SUNY - Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine (Brooklyn)

🙂

How did the interview impress you?

Positively 🙂

What was the stress level of the interview?

4 / 10

0 = Low Stress, 10 = High Stress

How you think you did?

7 / 10

0 = Bad, 10 = Great

How do you rank this school among ALL other schools?

5 / 10

0 = Below, 10 = Above

How do you rank this school among other schools to which you've applied?

4 / 10

0 = Below, 10 = Above

What are your general comments?

The interview was fairly intensive, but non-confrontational. I was expected to have significant exposure to my field of interest, which I felt I lacked somewhat. However, my interviewer, a psychiatrist, was very interested in me and my background and I felt I was treated with respect at all times. I was asked many questions relevant to my specific interests. My interviewer did not have too much knowledge of the med school curriculum, though.

Interview questions they asked

What was your inspiration to study medicine?

I was asked this too

What was the most interesting question?

Your background suggests you should be a lawyer, why do you want to go into medicine?

I was asked this too

What was the most difficult question?

Tell me about a difficult situation you had to deal with as part of your clinical experience.

I was asked this too

How did you prepare for the interview?

SDN, school website

What impressed you positively?

The school seems to have everything you would need for a good education. Administration seems cooperative and flexible. Residency placements are excellent. Top-notch trauma center. Affiliation with Kings County Hospital and various others throughout NYC. Students raved about amazing clinical exposure, which is possible in the first year, and later on students said they basically managed their own patients. Libary was supposedly very good.

What impressed you negatively?

Facilities was bare-bones, old, or decrepit. Neighborhood is not pretty, though it is accessible to Manhattan.

What did you wish you had known ahead of time?

They don't show you the dorms or Kings County Hospital.

What is your ranking of this school's location?

5 / 10

0 = Bad, 10 = Great

What is your ranking of this area's cultural life?

4 / 10

0 = Bad, 10 = Great