Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine

1. Explain how you have determined that you want to dedicate your life to studying and practicing medicine. Describe how the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine (SSOM) can help you grow into the person and physician you aspire to be.

2. Have you applied to SSOM before this application? If so, please list the years of your previous applications to SSOM and explain how your application has improved since your last submission.

3. Explain how you have determined that you want to dedicate your life to studying and practicing medicine. Describe how the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine (SSOM) can help you grow into the person and physician you aspire to be. (Minimum of 100 words)

1. Describe a time when you received feedback about your performance that you disagreed with. What specifically did you disagree with, and how did you handle the situation?

1. Relate a situation in which you determined that something you did or said did not go over well with someone else. How did you know, and what did you do?

2. Describe a time you received feedback about your performance and disagreed with it. What did you disagree with and how did you handle it?

3. Have you or any of your relatives attended or been employed by Loyola University Chicago or the Stritch School of Medicine?

4. Please indicate any additional grades earned, changes to your proposed coursework or graduation date, address changes, additions to your list of experiences, and any other information you believe we should know.

5. If you have not been enrolled in coursework for more than two years, please explain what you have been doing since your coursework ended.

6. Are you currently enrolled in, or have you ever been enrolled in, any of the following programs?

7. Have you ever been convicted of a crime, excluding minor traffic or parking violations? If so, please explain below.

8. If you did not submit a letter from an advisor or committee, please explain why.

9. Have you or any of your relatives attended or been employed by Loyola University Chicago or the Loyola Stritch School of Medicine? If so, please list their affiliations and years of attendance. Complete the following questions if applicable:

10. Are you currently enrolled in, or have you ever been enrolled in, any of the following programs? (Listed in the application portal)

11. Have you or any of your relatives attended or been employed by Loyola University Chicago or the Loyola Stritch School of Medicine? If so, please list their affiliations and years of attendance.

1. Describe a non-academic personal/professional challenge or conflict that you have experienced. Explain the skills and strategies you employed to resolve it.

2. Describe a non-academic personal or professional challenge or conflict you have experienced. Explain the skills, resources, and strategies you used to resolve the issue.

3. Please provide more details (in fewer than 1500 characters) about any gaps or delays in your education, academic missteps, or personal challenges that are not mentioned elsewhere.

4. Describe a non-academic personal or professional challenge or conflict you have experienced. Explain the skills, resources, and/or strategies you used to resolve the issue.

1. Social justice: Describe an impactful experience working with and for under-resourced communities. Explain what you learned about yourself through this service.

2. Social justice in the Jesuit tradition, which recognizes the justice owed to each person by virtue of their inherent human dignity, is an essential aspect of education at SSOM. Describe what you have learned about yourself from your concrete social justice experiences. Explain how you plan to sustain your efforts to advocate for current social justice issues as a medical student and as a physician.

3. Serving underserved and under-resourced communities is an expression of social justice. Describe a significant experience you have had working with and for under-resourced communities. Explain what you have learned about yourself through this service, or discuss any challenges you have faced in your efforts to serve others in these environments.

4. Social justice in the Jesuit tradition, which emphasizes the justice owed to each person by virtue of their inherent human dignity, is a fundamental aspect of education at SSOM. Describe what you have learned about yourself through your concrete social justice experiences. Explain how you plan to continue advocating for current social justice issues as a medical student and as a physician. (Minimum 100 words)

5. Serving underserved and under-resourced communities is an expression of social justice. Describe a significant experience you have had working with and for under-resourced communities. Explain what you have learned about yourself through this service, or discuss any challenges you have faced in your efforts to serve others in these environments. (Minimum 100 words)

1. Explain how you know that you want to spend your life studying and practicing medicine. Describe how Stritch can help you develop into the kind of physician you hope to become.

1. Describe your leadership style and provide a specific example of how you have applied it. (Minimum 100 words)