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1. Describe your health care experiences that involved direct exposure to physicians' clinical duties and how they have shaped your desire to apply to medical school.


2. Describe examples of leadership experience in which you have significantly influenced others, helped resolve disputes, or contributed to group efforts over time.


3. Beyond academics (grades and MCATs), describe the most significant challenge you have faced and the steps you have taken to address this challenge.


4. Give an example of what you have done to make your community a better place to live.


5. Describe how you relate to someone who is very different from you. Examples of differences may be cultural, racial, religious, economic, gender/sexual orientation, lifestyle.


6. If you are not a Kansas resident, what is your specific interest in applying to the University of Kansas School of Medicine?


7. If necessary, update the information contained in your AMCAS application. Indicate grades earned, alterations in your proposed course work or graduation time, additions to your extracurricular activities, or other pertinent information.


8. If there are discrepancies in your application that have not been explained in your personal statement, use this space to clarify. Examples may include unexplained gaps in time, multiple undergraduate institutions attended, multiple course withdrawals, inconsistent academic performance, inconsistency between academic performance and MCAT scores.


9. If you are currently enrolled, or plan to be enrolled during the next academic year, in a graduate or professional degree program, please describe your status within the program and your intention to complete the program. You must also request a letter from your graduate program advisor or from the dean of your professional school. This letter must include acknowledgement of your application to medical school and a description of your status in the program.


10. If you are no longer a full-time student, briefly describe your current employment, community, medical, and/or educational activities.


11. For Repeat Applicants Only: Since your last application, note any relevant academic, employment, and personal experiences that enhance your ability to be a better physician.


12. For Combined MD/PhD Program Applicants: Do you also want to be considered as an "MD-only" applicant?


*13. Have you ever been convicted for violation of a regulation or law relating to controlled substances (answer YES or NO)? If yes, provide appropriate explanation(s), including the date(s) of conviction, case number(s), and the jurisdictional court(s) involved.


*14. Have you ever been convicted of a felony (answer YES or NO)? If yes, provide appropriate explanation(s), including the date(s) of conviction, case number(s), and the jurisdictional court(s) involved.

1,000 character limit.


Good luck to everyone applying!
 
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Thanks, flanneldoc! I'm also an EDP applicant! Does anybody know when KUMC typically sends the secondary application for EDP?
 
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another EDP checking in! Last year they sent secondaries during the 2nd week of July! Good luck to everyone!!
 
Anybody have tips for the "describe how you relate to someone who is very different from you" prompt? I'm just not really sure where to start with this one because the question seems so broad.
 
Anybody have tips for the "describe how you relate to someone who is very different from you" prompt? I'm just not really sure where to start with this one because the question seems so broad.
Struggling with that one as well. I took it as wanting an example of how you have related with someone who is different from you. Not sure if that's the correct direction, but that's the way I wrote it.
 
Struggling with that one as well. I took it as wanting an example of how you have related with someone who is different from you. Not sure if that's the correct direction, but that's the way I wrote it.
I finally just decided to start writing with whatever came to mind. I was really just more confused about what the question was asking. I sort of just wrote about how I "in general" relate to people who are different from myself and then gave an example.
 
Submitted my secondary for EDP! Good luck everybody! ...and now the wait for an II. I assume they don't start sending those until the end of August.

UPDATE: File completed for secondary application. It took about 1 week to be processed from submission.
 
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1. Describe your health care experiences that involved direct exposure to physicians' clinical duties and how they have shaped your desire to apply to medical school.


2. Describe examples of leadership experience in which you have significantly influenced others, helped resolve disputes, or contributed to group efforts over time.


3. Beyond academics (grades and MCATs), describe the most significant challenge you have faced and the steps you have taken to address this challenge.


4. Give an example of what you have done to make your community a better place to live.


5. Describe how you relate to someone who is very different from you. Examples of differences may be cultural, racial, religious, economic, gender/sexual orientation, lifestyle.


6. If you are not a Kansas resident, what is your specific interest in applying to the University of Kansas School of Medicine?


7. If necessary, update the information contained in your AMCAS application. Indicate grades earned, alterations in your proposed course work or graduation time, additions to your extracurricular activities, or other pertinent information.


8. If there are discrepancies in your application that have not been explained in your personal statement, use this space to clarify. Examples may include unexplained gaps in time, multiple undergraduate institutions attended, multiple course withdrawals, inconsistent academic performance, inconsistency between academic performance and MCAT scores.


9. If you are currently enrolled, or plan to be enrolled during the next academic year, in a graduate or professional degree program, please describe your status within the program and your intention to complete the program. You must also request a letter from your graduate program advisor or from the dean of your professional school. This letter must include acknowledgement of your application to medical school and a description of your status in the program.


10. If you are no longer a full-time student, briefly describe your current employment, community, medical, and/or educational activities.


11. For Repeat Applicants Only: Since your last application, note any relevant academic, employment, and personal experiences that enhance your ability to be a better physician.


12. For Combined MD/PhD Program Applicants: Do you also want to be considered as an "MD-only" applicant?


*13. Have you ever been convicted for violation of a regulation or law relating to controlled substances (answer YES or NO)? If yes, provide appropriate explanation(s), including the date(s) of conviction, case number(s), and the jurisdictional court(s) involved.


*14. Have you ever been convicted of a felony (answer YES or NO)? If yes, provide appropriate explanation(s), including the date(s) of conviction, case number(s), and the jurisdictional court(s) involved.

1,000 character limit.
 
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1. Describe your health care experiences that involved direct exposure to physicians' clinical duties and how they have shaped your desire to apply to medical school.


2. Describe examples of leadership experience in which you have significantly influenced others, helped resolve disputes, or contributed to group efforts over time.


3. Beyond academics (grades and MCATs), describe the most significant challenge you have faced and the steps you have taken to address this challenge.


4. Give an example of what you have done to make your community a better place to live.


5. Describe how you relate to someone who is very different from you. Examples of differences may be cultural, racial, religious, economic, gender/sexual orientation, lifestyle.


6. If you are not a Kansas resident, what is your specific interest in applying to the University of Kansas School of Medicine?


7. If necessary, update the information contained in your AMCAS application. Indicate grades earned, alterations in your proposed course work or graduation time, additions to your extracurricular activities, or other pertinent information.


8. If there are discrepancies in your application that have not been explained in your personal statement, use this space to clarify. Examples may include unexplained gaps in time, multiple undergraduate institutions attended, multiple course withdrawals, inconsistent academic performance, inconsistency between academic performance and MCAT scores.


9. If you are currently enrolled, or plan to be enrolled during the next academic year, in a graduate or professional degree program, please describe your status within the program and your intention to complete the program. You must also request a letter from your graduate program advisor or from the dean of your professional school. This letter must include acknowledgement of your application to medical school and a description of your status in the program.


10. If you are no longer a full-time student, briefly describe your current employment, community, medical, and/or educational activities.


11. For Repeat Applicants Only: Since your last application, note any relevant academic, employment, and personal experiences that enhance your ability to be a better physician.


12. For Combined MD/PhD Program Applicants: Do you also want to be considered as an "MD-only" applicant?


*13. Have you ever been convicted for violation of a regulation or law relating to controlled substances (answer YES or NO)? If yes, provide appropriate explanation(s), including the date(s) of conviction, case number(s), and the jurisdictional court(s) involved.


*14. Have you ever been convicted of a felony (answer YES or NO)? If yes, provide appropriate explanation(s), including the date(s) of conviction, case number(s), and the jurisdictional court(s) involved.

@gyngyn
 
Any non EDP interviews? what were the dates given? Any EDP that got a RD interview?
 
I'm a first year currently if anyone has any questions.
1) What is your favorite thing about KUmed? (& has this changed over time?)
2) What do you like the least about attending KUmed? (& has this changed over time?)
3) How do you feel about KC?
4) Is there something you would change about the curriculum?

EDIT: I just realized you said you were an M1, not that you had been there for 1 year so ignore the "over time" part 😵
 
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1) What is your favorite thing about KUmed? (& has this changed over time?)
2) What do you like the least about attending KUmed? (& has this changed over time?)
3) How do you feel about KC?
4) Is there something you would change about the curriculum?

EDIT: I just realized you said you were an M1, not that you had been there for 1 year so ignore the "over time" part 😵

No worries! my favorite thing about school is the fact that the faculty is really supportive and always there for you no matter what. I feel way more supported and my success cared for more than I ever did in undergrad.

My least favorite thing would have to be just the bumps in the curriculum since it is new. Like mistakes on our PBL's or us just kind of not knowing what's going on. Also way more things are mandatory attendance and I like to podcast. But other than that it's great.

I LOVE KC! There's so much to do and it's super diverse and the people are generally pretty friendly.

If I could change anything about the curriculum it would be making the "flipped classrooms" more interactive. The ones that are truly flipped classrooms are great, but the ones that are like a lecture AND are mandatory just frustrate me and most of the class. Other than that I like it so far!
 
Anyone else who interviewed EDP been replaying/critiquing your answers to questions nonstop since?? Lets hope these next 2 weeks fly by!!
 
Yes, I keep wondering about the ethics question in my first interview and how they kept throwing curveballs at me about it! Overall think they went well and I hope we all see each other next year! 🙂
 
I still haven't received anything either way...am I the only one?

EDIT: Jk, the email was sent to the wrong address. Good luck to everyone else!!
 
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Put on hold/deferred decision (letter said decisions would come mid march). Got the letter via snail mail last night. Friend of mine unfortunetly received a rejection in the mail yesterday. Both interviewed in the first week of October.
 
II today for the end of November! OOS with strong ties. Any interview advice here?
I just interviewed. It's pretty relaxed.
The interviews themselves aren't bad. First is open-book, one-on-one. Second is closed (really they just don't see your GPA or MCAT), and two people will interview you. Practice ethical questions and read up on some modern healthcare issues and topics. Be prepared with questions to ask them at the end.