Physician-led admissions guidance & mentorship
Work directly with Frank J. Sloan, MD, FAAP—a physician, educator, and former medical school admissions committee member—to prepare thoughtfully, communicate your experiences, and make informed decisions.
Dr. Sloan has served on medical school admissions committees, interviewed applicants, and voted on moving waitlisted applicants to acceptance. He draws on that experience to help students and families understand how applicants are evaluated and prepare for the admissions process.
Find your starting point
You may need a focused conversation, support through an application cycle, or mentorship over time. Begin with the question you are facing.
Work through an important decision with experienced perspective and a practical way forward.
Consultations from $225
See physician consultation options and feesFor students or parents seeking help with a specific question.
Start as early as freshman year and build toward a future application with Dr. Sloan. Use the time before your application cycle to develop experiences, explore essay ideas, and make thoughtful choices.
$3,500 for 12 months
At the end of twelve months, you can choose another year of mentorship under a new agreement. Your mentorship does not renew automatically. For students applying to enter medical school after graduation, the transition to application-cycle mentorship typically occurs during junior year.
For students who are not yet preparing an active application, including those following gap-year or other timelines. Early essay reflection is included; full application-essay editing and mock interviews belong to application-cycle mentorship.
Prepare and complete your medical-school applications with Dr. Sloan, then work through interview practice, school ranking, and final decisions. For a student planning to enter medical school after college graduation, this preparation typically begins during junior year, with interviews and decisions during senior year. Applicants on other timelines begin when they are preparing for their chosen cycle.
$6,000
Twelve sessions total across one agreed application cycle, from your first advising meeting through final admissions and waitlist decisions. A new application cycle requires a new agreement.
Adapting applications across AMCAS, AACOMAS, and TMDSAS may require one or more full advising sessions, counted toward the ten included.
For students preparing for or moving through an application cycle. Your writing remains your own. Additional schools and work outside the included scope are agreed separately.
Reapplication, post-baccalaureate and master’s programs, school choice, and medical-school costs can all be starting points for a physician consultation.
For parents: A consultation can help you understand what being premed in college involves, the milestones ahead, and the preparation your child will need for a medical-school application. Discuss coursework, experiences, MCAT timing, recommendation letters, and ways to support your student.
Understanding the application
Understanding what the application is really asking you to demonstrate is central to preparing it well.
Your GPA and MCAT score help schools assess academic readiness. Your essays, experiences, accomplishments, recommendations, and interview help a committee understand your motivation, judgment, service, communication, and preparation for medicine.
An interview invitation is an opportunity for a closer evaluation. What you explain in your essays, what your experiences demonstrate, and what interviewers learn about you can influence acceptance and waitlist decisions.
Dr. Sloan helps you connect what you have done, what you have learned, and why it matters—so your application and interview communicate your readiness in your own voice.
Schools weigh these factors differently, and GPA and MCAT scores can continue to matter after an interview. An invitation does not guarantee admission.
Further reading: AAMC guidance on interview evaluation and holistic review.
Read about Dr. Sloan’s admissions experienceOptions and fees
Each consultation includes a brief personalized written recap within two business days, with recommendations and agreed next steps.
$225
One narrow, clearly defined question with limited preparation. A focused conversation rather than a comprehensive applicant assessment.
$375
One substantial question or several related questions, with time to understand your situation and consider the options.
$525
A complex assessment with advance record review, such as application readiness, reapplication, or a post-baccalaureate or master’s program decision. Your recap includes key findings from the review.
$1,050
A finite project with follow-up over approximately 60–90 days, typically three 60-minute or two 90-minute meetings. A personalized written recap follows each session within two business days.
Premedical mentorship helps you develop your experiences and CV, plan coursework and the MCAT, and build relationships for recommendation letters before you apply. When you are ready to prepare and submit applications, application-cycle mentorship focuses on school strategy, essays, applications, interviews, and admissions decisions.
You can begin with the service that fits your current needs. If you would like Dr. Sloan’s guidance through preparation and a later application cycle, we will agree on the sequence, included services, and fees before you commit. Moving to application-cycle mentorship is a separate choice and requires a new agreement.
Start with a consultation. If you enroll in premedical mentorship or application-cycle mentorship within 14 days after your initial consultation, the full fee for that one 30-, 60-, or 90-minute consultation will be applied toward your mentorship fee.
A clear scope before you decide. Mentorship packages are tailored to an agreed scope. Your proposal will specify the included support, timeline, and final fee before you purchase.
The approach
Becoming a physician involves more than reaching the next academic milestone. It calls for curiosity, sound judgment, reflection, and responsibility.
Our mentorship encourages students to ask thoughtful questions, weigh evidence, and recognize the limits of their knowledge. These habits help them make informed choices on the path to medical school and prepare for the responsibilities of becoming a physician.
Meet your mentor
Frank J. Sloan, MD, FAAP
Founder, Consilium Medici
Dr. Sloan has served on medical school admissions committees, interviewed applicants, and voted on moving waitlisted applicants to acceptance.
He draws on that experience to help students and families understand how applicants are evaluated and prepare for the admissions process.
Dr. Sloan brings more than two decades of clinical pediatric experience, alongside teaching, curriculum development, and mentorship of medical students and other health-professions learners.
His approach begins with understanding the person behind the application: their experiences, circumstances, questions, and aspirations. Honest guidance may mean applying, waiting, reconsidering an expensive program, or choosing a different next step.
Based in Fort Worth, with a national perspective and particular expertise in the Texas medical-school pathway.
How to begin
Inquiries about future services are welcome. Paid services are not yet open while business and payment arrangements are being finalized. This website does not currently offer online booking or payment.
Email Dr. Sloan with your current stage, the decision you are facing, and the support you have in mind. You do not need to choose a package first.
We will clarify your needs and identify whether a focused consultation or ongoing mentorship is appropriate. You will receive the proposed scope, fee, and terms before committing.
Once the engagement is agreed, we will arrange your meeting and identify any materials to review beforehand. After each consultation, your personalized recap arrives within two business days.
A few questions
No. CM is designed to serve students throughout the United States. Texas and TMDSAS are particular areas of expertise within that national practice. See how Texas applications differ.
Applying to medical school in Texas calls for a plan that accounts for three primary application services. Most U.S. MD (allopathic) programs use AMCAS, while most U.S. DO (osteopathic) programs use AACOMAS. Texas has an additional centralized service, TMDSAS, which serves its public medical schools and Baylor College of Medicine.
TMDSAS: Texas public MD programs, Baylor’s regular MD program, and the public DO programs at Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine and Sam Houston State University.
AMCAS: The regular MD program at TCU’s Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine.
AACOMAS: The DO program at the University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine.
A student applying across all of these Texas programs would need all three services. Your own school list determines which you need. These are primary applications; schools may also require secondary applications and other materials. Combined-degree programs can follow different routes, so each program’s requirements need to be checked.
Why does this matter? State-supported Texas medical schools can offer a substantial tuition advantage, particularly for Texas residents. Costs vary by school and residency classification, and tuition is only one part of the total cost of attendance. The application service a school uses does not, by itself, tell you what its tuition will be.
Understanding Texas means more than choosing the right form. Essays, activity descriptions, recommendation requirements, deadlines, and the TMDSAS match process need to fit together. Dr. Sloan helps students and families plan for these differences, compare school options and costs, and understand what each application is asking them to communicate.
Official resources: TMDSAS guide and participating schools · TCU application requirements · UIW application requirements · AMCAS · AACOMAS · An example of resident and nonresident costs at UT Southwestern.
You will work directly with Frank J. Sloan, MD, FAAP, for all advising, application reviews, and interview preparation. Dr. Sloan is the sole adviser at Consilium Medici. The meetings, reviews, and communication included in your service will be agreed before you begin.
Parents may bring a defined question to a focused consultation. Participation in an adult student’s advising, and sharing of information or recaps, require the student’s permission; paying for services does not itself grant access.
A CV, short for curriculum vitae, is a developing record of your academic and professional experiences and accomplishments. It can include education, research, clinical experiences, service, leadership, teaching, presentations, publications, honors, and employment. A résumé is usually a shorter summary tailored to a particular opportunity.
Dr. Sloan encourages students to build a CV throughout their premedical years. The goal is to develop meaningful experiences and understand what you have learned, rather than wait until application season to assemble a list. Keep track of your responsibilities, dates, contributions, and reflections as you go.
Medical-school applications ask you to explain your activities, accomplishments, and the experiences that have shaped you. A work-focused résumé alone may leave much of that story unexplored. Building a CV early can help you recognize what to develop next, identify possible essay topics, and prepare to describe your experiences in your own words.
No. Guidance helps you reflect, organize, and communicate clearly while preserving your authorship and authentic voice. Your application must remain truthful and your own work.
No. CM offers educational guidance and mentorship. Admissions decisions and other outcomes cannot be guaranteed.
Both mentorship packages include brief email questions, with a response goal of two business days. Substantial discussions take place in scheduled meetings. Personalized consultation recaps arrive within two business days after each meeting. Email support does not add unlimited document reviews or revision rounds.
One review round consists of a draft you submit, Dr. Sloan’s feedback, and your revisions. When Dr. Sloan reviews your revised draft, the next round begins. Your package specifies how many rounds are included; your writing remains your own.
Allow five business days for each essay or application review round. Send each draft at least five business days before you need feedback, and leave additional time to make your revisions before submitting to a school. Rush reviews require Dr. Sloan’s agreement and depend on availability.
Meeting recaps are separate: your personalized recap arrives within two business days after your meeting.
Please give at least 24 hours’ notice. Each mentorship includes one courtesy reschedule for a late cancellation or missed meeting. After that, cancellations with less than 24 hours’ notice and missed meetings count as used sessions. Emergencies are considered individually.
Rescheduling with at least 24 hours’ notice does not use your courtesy allowance. If Dr. Sloan cancels a meeting, it will be rescheduled without reducing your included meeting allowance or using your courtesy reschedule.
Unused meetings expire at the end of your agreed mentorship term. Any extension requires Dr. Sloan’s approval; illness or a meeting he had to postpone can be considered individually. There is no automatic extension or renewal.
Premedical mentorship is $3,500 for twelve months, with eight meetings before your application cycle. Continuing for another year is your choice and requires a new agreement; there is no automatic renewal. It can begin as early as freshman year and covers activities, CV/résumé development, early essay ideas, MCAT planning, recommendations, research, summer opportunities, and working with your college’s premed office. Application-cycle mentorship is $6,000 and includes ten advising meetings plus two additional interview-preparation meetings, defined essay and application reviews, school strategy, ranking, and final decision support through one agreed cycle. For students entering medical school after college graduation, application preparation typically starts during junior year, followed by interviews and decisions during senior year. Other applicants transition according to their own timeline. See the service descriptions for the included review rounds and five-school secondary allowance.
Yes. If you enroll in either premedical mentorship or application-cycle mentorship within 14 days after your initial consultation, we will credit the full fee for that one 30-, 60-, or 90-minute consultation toward the mentorship price. The credit reduces the amount due for mentorship; it is not an additional fee. We will confirm the credit in your agreement.
It is not as simple as a yes-or-no answer. Your circumstances, preparation, and goals all matter. There is no single answer that fits every student.
Have you allowed enough time to prepare for and take the MCAT, and to have your results available for your application plan? When you say “in time,” what date have you set for yourself to be ready, and how does that compare with the requirements and deadlines of the schools you are considering? Who will write your recommendation letters, how many do you have arranged, and do they meet those schools’ requirements?
Your coursework, clinical experiences, service, research, essays, and other commitments also shape the decision. Dr. Sloan helps you work through these questions together, understand what is ready and what still needs attention, and build a timeline that fits your situation.
Start with the decision you need to make. A focused consultation may be sufficient; ongoing mentorship should match your stage and needs. Final service scope and fees will be confirmed before an engagement.
Your next chapter
Inquire about future availability and the guidance you have in mind. Sending an inquiry does not reserve an appointment or create a paid engagement.
Or email frank@consiliummedici.co.
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