Health Professional School Competencies

Vocabulary flashcards covering competencies and example attributes evaluated for health professional school admissions.

Experiences with rural and underserved /populations

Experience to understand the unique challenges and opportunities in rural environments and/or underserved communities and populations.

Motivation for Medicine

Communicates genuine passion for contributing to patient care and/or discovery to better the lives of individuals living in challenging health care environments.

Clinical Exposure

Quality of experience including shadowing, scribe, helping care within their family or home, emergency medical technician and amount of exposure.

Adversity and resilience

Persevere in face of internal or external challenges; recovers from setbacks; tolerance of stressful and changing situations and adaptable.

Experience Beyond the Classroom

Including community service, cultural experiences, arts, work, new language, volunteerism, longevity of service, hobbies, passion outside of academics, entrepreneurship. Persevere in face of internal or external challenges; recovers from setbacks; tolerance of stressful and changing situations and adaptable.

Leadership

Has demonstrated leadership which has inspired others, capacity to mobilize people toward a goal, potential to excel as a leader through actions and activities.

Communication/Interpersonal Skills

Includes social skills, ethical judgement, empathy, compassion, cultural competence, active listening, emotional intelligence, social awareness, and professionalism.

Intellectual Excellence

Includes capacity for improvement, critical thinking, ability to succeed academically, and independent thinking and reasoning.

Ethical Responsibility to Self and Others

Includes service orientation/altruism, empathy for the underserved.

Teamwork/Collaboration

Demonstrated effective ability to work with others, intergroup collaborations with diverse individuals and ability to productively address conflict in a positive manner.