Florida State University College of Medicine

I arrived about fifteen minutes early was given a parking permit and able to find close parking easily. I had been in the school before (I attended FSU for undergrad and had had several meetings inside before) so finding my way around was easy. We met in the library and then went directly to our interviews. I was an early decision applicant so there was only one other applicant there with me at this time. We were taken to opposite sides of the college to meet with each of our interviewers and had two one on one interviews back to back. Both were 45 minutes long. My guide, a first year student, told me all about my interviewers how their personalities were and what to expect. This helped my stress level a great deal, even though I knew from SDN I shouldn't be worried. My first interview went very well, it wasn't as conversational as I expected but that was fine. My interviewer was a professor at the school (Phd). He asked me to do a lb to kg conversion to prescribe medicine to a child and then asked me how to make a two molar solution of something. I could tell he was really just trying to feel me out and see if I really knew all that I supposedly did on my application. He asked me several ethics questions knowing that I claimed to live by my faith and he never mentioned a word about the healthcare system. I don't know if it was an accident or not but when I left he shook my hand said that it was a pleasure speaking with me and said he would see me next year. :) That was encouraging. My guide picked me up and took me to my next interview. This interview was with another instructor, this time an M.D. He seemed a little intimidating at first with a lot of questions about my time away from school and drilling me about various decisions I had made and when I had answered him sufficiently he lightened up and seemed to be genuinely enjoying our conversation. He also asked a lot of personal and ethical questions and made sure that I had thought my answers through to the end. And at that point he looked at me, grinned and said,

What would you do if one of your clients (I was working as a counselor for young pregnant women giving up their babies for adoption) decided that they would rather have an abortion? Would you tell her your opinion? Don't you think that would sway her to do what you thought was right and not necessarily what she wanted? etc, etc, etc...

If you were called by the state penitentiary and asked to come to an execution by lethal injection to perform/observe/confirm death, would you go?

Enthusiasm of everyone involved in the process, from the librarian to the admissions coordinator to the dean to the students. Everyone was great.