Saskatoon, SK
Allopathic Medical Schools | Public Non-Profit
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Higher scores indicate a smoother, more positive interview experience with professional staff, organized logistics, and a supportive environment.
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What are your general comments?
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Prepare lots ahead of time, the interviews are not intimating but the MMI format will be used next year.
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Good, interviewers were nice and genuine. Med students were very nice and kind.
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A good experience
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Very relaxed interview. The time flew by as I spent a lot of time talking about myself, since this was a closed-file interview.
Length, number, and type of interviews
USK-FOM-COMP interviews are an average of 42 minutes, with an average of 3.7 interviews. 40% of interviews are one-on-one, and 89% are closed-file.
What is one of the specific questions they asked you?
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Do you read? What types of material?
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Why do you want to be a doctor?
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Strengths/weaknesses
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Tell us about yourself
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Tell me about yourself. What is the last book you read? What is the last movie you saw? Discuss a current event.
What was the most interesting question?
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What do you think about the healthcare system in Saskatchewan compare with Canada?
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Who would you like to invite to dinner and why?
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What do you think about the healthcare system in canada
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What is something good that happened to you
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Tell me about an event that has deeply impacted you
How did you prepare for the interview?
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Read ethics books, practice wtih friends
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Talked to other med students
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Introspection
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Mock interviews, read websites, made a list of my personal qualities and experiences, brushed up on ethics and current events.
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Mock interviews, websites SDN, Ian Wongs premed forum (ezboard), read newspaper everyday, made sure I knew myself, my qualities, and my weaknesses
What was the most difficult question?
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None
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Is enough being done about rural health care
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See above
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What will you do if you never get into medicine?
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Tell me a specific weakness that you have that would affect your duties as a physician.
What impressed you positively?
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Saskatoon is a very friendly city with everything that you need within a close distance
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Campus is beautiful.
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Campus is beautiful, great city, very friendly interviewers
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Nice med students
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Interviewers were considerate and pleasant.
What impressed you negatively?
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No organized tour
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Boring town
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No scheduled tours.
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Library sucks.
What did you wish you had known ahead of time?
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The interviewers are nice
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Nothing, everything was very straightforward
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Airports Used
100% interviewees used YXE (YXE).
What was your primary mode of transportation?
Most interviewees traveled by train or subway to the interview.
Hotels Recommended by Other Interviewees
Most interviewees stayed at the Sheraton Cavalier (average ranking 9/10). (Top 1 displayed)
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