Oregon Health & Sciences University School of Medicine

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How did the interview impress you?

Positively 🙂

What was the stress level of the interview?

2 / 10

0 = Low Stress, 10 = High Stress

How you think you did?

9 / 10

0 = Bad, 10 = Great

What are your general comments?

Portland is a great medium size city which I recommend everyone to take an extra day or two after the interview and visit. The interview day itself was a bit hectic since the architectural feautures of the campus seemed to be a challenege for me to get around and find the proper building/ office where my next interview should be. However, with that being said the interviers were quite friendly and very understanding if I was a bit late since they had my schedule and based on their locations it was quite impossible to be on time, every time. And despite all that some were quite intersted in continuing to have a conversation with me, 15-20 minutes after my scheduled time. Overall it was a great experience and if you are appliying to the Md/PhD. program it would be a great place to do research and help shape the direction this program will take as its relativelly new at this point.

Interview questions they asked

Why MD/PhD?

I was asked this too

What was the most interesting question?

If you had to do a breakdown of your time, how much time would you dedicte in your career to research and how much time would you dedicate to patients and why?

I was asked this too

What was the most difficult question?

If you had to choose between doing an MD or a PhD. which one would you do and why?

I was asked this too

How did you prepare for the interview?

Read about the schools through their website, SDN and looked over my secondary.

What impressed you positively?

The relativelly new facilities, the amout of free time students seemed to have. The attention given to each Md/PhD. student as opposed to a bigger program.

What impressed you negatively?

The parking, it seems to me a big hazzle to find a place to park on a daily basis. Although Portland has a great public transportation system which would be great during the first two years of medica school and the PhD. graduate years, it could potentially be a major problem in the 3th and 4th year if you are on call and need to be in the hospital at 2am

What did you wish you had known ahead of time?

not much, everything ran quite smooothly