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Contacts

Website: http://medicine.utah.edu/
Phone: 801-581-7498
Admissions e-mail: deans.admissions@hsc.utah.edu

Program Information

• Doctor of Medicine (MD)
• 4 years in length
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Admission statistics

• Approximate number of applicants per year: 1500
• Approximate number of applicants interviewed: 500
• Class size of 2015: 122
• A minimum of 82% of spaces are offered to Utah residents or Utah high school, college, or university graduates.
• International students are eligible for consideration as long as they obtained their bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university in the United States or Canada.

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Admission Requirements

Course and Degree Requirements

• Degree: A Bachelor’s degree
• Required Courses
  • Physics with lab: 1 year
  • Chemistry with lab: 2 years including both general and organic chemistry series
  • Biology: 2 courses
    • One course must be Cellular Biology or Biochemistry
  • Social Science: 1 course
    • history, economics, anthropology, psychology, etc.
  • Humanities: 1 course
    • art, music, drama, literature, etc.
  • Writing/Speech: 1 year
    • Emphasize written and/or verbal communications

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GPA

• Minimum: 3.2 out of 4.0 in both science and non-science courses
• Average accepted GPA :3.6

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MCAT

• Minimum scores:7 for each section
• Average scores: 10 for each section
• MCAT must have been written within 3 years of application deadline and cannot be done after September of the application year.
• For tests taken in 2013, 2014 and January, 2015 only, the best score for each section will be considered.
• If the test is taken after April 1, 2015, only the scores from the latest test will be accepted. The minimum acceptable score is 123 in each of the four sections.

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Supporting Documents

• AMCAS Application Form
• Essay question
• Premedical course list
• Activities form
• State certification
• Application Fee ($100.00)
• 4 letters of Recommendation
  • 2 Academic Letters
  • 2 Supervisor Letters

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Evaluation Criteria

• Applicants must achieve at least the minimum level of performance in all 7 areas and be average or above in 5 out of the 7 areas in order to be eligible for further consideration.
  • Grade point average (GPA)
    • Minimum: 3.2
    • Average: 3.6
  • Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)
    • Minimum: 7 in each section
    • Average: 10 in each section
  • Community/Volunteer services
    • Minimum: 36 hours within last 4 years
    • Average: 100 hours within last 4 years
  • Leadership
    • Minimum: 1 leadership experience lasting 3 months within the last 4 years
    • Average: 3 different leadership experiences each lasting 3 months within the last 4 years
  • Research
    • Minimum: part of a class where applicant answered or tested a hypothesis and received a grade
    • Average: hypothesis based research that is supervised by an individual with verifiable research credentials.
  • Physician shadowing
    • Minimum: 8 hours shadowing a physician
    • Average: 24 hours with a physician(s)
  • Patient exposure
    • Minimum: 32 hours
    • Average: 48 hours

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Interview

• Applicants invited to interview: approximately 500
• Interview dates: September to February
• Interview form: MMI, each last for 7 minutes; the entire session takes approximately 60 minutes
• Interviewers: volunteers from the fourth year medical student class and faculty representatives who are physicians, investigators, administrators or community representatives who interact with the medical students

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Timeline 2015-2016

• June 1, 2015: Earliest day to send AMCAS application
• November 1, 2015: Last day to send AMCAS application
• July 2015 - December 2015: Email sent for secondary materials
• September 2015 - February 2016: Interviews
• October 15, 2015 - April 2016: Notifications of acceptance by phone calls

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Tuition 2015-2016

• Resident
  • First Year Tuition per semester: $17,510.47
  • Total First Year Fees per semester: $18,047.00
• Non-Resident:
  • First Year Tuition per semester: $33,150.74
  • Total First Year Fees: $33,687.27

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