Medical school advising · Miami · English & Español
Anatomy and physiology is where most pre-med plans quietly end. I have taught it for thirty-one years — and I have sat on the other side of the admissions process twice myself.
You are weighing whether this path is realistic for you, and everyone you have asked either works in admissions or has something to sell you.
You need a school list that reflects your actual position, and a read on the parts of your application that are not as strong as you have been told.
Anatomy, physiology, or a remediation plan you do not understand. I have taught this to advanced high-school students, undergraduates, graduate and PA students, and practising clinicians.
BSC2085 and BSC2086 at Miami Dade College since 2014, and cadaver-based gross anatomy for PA students and practising clinicians. I know exactly where students lose the thread, because I watch it happen every term.
In 2003 I taught medical terminology, gross anatomy and histology to incoming first-years in a pre-matriculation programme at UMDNJ's School of Osteopathic Medicine. Preparing people for year one is not a new business for me.
Chairman of Minority Affairs for FIU's American Medical Student Association chapter, 1997–2000 — connecting under-represented students to research opportunities and MCAT summer programmes. I was also a participant in those programmes.
Four years as an academic advisor at Miami Dade College's New Student Center: auditing transcripts, mapping upper-division requirements, and processing graduation approvals. The unglamorous mechanics that sink applications.
“I am not going to tell you it will be fine. I am going to tell you what is actually in front of you.”
P. M. Padilla
Application strategy, school lists, and an honest read on where you actually stand. For students already enrolled: anatomy and physiology tutoring, and remediation planning.
Gross anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology for physician assistant students and practising healthcare professionals — including bespoke cadaveric dissection instruction on contract.
Competency mapping, assessment design, progression analytics and remediation systems for health-professions programmes measured against ARC-PA domains.
Advising sessions run through the research lab's nonprofit. Rather than a fixed price list, each session carries a minimum contribution set by the task and the level of knowledge it requires — a conversation about a school list and a semester of cadaveric instruction for a PA cohort are not the same engagement and should not pretend to be.
Contributions support the lab's educational and research work. You will be told the amount, and what it covers, before anything begins.
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If you are not sure which of these fits — or whether any of them do — say where you are and I will tell you straight.
The plan is built from where you actually are — transcript, coursework, timing — not from where a brochure says the average applicant is.
No. Nobody can, and anyone who says otherwise is selling you something. I can tell you where you actually stand and what would move it.
No. I will tell you what is not working in the one you wrote, and why an admissions reader will put it down.
Sí — es mi lengua materna. Las sesiones pueden ser en español o en inglés.
Partly, and I will tell you exactly how much. A year and a half of four at UMDNJ's School of Osteopathic Medicine, two years of four at the University of Medicine and Health Sciences in St. Kitts, and USMLE Step 1. I finished neither degree. What I hold is basic science medical training — and knowing what the road out looks like is a large part of why I am useful to you.