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"What brought you to this point?"
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"They were flipping through my amcas application and asking me questions about my activities."
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"Can you tell us a little about yourself?"
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"How do you manage your time? They like RAs a lot so I worked in a story about how I manage my time with goals but I am also flexible because when an emergency happens, things won't end up as you planned."
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"Have you ever had a moral dilemma?"
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"What would you change about "Obamacare?""
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"Strength & weakness"
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"What do you think about national health care in the US? (stemmed from previous discussion about lack of healthcare in developing countries where I've had a lot of experience)"
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"Why would you move to VA from Alaska?"
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"What about EVMS makes you want to attend?"
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"Ethical question about 14 yr old girl wanting an abortion"
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"Did you learn anything about EVMS today? What do you think of the standardized patients?"
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"Why EVMS? Why medicine? What books have you read lately? How would you fix healthcare?"
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"Tell me about yourself.
Tell me about your research."
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"So you're trained as a physician. What would your average day be like?"
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"A bunch of questions about my personal statement and out of school activities. What were the last 2 books you read? Why EVMS? What will your day to day life be like as a doctor? What will you do if you don't get accepted this year? What are you going to do between now and next September?"
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"why don't you think you got into medical school the first time?
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"What do you think of the everyday life of a physician?"
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"Why do you want to come to Eastern Virginia "
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"How would you address the problems of the US healthcare system?"
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"How would you advise Obama to improve healthcare if you were his health advisor?"
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"Why EVMS? How health care could be improved? If there were one thing I could excise from our health care system, what would it be? About the Taiwanese health care system, from the view of a PR there for 7 years."
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"Why EVMS? Will you be comfortable moving to Norfolk?"
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"They asked really specific ?s about classes I've taken... not grades, but more so what the classes were about and what I learned. "
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"Suppose you are head of a hospital, and a 17-year old comes in who claims she is pregnant and does not want to keep the baby. What do you do?"
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"How many schools did you apply to? And why EVMS of all the schools. "
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"Tell me about yourself."
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"19 year-old who wanted abortion"
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"Health-Care?"
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"Your a family practice physician, and a 14 year old girl - whose entire family are your patients - comes in wanting birth control. Do you give it? Then she comes back some months later thinking that she may be pregnant, wants an abortion, and doesn't want anyone to know. What do you do, and do you tell her mom because she is your patient?"
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"A 15 year old comes to you and wants an abortion; what do you do?"
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"If you were a pharmacist, would you prevent people from purchasing certain drugs based on your own moral or religious beliefs?"
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"Will you continue your practice of public health when you're a physician?"
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"what would you do if your patient had a nervous disorder?"
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"Why you over 7000 other applicants?"
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"A patient asks you for assistance in ending his life? How do you respond?"
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"14 year old girl that wants birth control, and then 14 year girl wants an abortion."
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"Abortion. 14 year old girl comes, what would you do? Thne what would you do if it was incest?"
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"Abortion question."
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"strenghts/weaknesses"
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"Tell me more about (blank) activity from your undergraduate years. (Know your AMCAS backwards and forwards.)"
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"AdCom member asked about a few specific activities on my app.
What has impressed you most today? Why EVMS?"
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"Why do you want to be a physician? Why EVMS?"
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"15 yo wants an abortion and doesn't want to tell her parents but you're pro-life? She's you're best friends daughter?"
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"Name your best and your worst quality. "
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"How would your roommate describe yourself? What attributes do you have to become a successful doctor. What are your strength and weaknesses."
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"So how has your day been so far?"
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"interviewee stats: 13 of 18 interviewees were female. 7 of 18 applicants were from UVA. 13-15 applicants were in-state."
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"Why EVMS? Why Dr.?"
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"Why EVMS? What did you know before today?"
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"What is a moment you are least proud of?"
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"Why EVMS? Why medicine?"
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"A number of ethical questions regarding teenage abortion/abuse and physicians working while intoxicated."
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"Do you like yourself?"
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"Why did you decide to play the viola?"
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"Ethics question, on abortion. "
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"Why did you apply to schools in the states?"
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"Why EVMS? (And later I was specifically asked if it was my number one choice)"
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"why evms? (they ask everyone this, and want to know that you've done your homework on what the school offers)"
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"the last book I read"
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"When did you first decide to become a doctor?"
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"An ethical one in regards to I made a mistake with my patient 2 years ago and now he has cancer, could have been prevented. How do I deal witrh situatin?"
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"Healthcare, what to do about the uninsured"
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"Strengths/weaknesses (classic question)"
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"why medicine? tell me about ur reserach? tell me about health care in home country?"
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"We started talking about my trip down here because I had to apologize for my shoes (which were still lost in transit in my bag - so I wore the sneakers that I traveled in to the interview) and then Why Virginia? (I'm out of state, int'l student) - I was told for in state - Why EVMS? is a staple..and for OOS - Why EVMS and why Virginia?? are gonna be asked for sure"
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"Um I was asked like 15 questions..but had one on healthcare reform"
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"Health care reform"
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"see most difficult"
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"Where do you see yourself in 10 years?"
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"tell the parents?"
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"How would you fix the healthcare system?"
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"What would you say to a patient that asked you to help him committ suicide?"
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"What was last book you read."
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"Why EVMS? Especially since it is so far away from your home state."
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"How would you fix the healthcare system? They really emphasis this one, I think everyone gets it!"
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"Why do you want to be a doctor?"
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"You have a patient who is a young child with meningitis. Her parents don't believe in medicine, instead, they want to take her home and pray over her. What do you do? "
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"Last book read. Asked me questions about my research experiences."
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"Why EVMS (obviously)? What impressed you today? What didnt impress you?"
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"what do you do when a terminally ill patient asks you for medication to end his life"
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"How do you think your major has positively and negatively prepared you for the field of medicine?"
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"Give a creative solution to the problem of health insurance."
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"How would you fix healthcare in this country? (I relied on my own knowledge as an attorney with an interest in healthcare and medical malpractice reform, but I also "cheated" by citing elements of Governor Mitt Romney's plan to overhaul Medicaid finance in Massachusetts, as well as Germany's statutory framework which has succeeded quite well at cost control). [Also, when asked how many people are uninsured in America, I cited the popular '45 million' figure, but then I added that "According to a 3-year-old study done by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in any given 3-month period that figure is closer to 73 million. That's about 1 in 3 Americans. When you factor in the number of UNDERinsured, you get a sense of how atrocious healthcare delivery is in this country for many Americans."]"
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"What are some of your weaknesses?"
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"Questions on the goal of my research project and clinical aspect of research project"
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"Something about what there anything negative about the school or city that I could see as a challenge if I came their. "
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"best movie you've seen recently"
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"Here are the basics: Why EVMS? Why medicine? Some ethical question. Then a question about the current state of health care. The rest will be about your experiences."
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"How to fix current healthcare crisis"
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"Why EVMS?
List some US Healthcare issues and compare them to that of a foreign country (where I was born)."
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"Why medicine? Why Eastern?"
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"A 16 y.o. female patient, whom you have known and treated in addition to her family for 10+ years, comes to you asking for a birth control Rx. How do you handle this?"
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"Question about one of my secondary essays."
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""An interesting case from N. VA - an anencephalic baby suffers a long series of breathing arrests. Do you resuscitate?" They let me answer, then gave me the state court's opinion."
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"If you were a physician practicing today what do you think would be the most frustrating thing you would experience on a daily basis?"
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"Ethical questions: What do you do if a family has been in a car accident, the child needs a blood transfusion, but the parents refuse based on the fact that they are Jehovah's Witnesses?"
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"Who wrote your letters of recommendation? How old were you when you saw your first birth? (and similar questions that were all a test to find out if I knew what was in my own application)"
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"Why do you want to be an MD? Strengths/weaknesses "
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"Why you want to be a physician (you almost always WILL be asked this so have a concise answer it looks extremely negative on your part if you stumble over this answer)
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"15 year old girl walks into your clinic and wants an abortion, what do you do?
(since I would have killed to give up an arm and a leg to know the answer beforehand, here's an idea of what the answer might be: inform the patient of the other options (adoption, keeping the baby), ask about her relationship with her parents and why she doesn't want them to know, inquire about the circumstances of the pregnancy (rape?) and run HIV and STD tests. If the patient still wants to have an abortion and is competent enough to make a decision, then the best choice of action is to do whatever the patient wants to do)."
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"Why EVMS? Three strengths/weaknesses. Role of a physician. Describe a typical day of your life in 15-20 years."
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"About my extracurriculars."
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"what is the biggest problem you see in healthcare, how would you rememdy it? what would you do to fix the problem of the over 50 mil. uninsured?1. "
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"see "most interesting question" above."
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"Tell me about your neuroscience program."
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"Would I give a 15 yr old birth control and not tell her parents, if they were family friends who would not approve?"
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"Typical day in pratice? Why EVMS? Why doctor? "
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"How would you suggest we deal with the prohibitively high cost of prescription drugs?"
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"What would you do if a 15-yr-old girl comes in and wants an abortion? "
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"Would you give an abortion to your 14 year old neighbor who didn't want you to tell her parents?"
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"Why do you want to be a physician? What is your greatest strength/ weakness? (very standard questions)"
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"Question about crack baby described above. HINT: As a doctor, it is your responsibility to be an advocate for your patients, even if they cannot advocate for themselves! Who their mom or dad is should not make a bit of difference."
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"Same as above, why EVMS, why applying again, what is different, what if you don't get in?"
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"strenghts,weaknesses. what undergrad science class did you like the most, the least. would you change anything you did academically in your undergrad. experience."
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"45 million uninsured"
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"What would I do about the 45 million uninsured? (and several follow-up questions)"
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"Does the health care system need to be fixed and if so, how would you fix it?"
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"what will a day in your practice look like?"
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"A man's PSA test comes back reading 20. When you compare the results with a few years ago, it was 9. You missed the diagnosis of Prostate Cancer. Do you tell him? Would this result in a malpractice suit?"
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"What is your concept of the ideal physician? (character qualities, etc.)"
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"What is your opinion of HMOs as it relates to the healthcare crisis?"
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"Ethicals (abortion, health care rationing)"
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"Why EVMS? Why would you leave Florida [where I'm working right now] for Norfolk?"
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"Did you like your undergrad. experience? "
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"Strenghts and weaknesses"
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"Tell me a little about yourself (in my opinion the worst interview question of all time)"
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"What is the biggest problem with the U.S. healthcare system?"
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"Every standard med question you can think of...where you'll be in ten years, strengths/weaknesses, what would your friends say about you, why doctor, why EVMS"
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"Strength?
Weakness?
Biggest regret?
Why med school?
Why now?
Why EVMS?
Day in your practice 15 years from now?
Doc responsibility to community?
Animal rights question?
Worst experience with a doc?
Volunteer experiences?
Explain outcomes of research?
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"why do you want to be a doctor"
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"What's the biggest problem with US healthcare today? How would you fix it?"
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"Pretend that you are the Surgeon General what would you do about the childhood obesity problem?"
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"If you friend's dad has a heart attack, and a pill for $10 might help but a $50,000 medication would save him, what would you prescribe. Who would pay for it? Does everyone deserve adequate healthcare?"
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"What was the last book you read?
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"14 year old girl?"
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"The above one about malpractice insurance"
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"What does your father do for a living? (caught me off-guard)"
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"What would your ideal healthcare system be?"
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"If you were the Surgeon General of the US and had all the power to rebuild the healthcare system from the ground up, what would the system look like?"
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"During WWII, illegal medical experiments were performed in Nazi Germany on Jewish prisoners where they tortured and sometimes killed their subjects. Some authorized people have read the results of these experiments and found that the Germans uncovered such advanced scientific knowledge that scientists today still have not quite caught up to some of the discoveries. The results of these German experiments have not been released to the public due to the brutalities associated with them. Some on the one hand believe that it is wrong to release the knowledge because of the horrible acts that were performed by those scientists. On the other hand, some push for the knowledge to be released because the knowledge discovered then still cannot be rediscovered today and that by releasing the information, since it will save lives today, those Jewish prisoners who died will not have died in vain. If it was your decision, what would you do with the information? Release it or not?"
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"In no specific order: the question that is posted on SDN about abortion, my favorite and least favorite classes, my hobbies, they asked a couple of questions from my PS and my secondary, definitely be familiar with those. "
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"The liver Q"
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"as above"
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"see the interesting and difficult ones."
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"What are the top three problems with the health care system?"
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"How do you propose to fix healthcare?"
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"Interview 1: Tell me "your story." Where do you see yourself in ten years? Do you have any concerns about VCOM? If you are accepted here and several other schools, what would keep you from choosing VCOM? "
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"What are the three biggest problems facing health care"
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""You have a 65 year old patient on medicare with fixed incomes and she is on BP meds. You see her in the office and find her having a high blood pressure. You ask her if she is taking her medications and she swears she is. Who would ask to find out if she is really taking her medications?""
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"Strength/weakness?"
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"Tell me about yourself"
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"What are my weaknesses, what are my strengths?"
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"Why a physician? Why not nurse?"
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"15yo in the most rural area where you are a family practitioner comes to you for birth control since she has a new boyfriend and she is going to be sexually active (does not want her parents to know)what do you do? If you don't give it to her, she comes back six months later pregnant, she requests an abortion because she does not want her parents to know. what do you do?"
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"A few standard questions: Why do you want to be a doctor? Why EVMS? Etc."
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"Scenario: Elderly patient that has been previously prescribed bp meds by you comes in with very high bp. She insists she is taking the med. What do you do."
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"the abortion one asked to a lot of others on SDN & strengths and weaknesses as seen by a friend"
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"See "Most Interesting Question""
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"They are known for asking tough ethical questions. Just pick a stance and run with it. You don't have to be right, just show that you have given it some thought and have an opinion."
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"An ederly woman with high BP already on medication. If you want to check to see if she is taking her meds, who do you ask?"
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"Imagine you run a free clinic in the most rural area you can think of. A 16 yo girl comes to you and says she's pregnant. What do you do? You do such a good job guiding her that she goes back to her little village and brings back all her friends? What would you do now?"
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"What are the strengths and weaknesses of the US healthcare system?"
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"3 Weaknesses/Strengths"
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"what is one strength & one weakness?"
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"why u suck?"
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" Why EVMS?/ Why medicine?"
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"Tell me about your volunteer experience at the ____ hospital."
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"Tell us how you got from *** to medicine.
What would you do if you couldn't do medicine?"
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"What do you know about socialized healthcare? Is it better than our system?"
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"what are strengths/weaknesses, why do you want to be a doctor, what kind, why EVMS?"
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"Ethical Questions on abortions and parental concerns"
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"If you have a 69 year old female who's married to a 71 year old and they're on a fixed income, and you suspect she's not taking her meds, who will know for sure? Hint: It's not her, her husband, or you the doctor."
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"Please Describe the "Art of Medicine" and not the "science of medicine""
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"If a patient was dying and told you he did not want life support, and after he was unconscious his wife wanted him to be on life support, what would you say/do? (i said i'd first look at the law, and he immediately responded - forgot the law! now what?)"
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"Why EVMS?
They really want lenghthy and specific answers; make sure you are prepared for it."
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"Why medicine?"
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"Some ethical questions about patient compliance and the conflict between managed care and patient interest."
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"See above"
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"The morality of a physician refusing to treat a patient with a specific treatment due to their moral values."
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"Do you think male adolescent suicide rates have increased and are more of a concern due to the current pandemic?"
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"A question about religious beliefs and how they play a role in healthcare."
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"Why do you think racial disparities in medical care exist?"
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"Social justice in medicine"
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"the most interesting thing: i had no ethical questions......i was prepared for the worst though, and you should too."
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"The last question they asked me was, "Okay, this pink sheet of paper is what we bring with us to the admissions decisions meetings. It summarizes everything about you. There's a line right here that says to describe the applicant in one sentence. If I had to write one sentence about you, what would you want me to go back and tell admissions?""
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"I really liked discussing ethics with them. They challenged my position, but I showed them that I was confident in my answer and explained my reasoning, as difficult as it may be. It was a relief to have them agree with my decision at the end."
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"What key is an alto saxophone? Who is your favorite saxophone player? (they based that question on my application info; it's obviously not standard)"
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"The ethical question. It was not a question about ethics as much as knowing the options that a physician has for difficult situations. The particular situation was based on a minor with Hodgkins whose parents refused life-saving treatment for him and decided to hop on a plane for alternative, not-proven therapies. What would I do? (best to be familiar with these cases - looked into it after I got home and it's more common than not. Physicians can involve the courts when they believe parents are endangering the health of a child)"
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"We talked about the biggest reasons that docotrs get their licenses rejected. (sexual misconduct and drug use) Not really a question but it stemmed from my answer to, "Tell us about a time your morals have been challenged.""
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"14 years old abortion questiuon"
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"We just want to get an idea of what you know about what is going on up in Washington right now?"
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"A 7 y.old kid keeps coming in for asthma. It's his sixth time in the ER and you find out that his mother has been neglecting to give him his meds. What do you do?"
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"They asked some ethical questions."
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"From my experience working as a ER Technician, name a few positivie things and a few negative things that I have seen a physician do."
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"The above surgical accident question."
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"Healthcare question"
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"(Because there was not an option for this above: 1 interviewer had an open file, and the other had a closed file). A mother has an emergency C-section. The baby is born with acute cystic fibrosis and will probably not survive for more than 4 or 5 days. The baby stops breathing while the mother is still under general anesthesia. What do you do?"
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"Ethics Question: You've messed up, how do you fix it?"
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"They were all standard. No weird or outlandish ones."
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"Ethical situation in which an elderly man dying of cancer comes to you to refill his pain medication, and tells you that he plans to take all the medication at once to kill himself. Do you give him the refill?"
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"Question #2"
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"health care reform"
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"Their interest in traditional Chinese medicine"
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"The abortion question. Not some much the abortion part, but how you would react if a series of unfortunate events happened (see above). Later into the conversation the 14yo was not pregnant, what would you do? I said do a HCG test, right?"
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"You're a first year med student and at a party one of your classmates has 6 beers in 1 hour and gets really drunk. Then next party he does the same thing and ends up punching someone. How would you handle the situation."
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"gave an example of a discovery and asked how i could make it clinically relevant"
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"How does growing orchids and medicine fit with each other? (Wrote in my PS that I grew orchids as a hobby)"
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"Many IRBs stipulate the requirement that researchers in developing countries provide the same standard of care for patients as they do in the U.S. Do you agree with this?"
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"what is the biggest problem in today's health care system?"
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"Obama voted for partial-birth abortion, what do you think of that?"
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"lots of ethical questions "
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"Your 15-year old neighbor asks for an abortion. What should you do?"
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"Abortion Question."
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"How would you fix health care?"
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"An interviewer picked out a random extracurricular activity from the list and asked about it. It came from left field because it wasn't science/medically related."
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"How will your faith play a role in the decisions you make as a physician? (lead in to abortion question)"
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"you are a resident in your last year. You scrubbed in for an appendectomy and the attending physician has alcohol on his breath, what do you do?"
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"If you had the cure for aids would you go for the money or equitable distribution? Doctors paid $40k/yr would you still do it? (I have a very modest background, so this was interesting but annoying)"
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"How would you fix the problems with the current US Healthcare system. Namely the 40 million uninsured americans and the rising cost of healthcare?"
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"A 14 year old girl wants to have abortion, but the parents cant be told. what do you do as a doctor. Follow up question: the girl tells you the father pregnates her. What do you do.(yea, pretty intense.) easy answer call the police and social services"
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"What have you read about male circumcision in relation to female circumcision? (I did my thesis work of female genital circumcision)"
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"A 16 year old you know fairly well comes in for an appoinment to your primary care office. She states that she is pregnant and wants an abortion but does not ever want her parents to know. What do you do?"
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"Nothing unexpected. Go through the other feedback."
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"''You're application shows you have a lot of research experience. Why did you apply to a clinically oriented school?''"
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"Do you like yourself and Why?"
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"Convince me that the UN should exist. (I have had a lot of MUN experience)"
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"How is assisted suicide different (giving the patient something that will help them die) than removing a feeding tube"
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"None of the questions were particularly interesting. Standard stuff."
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"Nothing too interesting that I can remember. "
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"If we were to ask your older brother what your strengths are, what would be say? If we were to ask your younger brother what your weaknesses are, what would he say?"
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"The ethics questions. ie: a 14 year old girl walks in and says that she wants and abortion."
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"What are the pros and cons of the Canadian Health System?"
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"After being asked about the 14 year old girl who wants birth control, I was asked if I thought the sex ed program should be changed in the US"
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"what do you think about peta? (i didn't even know what that meant, but they told me)"
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"Something about my background(I did not grow up in US."
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"Your friends are going to get married, have kids, and travel to Europe. How do you justify throwing away your twenties?"
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"describe pros and cons of Canada's health care vs. US. (I'm a Canadian applicant, so don't worry you probably wouldn't get this otherwise)"
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"several ethics questions. abortion, role of the physician, healthcare crisis."
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"An ethical question"
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"There is a limited number of flu vaccinations, who do you save"
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"Did you decide to go to graduate school because you love learning or because you were rejected from medical school? "
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"uhm...they were all interesting??? oh they had me describe one of the reagens i use for my expriment and i completely forgot what it was, oh well..."
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"You've been the primary physician for a 15 year old her whole life. You know her family and know her and have known them for a looooong time. Now she says she is pregnant and wants an abortion what to do? Follow up: Suppose you do her pregnancy test and it comes up neg?"
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"What are your thoughts on animal research?"
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"Parents bring 15 year old patient to you because of health concerns (but they don't know why). Patient finally explains addiction to drugs and alcohol. What do you do? Tell the parents? The answer is yes; how you go about it is the real question."
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"You have two patients and you are the only ambulance in the city. One is a 15 yo with cystic fibrosis and raging pneumonia, the other is a 24yo who took 4 bottles of tylenol to end his life. Who do you save?"
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"what should we do about the 44 million people who are without healthcare? should we move towards nationalized healthcare?"
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"explain how your job has prepared you for a career in medicine"
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"Why I selected the major I had as an undergraduate student"
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"A beauty pageant queen comes into your office with a mass in her breast. Her boyfriend tells you not to tell her what's wrong with her because it will destroy her. Her mother calls you later that same day to say the same thing. What do you do?"
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"How should we fix the healthcare system?"
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"one that I expected.. you have 1 liver for transplant and 3 possible candidates.. one is a little girl, one is an 80 yr old philanthropist who promises to donate millions to the hospital, and one is a 60 year old ex vietnam war veteran who is an alcoholic. they are all equal on the match list and they all have equal chances of survival. who would you pick, and how would you explain your decision to the other 2?"
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"If a terminally ill patient comes to you and asks for medication to end his life. What would you do?"
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"What do you know about boutique clinques? What are the benefits/disadvantages?"
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"Would I give condoms and birth control to a minor?"
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"Should people be allowed to sell their kidneys?"
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"[i applied for 2005 admission to medical schools and had received a waitlist from Vanderbilt]: Did you contact Vanderbilt to find out why you were not accepted? (i did not, and i admitted as much) Also: What will you do if not accepted this time? (My response: Peace Corps) What if you don't get in after THAT? (My response, which in retrospect I'm not completely happy with: use my legal background for health policy work. I immediately wanted to point out that I would apply as many times as necessary to get into medical school, but upon seeing the AdCom guy's head nod once, I knew my opportunity to speak up on that issue was gone)."
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"ethical, see below"
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"What does a doctor DO exactly? (really didn't know what they wanted for this one...I just gave the obvious answer and got lucky!)"
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"I guess the ethical questions would qualify. These questions seem to be a hallmark of EVMS interviews. They recycle them, so read SDN and it won't be hard."
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"The whole birth control series of questions"
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"I have a 16 y. o. patient with cystic fibrosis. He is gradually becoming unable to breathe. It is possible to prolong his life for 3 weeks if he is put on a ventilator. His parents want him put on the ventilator and he wants to refuse treatment. The state of VA states that he is competent to make his own decisions. What do you do?"
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"A 16 y.o. female patient, whom you have known and treated in addition to her family for 10+ years, comes to you asking for a birth control Rx. How do you handle this?"
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"If you are a psychiatrist who is treating an inmate (who is in prison for severely beating his wife) that tells you he is very angry with her, and wants to "get even" with her for getting him thrown in the prison, what would your obligation be to patient confidentiality?"
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""An interesting case from N. VA - an anencephalic baby suffers a long series of breathing arrests. Do you resuscitate?" They let me answer, then gave me the state court's opinion."
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"Ethical question: if you were a gastroenterologist and you had 1 liver that could be donated would you give it to a 60 year old widow or a 60 year old ex convict with a family. all health related issues are considered equal. BUT...the woman is loaded and would donate millions to your organ donation fund if she was given the liver."
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"How do you study?"
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"Ethical Question"
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"People over the age of 80 are denied organ transplants in another country. Do you agree with this policy? Why/Why not? "
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"Why do you want to be a physician and not an alternative medicine practitioner? (this was because I studied alternative medicine as part of my master's degree)"
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"You are an ER physician and a mother brings in her 6-year-old, who needs blood transfusions immediately. The mother is a Jehovah's Witness and states that she cannot allow the transfusions as they are against her religion. What would you do?"
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"As an ER doc what do you do if a 15 yo girl comes in telling you she is suicidal and she just got raped…and then what if she attempts to run away from the er."
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"None, they were all pretty much expected as they were posted on this website. "
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"If you were surgeon general what three things would you advise the President to change regarding health care?"
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"Stuff about my application."
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"What is the biggest problem facing healthcare? Why are there so many uninsured in this country? How would you fix this problem?"
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"a long discussion about the ethical implications of universal healthcare; where you draw the line, who decides it, can/should you allow a tiered system where more money can get you more services. also how do you decide what's included in a basic healthcare package and how do you justify those items?"
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"Would you place a feeding tube in an 80-year-old woman who has severe dementia if her daughter does not want to prolong life?"
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"Nothing too interesting, middle of the road ethics, and EC stuff. "
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"US healthcare policy...if you look up the questions on this site and practice your answers then you will be WELL prepared for the interview. The questions are VERBATIM from this site"
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"Would I give a 15 yr old birth control and not tell her parents, if they were family friends who would not approve?"
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"Parents are Jehovah's Witnesses, child needs a blood transfusion to survive and they refuse. What do you do?"
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"A 13 year old girl is pregnant by her father and wants an abortion, what do you do?"
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"Do you think the U.S. should annex Mexico? (a joke :) )"
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"Do you have a hard time asking for help?"
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"Describe your best and worst quality."
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"My biggest weakness"
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"allthe questions were pretty typical-- ethics, health care, why do you want to be a doctor, about activities listed on AMCAS application"
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"An elderly man suffers from a terminal illness and his wife recently passed away. He asks you for a self-administered lethal dose of painkillers. What do you do?"
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"I was asked very standard questions-- I wouldn't describe any of them as interesting."
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"A baby is born who is blind, deaf, retarded, and has a congenital heart defect that will not allow her to live for more than a few years. Should we funnel endless amounts of money into this baby's life support/care? Follow-up: What if the mother is a homeless crack addict? (I didn't really see why that should make a difference...) Follow up #2: Okay, so who should pay for all of this care the baby will need? "
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"If a patient you have known for a long time was on life support and asked for a prescription that would kill them, what would you do?"
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"if a younger friend of yours considering applying to med school asked you for advice on which schools to apply to, what would you say?"
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"Organ transplant between prison inmate and 80 female who will donate large sum of money."
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"We had a fairly extended discussion about healthcare insurance and how to provide for the uninsured, so it was probably somewhere in there."
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"Ethical question regarding an unconscious patient with a life-threatening injury whose family members claim is a Jehovah's Witness and would not want surgery."
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"a 16-yr-old with cystic fibrosis, who is old enough to make a legal decision about his own care in the state of virginia, wants to forgo a ventilator, which will cause him to die in the next few weeks. his parents are adamently opposed. what do you do?"
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"Most of it was hand-tailored to my application."
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"What is a physician's role in society?"
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"What was the last book you read?"
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"2 babies, both need livers, everythings is equal except their financial situations, one's parents can't afford the surgery, the other's parents promise to donate $10 million if their child is given the liver, how would u decide who gets the liver?"
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"What is your responsibility as an advocate"
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"How have you grown from your experiences during college? [I wrote about a specific personal situation that affected me tremedously in AMCAS, thats what they were referring to]"
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"Do you like living in Virginia?"
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"What will I do if a man with a kidney failure, got it replaced, but still continued using alcohol and did not use his medications. He has a second kidney failure and a family member wants to give the man a new kidney. Would I allow the family member?"
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"Baby with congenital heart defect (will only live a few days) arrests shortly after birth, mother is unconscious so you can't ask her opinion, do you try to resussitate the baby?"
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"an ethics question focused specifically on a medical issue that I had been involved with "
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"look below"
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"What is your responsibility as a physician to give back to the community?
How do you envision a day in your practice 15 years from now?"
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"if a 16 year old girl wanted an abortion but didn't want to tell her parents, what would you do?"
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"Suppose a 15-year-old patient you've known well walks into your practice and says she is pregnant and wants an abortion. What do you do? (Remember to first mention giving a pregnancy test: trick question!) Then, suppose you have the same situation but the baby is the result of incest. What do you do?"
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"Say you are doing research on rats that involves killing them, but the research can potentially benefit those with spinal cord injuries. You are out at dinner one night and the person you are with's cousin is involved with PETA. He questions you about your research what do you say? Follow up question: what if the experiment was on baboons, or dogs?"
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"Which alternative spring break trip did you like better? ( i went on two)"
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"If, after you graduated, they made a plaque that said what you did here/what you were known for, what would that plaque say?"
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"Twenty years from now when you are an attending, what do you see as your typical day?"
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"14 year old asking you, family doc, for birth control pills. Would you tell her parents?"
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"So tell me about your experience working with paraplegics in scuba diving?"
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"If money would never be an issue for you and you still wanted to practice medicine, what would you do?"
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"There's a woman down in Florida who was in a car accident and required life support. Her husband wanted to withhold care while her family wanted to save her? How do you feel about the situation? Is pulling the plug equivalent to giving a lethal dose of drugs? What if you were the doctor in the ER and you are told that she has an advanced directive but it is not there. What do you do?"
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"You are in charge of organ allocation and have one liver available. The two candidates for the organ are: 1) a middle aged man in jail who needs the liver because of alcohol induced cirrhosis. He has quit drinking alcohol. 2) an elderly woman who's been a model citizen her whole life. Who do you give the liver to and why? (stick with your guns regardless of your answer) "
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"i wasnt caught off guard by any of the questions -- they were all pretty standard and in accordance with the other posters, so i didnt find any of them to be too interesting..."
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"What do you think about the system of health care in the United States (yes, they were this broad)? What would you do to solve it? How would you fund that? (all asked in a row)"
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"What would your fellow students say about you on your graduation day from medical school?"
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"Two of your patients, one middle-aged man in prison and one elderly gentlemen, are in need of liver and are very close on the recipient list. If one liver became available, whom would you give it to?"
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"The interviewer (County Health Commish, btw) says: "I'm a genie in a bottle and I grant you one of three wishes - end to childhood cancer, end to scourages of adolesence and middle age, or an end to later life issues - which do you choose, and why?"
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"If a couple had some leftover embryos from their ivf and asked you to do something useful with them, what would you do? (led to a discussion on stem cell research)"
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"My thoughts on Euthanasia"
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"what would you do if your supervisor had alcohol in his breath?"
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"Hypothetical ethical questions of scenarios the interviewers had encountered."
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"What do you think of the problem of pain medicine theft in your state?"
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"ethical question about u.s. healthcare system"
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"A 15 yo. comes to you for birth control what would you do?(you have known her all her life since you are the family doctor and you know her parents very well)"
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"How can we cure alcoholism?"
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"What is the one way you can, all by yourself, lower the cost of health care for your patients?"
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"What do you think about physicians walking out on patients to protest higher malpractice premiums?"
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"What do you think the solution is to the problem with the uninsured? (If there were an easy solution, wouldn't someone have thought of it by now?)"
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"If your mother was dying and needed a kidney transplant and the only way to save her was to buy a kidney from Korea that they had cloned overseas using technology that was illegal here, what would you do? (um...yeah)"
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"If you could improve health care, what would you change?"
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"Do you think that the clinical research trials you conducted were ethical?"
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"If you could have dinner with any two people, dead or alive, which two people would you choose?"
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"If a 14 y/o girl came to you and said she was pregnant and wanted an abortion and said her parents would kill her if they found out, what would you do? (What if her father was the father of her baby?)"
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"If you were the doctor and a mother just delivered a baby with a known genetic disease and will die in a week and the baby went into arrest, would you resussitate (the mother is in a coma and can't help you)?"
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"Penicillin made a great impact on medicine in the 1940s. What has made a similar impact on medicine since the 1940s?"
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"Part 1: A 14-yr-old girl thinks she's pregnant and wants an abortion. What do you do? Part 2: The test is negative and she doesn't want you to tell her mom. What do you do? [I say, no, I don't tell the mother.] Part 3: Is there an age or a circumstance in which you WOULD tell her mother? "
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"What would you do if you were a small town doc and a 14 year old girl told you she thought she was pregnant?"
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"What would I do if I were given the complete and total power to make a decision of whether or not to pull a feeding tube in a patient who is in a coma. Her husband wanted it out, but the family wanted it in."
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"Who is to blame for America's obesity epidemic."
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"What would you do if you couldn't go to medical school?"
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"a 95 year old woman is in a coma and on a respirator she needs a heart operation. Do you perform it?"
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"Say you were a doctor, and a patient at a free clinic (staffed with medical students) had a heart condition that was missed, would you testify (as an expert) that they were negligent? What if the clinic were NOT a clinic, per se, but was a screening center staffed with medical students and no attending MD for things like BP. What would your testimony be?"
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"What would you say to a fourteen year-old girl who comes to you, claiming that she is pregnant, asking for an abortion, and claiming that whe doesn't want her parents to know about her visit to your office or the abortion."
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"What does the term physician mean to you?"
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"What do you think of the policy on admitting homosexuals into the military?"
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"While you are working at the ER, a religious man was dragged to the hospital with problems. He clearly states that he refuses surgery or any treatment. After a while, he loses his consciousness. A neurologist claims he has an aneurysm. What will you do?"
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"Give me a typical day working at the WHO."
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"What kind of physician do you want to be and how do you plan on fulfilling this goal (what area do I plan on specializing in)?"
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"What would you do about the 400,000 uninsured Americans?"
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"Nothing really, mostly ethical"
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"What I thought about the Oregon Assisted Suicide Law"
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"If a friend of yours growing up was a physician in the same hospital as you, and you saw him taking pain killers, what do you do? You talk to him and he's addicted, what to you do? He takes some pills before performing surgery, what do you do?"
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"You have two patients who need a liver transplant. One is the town alcoholic and the other is the president of the bank. Who should get the one available liver and why?"
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"What is the most challenging thing about working with physicians? (given my experience)"
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"A 14 year old patient came to you and said she was pregnant, wants an abortion, and doesn't want you to tell her parents. What do you do? Tests confirm that she is pregnant, what do you do when she confides in you that the pregnancy resulted from incest from her own father? (ack! what a starting thing to ask me!)"
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"Do you think it is fair for us to give a spot to someone who will end up quitting medicine and raising a family full time? (this exact question was asked to female applicants before the 1960s to keep them OUT of medical school--and what year is it now???)"
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"Is healthcare a privilege or a right?"
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"What would you do about the problem of obesity in the U.S.?"
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"What do you think about President Bush's stance on stem cell research?"
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"How many patients can you see in an hour?"
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"What are the strengths and weaknesses of the us health care system. I couldn't think of any strengths."
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"My views on the US/Iraq problem. It was rather conversation like question."
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"I was asked "what I thought" about Oregon's assisted suicide law. It could have been an interesting question, but they didn't really ask anything specific about it, and they didn't challenge anything I said. I did have a little trouble articulating how I felt about it, and my reasoning for feeling that way. "
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"Do you think a physician is capable of giving quality healthcare to a patient without speaking the same language? (this is in context of medical translator ethics)"
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"what do you think a doctor does every day?"
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"If you were in charge of making national health care policy, how would you solve the problem of the 45 million uninsured Americans?"
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"A 70 year old patient that you have seen for 20 years refuses to stop smoking despite your wishes. He comes in and wants needs treatment for something once again related to his habit. Do you eventually refuse treatment?"
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"what would you do if the director of admissions call you to inform you that you're on the waitlist?"
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"What do you know about the cannabilistic Indians that shared San Salvador with the Arawaks? (This was in the context of an experience I had)"
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"If you were the surgeon general of USA what would you do to change the health care crisis we are facing?"
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"There's an elderly couple on a fixed income. You prescribed the wife with medication to lower her blood pressure. However, when she comes in for a visit, you find her blood pressure to be very high. Who could you ask to find out if she is taking her medication? (not her or her husband)"
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"What do you think about alternative medicine? Should it be covered in the context of a national healthcare system?"
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"It was a follow-up question to an ethical "suspicion of child
abuse" question, where he asked me who would be on my side
(legally)"
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"would you be willing to do something illegal to save a patient's life?"
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"Most of the questions were really basic- there were several ethical and healthcare questions"
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"Do you know who Abraham Flexner is?"
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"Please Describe the "Art of Medicine" and not the "science of medicine""
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"When you become a doctor and a 14 year old patient comes to you, tells you that she's pregnant and that she wants an abortion. She also doesn't want you to tell her parents. What do you do?"
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"If a pediatric patient wanted an abortion and you then suspect incest, what do you do?"
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"How would you change the healthcare situation in Northern VA?"
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"What do you do for fun?"
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"Nothing too interesting really, just mostly asked about my research experience. I was asked " Knowing that there are 40 million people who are uninsured in this country, how would you change the current health care system to fix this problem?""
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"Is DMB your favorite band? (I went to school where the band hails from.)"
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"Do you like yourself?"
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"50 million americans are uninsured. How would you rectify this problem?"
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"Do I think that HMOs have affected patient costs of services?"
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"A 16 year old you know fairly well comes in for an appoinment to your primary care office. She states that she is pregnant and wants an abortion but does not ever want her parents to know. What do you do?
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"What are my strengths and weekness?"
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"If a 12-year old female patient came and told you the Catholic priest at her church was molesting her, what would you do?"
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"ethics question about an non-invasive procedure, if your pt. wanted it badly, but in your mind really didn't need it would you do it for thier peace of mind?"
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What are your suggestions for the admissions office?