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Below are the secondary prompts for University of Illinois College of Medicine. Want to maximize your chances for an interview invite? Work with our expert medical school admission consultants to put your best foot forward through our secondary application editing services.
In addition to training as a competent physician please select up to two additional areas of interest from the items below that you may want to pursue during your medical studies. Your responses will have no bearing on applications to joint degrees or special programs to which you might also apply.
1. Simulation
2. Research in healthcare delivery
3. Basic science research
4. Interdisciplinary collaboration
5. Healthcare disparities
6. Academic medicine
7. Global Health
8. Community Health (urban)
9. Community Health (rural)
10. Innovation Medicine
Provide a short, 300-500 words, statement on your interest and how you see it influencing your learning.
Please begin your statement with the letter(s) representing the area(s) of interest enclosed in parentheses as a programmatic queue. Separate multiple areas of interest with a comma. For example, your essay would begin as follows, if you chose Simulation and Research in healthcare delivery: (A,B) …
If you choose just one additional area of interest: (A) …
Describe any advantages and/or complications you encountered during your progression in education. Please include any noteworthy achievements and/or obstacles. (Examples: Acute or chronic illnesses, employment, financial difficulty, managerial role in household, etc.) (Don’t exceed 150 words)
If you did not experience an advantage and/or complication during your education please indicate ‘Not Applicable’
