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May 4, 2022 · Leila Amiri, Ph.D., has been named Larner's next associate dean for admissions. Dr. Amiri comes to Larner from the University of Illinois College of Medicine, where she is associate dean for admissions and recruitment. Previously, she was director of admissions and financial aid for the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.
Leila Amiri is one of the associate deans at the Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont. She is responsible for the admissions process, recruitment, and diversity initiatives for the medical school.
- What Does Active Learning Mean in Practical terms?
- How Does The Focus on Active Learning Influence Admissions?
- Does UVM screen Secondaries Before Sending Them out?
- What Is The Virtual Interview Day Like at Larner?
- How Would You Suggest Applicants Prepare For Their interview?
- What’s The Role of The Casper in Evaluating Applicants to UVM Larner?
- What Makes An Applicant Jump Off The Page For You in A Positive Sense?
- What Role Does Connection to Vermont Play in The Evaluation Process?
- How Do You View Prerequisites Taken at A Community College?
- How Do You View Shadowing and Virtual Shadowing?
When you look at educational philosophy and pedagogy, adult learners need to really be invested in what they’re learning. Not only do they need to be invested in what they’re learning, but they also have to find meaning and value in it. They have to be at the center of constructing the information. There’s very little lecturing that happens here fo...
Right now in our current admissions model, we have an MMI interview process, so there are standard MMI questions that you would see. We also have a team-based learning station where the team-based activity requires individuals who pretty much don’t know each other to work together as a team over the course of 20 to 25 minutes to solve a problem tha...
We don’t. We release secondaries to every student who puts us on their AMCAS application. My recommendation would be to take a peek at our average metrics and really decide if it seems like this is going to be a good option for you or not.
We ask students to join us around 11:30 EST and we spend the first almost hour giving a little bit of information about the program. We talk a little bit about our resources, the active learning modules, some of the modalities, and some of the contexts where learning will happen for them. We also cover the institution and our two different campuses...
Because we’re solely an MMI interview, what I would say is there’s really not much preparation that a student can do for the MMI. Really, the MMI is designed to pick up on soft skills and how you are as a person, how much empathy you have, what type of team player you are, if you have strong communication skills. There’s really no way to prepare fo...
For us, CASPer gives an additional value of a person. We’ll look at those things that the committee has determined are important for them to have in terms of experiences. We want students to have a reasonable CASPer. If it’s a -2.75, they’re on the wrong end of that continuum. We’re looking for CASPer scores that would suggest that the person is em...
It’s an individual who’s self-aware. If they had some hiccups along the way, they address them head on and they help us understand what happened. What I tell students is that your application has to make sense. When I read the personal statement and you talk to me about taking care of underserved populations or that you’re interested in rural commu...
It’s an important component for us. So much so that we invite our Vermont candidates all during the same days and they all go to the committee at the same time. We get less than one hundred applications from our state, somewhere between seventy-five to one hundred. We’re a low-population state of less than 700,000. The number of applicants that we ...
We’re fine with them. I’m the product of a community college. The admissions committee doesn’t worry at all about community college courses. These are courses that students have taken, they’ve done fine and then they’ve moved on to other classes. We don’t even bother with it or say “These courses were taken at a community college.” We just want to ...
Shadowing is interesting. We had an admissions committee meeting yesterday, and we were talking a little bit about how shadowing is generally a passive experience. You follow a doctor around for a little bit of time and you get what you get from the experience really based on how much the physician engages the student. How often do they turn around...
Leila Amiri, PhD. Associate Dean for Admissions. Mission Statement. To identify, select and recruit a diverse group of academically accomplished students whose ...
Jul 27, 2023 · “We need to reach further upstream to help build the diversity of the physician workforce,” says Amiri. “This ruling has made that even more urgent.” Expanding recruitment to, or building relationships with, undergraduate institutions and community-based organizations with high levels of diversity among their students and participants.
Jan 26, 2024 · Corresponding Author: Leila Amiri, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, The Robert Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, 89 Beaumont Ave, Given Courtyard, Burlington, VT 05405 (leila.amiri@med.uvm.edu).
