Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

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 has helped shape you as a person. Include how you got through the experience and what you learned.

2. 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 during this gap time.

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

4. PhD Advisor: What qualities do you seek in a PhD advisor, and which faculty members at CWRU would you find most interesting? (800 character limit)

5. Area of Interest: What is your specific interest in the MSTP at CWRU? (Limit: 800 characters)

1. Gap Year(s) (if applicable): If you are taking time off between college graduation and medical school matriculation, please explain your reasons for this decision and describe what you will be doing or have done during this gap. (1,000 character limit)

2. Career Essay: What does your ideal career look like fifteen years after graduating from medical school? (1,000 character limit)

3. Gap Year(s) (if applicable): If you are taking time off between college graduation and medical school matriculation, please explain your reasons for this decision and describe what you will be doing or have done during this gap period. (1,000 character limit)

4. Required for College Program: Career Essay

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

1. Required for College Program: Essay on Areas for Improvement

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

3. Required for College Program: Essay on Criticism and Feedback

4. Describe a time when you received unexpected criticism or negative feedback. How did you respond, 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. Cultural Awareness: Describe a personal experience that has deepened your cultural awareness and humility, and the impact of that learning on how you view health and healthcare.

3. Additional Information Response: Is there any further information you would like to share with the Admissions Committee that may not be included in the rest of your application? (2,000 character limit)

4. Additional Information Response: Is there any additional information you would like to share with the Admissions Committee that may not be included in the rest of your application? (2,000 character limit)

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. Required for College Program: Teaching Essay

7. Did you take a gap year?

8. Did you take a gap year? Please answer Yes or No.

9. 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. OPTIONAL: Research/Scholarly Work: If you have participated in research or a scholarly project, please reflect on the experience, what challenged you, and how it impacted you.

2. 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, how you managed the uncertainty or stress, and what you learned about yourself as a result. (2,000 character limit)

3. Personal Growth: Reflect on an experience from the past few years that you would handle differently today, considering your current maturity and wisdom. (1,000 character limit)

4. Greatest Challenge Essay: 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. (2,000 character limit)

5. Greatest Challenge Essay: 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. (2,000 character limit) Updated July 10, 2023

6. 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.

7. 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.

1. Cultural Awareness: Many individuals have been reflecting on the impact of systemic injustices on social environments and healthcare equity. Describe a personal experience that has deepened your cultural awareness and humility, and explain how this learning has influenced your perspective on health and healthcare. (1,500 character limit)

1. Research/Scholarly Work: 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 (such as a capstone project or honors thesis), please reflect on the experience, including what you learned from it, the challenges you faced, and how it may have impacted you both educationally and professionally. If you have not completed any research or scholarly project, please indicate that in the text box below. (2,500 character limit)

2. If the details of your project are included elsewhere in your application, there is no need to repeat them here. We are interested in learning what you gained from the experience(s).

3. If you are applying to both the University Program and the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Program, your research response will automatically default to the required response for the CCL Program.

4. Research Essay: Please describe ONE research project to which you made a significant contribution. In your essay, outline your role in the project, the hypothesis of your research and whether you contributed to its generation, the reasons for selecting the methods used to address that hypothesis, your results, and your interpretation of those results in relation to future findings. Additionally, briefly share your motivation for pursuing this research project and reflect on how this experience has influenced your future career goals. (3,500 character limit)

5. 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. Required Essay: Small Group Essay

3. 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?

4. When have you been 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.