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University of Washington School of Medicine

Seattle, WA

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How have your experiences prepared you to be a physician?

250 words2021-2022Historical

What obstacles have you experienced and how have you overcome them?

250 words2021-2022, 2022-2023, 2023-2024, 2024-2025, 2025-2026School Staple

How have societal inequities in the U.S. affected you or people you have worked with?

250 words2021-2022, 2022-2023, 2023-2024, 2024-2025, 2025-2026School Staple

For re-applicants: From your most recent application until now, how have you strengthened your application?

250 words2021-2022, 2023-2024Historical

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 that you would like to serve.

No character/word limit2021-2022, 2022-2023Historical

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

250 words2023-2024, 2024-2025, 2025-2026School Staple

For Wyoming applicants: Describe your experiences in Wyoming that have influenced and/or informed your decision to pursue a medical career?

250 words2023-2024Historical

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

No character/word limit2021-2022, 2022-2023Historical

Demonstrated competency - Social sciences, Humanities or "Human Condition" 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 policy operate at the community and national level to impact the health of individuals. Students should be familiar with disparities in health currently present in society and their underlying etiologies. Candidates seeking acceptance to UWSOM can establish competency in this area through course work in the social sciences, humanities or related interdisciplinary fields such as public health or ethnic and gender studies, clinical and/or population health research, service learning, lived experience or a combination of thereof. Examples of social science/humanities coursework to consider: Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, Economics, Psychology, Religion, History, Philosophy, Literature.? Essay: Describe your competency by explaining how you have explored and come to understand issues in the social sciences and humanities as they relate to the practice of medicine.

250 words2022-2023, 2024-2025, 2025-2026School Staple

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

250 words2023-2024Historical