2025-2026:
Check your secondary invitation email carefully for a deadline!
1: Describe an experience where you attempted a task and realized during the process that you were not ready for it. How did this experience impact your approach to trying new things? (250 words)
2: How will your life experiences foster a positive educational environment and benefit your future patients? (250 words)
3: Discuss your involvement in a service activity that has impacted your understanding of healthcare and your desire to pursue a career in medicine. (250 words)
4: What motivates you to apply to the UNC School of Medicine? (250 words)
- Prompt 1: Give an example of how you made a difference in someone’s life and explain what this experience taught you about yourself. (500 words)
- Prompt 2: What motivates you to apply to UNC School of Medicine? (500 words)
- Prompt 3: UNC School of Medicine values diversity and inclusion across the institution. We believe that education and professional development are enhanced in educational settings that include individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences. Please describe how your background and/or experiences would contribute to the UNC SOM community? (500 words)
- Prompt 4: Please use the space below for anything you might wish to discuss related to the COVD-19 public health crisis. Possible topics might include: your biggest lessons and insights from the pandemic, creative ways in which you were able to serve your community during the crisis, hardships you may have faced as a result of the virus, and/or quarantine. (750 words)
2020-2021
Each prompt has a 1,000 character limit.
- Describe a situation or an experience, you’ve had when you were unsuccessful. Tell us what you learned from this experience.
- Give an example of how you made a difference in someone’s life and explain what this experience taught you about yourself.
- What motivates you to apply to UNC School of Medicine?
- UNC School of Medicine values diversity and inclusion across the institution. We believe that education and professional development are enhanced in educational settings that include individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences. Please describe how your background and/or experiences would contribute to the UNC SOM community?
2019-2020
- Describe a situation, or an experience, you’ve had when you were unsuccessful. Tell us what you learned from this experience.
- Give an example of how you made a difference in someone’s life and explain what this experience taught you about yourself.
- What motivates you to apply to UNC School of Medicine?
- UNC School of Medicine values diversity and inclusion across the institution. We believe that education and professional development are enhanced in educational settings that include individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences. Please describe how your background and/or experiences would contribute to the UNC SOM community?
1,000 character limit for each prompt
2018-2019
- We have all tried something and failed. Describe a situation, or an experience, you’ve had when you were unsuccessful. Tell us what you learned from this experience.
- Much of health care delivery involves teamwork. In what endeavor have you engaged that required a team approach? What was your role and what did you learn from working with this team?
- Give an example of how you made a difference in someone’s life and explain what this experience taught you about yourself.
- What motivates you to apply to UNC School of Medicine?
all 1000 chars
2017 – 2018
Same as previous year.
2016 – 2017
- Applicants for the MD and MD/PhD Program Respond to prompts 1-3 in no more than 1-2 paragraphs. (1000 character limit)
- We have all tried something and failed, whether it was something big or something small. Describe a situation or an experience you had when you realized that you were not up to the task, and tell us what life-lessons you learned from this experience.
- Much of medical school education is based on team-learning. What important activity have you accomplished that required a team approach, what was your role in the outcome, and what did you learn from it?
- Give an example of how you made a difference in someone’s life-whether it is a patient, friend, classmate, or a family member-and explain what this experience taught you about yourself.
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