is premature.

Second, just because there are a few osteopathic plastic surgeons does not mean that an aspiring future plastic surgeon should choose an osteopathic medical school.

This is the survivorship bias at play.

It's not impossible, but it's much more difficult to go into plastics and several other competitive fields.

Going the Dio route over the M D wrapped to most effectively guide pre meds on their various options and what would be the best fit for them.

It's important to provide evidence based guidance, and doing so requires at least understanding certain statistics principles.

Unfortunately, there's no statistics education requirement to be a premed adviser.

The decision of where to go to medical school whether U.

S.

M.

Di Dio or Caribbean in large part, is a function of what options you'll have when you graduate medical school.

Their goal isn't just to get into medical school.

It's also to become a practicing doctor in a specialty you chose rather than a specialty you were forced into.

That relies on you being able to match into a residency program for the specialty you're interested in.

Some premed advisers believe that getting into a competitive specialty, such as neurosurgery or plastic surgery, is competitive for everyone, regardless of whether they are at a U.

S or Caribbean program.

Therefore, it shouldn't matter whether you go Caribbean or us if you're focusing on something highly competitive, right?

Obviously, that's shaky.

Logic it significantly more difficult to match into those specialties.

If one attends a Caribbean school, just look at the data and matchless or speak with someone with residency admissions committee experience like our team at med school insiders.

To further prove the point, the average step scores to match into any of these specialties from a Caribbean school or higher than the average step scores from students graduating from US schools by a substantial margin.

A premed adviser objected to this line of reasoning and informed me that perhaps the tiny percentage of students matching into competitive specialties is just due to varying interests.

Maybe the thousands of graduating medical students from this particular medical school were simply not interested in such competitive specialties.

Denying the fact that it is significantly more challenging to match into certain specialties from Dio or Caribbean schools would be very dangerous advice to give a premed, as this is often a major contributor in limiting them from successfully magic into more competitive specialties.

Caribbean medical schools often invite premed advisers to their campus.

They fly them out, wine and dine them, put them in a nice beachfront hotel, give them tours and try to impress them with their program.

With the hope that these prima advisers will promote their program to their students at one Caribbean medical school, they do these visits 4 to 5 times per year, and despite it costing several thousands of dollars per advisor, it's still highly profitable.

Why?

Because premed advisors are easily convinced because of their minimal understanding of the medical training process and lack of education and statistics.

Premed advisors are easy to trick when the data doesn't quite add up.

When I asked a premed adviser how she decides between suggesting Caribbean versus Dio programs to her students, she said she's not sure because all her doctor colleagues say Dio is better But she has visited several Caribbean programs, and she's really impressed.

Some of her own personal doctors are Caribbean trained, and she likes them, so that's more reason in her mind to promote these programs.

These are not valid considerations.

When choosing the various medical school paths and medical school, it's drilled into our heads that you should not take free gifts from pharmaceutical companies.

As Cal Dini talks about in his widely acclaimed book Influence, the Reciprocity Rule acts subconsciously and can influence treatment decisions.

For example, doctors are more likely to prescribe the medication from the drug company that's providing them with the free gifts.

In a previous video on my other channel, I outlined the specific instances from my recent trip to a Caribbean medical school where the presented numbers didn't add up and how the program was able to fool premed advisers link in the description.

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