All about the University of Illinois College of Medicine's admissions process [Show summary]

During this episode, Dr. Leila Amiri who is the University of Illinois College of Medicine's Assistant Dean of Admissions and Recruitment, not only dissects the UI COM admissions process but also provides a wonderful and experienced perspective on the overall medical school application process.

Do your goals align with the mission of the University of Illinois College of Medicine? [Show notes]

Welcome to the 423rd episode of Admissions Straight Talk. Thanks for joining me today. Before we meet our guest I want to invite you to attend this next med school admissions webinar: How To Create Successful Secondary Applications. It's a free webinar which I will present on July 8th, 2021. Secondary applications are going to flood your calendar and consciousness in the weeks ahead and maybe even have already started doing so. You have to turn them around quickly and effectively, but how? We've got you covered. Register for How To Create Successful Secondary Applications for free.

And now a little information about our guest today. Dr. Leila Amiri joined the University of Illinois College of Medicine team in 2017. As Assistant Dean for Admissions and Recruitment she oversees admissions and recruitment for all three campuses of the College of Medicine. She is a passionate advocate for holistic review and admissions and provides strong support for students striving to achieve their academic and professional goals.

Dr. Amiri has spent her career in higher education, starting as a peer advisor in the biology department. Over this time she has worked with a variety of students at seven different institutions as an advisor, faculty member, administrator, and mentor.

In the medical education arena she has engaged in leadership at the national level serving as a liaison for the committee on admissions for the Association of American Medical Colleges, AKA the AAMC, and as an AAMC holistic review facilitator working with other medical schools admissions committees on how to include holistic review in their process. She is currently serving as the vice chair for the BA/MD Affiliate Group.

Dr. Amiri, welcome to Admissions Straight Talk.

Can you give us, to start, just a basic overview of the UI School of Medicine program focusing on its more distinctive elements? [2:15]

Absolutely, we're one of the larger medical schools in the country. We admit 300 students every year to three different campuses. We're very mission driven in that the mission is to advance health for everyone with outstanding education, outreach, healthcare, research, and really with a focus of social justice and social responsibility at the core of what we do.

What I really appreciate about our program is that we are so diverse, not only in the student body and the faculty, but also the programming that we offer. So we're able to offer, for example, urban focused healthcare programs all the way up to rural medicine focused programs.