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Baylor Secondary Application

Baylor College of Medicine Secondary Application Prompts

Prompts have been updated June 2023

Prompts

In addition to training as a competent physician, please select up to two additional areas of interest from the items below that you may want to pursue during your medical studies. Your responses will have no bearing on applications to joint degrees or special programs to which you might also apply.

(1000 characters)
Options include:
  • Clinical Research
  • Healthcare/disparities/medical underserved communities
  • Academic Medicine
  • Community Health
  • Simulation in medical education
  • Health systems science
  • Telehealth
  • Advocacy
(connected to #1) What knowledge, skills and attitudes have you developed that have prepared you for this career path?

Are you planning to matriculate into medical school immediately after completing your undergraduate education? If not, please explain what activities and/or careers you have pursued in the time between your college education and your application.

Indicate any special experiences, unusual factors or other information you feel would be helpful in evaluating you, including, but not limited to, education, employment, extracurricular activities, prevailing over adversity. You may expand upon but not repeat TMDSAS or AMCAS application information. This section is mandatory. Please make sure you submit an essay or your application will not be reviewed by the committee.

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Mission

Baylor College of Medicine is a health sciences university that creates knowledge and applies science and discoveries to further education, healthcare and community service locally and globally.

Vision

Improving health through science, scholarship and innovation.

Values

  • Respect
    • We promote and support diversity, inclusion and equity
    • We value our colleagues and ourselves as the College’s most valuable assets
    • We earn the loyalty of those we serve through our commitment
  • Integrity
    • Honesty, ethics and openness guide our interactions
    • We encourage transparent analysis of our policies, process, procedures and decisions
    • We are accountable for our actions
  • Innovation
    • We lead through visionary innovation and creativity
    • We foster a healthy culture of change
    • We turn vision into action
  • Teamwork
    • We form mutually beneficial partnerships to achieve results
    • We look past ourselves to focus on the impact of our actions
    • We recognize all who contribute to our work
  • Excellence
    • We focus on quality and value
    • We commit to continuous quality improvement for outstanding outcomes
    • We are effective and efficient

Important details​

Primary Deadline: Usually around Nov 1st
Secondary Deadline: Usually around Nov 15th
Secondary Fee: $100
FAP Waiver: Reduced Fee of $50
Casper Required: Yes
PREview Required: Yes
Screens Applications: No
Accepts Application Updates: Yes/Email

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Indicate any special experiences, unusual factors or other information you feel would be helpful in evaluating you, including, but not limited to, education, employment, extracurricular activities, prevailing over adversity. You may expand upon but not repeat AMCAS application information.

How to Write About Your Obstacles, Challenges, and Problems in your Secondary Essays

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If you are a career changer there is this: Is becoming a physician a second career for you? If so, what was your first career choice?

How to Write About Career Changes in Your Secondary Essays

MSTP

  • Please describe your primary research Interests for the PhD portion of dual degree training including potential Baylor College of Medicine or Rice University faculty with whom you would like to work. (Will not limit final research project or mentor selection).
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