About

Our Mission Statement:

Revision Med holds at its core the wish to make applicants better writers, and Dr. Kleinneiur earnestly upholds the highest ethical standards. Each editing session is an intense private tutorial on writing and rhetorical analysis. The tutorials explain the genre of the personal statement, but they also provide a lesson in powerful writing, a skill transferable to any career. Dr. Kleinneiur is careful, kind-hearted, and highly experienced.

Our Company:

Revision Med is a division of Revision Editing, a San Francisco Bay Area-based company providing individualized editing of personal statements for graduate and professional school applications. The service-based company operates out of Redwood City, California, near Stanford University, and can be found on the web at www.revisionediting.com. Revision Med is owned and managed by Joann Kleinneiur, Ph.D. Founded in February 2009, Revision arose from the collaboration between Ken DeLeon, J.D. and Joann Kleinneiur, Ph.D. on the website Top-Law-Schools.com. What began as a series of articles offering in-depth advice on writing personal essays became a co-authored book on this topic in 2009. Writing this book, Dr. Kleinneiur discovered that she loved the personal essay genre, and she wanted to learn more about this genre in relation to medical school. A pre-med throughout college at Duke University (but lured away from medicine and neurobiological research by her love of eighteenth-century literature), Dr. Kleinneiur realized that she could use her comprehensive knowledge of the personal essay genre to help future physicians apply to med school. Hence, Revision Med was born.

When Dr. Kleinneiur coaches applicants on their personal statement, she tries to help them uncover layers of their backgrounds and talents for the admissions committees. Likewise, the company name, "Revision," holds within it layers of meaning. Every essay should contain within it a "vision"--a good story supporting a strong argument for why an applicant should be accepted to medical school. Also "Vis" means "strong" or "powerful" in Latin, and strength and power are the elements Dr. Kleinneiur helps cultivate in each personal essay.

Our Editor-in-Chief:

The owner and sole editor, Joann Kleinnieur, Ph.D., received her bachelor’s degree from Duke University in 1999, and received her Ph.D. in English literature from Stanford University in 2007. Joann is an expert in rhetorical analysis and composition, as well as in the personal essay genre. She has taught in the nationally-acclaimed Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University. She has also taught in the intense writing and critical thinking seminars in the Introduction to Humanities (IHUM) Program at Stanford University. Joann was pre-med in college at Duke University, where she worked as a research assistant in the lab of neuroscientist Jillian Einstein, Ph.D. Joann volunteered at both Duke Hospital in Durham, NC, and Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, TX, before working full time at UT Southwestern Medical School after college as a Program Coordinator for the Continuing Medical Education department. Joann is the co-author of Top-Law-Schools.com Guide to Personal Statements. She is currently working on a book-length guide to medical school personal statements.