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George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences

Motivation and Fit

  • 1. Please provide the Admissions Committee with a summary of your activities, academics, employment or other occupations from the point of application through matriculation.


    2024-2025
  • 2. What is your specific interest in the MD Program at GW? What opportunities would you take advantage of as a student here? Why?


    2024-2025
  • 3. Do you want to pursue the joint MD/MPH program? If YES, please describe why and how the combined degree would fit into your career goals.


    2024-2025
  • 4. Why have you chosen to apply to the Georgetown University School of Medicine, and how do you believe your education at Georgetown will prepare you to become a physician in the future?


    2024-2025
  • 5. The MD Program includes substantial content in Clinical Public Health (population health, health systems science, health policy, and community health) to prepare GW graduates for the expanded scope of practice required to be successful 21st-century physicians. What are your specific interests and experiences related to this aspect of the MD Program?


    2019-2020 2021-2022 2022-2023 2023-2024
  • 6. What specific aspects of the MD Program at GW interest you? What opportunities would you pursue as a student here, and why?


    2013-2014 2014-2015 2017-2018 2018-2019 2019-2020 2021-2022 2022-2023 2023-2024
  • 7. Have you previously interacted directly with the MD Admissions Office through events, tours, fairs, webinars, or interviews? (Yes/No) If yes, please explain.


    2023-2024
  • 8. The Georgetown University School of Medicine aims to cultivate respectful physicians who embrace all aspects of caring for the whole person. Please describe how your personal characteristics or life experiences will contribute to the Georgetown University School of Medicine community and provide educational benefits to our student body.


    2020-2021
  • 9. Why have you chosen to apply to the Georgetown University School of Medicine, and how do you believe your education at Georgetown will prepare you to become a physician in the future? (1 page, formatted at your discretion)


    2020-2021

Personal Attributes and Characteristics

  • 1. Did you indicate that you received any institutional action on your AMCAS application? If yes, please provide a description here:


    2014-2015
  • 2. What is your most significant achievement outside of the classroom?


    2013-2014 2014-2015

Other

  • 1. The MD Program includes substantial content in Clinical Public Health. What are your specific interests and experiences related to that aspect of the MD Program?


    2024-2025
  • 2. Is there any additional information you would like the Committee on Admissions to consider when reviewing your file that you were unable to include in another section of this or the AMCAS Application? (Max Characters 1000)


    2024-2025
  • 3. Have you ever registered at an institution under a different name? (Yes/No) If yes, please provide the name and the institution.


    2023-2024
  • 4. Is there any additional information you would like the Committee on Admissions to consider when reviewing your file that you were unable to include in another section of this application or the AMCAS Application?


    2020-2021
  • 5. Have you ever been convicted of, pleaded guilty to, or pleaded no contest (i.e., no lo contendere, meaning I do not wish to contest) a criminal offense? Have you ever been arrested for a felony or misdemeanor? If yes, please provide a description here:


    2014-2015
  • 6. Please provide the Admissions Committee with a brief summary of your activities, academics, employment, or other engagements that account for full-time activity (approximately 30-40 hours per week) during the 2014-2015 application cycle, or from the time of application through matriculation in 2015.


    2014-2015
  • 7. Have you ever been convicted of, pleaded guilty to, or pleaded no contest (i.e., no lo contendere, meaning I do not wish to contest) a criminal offense? Have you ever been arrested for a felony or misdemeanor? If yes, please explain.


    2013-2014
  • 8. Did you indicate that you received any institutional action on your AMCAS application?


    2013-2014
  • 9. For the 2013-2014 application cycle (Summer 2013 through Summer 2014), please indicate your activities, academics, employment, or other engagements that account for full-time activity (approximately 30-40 hours per week).


    2013-2014

Personal Experiences and Challenges

  • 1. What makes you a unique individual? What challenges have you faced? What have you learned from your experiences?


    2024-2025
  • 2. What makes you a unique individual? What challenges have you faced, and what have you learned from those experiences?


    2023-2024
  • 3. Please provide the Admissions Committee with a brief summary of your activities, academics, employment, or other engagements that account for full-time activity (approximately 30-40 hours per week) from the time of your application through your matriculation in 2023.


    2022-2023
  • 4. What has been your most meaningful clinical experience to date that involved direct patient contact?


    2014-2015 2017-2018 2018-2019 2019-2020 2021-2022 2022-2023
  • 5. What makes you a unique individual? What challenges have you faced? How will these experiences enable you to contribute to the diversity of the student body at GW?


    2013-2014 2014-2015 2017-2018 2018-2019 2019-2020 2021-2022 2022-2023
  • 6. Please provide the Admissions Committee with a brief summary of your activities, academics, employment, or other engagements that account for full-time activity (approximately 30-40 hours per week) during the 2017-2018 application cycle, or from the time of application through matriculation in 2018.


    2017-2018

Geographic Connection and Commitment

  • 1. Select your preferred campus: main campus preferred, regional medical campus preferred, main campus only, or regional medical campus only.


    2023-2024
  • 2. If you selected "regional medical campus preferred" or "regional medical campus only," please explain in detail your interest in the regional medical campus and how it will be a good fit for your clinical education.


    2023-2024

Community, Diversity, and Equity

  • 1. The Georgetown University School of Medicine (GUSOM) strives to ensure that its students become respectful physicians with cultural humility who embrace all dimensions of caring for the whole person. Guided by our Jesuit values of Cura Personalis, People for Others, and Community in Diversity, we are committed to racial justice and to addressing the health inequities exacerbated by the recent pandemic. Please describe how your perspectives, values, and individual life experiences will contribute to these GUSOM priorities. (Max Characters 1000)


    2024-2025
  • 2. Describe how current issues related to advocacy and social justice have influenced your motivation to attend medical school.


    2022-2023
  • 3. What has been your most meaningful community service experience to date?


    2014-2015 2017-2018 2018-2019

Academic and Research Experiences

  • 1. Please provide the Admissions Committee with a brief summary of your activities, academics, employment, or other engagements that account for full-time activity (approximately 30-40 hours per week) from the time of your application through your matriculation in 2024.


    2023-2024
  • 2. Please provide the Admissions Committee with a brief summary of your activities, academics, employment, or other engagements that account for full-time activity (approximately 30-40 hours per week) from the time of your application through your matriculation in 2022.


    2021-2022
  • 3. Please provide the Admissions Committee with a brief summary of your activities, academics, employment, or other engagements that account for full-time activity (approximately 30-40 hours per week) from the time of your application through your matriculation in 2020.


    2019-2020
  • 4. Please provide the Admissions Committee with a brief summary of your activities, academics, employment, or other engagements that account for full-time activity (approximately 30-40 hours per week) during the 2018-2019 application cycle, or from the time of application through matriculation in 2019.


    2018-2019