Essay Topics (2024 - 2025)
State of Residence Section:
1. Non-Alabama Resident with Ties to Alabama: Describe any ties or meaningful experiences you have had related to the state of Alabama or UAB Medical Center (1500 characters)
2. All Applicants: if the area you spent most of your life before college differs from where you currently consider your permanent address, please explain (1500 characters)
Essay Section:
1. Where do you see yourself in your medical career fifteen to twenty years from now? (750 characters)
2. Learning from others is enhanced in educational settings that include individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences. Please describe your personal characteristics or experiences that would add to the educational environment for your classmates. (750 characters)
3. Describe a patient interaction with the healthcare system. This could be a direct patient observation (in person or virtual) during a shadowing experience, a personal experience within the healthcare system, or a family member or friend who had a memorable interaction within the healthcare system. What did you learn from this experience? (750 characters)
4. Describe a fulfilling or challenging community service experience and how you grew personally from the experience. (750 characters)
5. UAB Medicine provides quality health care and compassionate service to every patient, every time, regardless of their individual differences or circumstances. Our academic medical center attracts patients from across the world who represent many cultures, religions, lifestyles, and economic backgrounds. Why are you specifically interested in beginning your medical education in this environment, and how do you feel that your previous experiences will prepare you for this unique learning environment? (750 characters)
6. OPTIONAL: Describe your identity and how it has impacted the development of your values and attitudes toward individuals different from yourself and how this will impact your interactions with future colleagues and patients (750 characters)
7. OPTIONAL: Please share any information you want us to know about you that is not included in your AMCAS application or in this secondary application. (750 characters)
Essay Topics ('23 – '24)
State of Residence Section:
1. Non-Alabama Resident with Ties to Alabama: Describe any ties or meaningful experiences you have had related to the state of Alabama or UAB Medical Center (1500 characters)
2. All Applicants: if the area you spent most of your life before college differs from where you currently consider your permanent address, please explain (1500 characters)
Essay Section:
3. Where do you see yourself in your medical career fifteen to twenty years from now? (750 characters)
4. Learning from others is enhanced in educational settings that include individuals from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. Please describe your personal characteristics or experiences that would add to the learning environment for your classmates. (750 characters)
5. Describe a patient interaction with the healthcare system. This could be a direct patient observation (in person or virtual) during a shadowing/clinical experience or a personal experience within the healthcare system. What did you learn from this experience? (750 characters)
6. Describe a fulfilling or challenging community service experience and how you grew personally from the experience. (750 characters)
7. UAB Medicine provides quality health care and compassionate service to every patient, every time, regardless of their individual differences or circumstances. Our academic medical center attracts patients from across the world who represent many cultures, religions, lifestyles, and economic backgrounds. Why are you specifically interested in beginning your medical education in this environment, and how do you feel that your previous experiences will prepare you for this unique learning environment? (750 characters)
8. (OPTIONAL): Describe your identity and how it has impacted the development of your values and attitudes toward individuals different from yourself and how this will impact your interactions with future colleagues and patients. (750 characters)
9. (OPTIONAL): Please share any information you want us to know about you that is not included in your AMCAS application or in this secondary application. (750 characters)
Additional Experiences Section:
10. You have a separate page to add any experiences that you did not have listed on your AMCAS application
Essay Topics ('22 – '23)
1. Where do you see yourself in your medical career fifteen to twenty years from now? (750 characters)
2. Please share any information you want us to know about you that is not included in your AMCAS application or in this secondary application. (750 characters)
3. Learning from others is enhanced in educational settings that include individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences. Please describe your personal characteristics or experiences that would add to the educational environment for your classmates. (750 characters)
4. Please describe if and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected your preparation for applying to medical school. (750 characters)
5. Describe a patient interaction with the healthcare system. This could be a direct patient observation (in person or virtual) during a shadowing experience, a personal experience within the healthcare system, or a family member or friend who had a memorable interaction within the healthcare system. What did you learn from this experience? (750 characters)
6. Describe a fulfilling or challenging community service experience and how you grew personally from the experience. (750 characters)
Essay Topics ('21 – '22)
1. Where do you see yourself in your medical career fifteen to twenty years from now? (750 characters)
2. Please share any information you want us to know about you that is not included in your AMCAS application or in this secondary application. (750 characters)
3. Learning from others is enhanced in educational settings that include individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences. Please describe your personal characteristics or experiences that would add to the educational environment for your classmates. (750 characters)
4. Please describe if and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected your preparation for applying to medical school. (750 characters)
5. Describe a patient interaction with the healthcare system. This could be a direct patient observation (in person or virtual) during a shadowing experience, a personal experience within the healthcare system, or a family member or friend who had a memorable interaction within the healthcare system. What did you learn from this experience? (750 characters)
6. Describe a fulfilling or challenging community service experience and how you grew personally from the experience. (750 characters)
MD/PhD Essays:
2. What factors prompted you to apply to UAB for MD/PhD training?(1500 characters)
Essay Topics (’20 – ’21)
1. Where do you see yourself in your medical career fifteen to twenty years from now? (750 characters)
2. Please share any information you want us to know about you that is not included in your AMCAS application or in this secondary application (750 characters)
3. Briefly indicate how you would add diversity to our medical school class:
4. Please describe if and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected your preparation for applying to medical school.
5. Describe an observed patient-physician interaction, what you learned from the experience, and how those lessons will impact your approach to patient care.
6. Describe a fulfilling or challenging community service experience and how you grew personally from the experience.
Essay Topics ('19 – '20)
1. Non-Alabama Resident with Ties to Alabama: Describe any ties or meaningful experiences you have had related to the state of Alabama or UAB Medical Center (1500 characters)
2. All Applicants: if the area you spent most of your life before college differs from where you currently consider your permanent address, please explain (1500 characters)
3. Where do you see yourself in your medical career fifteen to twenty years from now? (750 characters)
4. Please share any information you want us to know about you that is not included in your AMCAS application or in this secondary application: (750 characters)
5. Briefly indicate how you would add diversity to our medical school class: (750 characters)
Essay Topics ('18 – '19)
1. Non-Alabama Resident with Ties to Alabama: Describe any ties or meaningful experiences you have had related to the state of Alabama or UAB Medical Center (1500 characters)
2. All Applicants: if the area you spent most of your life before college differs from where you currently consider your permanent address, please explain (1500 characters)
3. Where do you see yourself in your medical career fifteen to twenty years from now? (750 characters)
4. Please share any information you want us to know about you that is not included in your AMCAS application or in this secondary application: (750 characters)
5. Briefly indicate how you would add diversity to our medical school class: (750 characters)
Essay Topics ('17 – '18)
1. Where do you see yourself in your medical career fifteen to twenty years from now? (750 Characters)
2. Please share any information you want us to know about you that is not included in your AMCAS application or in this secondary application (750 Characters)
3. Briefly indicate how you would add diversity to our medical school class (750 Characters)
OPTIONAL QUESTIONS:
1. Do you consider yourself rural? (Y/N). If "yes", describe life experiences that illustrate this (1500 Characters)
Primary Care track:
1. The concept of community can be described as a geographic region, a demographic group, or a social group among other descriptions. Describe your interest in medicine and how you hope to impact a community or communities. (1500 Characters)
Essay Topics ('16 – '17)
1. Briefly indicate how you would add diversity to our medical school class. (1500 characters)
2. Where do you see yourself in your medical career fifteen to twenty years from now? (1500 characters)
3. Please share any information you want us to know about you that is not included in your AMCAS application or in this secondary application. (1500 characters)
4. If the area you spent most of your life before college differs from where you currently consider your permanent address, please explain. (1500 characters)
Essay Topics ('15 – '16)
1. Briefly indicate how you would add diversity to our medical school class. (1500 char)
2. Where do you see yourself in your medical career fifteen to twenty years from now? (1500 char)
3. Please share any information you want us to know about you that is not included in your AMCAS application or in this secondary application: (1500 char)
Essay Topics ('14 – '15)
1. Briefly indicate how you would add diversity to our medical school class. (1500 characters)
2. Non-Alabama residents: Describe any experiences you have had related to the state of Alabama or UAB Medical Center. (1500 characters)
3. All Applicants: if the area you spent most of your life before college differs from where you currently consider your permanent address, please explain. (1500 characters)
4. Where do you see yourself in your medical career fifteen to twenty years from now? (1500 characters)
Essay Topics ('13 – '14)
1. Where do you see yourself in your medical career fifteen to twenty years from now?Please share any information you want us to know about you that is not included in your AMCAS application or in this secondary application:
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