Here are Stony Brook University School of Medicine’s secondary questions.
2024-2025
1. Will your education be continuous between college and medical school matriculation? (500 words)
If YES, please tell us about your proudest accomplishment to date.
If NO, please explain what you have done or plan to do during the gap period and why.
2. Tell us how your past experiences and/or challenges have defined you (500 words)
3. Please respond to ONE of the following two questions (500 words)
(1) Please describe how you, as a future physician, plan to address the social determinants of health.
(2) What, in your opinion, is the role of a physician in addressing systemic racism and societal injustices?
2022-2023 Stony Brook Secondary Essay Prompts
1. Will your education be continuous between college and medical school matriculation? (500 words)
If NO, please explain what you have done or plan to do during the gap period and why.
If YES, please tell us about your proudest accomplishment to date.
2. Describe an obstacle you’ve overcome and how it has defined you: (500 words)
3. Please respond to ONE of the following two questions: (500 words)
- Please describe how you, as a future physician, plan to address the social determinants of health.
- What, in your opinion, is the role of a physician in addressing systemic racism and societal injustices?
2023-2024
1. Tell us how your past experiences and/or challenges have defined you (500 words or less)
2. Please respond to ONE of the following two questions: (500 words or less)
(1) Please describe how you, as a future physician, plan to address the social determinants of health.
(2) What, in your opinion, is the role of a physician in addressing systemic racism and societal injustices?
3. Will your education be continuous between college and medical school matriculation?
If NO, please explain what you have done or plan to do during the gap period and why. (500 words or less)
If YES, please tell us about your proudest accomplishment to date. (500 words or less)
2022-2023
1. Will your education be continuous between college and medical school matriculation? (500 words)
If NO, please explain what you have done or plan to do during the gap period and why.
If YES, please tell us about your proudest accomplishment to date.
2. Describe an obstacle you’ve overcome and how it has defined you: (500 words)
3. Please respond to ONE of the following two questions: (500 words)
- Please describe how you, as a future physician, plan to address the social determinants of health.
- What, in your opinion, is the role of a physician in addressing systemic racism and societal injustices?
2021-2022
- Will your education be continuous between college and medical school matriculation? (If no, you have 500 words)
- Describe an obstacle you’ve overcome and how it defined you (500 words)
- Respond to one (500 words):
- (A) Please describe how you, as a future physician, plan to address the social determinants of health. OR (B) What, in your opinion, is the role of a physician in addressing systemic racism and societal injustices?
MSTP applicants, also answer this question:
- Please describe the basic and/or clinical research fields that you think you might like to explore and/or develop expertise in during your MSTP training. To the extent that you have defined potential specific future clinical interests, please describe the type(s) of medicine that you might be interested in pursuing once you have completed the MSTP.
2020-2021
Please limit your responses to 500 words per question.
Will your education be continuous between college and medical school matriculation?
If NO, please explain what you have done or plan to do during the gap period and why.
If YES, please tell us about your proudest accomplishment to date.
Describe an obstacle you’ve overcome and how it has defined you.
2019-2020
Will your education be continuous between college and medical school matriculation? 500 words
Describe an obstacle you’ve overcome and how it has defined you: 500 words
2018-2019
ESSAY QUESTIONS (Please limit your responses to 500 words per question)
Will your education be continuous between college and medical school matriculation? YES NO
If YES, please tell us about your proudest accomplishment to date.
If NO, please explain what you have done or plan to do during the gap period and why.
Describe an obstacle you’ve overcome and how it has defined you.
MSTP:
Please describe the basic and/or clinical research fields that you think you might like to explore and/or develop expertise in during your MSTP training. To the extent that you have defined potential specific future clinical interests, please describe the type(s) of medicine that you might be interested in pursuing once you have completed the MSTP. (500 words).
2017-2018
Limit: 500 words per question.
Will your education be continuous between college and medical school matriculation? If YES, please tell us about your proudest accomplishment to date. If NO, please explain what you have done or plan to do during the gap period and why.
DESCRIBE AN OBSTACLE YOU’VE OVERCOME AND HOW IT HAS DEFINED YOU.
Good luck to everyone applying!
2016-2017
Will your education be continuous between college and medical school matriculation? If yes, please tell us what you anticipate you will be doing professionally 15 years after graduating from medical school and why. If no, please explain what you have done or plant to do during the gap period and why. (1 page)
Describe an obstacle you’ve overcome and how it has defined you. (1 page)
