Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western University

1. Greatest Challenge Essay: The admissions committee is interested in gaining more insight into you as a person. Please describe a significant personal challenge you have faced, one which you feel has helped to shape you as a person. Examples may include a moral or ethical dilemma, a situation of personal adversity, or a hurdle in your life that you worked hard to overcome. Please include how you got through the experience and what you learned about yourself as a result.

2. Research Essay: Please tell us about ONE research project to which you made a significant contribution. In your essay, describe your role on the project, the hypothesis of your research and whether you contributed to hypothesis generation, why the methods were selected to answer that hypothesis, your results, and interpretation of your results with respect to future findings. In addition, please briefly share your motivation for pursuing this research project and reflect on how this experience affected your future career goals.

3. Gap Year(s) if applicable: If you are taking time off between college graduation and medical school matriculation, please tell us why you made this decision and what you will be doing or have done during this gap.

4. OPTIONAL: Additional Information Response: Is there any further information that you wish to share with the Admissions Committee that may not be captured in the rest of your application?

5. MD/PhD: Greatest Challenge Essay: The admissions committee is interested in gaining more insight into you as a person. Please describe a significant personal challenge you have faced, one which you feel has helped to shape you as a person.

6. MD/PhD: Gap Year(s) if applicable: If you are taking time off between college graduation and medical school matriculation, please tell us why you made this decision and what you will be doing or have done during this gap time.

7. MD/PhD: OPTIONAL: Additional Information Response: Is there any further information that you wish to share with the Admissions Committee that may not be captured in the rest of your application?

1. Career Essay: What does your ideal career entail fifteen years after medical school graduation?

2. How do you envision your career ten years from now? Please limit your response to [word count], and leave a blank line between paragraphs.

3. How do you envision your career ten years from now?

4. Required for College Program: Career Essay How do you envision your career ten years from now? Please limit your response to 1,000 characters, and leave a blank line between paragraphs. If you exceed the 1,000 character limit, your essay will still be saved in its entirety.

1. Each year, our students identify areas for improvement. Aside from acquiring new knowledge, what personal area do you believe could use strengthening? Please design a plan for how you could improve it. Limit your response to [word count], and leave a blank line between paragraphs.

2. Tell us about a time when you received unexpected criticism or negative feedback. How did you react, and what actions did you take? Please limit your response to [word count], and leave a blank line between paragraphs.

3. Each year, our students identify areas for improvement. Aside from acquiring new knowledge, what personal area do you believe could benefit from strengthening? Please design a plan for how you could improve it.

4. Required for College Program: Areas of Improvement Essay Each year, our students identify specific areas for personal improvement. Aside from acquiring new knowledge, what personal area do you believe could benefit from strengthening? Please design a plan for how you could improve in this area. Limit your response to 1000 characters, and leave a blank line between paragraphs. If you exceed the 1000-character limit, your essay will still be saved in its entirety.

5. Each year, our students identify areas for improvement. Aside from acquiring new knowledge, what personal area do you believe could use strengthening? Please design a plan for how you could improve it.

6. Tell us about a time when you received unexpected criticism or negative feedback. How did you react, and what actions did you take?

1. Personal Growth: Based on your current maturity and wisdom, reflect upon an experience from the past few years that you would handle differently today.

2. MD/PhD: Personal Growth: Based on your current maturity and wisdom, reflect upon an experience from the past few years that you would handle differently today.

3. MD/PhD: PhD Advisor: What do you look for in a PhD advisor, and who at CWRU would interest you?

4. Optional: Additional Information Essay (University Program Only)

5. Is there any additional information you would like to share with the Admissions Committee? Please note that this optional response will only be considered by the University Program.

6. Optional: Additional Information Essay (University Program Only) Is there any additional information you would like to share with the Admissions Committee? This optional response will be considered only by the University Program.

7. Is there any additional information you would like to share with the Admissions Committee? Please note that this optional response will only be considered by the University Program. OPTIONAL

1. Did you take a gap year? Yes or No. If Yes: If you are taking time off between college graduation and medical school matriculation, please explain what you are doing during this gap and why. Please limit your response to [word limit], and leave a blank line between paragraphs.

2. Describe a time when you received unexpected criticism or negative feedback. How did you respond, and what actions did you take?

3. Required Essay: Greatest Challenge The admissions committee seeks to gain deeper insight into you as a person. Please describe a significant personal challenge you have faced that you believe has helped shape who you are. Examples may include a moral or ethical dilemma, a situation of personal adversity, or a hurdle in your life that you worked hard to overcome. Please include how you navigated the experience and what you learned about yourself as a result. Limit your response to 1 page (approximately 3,500 characters), and leave a blank line between paragraphs. If the 3,500 character limit is exceeded, your essay will still be saved in its entirety.

4. Required for College Program: Criticism and Feedback Essay Tell us about a time when you received unexpected criticism or negative feedback. How did you react? What actions did you take? Please limit your response to 1000 characters, and leave a blank line between paragraphs. If you exceed the 1000-character limit, your essay will still be saved in its entirety.

5. Required for College Program: Gap Year Essay If you took a gap year, please describe how you spent that time. Please limit your response to 500 characters and leave blank lines between paragraphs.

6. The admissions committee seeks to gain deeper insight into you as a person. Please describe a significant personal challenge you have faced that you believe has helped shape who you are. Examples may include a moral or ethical dilemma, a situation of personal adversity, or a hurdle in your life that you worked hard to overcome. Please include how you navigated the experience and what you learned about yourself as a result.

7. If you took a gap year, please describe how you spent that time. Limit your response to 500 characters and leave blank lines between paragraphs.

1. MD/PhD: Area of Interest: What is your specific interest in the MSTP at CWRU?

1. Cultural Awareness: Many have been reckoning with the impact of systemic injustices on social environments and healthcare equity. Describe a personal experience that has deepened your cultural awareness and humility, and the impact of that learning on how you look at health and healthcare.

2. MD/PhD: Cultural Awareness: Many have been reckoning with the impact of systemic injustices on social environments and healthcare equity. Describe a personal experience that has deepened your cultural awareness and humility, and the impact of that learning on how you look at health and healthcare.

1. Required Essay: Research Please describe the hypothesis of your research, the reasons for selecting the methods used to address that hypothesis, your results, and your interpretation of those results in relation to future findings. If you have not participated in research or scholarly work, please indicate this in the text area below. Please limit your response to 1 page (approximately 3,500 characters), and leave a blank line between paragraphs. If the 3,500 character limit is exceeded, your essay will still be saved in its entirety.

2. One of the four pillars of the Western Reserve Curriculum is Research and Scholarship. Although research is not a prerequisite for the University Program, if you have participated in research or another scholarly project, please tell us about it. Describe your experience, including the question you pursued, how you approached it, your results and interpretation of those results, and, most importantly, what this experience meant to you. Remember that the definition of research is broad and can include projects such as a senior capstone or a thesis, as well as both medically and non-medically related investigations. OPTIONAL

1. If you were working on a small group project and believed that another student was not contributing their fair share, how would you address the situation? Please limit your response to [word count], and leave a blank line between paragraphs.

2. When were you challenged to teach, coach, or mentor others in learning a new skill or improving an existing one? Please describe how the experience unfolded and what you learned from it. Please limit your response to a blank line between paragraphs.

3. When were you challenged to teach, coach, or mentor others in learning a new skill or improving an existing one? Please describe the experience and what you learned from it.

4. Required Essay: Small Group Essay If you were working on a small group project and believed that another student was not contributing their fair share, how would you address the situation? Please limit your response to 1000 characters, and leave a blank line between paragraphs. If the 1000-character limit is exceeded, your essay will still be saved in its entirety.

5. Required for College Program: Teaching Essay When were you challenged to teach, coach, or mentor others in learning a new skill or improving an existing one? Please describe how the experience unfolded and what you learned from it. Please limit your response to 1000 characters, and leave a blank line between paragraphs. If the 1000-character limit is exceeded, your essay will still be saved in its entirety.

6. If you were working on a small group project and believed that another student was not contributing their fair share, how would you address the situation?

7. When were you challenged to teach, coach, or mentor others in learning a new skill or improving an existing one? Please describe how the experience unfolded and what you learned from it.