University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences

What are your career plans if you do not ever get admitted to medical school?

Excluding online degrees, do you have a first-degree family member (mother, father, sibling, child, or spouse) who is attending or is a graduate of a North Dakota college or university? List the family member(s) and the college or university they attend or attended.

If needed, update the information in your AMCAS application (i.e., grades in recent courses, alterations in your proposed coursework or graduation, additions to extracurricular activities, unreported legal and institutional infractions, etc.).

The primary purpose of the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences is to educate physicians and other health professionals for subsequent service in North Dakota and to enhance the quality of life of its people. Please explain how your past medical/clinical and community service experiences and your career goals are consistent with this purpose.

Do you have family members who have permanent residence in North Dakota? List the family members, their relation to you, and what city in North Dakota they currently live in.

Describe an ethical dilemma that presented itself to you. Identify your choices, potential consequences and your resolution of the dilemma. In hindsight, what did you learn about yourself?

Describe and reflect on a specific experience you have had with people of a different socioeconomic, ethnic, racial, cultural or religious/spiritual background than yourself. What preconceived notions did you have prior to the experience? How did the experience challenge your preconceived notions?

The UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences invests in the discovery of knowledge that benefits the people of this state and enhances the quality of their lives. Reflect on your personal experience with the process of scientific discovery. What aspect was most frustrating? Most rewarding? How might these lessons be transferable to the practice of medicine?

Reflect on an experience in which you demonstrated creativity and innovation where you generated an idea and implemented it to achieve an outcome. Examples may include a musical or theatrical performance, work of art, publication, invention, start-up, public service or any other major production or installation. How did this performance or work enrich the lives of others?

The UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences is a community-based medical school, and because of the unique circumstances of our regional location, we place special emphasis on the unique skills needed to provide care for patients and populations in rural and Native American communities across all competencies. Reflect on a specific health care disparity affecting rural and/or Native American populations that you may have engaged with or studied and how you, as a future physician, might help to alleviate that disparity.

Reflect on your role in a particularly impactful leadership or team experience in which your efforts resulted in a meaningful outcome.