Supplemental Questions for residency year 2022-2023.
**Please check after December 1st each year for updated questions**
Supplemental application essay document (total length of document for all three questions limited to 1 page):
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Why do you want to work with an underserved population and/or within a community health center?
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Other than language barriers, what will be your biggest challenge(s) in working with our patient population and our practice sites and how do you hope to overcome this?
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Select one of the following:
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If you are proficient in a second language:
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What language and level of proficiency? (See definition below)
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How have you used these skills in patient care situations?
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If you do not speak a second language, how have you provided care to a patient in a language you do not speak or how do you anticipate meeting this need if you have not encountered this situation before?
Language Proficiency Definitions
Proficiency Code
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Speaking Definitions
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Reading Definitions
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0 - No Practical Proficiency
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No practical speaking proficiency.
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No practical reading proficiency.
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1 - Elementary Proficiency
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Able to satisfy routine travel needs and minimum courtesy requirements
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Able to read some personal and place names, street signs, office and shop designations, numbers and isolated words and phrases
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2 - Limited Working Proficiency
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Able to satisfy routine social demands and limited work requirements
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Able to read simple prose, in a form equivalent to typescript or printing, on subjects within a familiar context
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3 - Minimum Professional Proficiency
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Able to speak the language with sufficient structural accuracy and vocabulary to participate effectively in most formal and informal conversations on practical, social, and professional topics
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Able to read standard newspaper items addressed to the general reader, routine correspondence, reports, and technical materials in the individual's special field.
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4 - Full Professional Proficiency
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Able to use the language fluently and accurately on all levels pertinent to professional needs.
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Able to read all styles and forms of the language pertinent to professional needs.
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5 - Native or Bilingual Proficiency
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Equivalent to that of an educated native speaker.
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Equivalent to that of an educated native.
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