How to Get Into Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine

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Dr. Michelle Schmude, Associate Dean of Admissions at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, shares everything that’s new in the program, including a revised curriculum and a unique opportunity that allows students to graduate debt free.
In this episode:
Can you give us an overview of the Geisinger Commonwealth Med School program focusing on its more distinctive elements?
Are the themes something that a student chooses to focus on or does everybody cover all six themes through the three stages?
The world has changed a little bit since you and I spoke about three years ago. How has Geisinger changed?
What is the Abigail Geisinger Scholars Program, and how can it help applicants attend medical school and graduate debt free?
Do Abigail Geisinger Scholars get a competitive salary during their four years working at a Geisinger facility?
Are the six regional centers located in Northeastern Pennsylvania?
What is the secondary application like?
Geisinger requires the AAMC Professional Readiness Exam, also called PREview. What does it give you that the rest of the application doesn't provide? Why did you choose it over the CASper?
Are the secondaries automatic at Geisinger?
What happens to an application after you get the secondary and the PREview score?
What mistakes do you see applicants commonly making?
When you talk about a competitive application, are you talking about the qualifications? Are you talking about the presentation of the qualifications? Or are you talking about both?
What is the virtual interview like at Geisinger Commonwealth?
Are the MMIs with actors or faculty or current students?
Are they given hypothetical situations and asked how they would handle them?
When do your interview invitations stop going out?
Do you want students you admit to have both research experience and clinical exposure? Is that important to you? Or is it more of a nice to have?
How do you winnow down all of the applications you receive?
What is your mission?
How do you view letters of intent or correspondence from waitlisted applicants? I noticed there was a limit of two updates. What about updates before being waitlisted?
This one is a listener question: “If you were a pre-med student, traditional or otherwise, planning to apply in 2023, what is one thing you would be doing to prepare yourself now for medical school?”