<p>Hi everyone,
For the second PLME question, (“Since the Program in Liberal Medical Education espouses a broad-based liberal education, please describe your fields of interest in both the sciences and the liberal arts. Be specific about what courses and aspects of the program will be woven into a potential educational plan.”), what does interests in the liberal arts mean exactly? If I write about fine arts courses I would like to take, would that be irrelevant?
Thanks!</p>
<p>I’m interpreted it to mean something like what your interest in participating in a liberal arts education alongside a medicine-geared curriculum means to you. I’m guessing they want to see you have interests in all areas of academics, not just science/math (e.g. history, fine arts, as you said, languages, literature, etc.)</p>
<p>Thanks very much! Did you apply too, or are you currently a student etc?</p>
<p>I think you could include fine arts as long as you talked about more concrete liberal arts, too. I had a paragraph that focused on my interests in language and philosophy, but I also talked about more extraneous courses like photography and music theory somewhere around my conclusion just to show more well-roundedness (and because I’m genuinely interested. x)) I personally would not have included fine arts alone. It seems a little too risky, but that’s just what <em>I</em> wouldn’t do–if you are only interested in fine arts and not liberal arts, though, I think it would be worse if you tried to fake an interest in the more traditional liberal arts.
Considering that I only had one medical EC, that I didn’t send any subject test scores, and that my subscore for ACT science is a 30, I’m interpreting my deferral to PLME to mean that my essays were decent–if that helps your evaluation of my advice! 
Good luck!</p>