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Medical Student Cover Letter Example
Core clerkship honors5/6
Research publications/posters4
Patient satisfaction comments32 mentions
This medical student cover letter example complements the medical student resume example.

Highlights
- Balances solid clinical performance with meaningful research contributions.
- Earns patient and preceptor praise for communication and empathy.
- Leads curricular improvements that benefit peers and future cohorts.
Tips to adapt this example
- Choose one metric such as achieving 5/6 core clerkship honors to show the scale of your impact.
- Mirror the language from the job post in your first paragraph to signal fit immediately.
- Anchor each paragraph around a single achievement and quantify the outcome when possible.
- Close with a confident call to action that makes it easy to move to the interview stage.
Keywords
ClerkshipsUSMLEResearch PublicationsQuality ImprovementInterprofessional CollaborationEarly CareerClinical RotationsResidency Prep
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