University of Washington School of Medicine

1. For re-applicants: Since your most recent application, how have you strengthened your candidacy?

2. How did you learn about the University of Washington's Medical Scientist Training Program?

3. Discuss the origin and development of your motivation to become a physician.

4. How have your experiences prepared you to become a physician?

5. If your primary AMCAS application has not addressed the origin and development of your motivation to become a physician, including insights you have gained from exploring a career in medicine, as well as how your personal attributes would make you a good physician, please discuss those here. (250-word count)

6. How have your experiences prepared you to become a physician? (250-word limit)

7. How do your experiences align with the mission and values of the University of Washington School of Medicine?

8. From your most recent application to the present, how have you strengthened your application?

1. What are your eventual goals as a physician?

1. What perspectives, identities, and/or qualities would you bring to enrich the field of medicine? (250 words)

2. Demonstrated competency in the social sciences, humanities, or the "human condition."

3. Describe your competency by explaining how you have explored and come to understand issues in the social sciences and humanities related to the "human condition."

4. What personal attributes do you possess that would make you a good physician?

1. Describe your competency by explaining how you have explored and understood issues in the social sciences and humanities as they relate to the practice of medicine.

2. "Describe the steps you have taken to explore a career in medicine."

3. What steps have you taken to explore a career in medicine?

1. How have societal inequities in the U.S. affected you or people you have worked with? (250 words)

2. If you are not currently enrolled in coursework and do not plan to be enrolled during the application process, please describe your activities during this time.

3. Please use this space to supplement your AMCAS Personal Comments. The MSTP will consider the information provided here in addition to your AMCAS Personal Comments.

1. What obstacles have you experienced and how have you overcome them? (250 words)

2. What obstacles have you faced, and how have you overcome them?

3. 2022-2023 University of Washington Secondary Essay Prompts 1. We recognize that the world has changed significantly due to the global pandemic. Please share how COVID-19 has impacted you, your family, your community, and/or the patients you wish to serve.

4. Please use this opportunity to provide any autobiographical information that you believe would be helpful for the MSTP office.

5. If you have already addressed these topics, please do not repeat what you have written. Instead, use this autobiographical statement addendum to provide additional insight into who you are beyond your aspiration to become a physician. This is another opportunity for you to convey what you would like the Admissions Committee to know about you.

6. What obstacles have you faced, and how have you overcome them? (250-word limit)

7. The Personal Comments section of the AMCAS application can be used to fulfill this requirement, or you may submit an additional autobiography along with your secondary materials. Your AMCAS personal statement will already be on file with our office.

8. What obstacles have you encountered in pursuing your goals, and how have you addressed them?

1. For Wyoming applicants: Describe your experiences in Wyoming that have influenced or informed your decision to pursue a medical career.

1. How have societal inequities in the U.S. impacted you or those you have worked with?

2. The UWSOM aims to build a diverse class of students to enrich the field of medicine. What perspectives, identities, and qualities would you contribute?

3. How have societal inequities in the U.S. impacted you or the patients you have worked with?

4. What perspectives or experiences do you bring that would enrich the class?

5. Entering medical students should understand the social forces that shape the health of the individuals and communities they will serve. This includes understanding how social contextual factors and policies operate at both the community and national levels to impact individual health. Students should be familiar with the health disparities currently present in society and their underlying causes. Candidates seeking acceptance to UWSOM can demonstrate competency in this area through coursework in the social sciences, humanities, or related interdisciplinary fields such as public health or ethnic and gender studies, as well as through clinical and/or population health research, service learning, lived experience, or a combination of these. Examples of relevant social science and humanities coursework include Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, Economics, Psychology, Religion, History, Philosophy, and Literature.

6. How do you perceive historical and structural inequities impacting the patients you have worked with and will work with? Additionally, how do you, as a student and future physician, plan to address these broader causes of health disparities? (250-word count)

7. What perspectives or experiences do you bring that would enrich the class? (250 words)

1. Describe your previous experiences in health care.