Applicant Email 8-24-09

This email contains:

• Our alumni database
• Tuftscope
• Job opportunity
• For premeds: the extra letter
  

Each year we ask our alumni if they are willing to be contacted by current applicants who are interviewing at their school. The attached list is composed of those who have responded to date. It is organized by school. It can be helpful to be in touch with an alum prior to, or during an interview visit so you can get a better feel for the school.

TUFTSCOPE

TuftScope, an undergraduate health, ethics, and policy journal at Tufts University has recently launched a new health blog at www.ase.tufts.edu/tuftscope. The blog is maintained by the journal and offers news analysis, commentary, and weekly news briefs regarding interesting health related topics. For more information about the blog or for inquiring regarding becoming a contributor, please contact TuftScope at TuftScope@gmail.com.

JOB OPP AT CHILDREN’S

Do you have experience in clinical research? Do you like working with families and kids? Do you have strong interpersonal skills and experience in recruitment and asthma clinical research?

Looking for a research coordinator/manager to help hire and coordinate a staff of research assistants and coordinate/implement recruitment and clinical research activities in pediatric asthma/allergy clinical research at Children's Hospital, Boston/ Harvard Medical School as part of AsthmaNet, an NIH funded asthma clinical research network. This coordinator will work with PI and Co-Investigators in research related activities in the Boston site, which will be one of 9 sites across the country. Experience in clinical research, particularly recruitment and dealing with childhood asthma is a plus. Spanish-speaking and dealing with multiple cultures is a plus. Commitment to the 7 year consortium is a plus. Respiratory Therapists and Coordinators with experience in Clinical Research, particularly pediatric asthma/allergy related studies encouraged to apply, although will consider those with experience in other diseases as well.

Also, looking for full time research assistants to help with the studies under project coordinator above with pediatric asthma studies, working under Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School Principal Investigator. Prefer 2 year commitment, although not required if excellent candidate. Multi-lingual, such as Spanish-speaking is a plus, though not required. Perfect clinical research experience for those interested in health related fields.

Please contact Jeanne Marino at jeanne.marino@childrens.harvard.edu if interested and send CV/cover letter to me, too at
wanda.phipatanakul@childrens.harvard.edu Wanda Phipatanakul, MD, MS, Principal Investigator

 

FOR PREMEDS – The Extra Letter

As you know, your packet (the composite letter from the committee along with all the individual letters that were in your file at the time of interview and committee review) is sent through VE to all the medical schools you designate. VE does allow an additional letter option.

Any Tufts applicant who wishes to send a supplement (one or more letters) to medical schools may do that ONE TIME ONLY. There is no extra fee for this.

Use this option wisely. You will only have one opportunity to do it. Do you really want another letter sent now, just weeks after your packet was sent? Do you want to wait until later when you are not hearing about interviews and want to add something new? Do you want to use it if you are on a wait list and want to add something new?

The choice is yours, but be sure you remember you can only do it once through us. An alternative method through AMCAS, at least for those schools using the letter service through AMCAS, is to have your writer send directly to AMCAS. But you may still want to have a copy sent here if needed for the future.

Many of you will have no need to send an additional letter. But if you do, have the letter sent to Dowling HPRC, and then email your request to hprc@ase.tufts.edu. The letter will be sent to all the schools to which you applied, unless otherwise noted. Again, this is a one-time opportunity.

Science Letters: It has NEVER been an issue that any of our applicants do not have enough science letters in their application. Our committee packet has always satisfied all requirements. But Howard University has a new requirement this year. They state that they require two science letters, regardless of the committee packet.

I have spoken to the director of admission, and I believe she has sent an email to the entire applicant group as a result. What I suggest you do is state the following:

“The Tufts Health Professions Recommendation Committee does not require two science letters of recommendation from Tufts applicants. The committee encourages us to obtain letters from faculty, employers, internship supervisors, etc. who know us well. The Committee is composed of 14 members, 8 of whom are science professors, who all have input into our composite letter.”

Enjoy the remaining days of summer.



Regards,

Carol