Edward Chang

Edward Chang is the Co-founder and Director of Operations of ProspectiveDoctor.com. He graduated from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and is currently a urology resident at the University of Washington. He also attended UCLA as an undergraduate, graduating with a major in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology. If you are interested in contributing to ProspectiveDoctor.com, please contact him at edwardchang@prospectivedoctor.com. Follow him on Twitter @EdwardChangMD and Prospective Doctor @ProspectiveDr.

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Time Management as a Pre-Med

Time management is everyone’s problem. In modern times, the difficulty has become “so much to do but so little time”. A lack of time management can lead to stress, anxiety and lack of sleep, which ultimately has a detrimental effect…
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Applying to Medical School

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Dropping Pre-Med Because of One Bad Semester

According to AAMC, the average GPA and MCAT of a U.S. medical school matriculant in the 2022-23 application cycle is 3.75 and 512 respectively. These statistics are pretty high given the fact that 3.75 is pretty much an A average.…
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Does Ethnicity Matter for Medical School Applications?

Does ethnicity matter for medical school applications? It is a simple question but a very complicated one. In 1978, Justice Powell, speaking on the case The Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, declared that race would be a…
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Is It Worth Going on Medical Mission Trips?

Medical mission trips sound impressive. Spending a couple weeks in a third world country and providing health care seems much more meaningful than volunteering at a “boring” clinic in the U.S. It is also enticing to think that going on…
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Pre-Med Academics

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Five Steps to a Better GPA

Like many of you reading this article, I am not a genius. I may have above average intelligence but by no means could I rely on my natural intelligence to excel during undergrad. Therefore, I needed to study hard and…
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Terms of Use

ProspectiveDoctor.com is wholly owned by ProspectiveDoctor, LLC. Any agreement made between any parties and ProspectiveDoctor is essentially an agreement made with ProspectiveDoctor, LLC. The following terms and conditions govern all use of the ProspectiveDoctor.com website and all content and services available…
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