Essay Prompts (2025 - 2026)

Essay Prompt #1: The Burnett School of Medicine defines empathic scholars with these eight traits: Compassion, Teachability, Altruism, Insight, Humility, Collaboration, Integrity, & Respect.

1. Which trait do you think you embody most and how will that be valuable to patient care? (250 to 300 words)

2. Which trait might you need to improve upon? How will you improve in this area and how will this be of value in your role as a physician?(250 to 300 words)

Essay Prompt #2: Characteristics of an aspiring MD.-Describe any personal qualities and/or lived experiences that add context to your application that shape who you are as an individual and aspiring healthcare leader. (250 to 300 words)

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Essay Topics (2024 - 2025)

300 word limit each

Essay Prompt #1: The Burnett School of Medicine defines empathic scholars with these eight traits: Compassion, Teachability, Altruism, Insight, Humility, Collaboration, Integrity, & Respect.

1. Which trait do you think you embody most and how will that be valuable to patient care?
2. Which trait might you need to improve upon? How will you improve in this area and how will this be of value in your role as a physician?

Essay Prompt #2: Characteristics of an aspiring MD.Describe any personal qualities and/or lived experiences that add context to your application that shape who you are as an individual and aspiring healthcare leader.

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Essay Topics ('23 – '24)

TCU/UNTHSC does not employ a written secondary application.

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Essay Topics ('22 – '23)

TCU/UNTHSC does not employ a written secondary application. They read your primary application, screen for mission fit, and gradually invite selected applicants to their secondary application which in the past has been an online one, with audio-recorded answers to questions you can see on your computer screen. They have also asked in the past for applicants not to share specific questions, from the secondary or the interview days.

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Essay Topics ('21 – '22)

TCU/UNTHSC does not employ a written secondary application. They read your primary application, screen for mission fit, and gradually invite selected applicants to their secondary application which in the past has been an online one, with audio-recorded answers to questions you can see on your computer screen. They have also asked in the past for applicants not to share specific questions, from the secondary or the interview days.

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‍Essay Topics (’20 – ’21)

Audio Secondary, unable to find exact questions.

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‍Essay Topics ('19 – '20)

Timed audio and written prompts that include five (5) responses to mission-specific questions.

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‍Essay Topics ('18 – '19)

No essays, but a live webcam video secondary response