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Stanford University School of Medicine

Motivation and Fit

  • 1. Please describe your motivation for this practice scenario. Why do you feel you are particularly suited for this practice scenario? What knowledge, skills and attitudes have you developed that have prepared you for this career path?


    2023-2024
  • 2. Please describe the aspects of your life experiences, interests, and character that would enable you to make a distinctive contribution to Stanford Medicine. (2000 character limit)


    2024-2025
  • 3. (Optional) Please share any additional information that will help us understand how you may uniquely contribute to Stanford Medicine. (1000 character limit)


    2024-2025
  • 4. Please describe your motivation for this practice scenario. Why do you believe you are particularly well-suited for it? What knowledge, skills, and attitudes have you developed that have prepared you for this career path? (1,000 character limit)


    2023-2024
  • 5. 9. ANYTHING ELSE? (OPTIONAL) Please include any additional information that will help us better understand how you may uniquely contribute to Stanford Medicine. (1,000 character limit)


    2023-2024
  • 6. (Optional) Please include any additional information that will help us better understand how you may uniquely contribute to Stanford Medicine.


    2021-2022 2022-2023
  • 7. Please include any additional information that will help us better understand how you may uniquely contribute to Stanford Medicine. (OPTIONAL)


    2018-2019 2020-2021
  • 8. Why do you believe you are particularly suited for this practice scenario? What knowledge, skills, and attitudes have you developed that have prepared you for this career path? Please limit your response to 1,000 characters, including spaces.


    2019-2020
  • 9. How will you leverage the Stanford Medicine Discovery Curriculum and the scholarly concentration requirement to achieve your personal career goals? Please limit your response to 1,000 characters, including spaces.


    2019-2020
  • 10. Please include any additional information that will help us better understand how you may uniquely contribute to Stanford Medicine. (OPTIONAL) Please limit your response to 1,000 characters, including spaces.


    2019-2020
  • 11. Please limit your answer to 1,000 characters, including spaces. Why do you believe you are particularly suited for this practice scenario? What knowledge, skills, and attitudes have you developed that have prepared you for this career path?


    2018-2019
  • 12. How will Stanford's curriculum, particularly the requirement for a scholarly concentration, support your personal career goals?


    2018-2019
  • 13. How will the Stanford curriculum, particularly the requirement for a scholarly concentration, support your personal career goals? (1,000 characters including spaces)


    2018-2019
  • 14. Is there anything we have not specifically asked that you would like us to know about how you may uniquely contribute to Stanford Medicine? OPTIONAL (1,000 characters including spaces)


    2018-2019
  • 15. Why do you believe you are particularly suited for this practice scenario? What knowledge, skills, and attitudes have you developed that have prepared you for this career path?


    2018-2019
  • 16. How will the Stanford curriculum, particularly the requirement for a scholarly concentration, support your personal career goals?


    2018-2019
  • 17. Why do you believe you are particularly suited for this practice scenario? What knowledge, skills, and attitudes have you developed that have prepared you for this career path? (1000 characters including spaces)


    2018-2019
  • 18. How will the Stanford curriculum, particularly the requirement for a scholarly concentration, support your personal career goals? (1000 characters including spaces)


    2018-2019

Career Goals and Future Aspirations

  • 1. How will you take advantage of the Stanford Medicine Discovery Curriculum and scholarly concentration requirement to achieve your personal career goals?


    2023-2024
  • 2. What do you envision as the most likely practice scenario for your future medical career? Please select the option that best describes your career goals and clinical practice setting: Academic Medicine (Clinical), Academic Medicine (Physician Scientist), Health Policy, Primary Care, Public Health/Community Health, or Global Health. Additionally, please describe your motivation for this practice scenario. Why do you believe you are particularly suited for this path? What knowledge, skills, and attitudes have you developed that have prepared you for this career? (1000 character limit)


    2024-2025
  • 3. How will you leverage the Stanford Medicine Discovery Curriculum and the scholarly concentration requirement to achieve your personal career goals? (1000 character limit)


    2024-2025
  • 4. 3. PRACTICE SETTING: What do you envision as the most likely practice scenario for your future medical career? Please select the single answer that best describes your career goals and clinical practice setting: Academic Medicine (Clinical), Academic Medicine (Physician Scientist), Non-Academic Clinical Practice, Health Policy, Health Administration, Primary Care, Public Health/Community Health, or Global Health.


    2023-2024
  • 5. 4 CURRICULAR INTERESTS How do you plan to leverage the Stanford Medicine Discovery Curriculum and the scholarly concentration requirement to achieve your personal career goals? (1,000 character limit)


    2023-2024
  • 6. What do you envision as the most probable practice scenario for your future medical career?


    2018-2019 2019-2020 2022-2023
  • 7. Choose the single option that best describes your career goals and clinical practice setting: - Academic Medicine (Clinical) - Academic Medicine (Physician Scientist) - Non-Academic Clinical Practice - Health Policy - Health Administration - Primary Care - Public Health/Community Health - Global Health. Why do you believe you are particularly suited for this practice scenario? What knowledge, skills, and attitudes have you developed that have prepared you for this career path?


    2022-2023
  • 8. How will you leverage the Stanford Medicine Discovery Curriculum and the scholarly concentration requirement to achieve your personal career goals?


    2020-2021 2021-2022 2022-2023
  • 9. Select your desired medical practice. Why do you believe you are particularly suited for this practice scenario? What knowledge, skills, and attitudes have you developed that have prepared you for this career path?


    2021-2022
  • 10. Choose the single answer that best describes your career goals and clinical practice setting: Academic Medicine (Clinical), Academic Medicine (Physician Scientist), Non-Academic Clinical Practice, Health Policy, Health Administration, Primary Care, Public Health/Community Health, or Global Health. Why do you believe you are particularly suited for this practice scenario? What knowledge, skills, and attitudes have you developed that have prepared you for this career path?


    2020-2021
  • 11. What do you envision as the most likely practice scenario for your future medical career?


    2018-2019
  • 12. What do you envision as the most likely practice scenario for your future medical career? Why do you believe you are particularly well-suited for this scenario? What knowledge, skills, and attitudes have you developed that have prepared you for this career path? (1,000 characters including spaces)


    2018-2019
  • 13. What do you envision as the most likely practice scenario for your future medical career? Please select the one option that best describes your career goals: Private Practice, Health Policy, Academic Medicine, Public Health, or Health Care Administration. Why do you believe you are particularly suited for this practice scenario? What knowledge, skills, and attitudes have you developed that have prepared you for this career path?


    2018-2019

Understanding and Commitment to Medicine

  • 1. Please describe which aspects of your life experiences, interests, and character would help you to make a distinctive contribution to Stanford Medicine.


    2023-2024
  • 2. Please include anything else that will help us understand better how you may uniquely contribute to Stanford Medicine?


    2023-2024

Other

  • 1. Describe in a short paragraph your educational and family background. (For example) I grew up in New York City, as the 3rd child of a supermarket cashier and a high school principal. I attended Mann High School where my major interests were boxing and drama.


    2023-2024
  • 2. Please describe an experience/ situation when you advocated for someone else.


    2023-2024
  • 3. Are there any current or pending disputes regarding your academic status? If so, please explain. (300 character limit)


    2023-2024 2024-2025
  • 4. Are you a community college transfer student? This designation specifically refers to individuals who enrolled at a community college with the express purpose of transferring to a four-year institution. This excludes courses taken at a community college during high school, during interruptions in your undergraduate studies (from a four-year institution), or post-undergraduate studies. If you completed community college coursework during the excluded periods mentioned, do not answer yes to this question. Yes/No


    2024-2025
  • 5. Has your education included any formal postbaccalaureate pre-medical programs? Yes/No


    2024-2025

Personal Experiences and Challenges

  • 1. Was your enrollment status ever interrupted during your undergraduate or graduate program, excluding summer terms (e.g., for medical, personal, or academic reasons, military service, etc.)? If yes, please explain. (150 character limit)


    2023-2024 2024-2025
  • 2. Describe your educational and family background in a short paragraph. For example, you might say, "I grew up in New York City as the third child of a supermarket cashier and a high school principal. I attended Mann High School, where my major interests were boxing and drama." (600 character limit)


    2024-2025
  • 3. Are you a re-applicant to the Stanford Medicine MD Program? What experiences highlight the most significant differences between your previous and current application? (Research, Community/Volunteer Services, Paid Employment, Awards/Honors) (350 character limit)


    2024-2025
  • 4. 5 BACKGROUND: In a short paragraph, describe your educational and family background. For example, you might say, "I grew up in New York City as the third child of a supermarket cashier and a high school principal. I attended Mann High School, where my major interests were boxing and drama." (600 character limit)


    2023-2024
  • 5. Describe your educational and family background in a short paragraph.


    2021-2022
  • 6. Please describe any lessons, hardships, challenges, or opportunities that arose from the global COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, explain how these insights have shaped your motivations and preparation for medical school in the areas of academics, research, employment, volunteer service, and/or clinical experiences.


    2021-2022
  • 7. Please describe any lessons, hardships, challenges, or opportunities that arose from the global COVID-19 pandemic. Include any impact on your preparation for medical school applications in the areas of academics, research, employment, volunteer service, and/or clinical experiences.


    2020-2021

Community, Diversity, and Equity

  • 1. Was your enrollment status ever interrupted during your undergraduate or graduate program, not including summer term (e.g. medical, personal, or academic reasons, military service, other)? If yes, please explain.


    2023-2024
  • 2. Please describe how you have uniquely contributed to a community with which you identify.


    2023-2024
  • 3. Please describe how you have made a unique contribution to a community with which you identify. (1000 character limit)


    2024-2025
  • 4. The Committee on Admissions considers the diversity (broadly defined) of an entering class to be an important factor in fulfilling the educational mission of the school. The Committee strongly encourages you to share unique, personally significant, and/or challenging aspects of your background, which may include discussions about the quality of your early education, gender, sexual orientation, any physical challenges, and life or work experiences. Please describe how these factors have influenced your goals and preparation for a career in medicine and how they may enable you to contribute uniquely to the Stanford learning environment.


    2020-2021 2021-2022
  • 5. The Committee on Admissions considers the diversity (broadly defined) of an entering class to be an important factor in fulfilling the educational mission of the school. The Committee strongly encourages you to share unique, personally significant, and/or challenging aspects of your background, such as the quality of your early educational environment, socioeconomic status, culture, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and life or work experiences. Please discuss how these factors have influenced your goals and preparation for a career in medicine.


    2018-2019
  • 6. The Committee on Admissions considers the diversity (broadly defined) of an entering class to be a crucial factor in fulfilling the educational mission of the school. The Committee strongly encourages you to share unique, personally significant, and/or challenging aspects of your background, such as the quality of your early educational environment, socioeconomic status, culture, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and life or work experiences. Please discuss how these factors have influenced your goals and preparation for a career in medicine. (2,000 characters including spaces)


    2018-2019

Academic and Research Experiences

  • 1. Are there any current or pending disputes concerning your academic status? If yes, please explain.


    2023-2024
  • 2. If you have peer-reviewed publications resulting from your scholarly endeavors, please provide a citation for each publication in the space below using the following format: Author, Title, Journal, Volume, Pages, and Date of Publication (e.g., searchable on PubMed).


    2018-2019

Leadership and Teamwork

  • 1. Please describe an experience or situation in which you advocated for someone else. (1000 character limit)


    2024-2025
  • 2. Please describe an experience or situation in which you advocated for someone else.


    2021-2022
  • 3. How would you address a situation in which your colleague is not contributing equally to a collaborative project?


    2018-2019