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Admission requirements

To seek admission to the School of Medicine:

1. Complete the following premedical course requirements in good standing:

General biology with laboratory (1 year/2 semesters)

General inorganic chemistry with laboratory (1 year/2 semesters)

Organic chemistry with laboratory (1 year/2 semesters)

General physics with laboratory (1 year/2 semesters)

English and English composition (1 semester)

Online coursework will not be accepted, except where coursework was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

All prerequisite course grades must be passing.

2. Be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident of the United States at time of application.

3. Have received your bachelor’s degree from an accredited U.S. or Canadian institution prior to matriculation.

4. Complete all required criminal background checks and drug screens. If you are accepted, Certiphi Screening Inc. will contact you via email about the criminal background check process. The following checks are required by July 1 of the matriculating year: Criminal Background Check, Child Abuse History, Pennsylvania Access to Criminal History and FBI fingerprinting. Furthermore, accepted applicants must submit and satisfactorily complete a drug screening prior to matriculation and within the time frame designated by the Admissions Office.

Find our Policy on Criminal Background Check and Drug Screening here: go.geisinger.edu/backgrounddrugscreening.

5. Report any legal or academic actions taken against you from the time of application submission to AMCAS and matriculation at the School of Medicine to the Admissions Office.

6. Attend the School of Medicine’s mandatory orientation program.

7. Meet the School of Medicine’s Technical Standards with or without a reasonable accommodation. If you have a disability, you must provide medical documentation detailing the disability and the type of accommodation needed to meet the Technical Standards.

Depending on the need for the accommodation, the Accessibilities Committee will review the information you supplied to determine your ability to meet the Technical Standards with reasonable accommodations.

You’re responsible for meeting all the above requirements. Failure to do so may result in the rescinding of the admission offer.

Application process

To apply to the MD program:

1. Complete an application through the online American Medical College Application Service (AMCAS), the national application for U.S. MD programs.

• AMCAS application completion includes an application fee and all supporting documents as requested.

• The School of Medicine will only consider verified AMCAS applications (incomplete applications will not be reviewed).

2. Submit letters of recommendation via AMCAS Letters.

• You are required to submit one preprofessional/pre-health/committee letter or three evaluation/recommendation letters from faculty who are familiar with your career goals and academic coursework.

• The admissions committee will consider additional letters that highlight and support facets of an applicant’s portfolio not previously addressed, and are submitted via the AMCAS Letter Service. Students may submit a maximum of four letters.

• For non-traditional students, the admissions committee will consider letters of recommendation written by people who have firsthand knowledge of your strengths, work ethic, abilities and commitment to the field of medicine.

3. Complete the Geisinger Commonwealth Secondary Application.

• All AMCAS verified applicants will automatically receive a secondary application.

• Application fee is $100.

• Candidates in receipt of an AMCAS Fee Assistance Program (FAP) waiver may submit a PDF copy of the form to mdadmissions@geisinger.edu.

4. Take the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) PREview™ Professional Readiness Exam.

• We encourage you to take the AAMC PREview™ exam. We will consider scores as one part of our admissions process.

Interviewing

After reviewing your application materials, we’ll notify you if you’ll be offered an interview for the MD program. All candidates will interview using the Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) format.

Contact us

Geisinger Commonwealth School of MedicineGeisinger College of Health Sciences525 Pine St., Scranton, PA 18509

Call: 570-504-9068Text: 570-904-2084

mdadmissions@geisinger.edu

geisinger.edu/gcsom