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It's been awhile! In this episode, Christian Essman brings you the latest updates and some tips for those currently navigating the application process.  If you find this podcast to be a helpful resource, RATE, REVIEW, & SUBSCRIBE please! It helps others find it! Send me your recommendations for future medical schools that you'd like to hear featured! Send it to: allaccess@case.edu Visit our website for more information on this episode and others. https://linktr.ee/allaccessmedschool HOST: Christian Essman RESOURCES: Boots2Meds: Episode 6 “Holistic Admissions with Christian Essman” Admissions Straight Talk with Linda Abraham: Reserve Your Spot at Case Western Medical School: An Interview with Christian Essman CWRU School of Medicine Secondary Essay Prompts AMCAS Postsubmission Actions

Show Summary In this episode, Linda Abraham interviews Christian Essman, Senior Director of Admissions and Financial Aid at Case Western Reserve University Medical School. They discuss the unique aspects of Case Western's three MD programs, the significance of research in the application process, and what makes an applicant stand out. Christian emphasizes the importance of quality experiences and reflections in the application essays and advises applicants to submit their applications when they are in tip-top shape, rather than rushing to submit on the first day. He also discusses the culture at Case Western, describing it as laid-back, balanced, and invested in the success of its students. Show Notes Thanks for tuning into the 571st episode of Admissions Straight Talk. Are you ready to apply to your dream medical schools? Are you competitive at your target programs? Accepted's med school admissions quiz can give you a quick reality check. Just go to accepted.com/medquiz, complete the quiz and you'll not only get an assessment but tips on how to improve your chances of acceptance. Plus, it's all free.  I'm delighted to introduce today's guest, Christian Essman, senior director of admissions and financial aid and fellow podcaster and host of the All Access Med School Admissions Podcast.  Christian, thank you so much for joining me today on Admissions Straight Talk. [1:31] Hi, Linda. Delighted to be here. Thank you for having me. Let's start with some just really basic information about Case Western University's medical school programs. Can you give a 30,000-foot perspective or view of the three MD programs that it offers? [1:39] Certainly. We're a bit unique in that we have not one, not two, but three different pathways to an MD/MD-PhD. The first one is the university program, which is our four-year MD, which is a traditional four-year degree. Then we have our MD-PhD program, which is a medical scientist training program, and that's about eight or nine years. MSTP actually started at Case Western back in the 1950s, by the way. It's the longest NIH-funded program ever in the history of the universe. And then the one in the middle is unique. I don't know if the word boutiquey is a word, but it's boutiquey. Our Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. So these are all three Case Western programs. They're under the umbrella of the university and they're all Case Western students, but we have three tracks. So the one in the middle, the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, is a five-year MD and it's for students who really like research. Really, really, really like research. But maybe advancing to an MD-PhD is not an educational goal to be in school for eight or nine years and getting a PhD, but they really like research. And so the reason why it's five years is because they thread research throughout the entire five years that you're there. And at one point students will step away usually after the second year to do 12 months of research with the results of hopefully having some publishable results. And so it's for students who might be considering MD-PhD, maybe they're also applying to MD-PhD. So it's one in the middle there and so that's why we have three different tracks. It's a bit unique. It is unique. I don't know of any other school that has that three structured program. [3:36] When people apply to us in AMCAS, they apply to Case Western and then in the secondary application, they can indicate which program or programs plural that they want to apply to. And so you could apply to the university program and the Cleveland Clinic program and then you get separate admissions decisions. We review them separately. So it's two for one or three for one if you want to think of it that way. But I will say this. Very few students apply to all three. Usually, if you're interested in MD-PhD, that's what you're applying to, and then maybe add in Cleveland Clinic,

In this enlightening episode, I sit down with the recently appointed, dynamic Associate Dean for Admissions at the University of Michigan Medical School, Dr. Deborah Berman. Dr. Berman offers an in-depth look into the significant curricular updates, wellness initiatives, and the evolving admissions landscape at one of the premier medical schools in the United States. Our conversation begins with a deep dive into the curricular updates that are setting new standards for medical education. Beyond the curriculum, we explore the comprehensive wellness initiatives that underscore the University of Michigan Medical School's commitment to student well-being. Dr. Berman discusses the resources and support systems in place to ensure that medical students can thrive academically, physically, and mentally throughout their rigorous educational journey. Admissions updates and advice form a crucial part of our discussion. Dr. Berman sheds light on the latest changes in the admissions process, emphasizing holistic review practices that seek to identify well-rounded candidates passionate about making a difference in the medical field. She offers invaluable advice for applicants, from highlighting their unique experiences to demonstrating a genuine commitment to healthcare and community service. Tune in to gain an insider's view of medical education at the University of Michigan Medical School how they have forward-looking initiatives in innovative and compassionate physician training. If you find this podcast to be a helpful resource, RATE, REVIEW, & SUBSCRIBE please! It helps others find it! Send me your recommendations for future medical schools that you'd like to hear featured! Send it to: allaccess@case.edu Visit our website for more information on this episode and others. https://linktr.ee/allaccessmedschool HOST: Christian Essman RESOURCES: Curriculum M-Home Support Services Dr. Lisa Meeks, Disabilities expert in medical education Admissions

Welcome to this special episode where we delve into the treasure trove of resources available for prospective medical school applicants. Today, we're joined by Tami Levin, MA, the Director of Premed and Applicant Resources at the AAMC, and Laura Fletcher, PhD, a senior research analyst in the Admissions & Selection Research and Development team at the AAMC. In our conversation, they will highlight invaluable tools and guides like the Premed Competencies, the Anatomy of An Applicant Guide, the 2023 AMCAS Workbook, and the Medical School Application Guide. They'll also discuss the MSAR® online database, a vital resource for comparing U.S. and Canadian medical schools, and the Premed Navigator, a monthly newsletter packed with tips and important dates for applicants. Join us as we navigate these resources, designed to guide learners and applicants from preparation to application, medical school, and beyond. This episode is a must-listen for anyone embarking on the journey to becoming a medical professional. If you find this podcast to be a helpful resource, RATE, REVIEW, & SUBSCRIBE please! It helps others find it! Send me your recommendations for future medical schools that you'd like to hear featured! Send it to: allaccess@case.edu Visit our website for more information on this episode and others. https://linktr.ee/allaccessmedschool HOST: Christian Essman RESOURCES: The Premed Competencies Full competency model  Process of Updating Competency Summary Paper Competency-related Resources: Anatomy of an Applicant Guide Anatomy of an Applicant Student Profiles Self-Assessment Worksheet: Experiences Self-Assessment Worksheet: Premed Competencies Other AAMC Resources 2023 AMCAS Workbook Medical School Application Guide: The Official Guide to Medical School Admissions  The Medical School Admission Requirements™ (MSAR®):  is an online database that enables you to browse, search, sort, and compare information about U.S. and Canadian medical schools. You can save notes, favorites, and see how your MCAT, GPA, and completed coursework matches each medical school's current first-year class and admission requirements. The Premed Navigator: A monthly free newsletter with important dates, information, and tips for applicants and pre-meds. Aspiring Docs Diaries: A blog with pieces written by premeds, med students, and residents. The free Virtual Medical School Fair, held in the Spring and Fall each year, which features several information sessions and typically about 90-100 medical schools from across the United States and Canada. The Fee Assistance Program which benefits include significantly reduced registration fee for the MCAT exam, MCAT prep products, a 2-year subscription to MSAR, AMCAS application with up to 20 medical school submissions, and fee waiver for the PREview professional readiness exam.

Dr. Roopal Kundu, Associate Dean for Admissions, highlights the unique curricular features and educational philosophy at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, shedding light on their innovative approaches to medical education. From fostering curiosity and inquiry to promoting equity through group and problem-based learning, Dr. Kundu explores how Northwestern's curriculum is shaping the physicians of tomorrow. In addition to the curriculum, Dr. Kundu provides valuable insights into the admissions process at Feinberg, offering guidance and advice for aspiring medical students. Whether you're considering Northwestern as your medical school or are simply passionate about medical education, this podcast provides a wealth of information and inspiration. Join us as we explore the world of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and gain valuable insights into med school admissions with Dr. Roopal Kundu, a dedicated faculty member and an expert in medical education. If you find this podcast to be a helpful resource, RATE, REVIEW, & SUBSCRIBE please! It helps others find it! Send me your recommendations for future medical schools that you'd like to hear featured! Send it to: allaccess@case.edu Visit our website for more information on this episode and others. https://linktr.ee/allaccessmedschool HOST: Christian Essman RESOURCES: AAMC Virtual Fair Registration - 10/17 & 10/18/2023 The Clinical Excellence Podcast Science Behind Science Podcast Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Curricular Phases Education-Centered Medical Home Student Research Characteristics of the Successful Candidate College Mentors CONTACT: med-admissions@northwestern.edu Music: I Had A Feeling by TrackTribe

Join us for an exclusive Zoom event featuring Christian Essman, the host of "All Access: Med School Admissions." Are you an aspiring medical student with burning questions about the admissions process? Look no further! This is your chance to spend an engaging evening with Christian Essman and have all your inquiries answered. During this virtual gathering, Christian Essman will share his knowledge and expertise on the intricate world of medical school admissions. As a seasoned professional in the field, he has guided countless students through the challenging journey of getting into medical school. With his wealth of experience and insider insights, Christian will provide invaluable advice, strategies, and tips to help you navigate the complex admissions process successfully. The event will be structured as an interactive Q&A session, allowing participants to ask Christian anything related to med school admissions. Whether you have inquiries about crafting an outstanding personal statement, preparing for interviews, selecting the right medical schools, or seeking guidance on how to stand out among other applicants, Christian will be there to offer his expert advice and address all your concerns. THURSDAY, JUNE 15th @ 7:00 pm EST *REGISTER HERE* --------------------------------------------------------------- If you find this podcast to be a helpful resource, RATE, REVIEW, & SUBSCRIBE please! It helps others find it! Send me your recommendations for future medical schools that you'd like to hear featured! Send it to: allaccess@case.edu Visit our website for more information on this episode and others. https://linktr.ee/allaccessmedschool

The AMCAS Application for the 2022-2023 cycle opened on May 3rd. Christian Essman, the host and Senior Director of Admissions & Financial at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, provides tips and advice for fine tuning your application. Learn how you can potentially differentiation yourself from other applicants in the pool.  Also, listeners of his podcast show are invited to a special information session about the CWRU School of Medicine on Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 7:00 pm EST.  Please register for this free webinar here: https://cwru.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GCzqpn9DTiCW7X4HVif1Rg If you find this podcast to be a helpful resource, RATE, REVIEW, & SUBSCRIBE please!  It helps others find it! Visit our website for more information on this episode and others.  https://linktr.ee/allaccessmedschool   RESOURCES: AMCAS AMCAS 2023 Guide AMCAS Grade Conversion Guide Guide for Letter Writers MSAR - Medical School Admissions Requirements CWRU School of Medicine Questions or topics suggestions: allaccess@case.edu  

Special Episode:  Your host, Christian Essman, provides some interesting updates about this application cycle compared to last year.  More importantly, he recommends that future applicants begin early application preparation over winter break!  If you find this podcast to be a helpful resource, RATE, REVIEW, & SUBSCRIBE please!  It helps others find it! Send me your recommendations for future medical schools that you'd like to hear featured! Send it to: allaccess@case.edu   Visit our website for more information on this episode and others.  https://linktr.ee/allaccessmedschool   RESOURCES: As mentioned in the episode, here is the link to the 2021-2022 AMCAS Application guide.

*SPECIAL EPISODE* 'Tis the Interview Season and we're bringing you lessons learned from our first interview season that was conducted completely online.  Hear reflections and advice from Dr. Lina Mehta, Associate Dean for Admissions, and Mr. Christian Essman followed by a compliation of Pro Tips from current first-year CWRU medical students who were just in your "Zoom shoes" a year ago!   If you find this podcast to be helpful resource, RATE, REVIEW, & SUBSCRIBE please!  It helps others find it! Send me your recommendations for future medical schools that you'd like to hear featured! Send it to: allaccess@case.edu  Visit https://case.edu/medicine/allaccess for more information on this episode and others.  https://linktr.ee/allaccessmedschool 

To kick off season 6, Lasya sits down with Mr.Christian Essman, the Senior Director of Admissions & Financial Aid at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine which is located in Cleavland, Ohio. He is also the podcast host of the podcast “All Access Med School Admissions, where he chats with other admission committee members from other medical schools. Make sure you check out his podcast. Lasya and Mr.Essman discuss the highlights of CWRU Med School including on how to apply to their programs, their case inquiry (IQ) style learning, research requirements, clinical opportunities, and so much more. Mr.Essman also shares tips about applying to medical school, giving advice on what activities to put on your medical school application, how to write your personal statement, who to ask for your letter of recommendations, how to write an effective secondary essay, and how to perform well in an interview! Make sure to give this episode a listen if you want to learn more about Case Western Reserve School of Medicine and the type of candidates they admit to their school! Links referred to in the episode Mr.Essman's podcast: https://case.edu/medicine/admissions-programs/md-programs/podcast-all-access-med-school-admissions. CWRU Med Secondaries: https://case.edu/medicine/admissions-programs/md-programs/application-process/secondary-application-questions AAMC Guide for Letter Writers: https://www.aamc.org/system/files?file=2019-09/lettersguidelinesbrochure.pdf --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lasya-marla/message

Today we're joined by Mr. Christian Essman, the senior director of admissions at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and host of the All Access: Med School Admissions podcast where he interviews admissions faculty from across the nation. With med school applications right around the corner for a lot of us, I think this conversation with Mr. Essman was really needed to try to understand how admissions are affected by the pandemic. As he notes, this year of applicants will be the first to have been affected by COVID for over a year, and these effects will be reflected in the applications. Mr. Essman shares a lot of really valuable insight in this episode - including details on what exactly happens to your application when you submit it, tips to writing your personal statement, advice on getting recommendations even if you've only met the person virtually, how med school applications increased 17% this past year, and much much more. At the end of the day, Mr. Essman urges us to just trust the process, and that everything will be okay. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/medspectives/message

As we continue to move closer to the upcoming 2020-2021 application cycle we suspect that you have many questions about novel Coronavirus-related medical school admissions changes.  As such, listen in as Christian Essman is joined by Dr. Lina Mehta, our Associate Dean for Admissions, Professor of Radiology and Chair of the AAMC Committee on Admissions (COA), who will discuss the changes we are making at CWRU in light of these COVID-related disruptions, both for applicants and for current students.  Additionally, we will provide some perspective of what is taking place on the national level.  We also answer COVID-related FAQs.    Follow along in the Google slides contained in the show notes! Questions?  allaccess@case.edu RESOURCES FOLLOW ALONG TO THE AUDIO! Google Slides Presentation COVID-related Admissions Policies for All Med Schools CWRU Health Education Campus: CWRU & Cleveland Clinic partnered to build a state-of-the-art Health Education Campus that opened in spring 2019. Take a look inside  HERE: https://bit.ly/38s0hnZ  HERE: https://bit.ly/2PBfWsr Local News Story about the Hope Hospital in the HEC Microsoft Hololens - HoloAnatomy HERE:  https://bit.ly/2VKnHP6 HoloAnatomy goes remote, learning goes on during pandemic: https://thedaily.case.edu/holoanatomy-goes-remote-learning-goes-on-during-pandemic/ VIDEO: https://youtu.be/4PEUU2EhOk0hOk0

Listen in as Christian Essman, Senior Director of Admissions and Financial Aid, and Dr. Lina Mehta, Associate Dean for Admissions at CWRU School of Medicine, discuss the uncertainty and disruptions caused by COVID-19 for pre-medical students and medical school admissions.  We know that pre-med students have many questions about coursework that is now Pass/No Pass, MCAT administrations have been cancelled, shadowing and volunteering that is on hold, and summer internships and research that could be in jeopardy. This conversation attempts to bring some reassurance to listeners to that medical schools are aware of these new challenges and that we’re all in this together.   Questions? Contact: casemed-admissions@case.edu Resources:  Med School Admissions poll on the handling of Pass/No Pass Coursework AAMC COVID-19 Resource Hub AACOMAS COVID-19 Resource Hub

Bonus Episode!  Christian Essman does a solo episode discussing "homework" to do over the holidays for those that are planning to apply to medical school next spring.  There are also a few embedded pieces of advice for current applicants with acceptances to med schools (FAFSA & Choose Your Medical School Tool).  Finally, Mr. Essman provides you with his tips on writing personal statements along with an excerpted portion of his conversation with Mr. Paul White from Johns Hopkins discussing personal statements (episode #6).  Have a question for the show? Send it to allaccess@case.edu Visit https://case.edu/medicine/allaccess for more information on this episode and others. If you haven been digging what you have been hearing, kindly head over to ApplePodcasts and leave us a rating, a review and subscribe! Resources AAMC Virtual Medical School Fair:  Thursday, February, 22, 2020 - Registration details forthcoming and it's FREE! The Cost of Applying To Medical School Personal Statement Tips from highly regarded pre-med advisors AMCAS Choose Your Medical School Tool for those currently accepted to a medical school(s)  

Christian Essman is Director of Admissions at Case Western Reserve Universtity SOM and podcaster. He joins me to talk admissions process, transparency, and more! Links: Full Episode Blog Post Meded Media All Access: Med School Admissions Listen to All Access: Med School Admissions Podcast on iTunes, Spotify, and Stitcher. Lifebanc The Undifferentiated Medical Student Podcast with Ian Drummond

The topic of today’s show is not a specialty, but rather a new podcast that I am very excited to help introduce to the world called All Access: Med School Admissions, and the person here to tell us about it is its creator and host, Christian Essman, the Director of Admissions at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. From the All Access website: Applying to medical school can be a very complex and confusing process! On top of that, finding reliable and accurate information about the application process can be even more challenging. With nearly 15 years of admissions experience, Christian Essman of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, gives the listener a unique view into the medical school admissions world through a series of revealing interviews with key admissions figures from around the country. All Access: Med School Admissions brings the listeners into informative and entertaining conversations between admissions colleagues. Listeners will learn about a variety of medical schools, what makes their programs unique, and what they are looking for in their prospective students. Most importantly, Christian will lead the discussion on a variety of medical school admissions-related topics where you will get insight directly from the most authoritative sources out there - his admissions friends. Subscribe on iTunes and Spotify. Email Director Essman at allaccess@case.edu.

This episode sets the stage for future episodes. Christian Essman describes some of the terms and phrases used in the admissions application process. Additionally, he provides a walk through of the application timeline. Additional information for All Access: Med School Admissions can be found at: https://case.edu/medicine/allaccess  Resources:   AAMC - Association of American Medical Colleges  Bookmark this site now! MSAR - Medical School Admissions Requirements AMCAS - American Medical College Application Service MCAT - Medical College Admission Test Choose DO Explorer – online search tool created for prospective students interested in osteopathic medicine Aspiring Docs - Provides resources and inspiration to help you get started on your path to medicine. General application timeline  AACOM - American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine AACOMAS – American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine Application Service Pathways to Medicine