Build your med school application while you live it.
Journal your clinical, research, and service experiences. PremedJournal tallies your hours, tags AAMC competencies, and turns entries into application drafts.
- Private by default
- Free to start
- Web now, iOS coming soon
Twelve-hour shift tonight. Our patient, an older man with chest pain, kept apologizing for calling 911. I told him he had done the right thing1, then explained each step to him and his wife2 while my partner acquired a 12-lead3.
- 1Empathy and Compassion
- 2Oral Communication
- 3Teamwork and Collaboration
As an EMT on a two-person ambulance crew, I assess patients, provide basic life support, and give handoff reports to hospital staff. One call stays with me: an older man with chest pain kept apologizing for calling 911. I told him he had done the right thing, then explained each step to him and his wife while my partner acquired a 12-lead ECG. His relief showed me that a calm explanation is part of the care we give.
Many premeds reach application season with scattered notes and a foggy memory. The experiences are real. The details you need to describe them are gone.
One journal entry. Four things handled.
Write it the way you would text a friend. PremedJournal organizes the rest.
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You write it down
A few sentences after a shift, while the details are still sharp.
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It gets tagged
You tag the categories and AAMC competencies it shows, with suggestions to guide you.
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Your hours add up
Totals update by category as you log.
- Clinical
- Volunteering
- Research
- Leadership
- Shadowing
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It becomes application material
Your best entries turn into activity descriptions and personal statement drafts.
Four tools, one journal.
Every tool reads from the same entries, so the more you write, the more each one has to work with.
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See the entries behind every competency.
Each entry is tagged to the competencies it shows. Open any competency to see its score and the entries that support it.
Covers all 17 AAMC premed competencies, including the 2026 updates.
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Hours, totaled by category.
Clinical, volunteering, research, leadership, and shadowing hours are tracked separately and add up as you log.
Add start dates and mark activities as ongoing.
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Turn your best entries into drafts.
Pick entries and a format, and get a starting draft to revise in your own voice.
Formats: AMCAS activity description (700 characters), CV bullet points, or a personal statement paragraph.
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A habit that takes two minutes.
Your dashboard shows your streak, recent entries, and which competencies need more evidence as soon as you open the app.
Works in any browser now. The iOS app is coming soon.
Built on the AAMC's 17 premed competencies.
Medical schools use these to evaluate applicants. PremedJournal shows which ones your entries already demonstrate and which ones need more.
11 Professional
- Commitment to Learning and Growth
- Empathy and Compassion
- Ethical Responsibility to Self and Others
- Interpersonal Skills
- Oral Communication
- Reliability and Dependability
- Resilience and Adaptability
- Self-AwarenessFormerly Cultural Humility
- Service Orientation
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Understanding OthersFormerly Cultural Awareness
2 Science
- Human Behavior
- Living Systems
4 Thinking and reasoning
- Critical Thinking
- Quantitative Reasoning
- Scientific Inquiry
- Written Communication
Competency names follow the AAMC's Premed Competencies for Entering Medical Students, including the titles it updated in 2026.
Your reflections stay yours.
You will write about real clinical moments. That deserves real privacy.
Private by default
Your entries are visible only to you. They are never sold or shared.
Write about what you did, not who the patient was
Leave out names, dates of birth, room numbers, and anything else that could identify someone.
You stay the author
Writing tools read only the entries you select. Every word on your application is yours to edit and approve.
“I was working as an EMT, doing research, and volunteering, and I still lost track of what I had done. I built the tool I wished I had.”
Start free. Upgrade when you apply.
The journal is free. Premium adds the tools you need when it is time to write your application.
Everything you need to build the habit
- Up to 500 journal entries
- Activity and hour logging
- AI competency analysis for 3 entries
- Streak and dashboard
or $59.99 a year. The full application toolkit.
- Everything in Free
- AI competency analysis for every entry
- Personal statement builder
- AMCAS activity descriptions, CV bullets, and personal statement paragraphs
- Advanced reflection prompts
Questions
Something not covered here? Email support@premedjournal.com.
New to journaling? Read how to keep a premed journal: what to record, how often, and how it feeds your application.
It helps you organize and draft. When you generate a description or paragraph, it works only from the entries you select and gives you a starting draft in the format and tone you choose. It does not write your application, invent experiences, or submit anything.
Yes. Your entries are visible only to you and are never sold or shared. We recommend writing about what you did and learned, and leaving out anything that could identify a patient.
Each entry is tagged against the AAMC's 17 premed competencies, with suggestions to guide you. Your dashboard shows which competencies your entries demonstrate and which need more, and you can open any competency to see the entries behind it.
Yes. The free plan includes up to 500 journal entries, activity and hour logging, streaks, and AI competency analysis for 3 entries, with no credit card. Premium adds the application tools, such as the personal statement builder and AMCAS activity description drafts.
Premium is $7.99 a month, or $59.99 a year, and you can subscribe on the web today. It adds AI competency analysis for every entry, the personal statement builder, AMCAS activity descriptions, CV bullet points, personal statement paragraphs, and advanced reflection prompts.
They are the 17 competencies the AAMC describes for entering medical students: 11 professional, 2 science, and 4 thinking and reasoning. In 2026 the AAMC renamed Cultural Humility to Self-Awareness and Cultural Awareness to Understanding Others. PremedJournal uses the current names.
Yes. AMCAS gives you up to 15 Work and Activities entries with 700 characters to describe each. PremedJournal drafts an activity description from one entry, or from the strongest entries linked to an activity, and shows a character count against the 700 limit so you can revise it in your own words.
PremedJournal is made by MedJourney LLC and was built by a premed student and EMT. You can reach us at support@premedjournal.com.
Your logged hours are totaled by category, and your best entries become source material for activity descriptions and personal statement drafts. You revise those drafts in your own voice and use them where they fit.
PremedJournal works in any web browser today, on your phone or your laptop. The iOS app is coming soon, and your entries will sync between the app and the web.
Start with your next shift.
Free to use, no credit card. Works in any browser; the iOS app is coming soon.
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