Mass casualty resource allocation, hurricane preparedness failures, moral distress in crisis standards of care.

Cancer Alley, petrochemical industry health impact, community environmental advocacy.

Rural Louisiana parishes, Cajun/Creole communities, language-accessible care, Medicaid navigation.

HIV in the South, tropical disease in returning travelers, outbreak containment and stigma.

Why New Orleans, resilience, community engagement, why medicine in the Gulf South.

New Orleans is simultaneously one of the most culturally rich and medically underserved cities in the US — understand this duality.

Know the Charity Hospital story: a beloved safety-net institution closed post-Katrina, replaced by University Medical Center. The debate about what was lost still matters.

Tulane students learn in a city where health inequity is visible daily — show that you're drawn to learning in that environment, not despite it.

Cancer Alley — an 85-mile stretch of petrochemical plants between Baton Rouge and New Orleans — has some of the highest cancer rates in the US. This is a Tulane research priority.

Be ready to discuss the ethics of industrial health impacts on poor communities, environmental racism, and physician advocacy in regulatory contexts.

Connect environmental health to clinical practice: how do you take an occupational and environmental history, and when does it change your differential?

Tulane trains disaster medicine specialists — disaster triage ethics (utilitarian vs. fair innings vs. first-come) is a likely station.

Know crisis standards of care: how do allocation decisions change when normal standards cannot be met?

Don't just name ethical frameworks — apply them to the specific scenario and acknowledge the moral distress physicians experience in crisis situations.

"Since 2011 I've sat on MMI panels across Canada, the USA, and the UK — scoring thousands of candidates across medicine, dentistry, PA, and nursing. Universal MMI is built on everything I've learned sitting on the other side of that table."

Tulane stations are heavily influenced by New Orleans' unique health context — disaster medicine, tropical disease, environmental health, and Gulf South health disparities. Generic answers without this regional knowledge stand out negatively.

Cancer Alley is the stretch of the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans lined with petrochemical plants. Communities (predominantly Black and low-income) in this corridor have some of the highest cancer rates in the nation. Tulane researchers and faculty are active in studying and advocating around this crisis.

Charity Hospital, the 275-year-old public hospital and Tulane's historic teaching site, closed permanently after Hurricane Katrina (2005). University Medical Center New Orleans opened in 2015 as its replacement. The closure remains controversial — many argue it was a policy choice, not a necessity.

Tulane has a strong tropical medicine and global health tradition. Global health experience is valued, but so is Gulf South community health experience. Either is relevant to Tulane's mission.

Recent entering classes have median MCAT around 515 and median GPA around 3.72. Tulane is academically competitive but considers regional context and mission fit.

Tulane has emergency protocols developed post-Katrina. Students are trained in disaster preparedness, and the school has documented procedures for class continuity during major storms.

No. Tulane is private and admits nationally and internationally. However, familiarity with Louisiana's health landscape is important for MMI success.

The US South, particularly Louisiana and Mississippi, has some of the highest HIV rates in the country, driven by stigma, inadequate sex education, poverty, and limited healthcare access. Tulane's infectious disease programs include HIV care and research. Know this context for infectious disease ethics stations.