Loma Linda University School of Medicine Secondary Questions

Here are Loma Linda University School of Medicine’s secondary questions.

2022-2023

•  What makes LLUSM particularly attractive to you?
• Our medical curriculum integrates spiritual, ethical, and relational issues from Christian perspective into the practice of medicine. Weekly chapel services and religion courses are part of this program. Please respond to the above as it relates to your personal educational and career goals.
•  What personal attributes make you a desirable candidate for admission to LLUSM?
• Identify experiences in your life that illustrate your service to others.
• Discuss how your spiritual origins, development, and experiences have influenced and been integrated into your daily life.
• Please describe your current involvement (or reason for not being involved) with a church or religious group.
• If you have already graduated, describe your activities since graduation and your planned activities prior to matriculation into medical school.
• Explain any impact that COVID-19 or recent events in American society may have had on your educational, research, volunteering or employment plans.

2021-2022

• What makes LLUSM particularly attractive to you?
• Our medical curriculum integrates a spiritual, ethical, and relational issues from a Christian perspective into the practice of medicine. Weekly chapel services and religion courses are part of this program. Please respond to the above as it relates to your personal educational and career goals.
• Loma Linda University is a Seventh-day Adventist institution that has lifestyle expectations that include abstinence from alcohol, nicotine, cannabinoids, and illicit drugs/substances in all forms. Describe any use of these substances within the past year.
• What personal attributes make you a desirable candidate for admission to LLUSM?
• Identify experiences in your life that illustrate your service to others.
• Discuss how your spiritual origins, development, and experiences have influenced and been integrated into your daily life.
• Please describe your current involvement (or reason for not being involved) with a church or religious group.
• Please enter the name and contact number for your Clergy/Pastor
• If you have already graduated, describe your activities since graduation and your planned activities prior to matriculation into medical school.
• Explain any impact that COVID-19 or recent events in American society may have had on your educational, research, volunteering or employment plans.

2020-2021

• What makes Loma Linda University School of Medicine (LLUSM) particularly attractive to you?
• Describe the extent and source of your knowledge of LLUSM.
• What personal attributes make you a desirable candidate for admission to LLUSM?
• Identify experiences in your life that illustrate your service to others?
• Discuss how your spiritual origins, development, and experiences have influenced and been integrated into your daily life.
• Do you regularly attend or participate in the services of a church or religious group? (yes/no) Please comment.
• As a Christian educational institution the medical curriculum integrates a spiritual, ethical, and relational issues from a Christian perspective into the practice of medicine. Weekly chapel services and religion courses are part of this program. Please respond to the above as it relates to your personal educational and career goals.
• Loma Linda University is a Seventh-day Adventist institution that has lifestyle expectations that include abstinence from alcohol, nicotine, cannabinoids, and illicit drugs/substances in all forms. Describe any use of these substances within the past year.
• If accepted to LLUSM, are you willing to abstain from alcohol, nicotine, cannabinoid, and illicit drug/substance use? (yes/no) Please explain
• If you have already graduated, describe your activities since graduation and your planned activities prior to matriculation into medical school.
• Added prompt to discuss if COVID-19 interrupted employment, research, anything significant.

2019-2020

• Briefly describe your single, most rewarding experience. Feel free to refer to an experience previously described in your AMCAS application.
• Are there any areas of medicine that are of particular interest to you? If so, please comment.
• Briefly describe a situation where you had to overcome adversity; include lessons learned and how you think it will affect your career as a future physician.
• Briefly describe a situation where you were not in the majority. What did you learn from the experience?
• Optional: The Admissions Committee values hearing about each candidate for admission, including what qualities the candidate might bring to the School of Medicine if admitted. If you feel there is information not already addressed in the application that will enable the Committee to know more about you and this has influenced your desire to be a physician, feel free to write a brief statement in the space below. You may address any subject you wish, such as being a first generation college student, or being a part of a minority group (whether because of your sexual orientation, religion, economic status, gender identity, ethnicity) or being the child of undocumented immigrants or being undocumented yourself, etc. Please note that this question is optional and that you will not be penalized should you choose not to answer it.

All are 9999 characters

2018-2019 

(1) Describe the extent and source of your knowledge of Loma Linda University School of Medicine (LLUSM). (750 chars)

(2) What makes LLUSM particularly attractive to you? (750 chars)

(3) What qualities make you a desirable candidate for admission to LLUSM? (750 chars)

(4) Discuss how your spiritual experience has influenced your life and how you integrate it into your daily life. (750 chars)

(5) What experiences in your life would illustrate your perspective on service to others? (750 chars)

(6) As a Christian educational institution the medical curriculum integrates spiritual, ethical, and relational issues from a Christian perspective into the practice of medicine. Weekly chapel services and religion courses are part of this program. Please respond to the above as it relates to your personal educational and career goals. (750 chars)

(7) Loma Linda University is a Seventh-day Adventist institution that has lifestyle expectations that include abstinence from alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs/substances in all forms. In the past year, have you used any of these substances? If so, which one(s)? (250 chars)

(8) If accepted to LLUSM, are you willing to abide by the lifestyle policies of Loma Linda University School of Medicine? (250 chars)

2017 – 2018

(1) Describe the extent and source of your knowledge of Loma Linda University School of Medicine (LLUSM). (750 chars)

(2) What makes LLUSM particularly attractive to you? (750 chars)

(3) What qualities make you a desirable candidate for admission to LLUSM? (750 chars)

(4) Discuss how your spiritual experience has influenced your life and how you integrate it into your daily life. (750 chars)

(5) What experiences in your life would illustrate your perspective on service to others? (750 chars)

(6) As a Christian educational institution the medical curriculum integrates spiritual, ethical, and relational issues from a Christian perspective into the practice of medicine. Weekly chapel services and religion courses are part of this program. Please respond to the above as it relates to your personal educational and career goals. (750 chars)

(7) Loma Linda University is a Seventh-day Adventist institution that has lifestyle expectations that include abstinence from alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs/substances in all forms. In the past year, have you used any of these substances? If so, which one(s)? (250 chars)

(8) If accepted to LLUSM, are you willing to abide by the lifestyle policies of Loma Linda University School of Medicine? (250 chars)

2016 – 2017

Same as previous year.

2015 – 2016

Describe the extent and source of your knowledge of Loma Linda University School of Medicine (LLUSM). (750 chars)

What makes LLUSM particularly attractive to you? (750 chars)

What qualities make you a desirable candidate for admission to LLUSM? (750 chars)

Discuss how your spiritual experience has influenced your life and how you integrate it into your daily life. (750 chars)

What experiences in your life would illustrate your perspective on service to others? (750 chars)

As a Christian educational institution the medical curriculum integrates spiritual, ethical, and relational issues from a Christian perspective into the practice of medicine. Weekly chapel services and religion courses are part of this program. Please respond to the above as it relates to your personal educational and career goals. (750 chars)

Loma Linda University is a Seventh-day Adventist institution that has lifestyle expectations that include abstinence from alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs/substances in all forms. In the past year, have you used any of these substances? If so, which one(s)? (250 chars)

If accepted to LLUSM, are you willing to abide by the lifestyle policies of Loma Linda University School of Medicine? (250 chars)

Describe your involvement with your religious group: (750 chars)

2014 – 2015

Describe the extent and source of your knowledge of Loma Linda University School of Medicine (LLUSM). (750 chars)

What makes LLUSM particularly attractive to you? (750 chars)

What qualities make you a desirable candidate for admission to LLUSM? (750 chars)

Discuss how your spiritual experience has influenced your life and how you integrate it into your daily life. (750 chars)

What experiences in your life would illustrate your perspective on service to others? (750 chars)

As a Christian educational institution the medical curriculum integrates spiritual, ethical, and relational issues from a Christian perspective into the practice of medicine. Weekly chapel services and religion courses are part of this program. Please respond to the above as it relates to your personal educational and career goals. (750 chars)

Loma Linda University is a Seventh-day Adventist institution that has lifestyle expectations that include abstinence from alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs/substances in all forms. In the past year, have you used any of these substances? If so, which one(s)? (250 chars)

If accepted to LLUSM, are you willing to abide by the lifestyle policies of Loma Linda University School of Medicine? (250 chars)

Describe your involvement with your religious group: (750 chars)