Lesson 5 of 12 5 min video · 5 exercises
Personal stations & your story bank
STAR-L, example stories, one story for many questions, “tell me about yourself”, “why medicine”, and your own story bank.
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Key takeaways
- STAR-L: Situation, Task, Action, Result, Lesson
- Prepare 4 stories: leadership, teamwork, conflict, adversity
- One story, many questions: adapt the emphasis and the lesson
- Tell me about yourself: present → past → future
- Why medicine: specific moments, not “I want to help people”
Practice
Lock in the lesson before you move on.
Exercise 1 of 5
Put in order
Put this story in STAR-L order.
- 1I had to balance rehab with a full course load.
- 2In second year, I tore my ACL playing soccer.
- 3Resilience isn't avoiding setbacks, it's adapting to them, and I'll draw on that with patients facing long recoveries.
- 4I built a structured rehab routine and worked with professors to adjust deadlines.
- 5I was back to full mobility within a year, and kept my grades up.