Roseman University of Health Sciences Secondary Essay Prompts

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Collected from public applicant reports. Prompts occasionally change mid cycle, so confirm against your own secondary portal before you submit.

1. 01

   Please describe any obstacles that you have encountered during your journey to a career in medicine and how you overcame them.

   500 to 1000 words
2. 02

   RUCOM recognizes the importance of Social Determinants of Health as key drivers of healthcare outcomes, including those in Nevada. As a future physician, how would you seek to address these Social Determinants of Health in your future practice?

   500 to 1000 words
3. 03

   Describe your interactions with someone from a different cultural background or life experience and what you learned from that interaction.

   500 to 1000 words
4. 04

   If you took time off between earning your baccalaureate degree and applying to medical school, please explain why.

   250 words
5. 05

   Please include any updates to your application that you would like the Admissions Committee to consider when reviewing your file. This may include changes since the submission of your primary application, information not addressed in previous questions, or additional insights into your academic journey thus far.

   250 to 1000 words

How to write these well

• Turn secondaries around within 7 to 14 days of receiving them. Schools read speed as interest, and slow essays land in a bigger pile.
• Pre-write the universal question types (diversity, challenge, why us) once, then adapt per school. Adapting is rewriting the school specific half, not swapping the name.
• Name real programs. A why us answer that cites a specific clinic, track, or community partnership reads ten times stronger than praise for reputation or location.
• Stay under the limit without padding to reach it. Readers are working through thousands of these; a tight answer is a kindness they remember.

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