Sahil Mehta

Sahil Mehta M.D. is an attending physician in the Department of Radiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Founder of MedSchoolCoach. Dr Mehta is one of the world’s experts on medical school admissions having founded MedSchoolCoach in 2007. MedSchoolCoach provides admissions consulting to premedical students in the form of interview preparation, essay editing and general advising. In the past 10 years, he has had a hand in over a thousand acceptances to medical school.

Applying to Medical School

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Effective Resuscitation Training: What It Can Mean for a Medical Student and Pre-Med

Recent events, including the cardiac arrest of Buffalo Bill’s safety Damar Hamlin, put into light how important cardiac resuscitation training can be for everyone. For pre-medical students, this type of training can be a boon to their medical school application.…
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MCAT Basics Podcast

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Learning How To Sell Yourself to Medical School

As a guest speaker on the Osmosis podcast, Raise the Line, Dr. Sahil Mehta shares insights on what premeds can do to increase their appeal to medical schools and the importance of being certain it is the profession students want…
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The ProspectiveDoctor Podcast

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The Role of the DO with AACOM President & CEO Dr. Robert Cain

Dr. Cain, president & CEO of the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM), discusses osteopathic medicine, including MD vs DO. [01:37] Osteopathy’s Visibility in Current Events [05:53] Differences Between Osteopathy and Allopathy [09:02] Cooperation Between DO and MD…
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Interviews

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Medical School Interview Questions Related to COVID-19

This year’s medical school interviews are likely to go virtual because of the coronavirus pandemic, travel restrictions, and general safety concerns. For 2020, here are COVID-19 interview questions that could pop up. Medical schools will still evaluate a student’s performance…
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Applying to Medical School

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Video Interview Tool for Admissions (VITA) by AAMC: What Applicants Need to Know

What is the AAMC VITA Interview? The AAMC VITA interview is made to give admission officers information regarding your journey to medical school and five of the major competencies for entering medical students. The AAMC collaborated with experts in the…
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MCAT

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Alternatives to Khan Academy for MCAT Studying

Khan Academy Will No Longer Be Offering MCAT Videos. We’ve Got Alternatives Here for You. Khan Academy, the non-profit organization that revolutionized online studying with free videos from high-quality instructors, just announced that on July 15, 2020 (update, they changed…
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MCAT

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Best MCAT Mobile Apps

The Best MCAT Mobile Applications Reviewed MCAT apps for mobile devices are more popular than ever. While the coronavirus pandemic has caused upheaval in so many aspects of students’ lives, perhaps the biggest is the shift away from a traditional…
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PDr Tools

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Find Your MSC Score

With the MSC Score calculator from MedSchoolCoach, you can find out how competitive a medical school applicant you are. The proprietary algorithm examines 50,000 data points and 15,000 real applicants to determine your chances of acceptance into med school. What…
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Videos

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6 Tips for Pre-Meds During the Quarantine

MedSchoolCoach Founder, Dr. Sahil Mehta, explains how you can turn the effects of COVID-19 into a positive by using it to better yourself, your health, and your medical school application! He shares his top tips for pre-meds and answers questions…
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The ProspectiveDoctor Podcast

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Podcast 89: Admissions to Medical School Without the MCAT

Today, Dr. Mehta focusses on how the COVID-19 pandemic may affect the 2020/2021 application cycles! Every year there are about 22,000 seats in US medical schools with around 50,000 applicants. About ⅓ of those students take the MCAT between March…
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