Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

1. What are your career goals? Describe the features of the MD/PhD Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai that you will leverage to achieve them.

2. Please describe an influential experience that motivated your decision to pursue a career as a physician-scientist.

3. What are your career goals, and which aspects of the MD/PhD Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai do you believe will help you achieve them?

1. What is the toughest feedback you have ever received? How did you handle it, and what did you learn from the experience?

2. What is the toughest feedback you have ever received? How did you handle it, and what did you learn from it? Please limit your response to 250 words.

3. Please describe a passion, whether professional or personal, that you have experienced in your life so far.

1. If you are not currently a full-time student, please briefly describe the activities you are engaged in this academic year.

2. 2022-2023 Mt. Sinai (Icahn) Secondary Essay Prompts: Questions 3 and 4 are required.

3. If you are not currently a full-time student, please briefly describe the activities you are participating in during this academic year. (100-word limit)

1. Were there any adverse circumstances in your premedical preparation journey, including but not limited to the impact of COVID-19?

2. Describe a situation that you perceived as unfair or unjust, whether towards yourself or others. How did you address the situation, if at all?

3. Describe a situation that you perceived as unfair or unjust, either towards yourself or others. How did you address the situation, if at all?

4. If there is an important aspect of your personal background, identity, or commitment to a particular community that has not been addressed elsewhere in the application, we invite you to share it with the Committee here. These aspects may include, but are not limited to, significant challenges related to access to education, living with a disability, socioeconomic factors, immigration status, or identification with a culture, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Please briefly explain how these factors have influenced your motivation for a career in medicine. Completing this section is optional.

5. Were there any adverse circumstances in your premedical preparation journey, including but not limited to the recent impact of COVID-19? If so, please explain. (100-word limit)

6. If there is an important aspect of your personal background, identity, or commitment to a particular community that has not been addressed elsewhere in the application, we invite you to share it here. This may include, but is not limited to, significant challenges related to access to education, living with a disability, socioeconomic factors, immigration status, or identification with a culture, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Please briefly explain how these factors have influenced your motivation for a career in medicine. Completing this section is optional. (100-word count)

7. Describe a situation that you perceived as unfair or unjust, whether towards yourself or others. How did you address the situation, if at all? Please limit your response to 200 words.

8. Optional: If there is an important aspect of your personal background, identity, or commitment to a particular community that has not been addressed elsewhere in the application, we invite you to share it here. This may include, but is not limited to, significant challenges related to access to education, living with a disability, socioeconomic factors, immigration status, or identification with a culture, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Please briefly explain how these factors have influenced your motivation for a career in medicine. Completing this section is optional.

1. (Optional) If you are committed to a particular community or if there is an important aspect of your identity that is not addressed elsewhere in the application, we invite you to share it here. Please also briefly explain how these factors may have influenced your motivation for a career in medicine. Completing this section is optional.

2. If you are committed to a particular community or if there is an important aspect of your identity that is not addressed elsewhere in the application, we invite you to share it here. Please also briefly explain how these factors may have influenced your motivation for a career in medicine. Completing this section is optional.

1. Please describe a time when an experiment did not go as planned or produced an unexpected result. How did you address this challenge, and what did you learn from the experience?

1. Please describe a situation in which collaborating on a team was challenging. What actions did you take, and what did you learn from the experience?

2. Please describe a situation in which collaborating with others was challenging.