A) Resilience is “the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands.” Consider a challenge you have experienced. How are your attitudes and actions regarding your challenge a reflection of resilience? (600 word limit)
B) Describe your most important volunteer work and why it was meaningful. (600 word limit)
C) Describe any personal connection to JABSOM and/or Hawaii and the Pacific that you may have. If you do not have a personal connection to JABSOM and/or Hawaii, please describe your interest in attending JABSOM. (600 word limit)
D) If you are a re-applicant to JABSOM, please complete the following additional essay. Describe what efforts you have made to further improve your application to the MD Program. (600 word limit)
Letter of Recommendation Audit Form
To help track your letters for JABSOM, you are required to complete the Letter of Recommendation Audit Form. Please provide the name and organization of the letter writer (minimum 2) and/or indicate if a composite packet or committee letter is being forwarded from your college/university.
Please list the Name and Organization for the letter writer. (e.g. John Doe PhD, University of Hawaii) (up to 10 entries)
They also ask us to match science prerequisites.
Good luck to everyone applying!
Last edited: Jul 10, 2023OOS - received email to pay secondary fee on 7/3, paid on 7/3, received secondary prompts on 7/5. @wysdoc
Prompts:
Please provide responses to essay A, B, and C. If you are a re-applicant, also respond to essay D. Please limit responses to 600 words per essay.
A) Resilience is “the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands.” Consider a challenge you have experienced. How are your attitudes and actions regarding your challenge a reflection of resilience? (600 word limit)
B) Describe your most important volunteer work and why it was meaningful. (600 word limit)
C) Describe any personal connection to JABSOM and/or Hawaii and the Pacific that you may have. If you do not have a personal connection to JABSOM and/or Hawaii, please describe your interest in attending JABSOM. (600 word limit)
D) If you are a re-applicant to JABSOM, please complete the following additional essay. Describe what efforts you have made to further improve your application to the MD Program. (600 word limit)
Letter of Recommendation Audit Form
To help track your letters for JABSOM, you are required to complete the Letter of Recommendation Audit Form. Please provide the name and organization of the letter writer (minimum 2) and/or indicate if a composite packet or committee letter is being forwarded from your college/university.
Please list the Name and Organization for the letter writer. (e.g. John Doe PhD, University of Hawaii) (up to 10 entries)
They also ask us to match science prerequisites.
Reactions: 1 usersDo you think prompt A needs to be an emotional challenge? I was going to use my leadership/challenge essay but it's more professional/navigating teams so I'm not sure.
Do you think prompt A needs to be an emotional challenge? I was going to use my leadership/challenge essay but it's more professional/navigating teams so I'm not sure.
I think so, or you at least need to mention your thought process during it.
Also- are most people planning to max out the character count?
I think so, or you at least need to mention your thought process during it.
Also- are most people planning to max out the character count?
I personally wasn't initially planning on it, but I ended up writing more than expected and mine all ended up being between 590 - 599 words lol. But I don't think it's necessary to max them out as long as you're getting your point across!
Reactions: 1 user"B) Describe your most important volunteer work and why it was meaningful. (600 word limit)"
Are you guys interpreting this as we can only talk about one specific volunteer activity we did? Do you think it would be acceptable if we talk about multiple, since they give us so much space? Any tips for how I should go about choosing which one to talk about if I can only choose one?
May I ask when your primary app was sent to the school? I applied yesterday but have not received secondary from JABSOM yet. I guess they take some time?
May I ask when your primary app was sent to the school? I applied yesterday but have not received secondary from JABSOM yet. I guess they take some time?
submitted primary: 07/19
received secondary payment: 07/21
acknowledge receipt of completed secondary application: 07/25
submitted primary: 06/29
received secondary payment: 07/03
acknowledge receipt of completed secondary application: 07/10
First R of the cycle just received
II just now. I am in disbelief. International, Absolutely no tie besides travelled there once early this year which I don't think it counts.
Reactions: 3 usersHello! Also was put on interview waitlist! I was wondering if y'all know what this means? Like did they fill up all the interview spots already? Or did they not fill the interview spots yet and are waiting till they go through all the apps to see how many spots are left, and then offering II to the interview waitlist? Thanks!
Reactions: 1 userOn MSAR it says the earliest date for acceptance is October 2nd. Anyone who interviewed RD early hear back?? I know most of us should expect to hear back in March, but my neuroticism can't help it.
Appeal to school-specific thread: Burns University of Hawaii SOM required PREview for the 2023-2024 cycle.
HPSA/SDN has the 2023 SJT Experience Survey available to anyone preparing for SJTs (especially Casper and PREview). If you completed the 2022 survey, you are welcome to go ahead and complete the survey again. This survey consists of multiple pages and will take up to 10 minutes. You can also place yourself on a waitlist for a study focusing more on school-run SJTs run through platforms like Kira Talent, to be released later in the year.
Your feedback matters!
We learned a lot about how applicants prepared for Casper and PREview last year, but the number of PREview schools has almost doubled this cycle! Over 20% of all AMCAS applicants will likely have taken PREview, and up to 90% of all medical school applicants will likely have taken Casper this cycle (according to Acuity Insights). This does not include applicants in non-medical professions who have had to take these assessments for admission to physician assistant, anesthesiology assistant, dental, veterinary, pharmacy, or physical therapy programs, where we see a trend that applicants with higher Casper results are preferred. Medical residency applicants are also being asked to complete Acuity Insights Assessments, and very little is known about how program directors use these data. Your responses are vital to get objective insights on how admissions committees value the results of these exams.
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We want to hear from as many people as possible, especially those attending or applying outside of medicine (MD/DO). This year saw an expansion of SJTs in admissions, and more information has been made available on preparing for these assessments. We want to stay current with these trends to guide future applicants and students facing these SJTs.
Many of our findings from the 2022 survey align with the NAAHP Testing Task Force report released last summer. This includes concerns about proctoring, consistency of scoring, and concern that applicants are paying for validity research. But we need more student voices to gain a louder voice to advocate for future health professional school applicants.
Your feedback has helped HPSA develop a workshop focused on preparing for SJTs like Casper and PREview. This workshop is part of our Becoming a Student Doctor preparation course, and we have already had some positive results among those who have participated in our mock interview workshops. An updated workshop will be presented at the UC Davis Prehealth Conference on October 14, and we welcome opportunities to present the full-length SJT workshop to your campus!
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