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"How do you think you can help with medical research."
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"Question about how a hospital CEO's pay should be determined"
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"What do you think of evidence based medicine?"
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"Talk about your clinical experience."
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"Talk to me about your internship in South Africa"
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"What do you see yourself doing in 10 years?"
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"How do you know that you want to be a doctor?"
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"Tell me something I haven't already read in your file"
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"Tell me about your international experience."
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"Why medicine, specifically for you?"
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"What is your attachment to Massachusetts?"
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"What led you to medicine?"
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"Where do you see American healthcare going?"
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"Did you enjoy your time at _____? (undergrad school)"
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"Why are there so many incompetent doctors?"
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"describe your journey to medicine (i'm non-trad)"
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"Whats wrong with Mass Healthcare"
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"Looking at your transcripts, I see you got a B in [subject]. Can you explain what happened?"
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"Tell me about your shadowing experiences in such and such a place."
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"What is Medicaid?"
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"What about (specific specialty I expressed interest in) is appealing to you?"
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"One interviewer, while she could have looked at my file beforehand, chose not to. She just wanted to talk about what got me to the interview. My classes in college, activities, experiences etc. Very laid back."
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"Tell me something about yourself I didn't read in your file."
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"Why do you want to go to UMass Med?"
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"Tell me about your clinical experience"
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"Why do you want to be a doctor?"
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"Tell me about yout yourself... you where born and...?"
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"Tell me about yourself / why medicine?"
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"Talked & asked questions about current research."
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"Why did you choose to attend ''this school'' for your undergraduate education?"
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"Describe the graduate program you are currently in."
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"Why UMass?"
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"Tell me about yourself and your experiences in Ireland."
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"What makes people comfortable with you or want to confide in you?"
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"Very standard questions about my application. They had read through my application and written down questions to ask me."
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"How did you choose to come to UMASS?"
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"How has your work as an EMT influenced what kind of medicine you want to practice?"
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"Favorite book and favorite movie."
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"I see that the few B's you got in college were in your major - why do you think that is?"
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"what do you do when not working or studying?"
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"What books have you read lately?"
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"what field of medicine would you like to enter?"
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"(didn't read my file) So tell me about your life, starting from birth."
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"What books have you read?"
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"Why are you interested in medicine?"
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"Tell me about you current job - what do you do and how does it make you feel?"
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"Who influenced your decision to become a doctor the most? "
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"tell me about your travel abroad..."
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"How can you be sure that you are prepared to handle the amount of work required in medical school?"
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"Why medicine?/why now? (I'm still in college and want to go immediately after graduation)"
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"Talk about your research."
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"Why didn't you follow pre-med track as undergrad? I have a BA."
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"A few questions trying to gauge my motivation to practice in MA"
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"What clinical experience have you had that makes you ready to enter medical school?"
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"Tell me about volunteer work"
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"Will you apply to PA/DO schools? Why/why not?"
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"So, tell me about yourself...(They mostly want to get to know the person behind the AMCAS and secondary...paper only tells so much)"
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"What do you see as a major problem in healthcare today?"
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"You're not a typical cookie-cutter premed student, tell me about how you ended up deciding on medicine."
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"Why did I go down south for school?"
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"How do you deal with stress?"
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"What kind of emotional support system do you have?"
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"How will you siginifantly impact patient's lives as a physician?"
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"When did you decide to pursue a career in medicine?"
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"What is the biggest challenge facing health care?"
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"How would your friends describe you?"
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"What would you say to someone that you are diagnosing with a fatal illness?"
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"What is the biggest problem facing healthcare? Which system would you choose if you could only choose one?"
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"What do think are the problems with today's healthcare system? "
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"Why medicine and not other helping proffesions, what my parents do etc..."
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"Most of my quesitons were very specific to my application. And I don't remember a whole lot of them properly at this point. :)"
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"Why do you want to be a doctor... especially with the field of medicine going in the direction it is going."
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"Why medicine? Why now?"
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"Where did you get your name?"
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"How would your patient describe you 10 years from now?"
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"Why choose a career in medicine over any other helping or research profession?"
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"(All from the second interview)Who has been a role model for you, and what were some of the qualities that made them a role model?"
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"How will you cope with the emotional and physical stress during medical school and as a doctor?"
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"How did you decide medicine was your career path?"
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"What have you been doing since you graduated?"
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"What book have you read recently?"
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"Why medicine?"
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"What are doing now? What do you do for fun? Why medicine ( in a general way)?"
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"HMO and effect on clinical practice"
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"Tell me about yourself."
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"what do you think the biggest challenge facing healthcare today is?"
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"why medicine"
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"Are you Indian?"
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"questions that have nothing to do with medicine or healthcare. they are about your innate human qualities."
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"Are you Indian? I'm definitely not Indian."
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"What do you when you are over-stressed?"
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"One of the interviewers gave me a senario of a young patient coming into the ED who needed surgery and many blood transfusions, however the parents refused the blood transfusions due to religious reasons and he asked me what I would do in the situation."
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"Why did you chose to go to __ (my undergraduate university)?"
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"About one of my specific activities"
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"The lack of questions (see below)."
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"Ethical dilemmas: would you bump a major hopsital donor to the head of a transplant list, etc."
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"What personality type(s) do you not get along with?"
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"I talked to one of my interviewers about gardening, and he showed me a picture of a tobacco hornworm he had found in his yard."
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"How are you different from other applicants?"
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"Do you think it is ethical for doctors to be overly optimistic during the consent process for an experimental therapy that may not help the patient? How would you handle the consent process of such a patient?"
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"Why are there so many incompetent doctors?"
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"See Q 2 above"
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"If you could tell the admissions committee one thing about your application, what would it be?"
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"Tell me about your hometown and why I would want to go there."
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"How did that experience make you feel?"
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"Both asked, "What would your friends say about you?""
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"What is Medicaid? (see below)"
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"I'm curious what your age group thinks about the shortage of primary care physicians."
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"In 15 years when I open a medical journal, what will it say about you?"
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"After working a long, hard 18 hour day and coming home exhausted, how could you be fulfilled by your career choice as a doctor? What will it give to you, not to other people? Whats in it for you?"
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"Actually... nothing. I wasn't asked many questions at all. It was pretty much: ''tell me about yourself.''"
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"Nothing was out of the ordinary."
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"What drives you emotionally to medicine?"
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"What is your support system? I've never had a school openly express interest in that."
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"the questions were pretty standard"
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"How do you relax?"
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"Questions about my earlier career."
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"Many people go into medicine because they want to be leaders. But now, doctors aren't usually the leader, it might be the HMO, or someone else; how do you feel about this? "
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"As a doctor, you may be faced with many limitations that are imposed by HMOs. How will you deal with it?"
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"No questions were asked, instead, I was asked to talk about myself and my experiences working and living in Ireland this year."
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"What qualities do you look for in a friend?"
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"Do you think physicians have a responsibility to be politically active?"
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"Have you ever experienced a time when a doctor or the medical field let you down?"
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"What did you learn from your abroad experience?"
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"What advice would you give someone in high school who is thinking about becoming pre-med?"
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"How do you think the placebo should be used in medicine?"
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"Are physicians obligated to give back to their community?"
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"asked to discuss the balance between medicine as a science and medicine as an art"
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"Nothing out of the ordinary."
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"What is the most significant problem in healthcare today?"
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"Why medicine and not law or politics, teaching like your parents?"
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"Nothing incredibly ''interesting'' was asked. Actually, very few questions were asked. One of my interviewers asked about my minor in astrobiology and we talked about that for a good 10 minutes."
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"What do you like about rock-climbing? (Follow-up question to What do you do for fun?)."
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"What are some of your favorite movies?"
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"Tell me about yourself."
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"what was a difficult and stressful situation you had to deal with, and how did you handle it?"
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"Soo.. what's a book you've read recently?"
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"I wasn't asked anything too exciting or unexpected, it was just an easy-going conversation."
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"Why is the patient so important to you? (this was in regards to a question relating to my desire to pursue medicine)"
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"How do you handle stress?"
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"Why didn't you apply early decision if this is your number one choice?"
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"If you could pick any vegetable that describes you, what would it be and why?"
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"What do you have to bring to the class of 2010?"
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"one interviewer asked me where i was born and the name of every school i attended"
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"Where do you see yourself in 10 years?"
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"Nothing too difficult or interesting -- pretty standard (Why medicine? Problems with US Health Care System?, etc.)"
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"How do you plan to pursue your interest in journalism while being a physician, and how will being a physician help you do that?"
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"What does a TLR3 do? (dont freak out, this is because i'm currently taking immunology)"
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"How do we solve the crisis of the cost of healthcare and disparity of coverage?"
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"What is your impression of Umass?"
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"What is the most important issue in health care that needs to be adressed?"
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"What is the most underserved area of Massachusetts?"
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"How would your weaknesses affect you in medical school or as a doctor? "
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"You're sitting in my chair, what do you ask an MD/PhD candidate to show you that they are the one who you'd like to put into your program?"
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"What are you good/bad at? How do you deal with stress?"
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"Did I planned to continue writing in medical school, particularly if I had given thought to writing a memoir piece of medical school?"
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"Tell me about a time you really really messed up."
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"Your grades for X semester aren't very impressive -- could you explain them?"
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"What kind of emotional support system do you have?"
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"How will you siginifantly impact patient's lives as a physician?"
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"Most of the questions were straightforward and my interviews were conversational."
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"none really - standard questions"
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"Do you consider your parents to be intellectuals?"
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"What is the biggest problem facing medicine today?"
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"What do think are the problems with today's healthcare system? "
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"25% of applicants are so great they will get in no matter what. 25% of applicants will never make it. 50% fall in the grey zone somewhere in between. Why should we pick you out of that 50%?"
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"My second interviewer questioned me at length about how I had changed from the beginning of college to now, and how I had become better equipped to deal with the workload and learning environment."
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"How would I deal with death."
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"Same as hardest question (below)"
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"What tools do you use now to handle your many activities and how can your carry those into your pursuit of medicine?"
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"How would your patient describe you 10 years from now?"
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"related to ps"
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"What qualities made X person a role model for oyu?"
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"all pretty basic questions"
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"You are so interested in social justice, why medicine and not law?"
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"What is your favorite Simpson's episode?"
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"nothing in particular"
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"Discussing the role of physician as advocate vs. scientist and relating that to a previous job I had held. My first interview was very converstational and flowed well. The interviewer was attempting to get to know me not by just hearing my story. This discussion on "uncertainty" seemed very abstract but I thought was very intereresting"
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"How will you handle the frustration of medical practice?"
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"What do I view as the negative aspects of medicine."
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"How do I deal with difficult people?"
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"I would characterize the interviews as conversational. We discussed my file. It was very comfortable."
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"What do you think about globalization?"
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