St. John's, NL
Allopathic Medical Schools | Public Non-Profit
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Generally favorable experience overall, applicants reported positive interactions with some minor issues noted.
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What are your general comments?
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Positive. Hard to tell if you were doing well or not b/c the interviewers were so encouraging to all answers
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It was great!
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Basically an informal setting with a range of personal questions from my past, present, and future. Very relaxed and open.
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Not quite what I had expected....thought the interviewers would appear more interested than they did.
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Great!
Length, number, and type of interviews
MUN-COMP interviews are an average of 52 minutes, with an average of 3.1 interviews. 71% of interviews are one-on-one, and 100% are closed-file.
What is one of the specific questions they asked you?
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Why medicine
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Where do you see yourself in ten years?
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Where did I see medicine in 10 years?
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Why medicine?
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Tell me about yourself.
What was the most interesting question?
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MMI was really fun - full of interesting questions
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What do you think will be the biggest problem facing medicine in 10 years?
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Describe an ethical situation which you may encounter in the medical profession and how you would handle it.
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How have you changed since you were a teenager?
How did you prepare for the interview?
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Find as many as MMI questions as you can, and practice with someone who didnt get into just 1 school
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Read up on current events, read previous questions posted in forums
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Newspapers, read forums, looked closely over my application.
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Read feedback from this website, read up on current events, health care issues in Canada (especially Maritimes), Romanow Report.
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Kept up on current events, read up on rural newfoundland, did some mock interviews
What was the most difficult question?
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Tell us about a dissatisfying experince you have had at school or work?
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How I changed my personality since I was 15 years old, and why I changed.
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What will be the biggest issue in the world in 10 years time?
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How would you work with someone who didn't want to work in a group setting.....that wasn't the exact wording but that's the gist of the question.
What impressed you positively?
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EVERYTHING
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The friendly students, the atmosphere in St. John's
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Interviewers were very nice, as were all the students.
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The facilities of the school, the non-competitive nature of the program, the friendly faculty and staff.
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The students were great...easy going, positive, tried to make us feel comfortable.
What impressed you negatively?
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The situational judgement test
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They don't plow the sidewalks in St. John's
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The day of my interview the city got 36 cm of snow!
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The weather was horrible!
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The interviewers weren't very responsive. One kept interrupting me and didn't seem to be listening to my answers. Tht other hardly said anything or even looked at me!
What did you wish you had known ahead of time?
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Nothing
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The school does not offer all residency programs.
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Nothing really...
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Airports Used
100% interviewees used YYT (YYT).
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Most interviewees traveled by airplane to the interview.
Hotels Recommended by Other Interviewees
Most interviewees stayed at the The Gov'ner Inn (average ranking 8/10), with some staying at Holiday Inn (average rating 8/10). (Top 2 displayed)
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