Loma Linda University School of Medicine

1. What personal attributes make you a desirable candidate for admission to LLUSM?

2. What aspects of LLUSM make it particularly attractive to you?

3. Our medical curriculum integrates spiritual, ethical, and relational issues from a Christian perspective into the practice of medicine. Weekly chapel services and religion courses are part of this program. Please respond to this in relation to your personal educational and career goals.

4. Our medical curriculum integrates spiritual, ethical, and relational issues from a Christian perspective into the practice of medicine. Weekly chapel services and religion courses are part of this program. Please respond to this integration as it relates to your personal educational and career goals.

5. What aspects of Loma Linda University School of Medicine (LLUSM) do you find particularly appealing?

6. Describe the depth and sources of your knowledge about LLUSM.

7. As a Christian educational institution, the medical curriculum integrates spiritual, ethical, and relational issues from a Christian perspective into the practice of medicine. Weekly chapel services and religion courses are part of this program. Please respond to this in relation to your personal educational and career goals.

8. What qualities make you a strong candidate for admission to LLUSM?

9. If accepted to LLUSM, will you agree to abide by the lifestyle policies of Loma Linda University School of Medicine?

1. If you have already graduated, briefly describe your activities since graduation and your planned activities prior to matriculation into medical school.

2. Are there specific areas of medicine that particularly interest you? If so, please elaborate.

1. What personal attributes make you a strong candidate for admission to LLUSM?

2. If accepted to LLUSM, are you willing to abstain from the use of alcohol, nicotine, cannabinoids, and illicit drugs/substances? (yes/no) Please explain.

1. What makes LLUSM particularly attractive to you?

2. Discuss how your spiritual origins, development, and experiences have influenced and been integrated into your daily life.

3. Behavioral Expectations. LLU has expectations which include respect for all persons and high standards of personal and professional conduct. This includes abstinence from alcohol, nicotine, cannabinoids, and illicit drugs/substances in all forms. Please describe any use of the above substances within the past year.

4. Please describe your current involvement with a church or religious group, or explain why you are not involved.

5. Loma Linda University is a Seventh-day Adventist institution with lifestyle expectations that include abstaining from alcohol, nicotine, cannabinoids, and all forms of illicit drugs and substances. Please describe any use of these substances within the past year.

6. Please provide the name and contact number of your clergy or pastor.

7. Do you regularly attend or participate in the services of a church or religious group? (Yes/No) Please provide additional comments.

8. Loma Linda University is a Seventh-day Adventist institution with lifestyle expectations that include abstaining from alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs or substances in all forms. In the past year, have you used any of these substances? If so, which ones?

1. Discuss how your spiritual origins, development, and experiences have influenced your daily life and how they have been integrated into it.

2. If you have already graduated, please describe your activities since graduation and your planned activities before matriculating into medical school.

3. Explain how COVID-19 or recent events in American society may have impacted your educational, research, volunteering, or employment plans.

4. Please discuss whether COVID-19 interrupted your employment, research, or any other significant aspects of your life.

5. Briefly describe your single most rewarding experience. You may refer to an experience previously mentioned in your AMCAS application.

6. Briefly describe a situation in which you had to overcome adversity. Include the lessons you learned and how you believe this experience will impact your career as a future physician.

1. Our medical curriculum integrates spiritual, ethical, and relational issues from the Christian perspective into the practice of medicine. Religion courses and weekly chapel services are part of this program. Please respond to the preceding statements as they relate to your personal educational and career goals.

2. Identify experiences in your life that illustrate your service to others.

3. Identify experiences in your life that demonstrate your commitment to serving others.

4. Identify experiences in your life that illustrate your commitment to serving others.

5. Briefly describe a situation in which you were not part of the majority. What did you learn from that experience?

6. Optional: The Admissions Committee values hearing from each candidate for admission, including the qualities they might bring to the School of Medicine if admitted. If you believe there is information not already addressed in your application that would help the Committee learn more about you and your motivation to become a physician, please feel free to write a brief statement in the space below. You may address any subject you wish, such as being a first-generation college student, a member of a minority group (including aspects such as sexual orientation, religion, economic status, gender identity, or ethnicity), or being the child of undocumented immigrants or undocumented yourself, etc. Please note that this question is optional, and you will not be penalized if you choose not to answer it.

7. What experiences in your life illustrate your perspective on serving others?

1. Please describe your current involvement (or reason for not being involved) with a church or religious group.