Mayo Clinic- Arizona Secondary Application

Mayo Clinic- Arizona Secondary Essay Prompts

(If you have updated prompts, please submit them at updatesecondaries.com)

Prompts have been updated June 2023. (Older essays, if available are below)

Prompts:

• Why are you specifically interested in pursuing your medical education at Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine? Please tell us in a few sentences why you are interested in the top choice track you indicated. (500 Words)
• We are all differentiated from or connected to one another by individual inflections that constitute our diversity. Explain how your relationship with your own diversity and to the diversities of others manifests in your personal and professional activities. (500 Words)
• Share with us your thoughts about the relevance – or not – of diverse learning environments in which you wish to learn medicine. (500 Words)

Primary Deadline: Usually around Oct 15st
Secondary Deadline: Usually around Nov 1st
Secondary Fee: $120
FAP Waiver: Full Fee Waived
Casper Required: No
PREview Required: No
Screens Applications: Yes
Accepts Application Updates: Yes, Post Interview/Email

Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine Mission:

To educate and inspire a diverse workforce of physicians and scientists through excellence in medical education, research and clinical care; to alleviate human suffering by providing compassionate and culturally sensitive care; to enhance the biomedical sciences through discovery and innovation; and to advance the national health care system through population science and leadership.

• Physician leaders. Physicians model servant leadership in a wide variety of professional settings.
• Patient-centered. Exemplifying humanism and Mayo Clinic’s unique model of patient-centered health care.
• Science-driven. Supporting evidence-based medicine and accelerating discovery and innovation using traditional and emerging sciences, and improving the health care system by applying tools from the science of health care delivery.
• Team-based. Working and studying in collaborative groups and facilitating interdisciplinary, collaborative team-based practice.
• High-value health care. Advancing the science of health care delivery by mastering the necessary knowledge to improve quality, safety and service within health care systems.
• Resilient. Adjusting and thriving in an evolving health care landscape, through deliberate training in wellness and resilience and ongoing reflection and effective change in self and in others.
• Diverse and culturally competent. Recognizing, valuing and respecting the richness of diversity and cultural differences.

Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine Vision:

Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine will transform heath care for both patients and society through excellence in education, discovery, innovation and leadership.

Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine Values:

• Lead
• Transform
• Heal

Older Essays:

• Why are you specifically interested in pursuing your medical education at Mayo Clinic School of Medicine even if you gain acceptances to other highly ranked medical schools?
  How to Answer Secondary Prompts about “Why Us”
• We are all unique in different ways. Explain how your personal diversity manifests in your personal and professional activities.
  How to Write About Diversity in Your Secondary Essays
• Share with us your thoughts about the relevance – or not – of diverse learning environments in which you wish to learn medicine.