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Faithful Presence: A Medical Student’s Perspective

September 30, 2022 by Will Phillips Leave a Comment

What does faithful presence mean for Christians in the context of medical education? This question arises from the main theme of James Davison Hunter's book To Change the World. He articulates an approach to culture that reflects Christ's incarnation, an approach characterized by faithfulness in contrast to accommodation and witness to the culture in contrast to domination. How is this approach applied in different cultural and professional contexts?  As a medical student who is early on in his path to becoming a … [Read more...] about Faithful Presence: A Medical Student’s Perspective

Filed Under: Life in the Academy Tagged With: Faithful Presence, medical student

Writing a Christian Personal Statement: Part 2

October 25, 2013 by David 3 Comments

My essay for admission to medical school was brutally honest.  I talked about my low GPA, my relationship with my parents, my obsession with the problem of suffering, quotes from my personal journal, and how it was all driven by a radical faith in Jesus Christ (and images in my head of suffering children).  It was my attempt at being really, really honest and was the product of many careful hours of meticulous revision. Note: Click here for Writing a Christian Personal Statement: Part 1. It was also really, really … [Read more...] about Writing a Christian Personal Statement: Part 2

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: calling, career, Christian Personal Statement, gospel, healthcare, medical student, personal statement, self-knowledge

Writing a Christian Personal Statement

October 11, 2013 by David 10 Comments

Writing any application for a school can be difficult, and writing the Personal Statement can become the most challenging part of it. By the time you are preparing to submit an application, most of its elements are already fixed: your GPA, your MCAT or GRE scores, the activities you did (or didn't do). The Personal Statement, however, is an open field of possibilities in self expression, and that sense of ambiguity lends itself to great liberty and/or great anxiety. Admittedly, the title is somewhat misleading. A … [Read more...] about Writing a Christian Personal Statement

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: application, calling, career, Christian Personal Statement, healthcare, medical student, personal statement, self-knowledge

In Its Time

September 27, 2013 by David Leave a Comment

[The third post in a series on becoming a Christian physician. Earlier posts are  Do You Want to Be a Doctor?  and  Helping People Is Not Enough]. After working 24 hours on call in the pediatric ICU, I was exhausted. I wanted to sleep, but friends had recently been reminding me of the  health benefits of breakfast, so  I dragged myself to a local diner for breakfast and sat at the counter next to a father and his little daughter. "We graduated from the booth to the counter," he was explaining to the waitress, … [Read more...] about In Its Time

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Health Care Tagged With: becoming a Christian physician, breakfast, calling, career, Christian physician, doctor, Eat with Joy, Ecclesiastes, ICU, medical student, NPR, ordinary life, physician, vocation

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