Meharry Medical College Research Paper

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Throughout my academic career, I have worked and aspired to one day become a physician. As I have grown and matured, I have developed various essential characteristics that I feel that I will need in my professional and personal life. Meharry Medical College, I believe, will be instrumental in culminating my skills and abilities into an exemplary physician. Meharry Medical College hosts a vast array of diverse and unique students and faculty, and an abundance of student organizations that I feel will offer me a warm and friendly environment. Additionally, Meharry’s commitment and research projects conducted to help the underserved attracted me.
In particular, the research in the field of Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience currently being

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