Essay Topics (2024 - 2025)

1) NEOMED Personal Statement Please complete a brief personal statement of 5,000 characters or fewer addressing the question below: What do you hope to achieve from your experience as a NEOMED student?

**Optional explainers**: 1) (Optional) Describe your NEOMED legacy relationship. "Legacy Relationship" is defined as parents or siblings of NEOMED alumni, current NEOMED students, or parents or siblings serving as NEOMED faculty (either course instructors or clinical faculty). (100 characters)

2) yes/no

a) Have you been convicted of, or pleaded guilty or no contest to, any criminal offense in a court of law?

b) Have you ever been convicted of a crime related to the manufacture of, or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver a controlled substance?

c) Have you ever been found in a dependency action (RCW 13.34.040), domestic relations proceeding (Title 26 RCW), disciplinary board hearing or protection proceeding (Chapter 74.34 RCW), to have sexually assaulted or exploited, sexually or physically abused a minor or developmentally disabled person OR to have financially exploited or abused a vulnerable adult?

d) Have you ever been judged liable for civil monetary penalties for conduct related to the delivery of services, supplies, or other participation in Medicare/Medicaid or any other state or federal healthcare program?

e) Have you ever been excluded from providing services or supplies under Medicare/Medicaid, or any other federal funded healthcare program?

If you answered "yes" to any of the preceding questions, explain here. Be sure to indicate the level of offense (e.g. misdemeanor, felony, etc.) (5000 characters)

3) Please explain any traffic violation(s) here (5000 characters)

4) Have you ever been found responsible for any academic violation(s) while enrolled in college/university level coursework (after high school) (e.g. plagiarism, academic dishonesty. etc.)? Please explain any academic violation(s) here: (5000 characters)

5) Have you ever been dismissed from a medical education program? Please explain your academic dismissal here (250 characters)

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Essay Topics ('23 – '24)

1) NEOMED Personal Statement Please complete a brief personal statement of 5,000 characters or fewer addressing the question below: What do you hope to achieve from your experience as a NEOMED student?

**Optional explainers**:

1) (Optional) Describe your NEOMED legacy relationship. "Legacy Relationship" is defined as parents or siblings of NEOMED alumni, current NEOMED students, or parents or siblings serving as NEOMED faculty (either course instructors or clinical faculty). (100 characters)

2) yes/no

a) Have you been convicted of, or pleaded guilty or no contest to, any criminal offense in a court of law?

b) Have you ever been convicted of a crime related to the manufacture of, or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver a controlled substance?

c) Have you ever been found in a dependency action (RCW 13.34.040), domestic relations proceeding (Title 26 RCW), disciplinary board hearing or protection proceeding (Chapter 74.34 RCW), to have sexually assaulted or exploited, sexually or physically abused a minor or developmentally disabled person OR to have financially exploited or abused a vulnerable adult?

d) Have you ever been judged liable for civil monetary penalties for conduct related to the delivery of services, supplies, or other participation in Medicare/Medicaid or any other state or federal healthcare program?

e) Have you ever been excluded from providing services or supplies under Medicare/Medicaid, or any other federal funded healthcare program?If you answered "yes" to any of the preceding questions, explain here. Be sure to indicate the level of offense (e.g. misdemeanor, felony, etc.) (5000 characters)

3) Please explain any traffic violation(s) here (5000 characters)

4) Have you ever been found responsible for any academic violation(s) while enrolled in college/university level coursework (after high school) (e.g. plagiarism, academic dishonesty. etc.)? Please explain any academic violation(s) here: (5000 characters)

5) Have you ever been dismissed from a medical education program? Please explain your academic dismissal here (250 characters)

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Essay Topics ('22 – '23)

1. What do you hope to achieve from your experience as a NEOMED student? (5000 characters)

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Essay Topics ('21 – '22)‍

1. Please complete a brief personal statement of 5,000 characters or fewer addressing the question below: What do you hope to achieve from your experience as a NEOMED student?

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Essay Topics ('20 – '21)‍

1. Please complete a brief personal statement of 5,000 characters or fewer addressing the question below: What do you hope to achieve from your experience as a NEOMED student?

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Essay Topics ('19 – '20)‍

1. Please complete a brief personal statement of 5,000 characters or fewer addressing the question below: What do you hope to achieve from your experience as a NEOMED student?

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Essay Topics ('18 – '19)‍

1. Please complete a brief personal statement of 5,000 characters or fewer addressing the question below: What do you hope to achieve from your experience as a NEOMED student?

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Essay Topics ('17 – '18)‍

1. Provide a specific example of how you promoted diversity in your community. (2000 characters)

2. "A social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.“ Paul Farmer, M.D.

"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane. “ Martin Luther King, Jr.

How has your view of social justice in medicine been influenced by a specific experience or activity? (2000 characters)

3. A physician does many activities during the workday. What physician activity will be most meaningful to you? Provide a specific life experience that affirms the meaningfulness of this activity. (2000 characters)

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Essay Topics ('16 – '17)‍

1. Provide a specific example of how you promoted diversity in your community. (2000 characters)

2. "A social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.“ Paul Farmer, M.D.

"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane. “ Martin Luther King, Jr.

How has your view of social justice in medicine been influenced by a specific experience or activity? (2000 characters)

3. A physician does many activities during the workday. What physician activity will be most meaningful to you? Provide a specific life experience that affirms the meaningfulness of this activity. (2000 characters)

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Essay Topics ('15 – '16)‍

1. Provide a specific example of how you promoted diversity in your community. (2000 char)

2. "A social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.“ Paul Farmer, M.D.

"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane. “ Martin Luther King, Jr.

How has your view of social justice in medicine been influenced by a specific experience or activity? (2000 char)

3. A physician does many activities during the workday. What physician activity will be most meaningful to you? Provide a specific life experience that affirms the meaningfulness of this activity. (2000 char)

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Essay Topics ('14 – '15)‍

1. Provide a specific example of how you promoted diversity in your community. (2000 characters)

2. "A social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.“ Paul Farmer, M.D.

"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane. “ Martin Luther King, Jr.

How has your view of social justice in medicine been influenced by a specific experience or activity? (2000 characters)

3. A physician does many activities during the workday. What physician activity will be most meaningful to you? Provide a specific life experience that affirms the meaningfulness of this activity. (2000 characters)

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Essay Topics ('13 – '14)‍

1. Provide a specific example of how you promoted diversity in your community.

2. "A social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.“ Paul Farmer, M.D.

"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane. “ Martin Luther King, Jr.

How has your view of social justice in medicine been influenced by a specific experience or activity?

3. A physician does many activities during the workday. What physician activity will be most meaningful to you? Provide a specific life experience that affirms the meaningfulness of this activity.