The complex issues that arise in health and medicine often involve intersecting disciplines – including science, medicine, policy, law, regulation, and business. It should be no surprise then that the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Master of Science in Law program has become a unique “gap year” option for aspiring clinicians and healthcare professionals – over 30 MSL alumni have gone on to medical school after their MSL studies. Please read our three-part series containing first person accounts of Samuel Tadros (MSL ’18), fourth year medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and incoming ophthalmology resident at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics; Tom Fusillo (MSL ’19), fourth year medical student at Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine; and Alice Lu (MSL ’19), second year medical student at University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, as they describe the role the MSL played in their med school application journeys and in launching and enhancing their medical careers.