How to write a Residency Personal Statement with ChatGPT

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🔬 How to write a Residency Personal Statement with ChatGPT

Writing a residency personal statement can be a daunting task for any medical student or doctor. You just don’t have enough time!

Plus, many just struggle with expressing themselves in writing, making it even more time-consuming. Luckily, ChatGPT can guide medical students and doctors through the process of writing a strong Residency Personal Statement

Here is a prompt you can use to get ChatGPT to write your personal statement:

Prompt for Residency Personal Statement with ChatGPT

[just copy and paste the info below]

Please generate a residency personal statement for me highlighting my experiences in clinical care and my motivation for pursuing [insert desired specialty]. It should be under 3,500 characters.

Use the following information to write the statement:

1. My name: [name]

2. The specialty I’m applying for: [specialty].

3. Here are my medical school and other relevant academic or extracurricular activities: [add info]

4. Here are my clinical experiences, including any rotations or clerkships: [add info]

5. These are my strengths and areas of expertise: [add info]

6. These are my long-term career goals and how this residency will help you achieve them: [add info]

7. Here is one challenge I’ve faced in my medical career and was able to overcome: [add experience]

Use the following structure for writing:

• 1st paragraph: Should be 4-5 sentences max. and catch the reader’s attention.

• 3-4 body paragraphs: Use these paragraphs to reveal who you are. Ideally, one of these paragraphs will reflect clinical understanding and one will reflect service.

• Concluding paragraph: The strongest conclusion reflects the beginning of your essay, gives a brief summary of who you are, and ends with a challenge for the future.

This is my resume: [Paste your resume]

This is the job description: [paste your target job description]

[prompt ends]

Give it a try and let us know how it works!

🗞 News and research papers

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• Brain activity decoder can reveal stories in people’s minds

• ‘Remarkable’ AI tool designs mRNA vaccines that are more potent and stable

🧬 Research paper

Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings: Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have created a semantic decoder, an artificial intelligence system that can transform a person's brain activity into a continuous stream of text.

The system is noninvasive since it uses a transformer model similar to those used by Open AI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard and does not require surgical implants.

After listening to hours of podcasts in an fMRI scanner, participants' brain activity is recorded while listening to a new tale or imagining telling a story, allowing the system to create equivalent text from brain activity alone.

This raises a great question: Can this new tech be used for a range of semantic tasks, such as speech recognition and communication for individuals with speech disabilities?

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JD @ Team PhysicianAI