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Frequently
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From
Barbara Huntington, PHP Director at San Diego State University For a physician assistant
school: What if your supervising physician prescribed the wrong
medication? What would you do? All: What does
professionalism mean to you? Explain one time you broke
a rule and why. Tell about a time you made
a mistake and what you did. If you could have dinner
with anyone living or dead who would it be and why? How will you balance your
life? If you could cure 1
disease, what would it be?
CBU ALUMS have reported the following: Interviews for medical school Brandon Maharrey: 2011 1.
If I was to send you to Washington tomorrow, how would you fix our
healthcare crisis? Yong Lin: 1998 1. Why do you want to become a doctor? 2. Is your family supportive of your decision? 3. How do you plan to pay for it (i.e. professional education)? 4. All of our applicants are highly competitive. Why
should I (we) pick you? Zachary Maxwell: 1998 1. Why did you score so low on the MCAT writing
section? 2. How will you pay for school. 3. Tell me about yourself (where born, high school,
college, family). 4. How do you like CBU? 5. How do you study? 6. What type of doctor would you like to be? Why? 7. How did you study for the MCAT? 8. What type of setting would you like to practice in? 9. What work experience have you had in a hospital
setting? Brian Carpenter: 1997 1. Describe yourself 2. If your 16-year old female patient asks for a
pregnancy test, what do you do? If she's pregnant, how do you handle that
information? Do you tell her parents (who just happen to be your best friend,
brother, or whatever)? She's thinking about abortion, what do you do? 3. Your best friend's father is on a ventilator. He
(the friend) wants you to "pull the plug" on his father to let him
(make him?) die. What do you do? 4. What do you think about HMO's or TennCare? 5. What is the biggest problem facing medicine today?
Explain. 6. What type of volunteer work have you done? 7. Why do you want to be a doctor? 8. What clubs are you involved in? 9. What extracurricular activities are you involved in?
(Church, work, volunteer, etc.) 10.If out of state, why do you want to go to UT? 11.Indirectly asked if I was interested in rural practice or
primary care. UT is REALLY pushing this. 12.How do you plan to finance medical school. 13.If you have a bad grade in any subject, be prepared to
explain. 14.What type of non-science classes did you take and why? 15.What was your favorite class in undergraduate school? (It
doesn't have to be a science class.) 16.How would your friends describe you? 17.What type of support network do you have? (Friends, family,
church?) 18.How do you relieve stress in your life? You can find a RICH source of information pertaining to questions posed to applicants at http://studentdoctor.net/interview/index.asp Bob Dalsania (2006) 1.
Why do you want
to be a dentist? 2.
What have you
done to enhance your manual dexterity?
Any instruments? 3.
What have you
done to explore the field of dentistry? Physical Therapy Konstance Key: 2003 1. What made you first decide on PT? 2. How will you handle patients that don't improve? 3. If you don't get accepted, what do you plan to do? 4. How do you keep up to date on what's going on in the
world today? 5. What news recently had an impact on you? 6. What are your strengths and weaknesses? 7. What do you like least about physical therapy. 8. Many times, we have to do group projects. Sometimes,
one person ends up doing most of the work. What do you think about these
projects and how would you handle it? More
information regarding feedback from medical school interviews and can be
accessed via the following website:
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