How many people interviewed you?
| Response Average | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 1.02 | 323 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| Positively | 230 |
| Negatively | 54 |
| No change | 40 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 3.24 | 324 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 7.27 | 240 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 7.08 | 204 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| In Person | 0 |
| Virtual | 5 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 5 minutes | 0 |
| 10 minutes | 0 |
| 15 minutes | 5 |
| 20 minutes | 5 |
| 25 minutes | 23 |
| 30 minutes | 61 |
| 35 minutes | 52 |
| 40 minutes | 47 |
| 45 minutes | 79 |
| 50 minutes | 18 |
| 55 minutes | 2 |
| 60+ minutes | 36 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| At the school | 312 |
| At a regional location | 1 |
| At another location | 11 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| One-on-one | 324 |
| In a group | 0 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| Open file | 222 |
| Closed file | 96 |
| Response Average | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 1.02 | 323 |
"Tell me about a problem in the medical field? Now tell me another... another... another... another (this went on 5 consecutive times and took the entire interview)."
"Literally watchmojo's top ten worst medical school interview questions. Cura personalis was also in there"
"Why medicine? Why Georgetown? Tell me about your research."
"Tell me about your journey to medicine"
"How will you contribute to the diversity of Georgetown?"
"Describe your story: how’d you get into medicine?"
"What do you like to do in your free time?"
"They asked what other schools I applying to and was interviewing at."
"What did you do the summer between high school and college? (I was not expecting that)"
"Where would you see yourself in 10 years"
"What are three words that your friends use to describe you."
"What was a time you were stressed and how did you handle it?"
"What is one issue in health care you care about and why?"
"What are some problems in health care today?"
"Why you?"
"It was genuinely a conversation. No specific questions were really asked. He just wanted to get to know me a bit, and we talked about his career a lot as well."
"What challenges do you expect to encounter as a physician?"
"Tell me a little about your research."
"My interviewer was a very kind, laid back 4th year med student. The first question was "why medicine?""
"If you had given a patient the wrong prescription and they had complications from it, what would you do?"
"Tell me about yourself and what brought you to medicine."
"Time you failed and what you learned from it?"
"Why did you perform poorly in X class?"
"Why do you want to be a doctor? (he hammered this question several times wanting different explanations)"
"Tell me about your background, and your family."
"Why Georgetown? The interviewer had access to my amcas app with the grades and scores blacked out, so they could see activities and essays"
"Why Georgetown/Why medicine?"
"Why Georgetown? / Why medicine?"
"What have you been doing since you graduated (graduated >1 year before interview)?"
"tell me how health care reform will affect you, as a doctor"
"Why do you want to be a physician?"
"What are some of the responsibilities of a physician?"
"The basic 3: Tell me about yourself / What attracts you to our program / When did you decide on a career in medicine"
"What are your strengths and weaknesses?"
"Why Medicine? / Health Care Crisis and how will the Public Option (if passed) affect physicians / Why Georgetown?"
"Why did you decide on a career in medicine? Why did you apply to Georgetown?"
"Why medicine/why Georgetown?"
"So you like science?"
"What did the President say during his recent speech?"
"My interviewer had my PS and Why Georgetown essay only. First question is why medicine? Tell me your story?"
"Why our school?"
"Why do you want to be a physician instead of a musician?"
"The ask 6 set questions. I will try and write them down as I remember them."
"Where I am from?"
""Why Georgetown?""
"Just so everyone knows... there is a standard form with about 6 or 7 questions that they ask EVERYONE. So I'm going to try and put them all down here from what I can remember, for your edification...."
"Tell me about your family"
"Georgetown is a catholic school and there are some strange remnants of that around ie you can't sell condoms on campus. So he asked me what I thought about the school minimart selling cigarettes but not condoms and what message i thought that was sending."
"What do you think is a problem with the US HealthCare system today?"
"What TV doctor would I want to be"
"ethics question"
"non-academic stuff"
"what makes you angry, what are your weaknesses/strengths, let's talk about the negative aspects of healthcare"
"Why Georgetown"
"Write an article as above"
"The basics: why Georgetown? why medicine? What specialty?"
"Tell me about yourself. Why Georgetown? Why medicine? "
"why gtown and why DC?"
"What is one part of your undergraduate career that really stands out to you?"
"Why medicine? What medical experience do you have?"
"Who is your best friend? If he were sitting across from me what would he say about you?"
"Whether i planned to do research, be a clinician, teach..."
"Why medicine?"
"Asked to describe what I had done since undergraduate (as a non-traditional student)."
"What are the qualities you think a physician should have? "
"What are the roles of a physician?"
"What is your greatest weakness?"
"What do you like to do on your free time?"
"Do you really rock-climb? (I wrote about this in my personal statement)"
"why medicine, why goergetown, what are problems in current healthcare in the US (these three are inevitable)"
"What do you find neat about Georgetown?"
"Where do you see yourself in 10 years? "
"Tell me about yourself"
"favorite TV show"
"The basics, why medicine, why Georgetown."
"How did you get interested in medicine?"
"why medicine, that's it"
"Why would you choose G-town over other schools to which you have applied?"
"You mentioned so and so on your personal statement, what did you mean?"
"What would you do if you didn't get accepted to med school?"
"what are your strengths"
"Research related questions"
"What do you think of U.S. health care, how can you change it"
"How did you hear about Georgetown?"
"how do you think your choice of major will help you in your medical education? (i was an engineering major)"
"Tell me about why you want to bo into medicine."
"does a physician deserve to earn money?"
"Tell me about a book you've recently read?"
"Why MD/PhD and not either one?"
"Why medicine? Why Georgetown? (the ask everyone this, and tell you that in the morning)"
"What do you do to relieve your stress?"
"what do you think are the qualitites of an ideal physician?"
"Why Georgetown? "
"Why medicine? (one of the required ones)"
"Tell me about ___?"
"why did you come to georgetown as an undergrad?"
"why medicine? why GT? why Washington DC?"
"What are some of the biggest problems in healthcare?"
"Why Georgetown, Why medicine?"
"How do you want your patients to view you 20 years from now?"
"Why medicine and Georgetown?"
"Tell me about yourself. "
"What are the big problems in healthcare?"
"Tell me a little bit about yourself?"
"On a personal level, what are your 3 best qualities?"
"Tell me about yourself (after telling me that she had just read my AMCAS essay)."
"What was your commute like in high school?"
"Why DC? Why Georgetown? Do you know what kind of sacrifices you will have to make during med school? Why medicine? What experiences have you had which confirmed your desire to become a doctor? "
"Why did I choose medicine?"
"Why do you want to be a doctor?"
"How do you handle stress?"
"What was your grade average? In your essay you write about how athletic committments brought down your average. The interviewer had read only my personal statment before the interview began, which was within the guidelines of how interviews proceed, and I had no issue with this."
"Why Georgetown? Why DC?"
"Why do you want to be a doctor?"
"a few "non-threatening" questions about ethics: end of life, patient autonomy, etc."
"Biggest problems of US Healthcare?"
"what did you do during the summers"
"How do you feel about starting medical school at age 27?"
"How did you become interested in medicine?"
"Why major in _____?"
"Tell me about your research."
"How did you come to decide you want to be a doctor?"
"Views on abortion, euthanasia, genetic engineering, doctor assisted suicide, etc."
"Why medicine now? If you're a non-traditional candidate, you'll get this question everywhere."
"What would you fix about healthcare?"
"What do you parents do? (Not the accusatory, "I assume your parents are doctors, then." I had gotten elsewhere.)"
"What can you bring to georgetown?"
"Why do you want to attend GT? "
"Do you see yourself in research or providing patient care? (I answered and was asked to clarify further.)"
"Why Georgetown? What do you look for in a medical education? "
"how did you decide medicine?"
"What was an experience that you feel passionate about?"
"Tell me about your research"
"What will you find the most interesting about medicine in 10 years? "
"What can you contribute to the Georgetown community?"
"why did you choose medicine"
"why GT?"
"Tell me about your family. "
"Why did you go to school in Montana? (I'm from Tennessee.)"
"So why do you want to be a doctor?"
"Why did you decide to switch from [non-science major] to medicine?"
"TEll me about yourself growing up."
"What were your clinical and research expereinces? What quality do you possess that came through during your clinical experience which you believe will make you a good doctor?"
"So tell me about your school. Where is it? "
"Why didnt you take biochemistry?"
"Why Medicine? Why Georgetown?"
"Why do plan to pursue General Surgery?"
"Standard ethical Q's.....stem cells...euthanasia...abortion"
"What would you do if you weren't accepted anywhere?"
"2 ethical scenarios: 1) what to do if I catch a med school classmate cheating on an exam, and 2) how to break the news to a patient that she has colon cancer"
"What events inspired you to study medicine?"
"How are you different from your best friend and how does this explain why you want to go to med school and she wants to go to law school?"
"How did you get here (where are you from, what did you do after school)?"
"Why GU?"
"What have you been doing in the past year?"
"Why did you choose your undergraduate institution?"
"Why are there so many uninsured in the US? Why Medicine? Why Georgetown? "
"What do you like to do?"
"I cant recall specfic details, but the interview was very conversational-- no ethics questions."
"explain universal health care."
"Why Georgetown?"
"What are the current issues with the Healthcare system?"
"How would you contribute to the community here?"
"I see you've done some creative writing. Have you heard of Walter Percy (doc who became a novelist)?"
"So how many acceptances have you received? (Literally, the first question)"
"What have you been doing since your college graduation?"
"standard stuff...why g-town."
"Typical stuff. Tell about experiences, college, why are you interested in Gtown."
"What is the biggest problem facing health care today?"
"The MD interviewer (an orthopedic surgeon) wanted to know about my past and my clinical exposure to date."
"How did you contribute to your community?"
"Why did you choose to major in Astronomy? "
"Interests?"
"mostly about who I am, my motivations, etc."
"Why did you choose to apply to Georgetown?"
"Tell me about yourself, why medicine, etc."
"What do you do with your free time?"
"Why did you apply to GU?"
"Define for me the doctor-patient confidentiality agreement and give an example."
"What do you do in your spare time?"
"what would you change about your undergrad school"
"See above, although most questions merely came from what we were previously talking about. Nothing caught me off guard."
"what hobbies do you have"
"Why do you want to be a doctor..."
"this was a question i didn't get, but one of the other applicants was asked and i thought it was pretty interesting: "Say the US has universal health care, and you are a physician with a patient who requires very expensive treatment which MIGHT prolong his life for a certain period that you don't know--do you continue to give the treatment even though doing so will keep others from receiving treatment due to the limit to the amount of money you can spend?""
"there were no other questions besides the ones I mentioned above - the interview was a very relaxed conversation rather than a question-and-answer session."
"Where do you see yourself in ten years?"
"If you had a broken leg right now, how do you think the care you received would be the same or different in a managed care setting versus medical delivery of yesteryear?"
"Would you go to Georgetown over your state school?"
"What is the biggest problem facing healthcare?"
"what is your motivation for going into medicine?"
"What are some good characteristics of a doctor? Why medicine? Why Georgetown?"
"So what do you like to do that's not on this application? (It's closed file but they are given the application in a sealed envelope as you walk in the door)."
"What do you do in your free time?"
"What do you do for fun?"
"What are your Strengths/Weaknesses"
"Why medicine"
"why G"
"The interviews are closed-file (though your interviewer will get a copy of your file that you bring to him/her) so be prepared for anything!"
"What's the most recent book you've read? film you've seen?"
"What is one of the biggest problems in medicine right now"
"Tell me about a challenge you faced, how you overcame it, and what you learned."
"What do you do when you feel stressed?"
"What's one of the biggest problems in medicine?"
"What kind of extracurricular activities do you enjoy?"
"What do you think the biggest problem in healthcare is today? How do you propose we fix it?"
"Tell me about your research experience"
"Ethical question about patient with a DNR"
"Why do you see yourself working with the urban underserved?"
"Why Georgetown? How would my friends describe me. How I would describe how I see myself as a future physician."
"What was a stressful situation and how did you overcome it"
"Ethical question about inputting the wrong medication order and by the time you told the nurse it was already given. What would you do...."
"Tell me more about your research."
"What are the main things you learned from doing XX activity?"
"What is a problem with medicine in the United States?"
"What do you think about the ACA?"
"Why Georgetown specifically for your goals?"
"Question specifically about my activities"
"Why do you want to become a physician?"
"What do you think are some of the biggest problems in today's healthcare system?"
"What do you think is the biggest issue in health care today?"
"How do you reconcile your interest in Georgetown with your rural background?"
"Why GW?"
"Why do you want to be a physician?"
"Why DC?"
"I see you only speak English, are there any other languages you are proficient in?"
"Whole interview was EXTREMELY conversational, many of the questions were informal, flowing from the topics we were discussing."
"What do you like to do for fun? Any research publications? Describe your clinical experiences"
"Asked about my family, questions from my essays( which turned into more of a conversation.. so didnt have too many questions)"
"What do you want me to tell the admissions committee about you?"
"A very, very detailed ethical dilemma question which basically came down to "Would you admit to a patient that you made a mistake, even if you caught it quickly enough to correct it with no negative effects on the patient's health?""
"What do I see my future career looking like?"
"Tell me about your research."
"How will the public option, if passed, affect physicians."
"Specific questions related to my own experience"
"What is one strength you think will help you the most in medical school? What is one weakness that might hurt you?"
"What experiences have you had with the medical field, and how have they influenced your decision?"
"What are the greatest challenges in health care today and how should we address them?"
"How can I make my grandson like science?"
"What describes a good physican? "
"What have you been doing since graduating?"
"What first interested you in medicine?"
"Tell me about yourself."
"What is the biggest problem with health care?"
"1. Why medicine 2. Why Georgetown 3. Whats wrong with healthcare and how would you change it. 4. Any clinical experiences? 5. Any research experiences 6 what do you do for fun."
"Why Georgetown? It wasn't phrased quite like this, but make certain this question is answered by the end of the interview."
"Why I fit into the philosophy"
"What would I reform about healthcare?"
"He asked about my activities."
"1) Why medicine? 2) How to fix the health care system? 3) Research experiences? 4) Clinical experiences? 5) Why Georgetown? (HINT: The right answer includes cura personalis) 6) What traits does a good doctor have? 7) What do you do for fun? 8) Anything else you'd like the ad com to know (not in your file)?"
"what differences have you noticed between schools? What else? What else? What else? What else? What else? This was asked 6 times."
"How many brothers and sisters do you have?"
"How to fix healthcare"
"Why Georgetown"
"challenges"
"a question about medical errors and truth-telling"
"What are you currently working on?"
"problems with healthcare"
"Why Medicine"
"Favorite experience"
"Tell me about xyz (activities I did in undergraduate)"
"What is the greatest problem facing health care today?"
"why medicine? what have you done to prepare for a career in medicine?"
"What is one reason why we should admit you?"
"What do you like to do for fun? What are the biggest problems facing physicians today? What do you think about patient privacy?"
"Do you think you will be able to handle the medical school curriculum? How do you handle stress?"
"can't remember a lot more, got into a long conversation about racial disparities in healthcare and global healthcare. "
"What is wrong with healthcare today?"
"favorite classes in undergrad"
"What specialties I'm considering."
"What are you currently doing now?"
"what experiences have influenced you to go into medicine?"
"Volunteer experiences. "
"What challenges will you face?"
"What are some qualities that physicians must possess other than academic performance?"
"What is one char. a doctor should have?"
"Do you want to go into Anesthesia like your father?"
"tell me about your volunteer service experience"
"What do your siblings do?"
"Medicine and public health are so different- explain why anyone would want a MD and MPH?"
"Why did you switch to medicine"
"What is your biggest weakness?"
"Famous person who graduated from my college"
"What clinical experience do you have?"
"How did you become interested in medicine?"
"Tell me about your religious background."
"Whats the single most important issue in healthcare today and what would you propose to change it?"
"What kinds of med schools are you applying to?"
"Who and what is important to you?"
"why gtown"
"tell me about your family"
"What is your greatest weakness"
"Name one problem/issue with medicine/healthcare system and how you could work to correct that problem."
"what kind of medicine do you think you want to go into after you graduate and why?"
"How can you be sure you really want to dedicate your life to medicine?"
"Why medical school?"
"Tell me about your hospital volunteer experience."
"why didn't you retake the "med-cat?" (that is how he referred to it)"
"Why are you interested in Georgetown and would you really consider it?"
"What is the best quality that you have that will make a good doctor?"
"What healthcare issues will you face as a physician and what is one way to fix one of those problems?"
"How do you know you want to go into medicine?"
"what will be some future health care issues you think you'll need to deal with? "
"What problems do you see in the future of medical care? "
"Something about being responsible in your life."
"If you were given a choice of a Westcoast school over Georgetown, which would you prefer?"
"what will be your biggest challenge in medical school?"
"biggest challenge?"
"Tell me about _______ activity?"
"What do you think makes a great doctor? "
"What is the most pressing issue in healthcare today?"
"What do you do in your free time?"
"What is your opinion on: stem cell research and physician assisted suicide?"
"Discuss research/thesis etc. "
"what clinical/medical experiences i've had"
"What do you understand about social medicine?"
"What turns you off about medicine?"
"On a professional level, what 3 character traits of yours will make you a great doctor? 3 things to improve upon?"
"What problems face healthcare and physicians in the future?"
"What made you choose engineering?"
"What do you think are some of the pressing issues in healthcare today?"
"Whats wrong with healthcare? How to fix it?"
"What sort of physician do I want to be? "
"Tell me about the first time yo knew you wanted to be a doctor. "
"Tell me about some of your volunteer experiences."
"Why are you choosing the GEMS program?"
"why georgetown? (very important to admissions)"
"what classes are you taking now"
"She asked several questions about my volunteer experiences abroad. Why did you go, what did you get out of it, etc."
"What clinical experiences have you had? "
"What does that major have to do with medicine?"
"Tell me about a time that you felt empathy for someone."
"What schools are you seriously considering?"
"about my undergrad school"
"What do you want your legacy to be?"
"Do you think you would be happy in Washington?"
"What is a problem in health care today?"
"What is a problem in medicine today? How about a problem you will face as a physician in 15 years?"
"When was a time you were stressed"
"How do you know medicine is right for you?"
"Why medicine? What are your motivations for becoming a doctor?"
"Tell me about your study abroad program."
"Do you have any nicknames? What was your most fun experience in college? "
"Why G'Town?"
"What do you like to do for fun?"
"What will you like the least about medicine in 10 years?"
"What issues are facing the medical community?"
"didn't the tribune vote for bush?"
"why medicine?"
"What about your experiences was most important to you?"
"What is your top choice?"
"Lets talk about how poverty affects the delivery of health care?"
"What was it like being a rock star in London?"
"expand on your personal statement."
"Tell me about your extra-curricular activities. "
"What are some experiences you've had that you feel prepare you to be a doctor?"
"Tell me about the British Health Care system? Do you think it would work in the US (I've lived in England and Scotland, so maybe she asked because of that). "
"Tell me what you were like in high school."
"What do you believe are the problems facing healthcare?"
"What are you reading?"
"Why didnt you do better on the MCAT"
"Why were visiting Fairfax last summer?"
"Why should we choose you?"
"What are your clinical experiences?"
"What do you think about Washington?"
"What is the biggest problem facing healthcare? Why do you want to go into medicine at a time like this?"
"Discuss what to do about current health care situation (see most interesting/difficult question)."
"What do you know about the Canadian health care system?"
"Tell me about your family?"
"How do you feel about coming to DC?"
"Tell me about yourself..."
"a couple of ethical situations: one on bad news breaking and one on cheating in the classroom. i dont think there is a right or wrong answer, just be yourself."
"What do I think of Georgetown?"
"Should the US adpot universal health care."
"What is one of your faults?"
"Address a specific problem in health care."
"Where do I see myself in 20 years?"
"What are your strengths/weaknesses?"
"See healthcare question above."
"Asked about my research, activities, etc. (the usual)"
"Why do you want to come to Georgetown?"
"why do you want to be a doctor?"
"What criteria are you using to decide between schools? (I think they want to see that you've really thought about it and you're seriously contrasting schools - not just that you applied to 15 and you'll see what happens)"
"Your dad is a doctor, what has he done to persuade/dissuade you to or not to go into medicine?"
"The MD/PhD interviewers all wanted to know why I was interested in the MD/PhD."
"What health experiences have you had?"
"Tell me about your overseas experience in medicine"
"Specialty?"
"a few ethical questions. nothing to scary."
"Why go into medicine now?"
"What do you think is the greatest challenge facing medicine?"
"(My relationship with my boyfriend came up in casual conversation) What are you two going to do when you go back to school?"
"What do you do for fun?"
"What are your hobbies?"
"Why Georgetown?"
"what is an event that really changed the way you look at life"
"Typical ethics questions..."
"where did you go to high school? did you like it? how was your college? why did you choose it? what other med schools did you apply to? how many interviews have you had? "
"What do you do in your spare time?"
"Why Gtown?"
"Why medicine? Why Georgetown?"
"Describe Managed Care, how would a physician in a managed care practice treat you in comparison to a physician in a traditional setting?"
"let's role play. i'm a patient, you're the doctor. you just gave me a heart transplant and found out after the fact that the donor had testicular cancer. what do you tell me (your patient), who has just received this heart?"
"Why did you pick your major? How many other interviews have you been to? What other activities do you want to get involved in while at medical school?"
"Where do you see yourself as a physician?"
"Why do you want to go into medicine?"
"Describe your volunteer experiences."
"What is the single greatest issue facing healthcare in the next 10 years."
"What's a problem in medicine right now"
"What do you do for fun"
"How will you contribute to diversity and inclusion at Georgetown?"
"Tell me about a healthcare issue in DC, and if you can't speak to DC, one in the area you are from."
"What is one issue in healthcare you care about?"
"How will you contribute to the diversity on campus?"
"Are you familiar with the patient population in DC? (he prefaced this question with saying he didn't know anything about this when he was in my shoes so I answered honestly and said no then he explained it)"
"Tell me about other experiences"
"How are your other schools going?"
"What's the biggest issue in healthcare today"
"What kind of specialty would you want to go into?"
"Tell me about your research"
"Three qualities you think every physician should have."
"Tell me more about this shadowing experience."
"Why DC?"
"Specific questions about AMCAS Activities Resume"
"Is there a medical specialty that interests you?"
"What will you bring to campus that benefits Georgetown?"
"How do you handle stress?"
"Asked about specific activities on my application"
"What are some issues in healthcare currently?"
"What is one issue in medicine today?"
"Do you have siblings?"
"Why not research?"
"What do you think are the current issues with healthcare?"
"What do you like to do in your spare time?"
"Why Georgetown, why medicine"
"What does cura personalis mean to you?"
"How have you changed since high school/college?"
"What sort of volunteering experience do you have?"
"What is your clinical experience?"
"Tell me about this activity... (went through my AMCAS activities)."
"Why Georgetown? Why DC?"
"Why do you think you have what it takes to do well in medical school?"
"What do i like to do in my free time?"
"Tell me about X/Y/Z on your application."
"What is the biggest problem in healthcare in the US?"
"Questions about my research and theses"
"why medicine"
"Why are you looking at schools so far from home?"
"What's the biggest problem with our country's health care system?"
"Specific questions related to my file. However, the answer to these questions were already in my file (when did you do this activity...what was that like...)"
"What questions do you have for me?"
"How would you define 'cura personalis' in one sentence?"
"Hypothetical situation: what do you think about practices charging patients a flat yearly fee, to level the field for the insured and uninsured, and to avoid dealing with the hassle of insurance companies?"
"What is a major issue in the medical field today and how would you solve it?"
"Why Georgetown"
"Why do you donate blood?"
"What are the most pressing concerns in healthcare today? (multiple concerns)"
"Tell me about your research project."
"Why Georgetown? "
"I hope I wrote those down correctly. I had multiple interviews in a short period of time so I might have mixed up a couple, but I believe the above are correct."
"What is our greatest health care problem? How would you fix health care in the US? These were two distinct questions, but equally important during the interview."
"What don't I like about Georgetown... (at this point I could have talked for two hours)."
"He asked about my clinical mentor that he happened to know."
"See above"
"Why do I want to go to Georgetown if it costs more than state schools?"
"What is one of the greatest issues facing healthcare right now?"
"Do you have any question for me?"
"How to fix a problem like teenage pregnancy"
"Charity work?"
"What is the largest healthcare problem faced in the United States right now?"
"time-managment"
"problems with our current healthcare"
"questions about my undergrad"
"Tell me something about Healthcare reform"
"Why G-town"
"What questions do you have for me? (she wanted a lot of questions, probably asked me 4 times)"
"What are your thoughts on end-of-life care?"
"tell me about your living experiences in nyc, columbus, and cleveland (places where i've lived in/since college)"
"If there was one thing you could improve in your application, what would it be?"
"What about you will make you a good doctor? If you are going to see a doctor, what qualities are important to you in choosing that doc? Why Georgetown?"
"Tell me about your path to wanting to become a physician"
"How do you feel about your undergrad experience?"
"Problem with healthcare system."
"What are some problems facing healthcare today?"
"What do you think about the current healthcare situation?"
"What events influenced you to go into medicine?"
"What was the most enjoyable/rewarding part of my academic experience in undergrad? Nonacademic experience?"
"opinion on health care "
"Current trends in medicine."
"After that, it was pretty much a conversation."
"Why should we accept you?"
"what else do you like to do aside from studying premed?"
"What do you do in your sparetime? "
"Tell me about your volunteering experience?"
"What are some problems facing medicine in the future?"
" Tell me about ___ activity"
"what are you doing after graduation (I'm taking a year off)"
"What do you think will be your most difficult task as a physician?"
"Do you have any questions for me?"
"What do you expect from Georgetown with your 250 thousand dollar investment from a contract perspective?"
"Why MD?"
"tell me about yourself"
"What was your proudest moment?"
"What can Georgetown do to help you achieve your goals?"
"So you are from UCLA, how is the football team doing this year? "
"What do you do in your job right now? "
"What have been some of the best and worst times of your life?"
"what are the problems w/ healthcare today?"
"Is Georgetown ranked high on your list of med schools? (loaded question)"
"What do you like to do in your free time?"
"any remaining questions i had about the school."
"What is something unique that you would bring to our medical school class?"
"What kind of doctor do you want to be?"
"nothing else, not even "why georgetown?" which we were told would be a crucial part of our interview..."
"What are some of your other interests or hobbies?"
"What do I do for fun?"
"Research and volunteer experience?"
"Give the two sides of the stem cell research debate"
"What are your hobbies?"
"what if you had a patient who doesn't listen to you?"
"What questions do you have for me. "
"What do you do outside of school/work?"
"Address a challenge in your life and how you handled it."
"what is one thing about yourself you need to work on?"
"do you have questions for me? what should i tell the admissions committee about you?"
"What was the most satisfying non-medical paid position you have ever held? "
"Other questions about my experiences directly."
"If you had a life-threatening disease would you rather be treated by a doctor who was kind and caring, but not that skilled at treating your disease, or a cold doctor who was very skilled at treating the disease?"
"Tell me about your family."
"What are some of the major problems with the health care system and how do you propose fixing them? "
"what else do i do, what books read, etc."
"Do you believe a physician should be honest in every situation? (He went on to describe a ethical situation about being honest with a patient who was going to die soon)"
"Ethical questions"
"Describe a moral dilemma and how you handled it."
"Why Georgetown for medical school? (They seem to really want people who appreciate, believe, and respect their cura personalis approach to medicine, so make sure that you are prepared to answer this question with something other than some generic response)."
"Tell me about your job."
"Do you have any questions?"
"Tell me about yourself..."
"What area of medicine am I most interested in?"
"Talked about personal experiences."
"What are some current issues that physicians face?"
"What are five words people would use to describe you?"
"Why did you take a year off?"
"questions about decision to pursue medicine and medical experiences. (standard)"
"Future career goals? How do you see yourself using your MD degree?"
"what are two major problems in health care today"
"As a resident, if you had accidentily written a prescription with the dosage doubled, which did not end up harming the patient at all, would you tell the patient and attending physician about your mistake?"
"What research experiences have you had?"
"Did you apply to Johns Hopkins?"
"Elaborate on the patients that you mentioned in your ps."
"What should I tell the board about you to get you in here? "
"about my hobbies"
"Why Georgetown? What can you contribute here?"
"Random questions about my extracurricular activities"
"What was your most significant experience in college?"
"Some remote question about a hospital being built nearby which I had no idea that even existed"
"Who are your rolemodels? "
"what do you do in your spare time? what medical experiences?"
"What separates schools, similar to why G'Town?"
"Do you think you have a realistic and accurate impression of what the medical profession would be like?"
"Are you a compassionate person?"
"what are the qualities that a person should have to be a good doctor"
"tell me about yourself."
"How did your experience in the Emergency Department shape your present beliefs about medicine?"
"Why didn't you write down on your AMCAS application that you waitressed?"
"What are some of the problems facing medicine today?"
"What's the number of uninsured Americans? How can we lower this number?"
"Neither one of your parents are physicians. Are you sure you know enough about the field and understand the responsibilities of being a physician?"
"ethics question on writing an incorrect prescription."
"Why a doctor?"
"In your opinion, what are some of the problems that are going to arise in healthcare in the next 20 years?"
"What do you do to relieve stress?"
"Why should g'town accept me?"
"Do I understand the social responsiblity it is to be a doctor?"
"What did you read before that?"
"What qualities make a good physician? Do you really think that last characteristic is important? So thats all you need to be a good physician?"
"What kind of medicine do you want to practice?"
"Call me when you land!"
"How would you improve te health care system?"
"What are the weaknesses of your application?"
"Can I give you my contact information in case you have more questions?"
"What else do you want the ad comm to know about you that is not on your application? Any questions for me?"
"What do you think you will find most challenging about the next four years of your life? Any questions for me?"
"What do you do besides study?"
"Why medicine?"
"why did you choose your undergrad school."
"See the above ethical question (my interviewer was fresh from residency interviews of his own and full of crazy ethical questions he had asked). "
"Why doesn't everyone want to be a doctor?"
"What do you do in your spare time?"
"How is medicine different today and how will that affect how you practice medicine?"
"Is it ethical for pharmaceutical companies to use drug trial procedures that wouldn't be permitted in the U.S. on AIDS patients in Africa? (I don't know if this was a trick question or not...I of course said "no.")"
"Ethical questions regarding an HIV+ teen, patient confidentiality"
"Where does Georgetown stand for you (i.e. give a priority ranking)?"
"tell me about your research."
"What do you do for fun?"
"The MD/PhD interviewers all wanted to know about my research experience."
"Why do you want to be a doctor?"
"Do you think Georgetown would be a good match for you? Why?"
"Healthcare problems?"
"What do you feel has been your greatest personal achievement outside of your professional and academic life?"
"What experiences in particular inspired you to become a doctor?"
"What is an medical issue that is a current and future problem in medicine?"
"Do you know what kind of doctor you want to be?"
"what do you think about the doctor-patient relationship"
"What are your hobbies..."
"why did you apply to georgetown, how did you originally get interested in medicine? are there doctors in the family? what do your siblings do?"
"What other schools have you applied to? (That was weird)"
"And what do you make of that? (asked after almost every question...)"
"How would you deal with makinga mistake?"
"what do you expect to get out of medical school?"
"What else do you like to do? Is there anything else you want me to know that wasn't mentioned on your application?"
"What type of medicine do you want to go into?"
"Why Georgetown?"
"If you could change anything about your undergrad experience, what would it have been?"
"What's the biggest challenge currently facing healthcare?"
"Have you faced any moral or ethical dilemmas? If so, what did you do?"
"What are your hobbies?"
"What's one of the biggest problems in medicine?"
"What’s your favorite way to spend your free time?"
"How would your friends describe you?"
"What Netflix show are you watching now?"
"Specific question about one of my hobbies"
"What shows are you watching right now"
"What was your favorite class in college?"
"Hobbies?"
"Asked me about something specific in my background"
"Tell me a joke if you can (very specific to my interview though)"
"Interviewer gave about 30 mins of discussion about their research. It was interesting, but had nothing to do with my interview."
"We had a conversation about illegal immigration that was quite interesting"
"Tell me about your research."
"Why do you like teaching (specific to my app)?"
"What other fields of medicine are you interested in?"
"What is your favorite TV show?"
"What do you think are the most important qualities of professionalism in a physician?"
"If you had given a patient the wrong prescription and they had complications from it, what would you do?"
"My interviewer asked about my writing after I expressed a life-long interest in composition."
"You are allowed to clean a patients wound, you but beta dine on the wound and the patient has an allergic reaction. What do you do?"
"Considering the negatives of medicine (stress, cost of school, etc.) why do you still want to be a doctor."
"Is there anything else you haven't told me that you want me to know?"
"What will you bring to our student body? Why should we choose you?"
"More of a conversation the whole way, but very interesting. health care, ethics, my former research, volunteering all came up. but, not in a "answer x y z about healthcare reform". way more casual."
"What three words best describe a physician?"
"Who subsidizes Britain's healthcare program?"
"talk about cura personalis"
"About patient privacy and informed consent"
"It was very conversational, not scary at all."
"None of them were interesting. All were cookie-cutter questions. My interviewer didn't really do his part to interact with me and spent too much idle time glancing through my file."
"What really pushes your buttons? What really makes you angry?"
"HC Crisis and Public Option"
"What do you do besides study biology?"
"What do you think about physician assisted suicide, and DNRs?"
"Tell me a bit more about your experiences with intaking."
"Besides patients, to whom is a physician accountable?"
"How can I make my grandson like science?"
"Why Georgetown?"
"Pretty basic stuff. Was overall a very interesting conversation with no 'question' standing out. It was more our wanderings off topic that were interesting."
"If you were out in the town and you met a citizen of the community with little medical experience, how would you try to represent the medical community?"
"What challenges currently face healthcare?"
"Do you think there are any similarities between music and medicine?"
"What soccer position did you play? This demonstrated he knew my application and helped put me at ease through the rest of the interview. "
"Had I ever shadowed in the military system (VA) and if not then what is my impression of universal health care?"
"What books have you read lately?"
"If I thought AZ would go Dem or Republican in the election."
"what tv dr. would you be?"
"Tell me more about your siblings."
"TV doctor"
"He asked about the origin of my name"
"challenges"
"none were really"
"Tell me about your major? Tell me about your research? Tell me about your clinical work?"
"Pretend like you are writing an article about the health care reform policies of the presidential candidates. Tell me what you would say"
"What field of medicine are you interested in? (Led to her talking about her path in medicine, and her views on surgery (her specialty) and how the common perception of lack of pt-MD relationships in surgery is inaccurate)"
"Who is your best friend? What would he say about you if he were sitting here?"
"nothing too interesting"
"Why did you choose your undergraduate institution?"
"If there was only one thing you wanted me to take away from this interview, what would it be?"
"The interview was very interesting and actually fun, but none of the questions were particularly unique or unusual."
"What are your thoughts on DNR / Euthanasia?"
"if i knew what the global poverty line was (about $1.10/day, and no, i did not know that)"
"How do you feel about your undergrad experience?"
"If you were in a situation where you wouldn't personally do a medical procedure what would you do?"
"Nothing atypical. "
"Nothing really. Just standard questions."
"Were you ever a patient? What were your experiences?"
"What should I tell the admissions committee? (Not too interesting, but the most.)"
"Would I reveal to a patient that I made a mistake in his/her treatment if the mistake was corrected and did not pose any potential future harm."
"where do you see yourself in ten years"
"are you afraid of practicing medicine?"
"Asked about concerns related to school's Catholicism affecting learning."
"What can you contribute to the field of medicine? to your patients? to your colleagues?"
"How I would deal with patients from different cultural backgrounds."
"what are some challenges you expect to face as a physician?"
"What are some of the problems that physicians will face in the future?"
"Honestly, I can't remember specific questions-it was really just a conversation"
"What are the characteristics of a good physician?"
"Have you taken any classes on health policy?"
"Tell me about yourself - my interviewer preferred a totally closed file interview, so that question took about half the interview."
"Where do you see yourself in 20 years"
"Does a patient have the right to know if there was a medical error?"
"What is your position on Hospice care"
"How do you feel about the fact that certain procedures (i.e. abortion, IVF) are not performed at GU Hospital due to the school's Catholic affiliation?"
"nothing special, I went to GU undergrad, so we talked about research on campus etc."
"My interviewer didn't really ask me many questions, he did a lot of the talking, unfortunately."
"How do you reconcile your religion with science?"
"Tell me about your heritage (my ethnicity is pretty unique, my parents are part of a Catholic minority from Iraq)"
"Tell me about your views on a Universal Health Care System for the US."
"what were you like in high school? how would your classmates have described you? how would your teachers have describe you?"
"Is it ethical for Eddy Curry, (an NBA basketball player who has a heart condition) to receive a DNA test to see if he is genetically unfit to play?"
"Nothing was particularly interesting or difficult. My interviewer told me at the beginning that she had a list of things she had to write on the evaluation form and she was just going to ask questions that pertained to what she really needed to know. They were basic interview questions, and nothing was meant to be challenging or overly interesting."
"what have you learned about yourself through your current volunteer work?"
"Nothing unusual - why Georgetown was defnitely emphasized throughout."
"Tell me your favorite joke; "you need a good sense of humor to be a good physician""
"does a physician deserve to earn money?"
"How seriously would you consider coming to Georgetown?"
"--"
"Most questions I had already heard before; nothing far out there."
"What would you do if you had given a patient a higher dosage of medication than was needed, but there were no adverse reactions."
"Do you exercise regularly"
"what if you had a child patient whose parents refused to vaccinate them? "
"Follow-up questions to patient experiences I mentioned in my AMCAS. i.e. What happened to Mrs. H? "
"What's on your iPod right now?"
"Do you like philly-cheese steak sandwiches?"
"What is your favorite piece by Bach?"
"my interviewer made me do some rollplaying in which he pretended to be a patient. "
"With your father being a physician how has this effected your view of medicine?"
"What do you think needs to be changed about medicine today?"
"Questions relating to my family"
"In today's state of medicine, who is most responsible for the insurance and care of patients -- physicians, the government, or patient's themselves?"
"Nothing"
"Tell me about Renaissance Self-Fashioning (the subject of my English thesis)"
"Tell me about your favorite clinical experience."
"If I had a sprained ankle, would I go to a nice shiny HMO's doctors office or the good old doctor down the street and why? What are the advantages and disadvantages of both?"
"hypothetical situation: if you were a physician and your patient's condition worsened, then you realize you prescribed the wrong meds, what do you do? it was a little odd because she asked what i would write in the chart after i told her how i would approach the patient..."
"Name five characteristics a doctor should have."
"What turns you off about medicine?"
"Why wouldn't someone like you?"
"Because of your volunteer work, what do you now think about your own humanity?"
"What is the nickname of your undergraduate university?"
"Specific questions about my personal statment."
"Tell me about yourself..."
"Would I be able to handle the emotional stain of the area of medicine I want to practice(peds oncology)?"
"If you were going to see a doctor, what kind of doctor would you want to see?"
"Nothing all that interesting/out of the ordinary. Maybe what I thought about stem cell research."
"Nothing too out of the ordinary. Interviewer asked why I wound up where I am for this year. "
"What do you think about affirmative action?"
"What did not impress you about Georgetown so far today?"
"What sort of psych. pathologies did you observe while working with children at the YMCA After-School Program."
"If you were a member of the class next year, how would you be described by your classmates and professors?"
"Why did you take a year off? What do you do for fun?"
"Question about end-of-life decisions. As a physician, would I allow a patient to do something (i.e., stop a medication) that might slightly hasten his/her already iminent death?"
"What are the most pressing issues in women's health today?"
"what are the two major issues in healthcare today?"
"How would you propose to resolve the issue of uninsured Americans?"
"Speak about empathy and your life/work experiences. Do you think those will help make you a better doctor? How?"
"Why _______? (my major)"
"Pretend I'm [the interviewer] the patient and you are the doctor. How would you give me bad news? "
"The interview was mostly conversational and the interviewer told me a lot about the school and her teaching style."
"Nothing really out of the ordinary - my interviewer and I had a really great dialogue going - I interviewed with an MS4 - she was bright, articulate and fun!"
"What do you like to do for fun? --Nothing hard or tricky, just trying to get to know me"
"My view on genetic engineering"
"What do you want your legacy in medicine to be?"
"Do you think that your generation views medicine as just another job rather than a career?"
"See below (difficult question)"
"There weren't any interesting questions asked. See below"
"Have I asked you any questions you weren't expecting?"
"the usual"
"The interview was more like a conversation that took shape as we talked about my goals and interests."
"Sell me this pen (he stated that as a resident who is often rushed sometimes patients refuse treatments and therefore you have to "sell" the treatment.)"
"What was the last book I read."
"What is your favorite historical non-fiction book?"
"What will you find the most interesting about medicine in 10 years? What will you like the least about medicine in 10 years?"
"I see you go to _____ school. Do you go to [rival school]? This was asked very seriously--it was weird. Of course, I go to the school on my transcript?!?"
"None of his questions were interesting"
"not much. it was a boring interview"
"What are some of the problems facing healthcare today?"
"You waitressed? Why didn't you write that on your AMCAS? That's important because it shows you have people skills, said my interviewer."
"What did your personal experiences teach you about the characteristics of a good physician?"
"International Health Problems that could be solved better"
"Nothing out of the ordinary."
"Tell me about a patient from your volunteer experience who stands out in your mind."
"how were the skills you learned in research directly applicable to being a doctor"
"Nothing terribly interesting. Maybe "So what do you think about malpractice?""
"While studying abroad, did you travel to Eastern Europe at all?"
"What are some problems in healthcare that we will have to deal with in the next twenty years?"
"What kind of music do you listen to?"
"NOthing really. Since it was a closed file interview, he asked questions to get to know me as a person. "
"As a patient would I rather go to a doctor with a reputation for getting results or a doctor with a reputation of being compassionate?"
"None. My interviewer was a very old member of the faculty and he seemed bored to be there. From the get-go, he was looking at the clock and asked me only very general, rote questions like, "What book are you reading now?" "Oh, well what about the last book you read?" Georgette in the admissions office told me before my interview that my interviewer was big into football. I suppose that would have been good for me if I could have given a damn about the sport."
"None were interesting"
"hardly an interesting question, more odd than anything. but she asked "So, you love your grandmother?" which was such an odd way to bring up a conversation about what i thought would be important qualities in a doctor, what type of doctor i would want for my loved ones. "
"What would you change about the US health care system?"
"how is your relationship with your family?"
"What type of Korean food do you like the best?"
"After answering a couple medical ethics questions, a follow-up question that is more dynamic was...How would you go about researching ethical values?"
"What do you think could be improved about the current healthcare system in the U.S.?"
"If you misdiagnosed a patient and later discovered your mistake, what would you do?"
"If you were a kitchen appliance, which one would you be?"
"What brought you to Georgetown?"
"ethical scenario ... if your handwriting was so bad and the wrong prescription was prescribed to a patient, what would you do? how would you feel if you were the patient?"
"What do you think about the current state of health care in the united states? "
"Do I know how to smoke a cigar? He is the sponsor of the cigar club."
"nothing really"
"Tell me about your family."
"Nothing abnormal"
"If I were to walk into a bar in Pittsburgh and sit down next to your worst enemy, someone who totally hates you, what would they say to me and why?"
"Nothing terrible intersting. Standard, "tell me about yourself" type stuff."
"I wasn't really asked any questions. We just discussed why ethhics were important"
""If you were a kitchen appliance, what kind would you be?" (Yup, they seriously asked that)"
"The last movie or book I read My hobbies"
"how do you handle stressful situations?"
"You are the best surgeon in the world and you are reasonably sure you can give a Jehovah's witness a surgery without a blood transfusion. Do you give him the surgery? Then....The kid needs a blood transfusion after all but the parents adamently refuse a blood transfusion, do you give it anyways knowing it is against their faith?"
"What do you think about the 80 hour per week restriction for residents?"
"A long scenario regarding a patient and accidently prescribing the patient the wrong medicine, and what would/should one say to the patient about the mistake."
"What is the biggest problem in health care and how would you fix it?"
"All right, you have a magic wand. With one wave you can change one thing about the medical system. What do you change and why?"
"Patient confidentiality questions"
"Why would you want to be a doctor at a time like this?"
"they asked me how my educational experiences at oxford would enhance my capabilites as a physician."
"Tell me about your parents."
"Why would you consider entering a field so corrupt at this time?"
"Tell me about some of your weaknesses."
"Ethical question: what would I do if I saw another medical student cheating on an exam. Not to difficult, but I think my answer revealed important information to the interviewer."
"Where do you see yourself in 15 years?"
"Tell me about your interest in basketball."
"What is Georgetown's greatest weakness?"
"How do you think your time off benefited you?"
"Where were you on Sept. 11?"
"Since your family wasn't involved in health care, how in the world do you know you'll like it, or that you'll be able to balance your family life with the struggles and challenges of being a physician?"
"What do you feel has been your greatest personal achievement outside of your professional and academic life?"
"The questions were all pretty standard... Why do you want to be a doctor? What qualities do you have that will make you a good doctor? Etc."
"What do you do for fun?"
"In the introduction, we were all asked what movie character we'd like to be"
"What movies do you like?"
"what is something that your best friends don't even know about you"
"What books are you currently reading?"
"what five reasons would you suggest to premeds NOT to go to med school/into medicine."
"None Really. The questions were pretty generic"
"N/A"
"i didn't really have an most interesting question, but some ethics questions were: "would you give a blood transfusion to a jehovah's witness who told you not to, but gave permission for surgery, and then you found yourself in surgery and the patient needed a transfusion to survive?" "where do you draw the line between euthanasia and letting someone die peacefully--i.e.--would you take a feeding tube away from someone in a persistant vegetative state if the family wanted it?""
"What were the factors that led you into a career in medicine?"
"Do you plan to have a family and how does that figure into your career?"
"I was asked a lot of interesting questions... Basically, why I took this class, or why I did this activity, etc..."
"If you had a broken leg right now, how do you think the care you received would be the same or different in a managed care setting versus medical delivery of yesteryear?"
"Tell me about your undergraduate institution, I don't know much about it."
"What do you think of the current AIDS crisis in Africa?"
"How would you deal with making a mistake?"
"Interviewer: "The students asked me to make sure to ask this question in the interview. 'Make sure you ask ___ of the interviewee,' they said. So, I'm asking you. What's the '___' they wanted me to ask? If you guess it right, you only have to answer this question. If you guess wrong, you have to answer your own question AND answer the correct question.""
"I was given an ethical situation and asked what I would do. "
"Everything was straight forward"
"What do you think about rising health care costs coming from people who constantly go to the doctor but have nothing wrong with them?"
"What is the biggest challenge that physicians face today? What do you think about the current health care system? "
"All pretty straightforward questions and the faculty interviewer seemed genuinely interested."
"It was a few days ago and I've had another interview since then, so I've forgotten the details about specific questions. There was the usual, why georgetown, why medicine, and there was nothing strange or difficult."
"What do you do to release stress?"
"Nothing stood out as interesting questions. Pretty Standard questions."
"none"
"What is the most pressing problem facing health care today"
"Nothing- my interviewer was completely unprepared. She pretty much wanted me to just explain my interest in medicine, etc."
"Each generation of physicians can be characterized by a health problem they choose to focus on. My generation focused on finding a cure for AIDS. What will your generation work on?"
"Biggest problem facing U.S. healthcare and biggest healthcare problem facing D.C."
"How have you exhibited cura personalis in your healthcare experiences?"
"How will you contribute to the diversity on campus?"
"What do you think is the biggest problem in healthcare at the moment?"
"What do you think are a physician's professional responsibilities?"
"How would your friends describe you?"
"Strengths and WEAKNESSES of the Georgetown program."
"Why should I recommend you to the admissions committee?"
"What is the biggest ethical dilemma you've faced"
"None, it was all very easy going"
"What do you hope to accomplish between matriculation and graduation as a physician"
"No question was difficult. It was very conversational."
"Which international health care system is the best/should we adopt?"
"The interviewer challenged the work I had done with a NGO in Kenya as being "really easy" in that it is easy to help people in developing countries. Another statement from the interview, not a question."
"Why go into medicine when it's a changing/difficult field right now?"
"What else should I tell the AdCom?"
"My interviewer pushed on why Georgetown and the area specifically. Georgetown likes to waitlist applicants, so I think having a good answer to this one is key."
"What does cura personalis mean to you?"
"Why not your state school?"
"I talked about how one specific physician I interacted with during college embodied cura personalis and she asked if there were others who did too. I have to scramble to remember all the MDs I have worked with but it wasn't that bad."
"He didn't seem to like my why medicine answer because I couldn't name one single day where I changed from not wanting to be a doctor, to being a doctor. I didn't have an AHA! moment, is that such a big problem?"
"What do you see as the biggest problem with the health care system in the United States? (This question wasn't particularly difficult; you should be prepared to answer such a question at ANY medical school interview)."
"If you had given a patient the wrong prescription and they had complications from it, what would you do?"
"None of the questions were particularly difficult to answer."
"Why haven't you done more volunteer work in the past six months? Because I am finishing an undergraduate degree, applying to medical school and being a D1 athlete..."
"How do you deal with conflict?"
"What experiences have you had working with underserved populations?"
"We started talking about ethical situations. and, my interviewer asked me to describe what my thought process would be when faced with an ethical dilemma"
"A patient has leukemia, and the family asks you not to tell him. What do you do when he asks you what is wrong with him?"
"If you could go back and improve one area of your application, what would it be and why?"
"Name a time when you were faced with a challenge and failed"
"What are some of the responsibilities of a physician?"
"What should I write about you in the write-up?"
"What was difficult was trying to make a friendly connection with the interviewer. He didn't seem to want to be there."
"What do you think about the healthcare system? What are your specific suggestions?"
"What are some of the problems in our health care in this country? What parts of the proposed reform are good ideas/bad ideas?"
"What do you foresee to be a problem facing the medical field and physicians when you practice?"
"Nothing really..."
"What specifically did the doctors you shadowed do which increased your interest in medicine? (I sort of interpreted it as "what are the qualities a physician should have?" and answered accordingly, although I'm not sure that's exactly what he was looking for..."
"How can I make my grandson like science?"
"Biggest weakness?"
"If you could fix one thing about healthcare that would help those that are underserved, what would it be?"
"Why do you want to be a physician instead of a musician?"
"What is the single most important characteristic for a doctor to have?"
"All of them, my interviewer barely spoke English so I couldn't understand."
"If never shadowed in VA system, how do I know universal health care will be a better system?"
""I can see you have have a lot to offer Georgetown, but what exactly do you think we have to offer you?""
"Why do you think you need XYZ?"
"The sixth time he asked what differences I noticed between schools."
"Nothing that realy caught me off guard."
"fixing teenage pregnancy"
"Convince me you want this. Leave me with one thing to take back to the admissions office. "
"challenges"
"none were really"
"How would you fix the healthcare mess?"
"Nothing too difficult at all... I guess why Georgetown"
"No really hard questions. All good questions though"
"Role-play pretending you are in a situation where you made a medical error but caught it before any harm could be done."
"My interviewer wanted me to ask him a match everyone of his questions with one of my own"
"Nothing too difficult."
"What does being a professional mean to you?"
"How to fix the problem of how many uninsured americans there are"
"What is wrong with healthcare today?"
"Have you ever been in a situation where you had to make an ethical decision?"
"How will you adjust to the east coast?"
"How would you deliver bad news to patients and their family members?"
"What do you do in your spare time? (HA! Chalk that one up to blanking out...and forgeting what spare time feels like)"
"What is the biggest problem facing health care today?"
"Why go in to medicine with all of the problems there are today?"
"latest book you read"
"what's your biggest fear about practicing"
"None, mostly just chatted, very relaxed interview."
"What can you contribute to the field of medicine? to your patients? to your colleagues?"
"None too difficult. "
"ethical question about medical error"
"What is my proudest moment and what is your greatest weakness?"
"ethical ones regarding real-life situations where culture clashed with modern medicine"
"What questions do you have about Georgetown? (I really had no question after extensive presentations given by admission staffs)"
"Medicine and public health are so different- why are you interested in both?"
"What do you expect from Georgetown with your 250 thousand dollar investment from a contract perspective?"
"What are some ethical issues that you see facing MD's in the future"
"What was your proudest moment? "
"There were very straightforward"
"None of the questions were particularly difficult."
"nothing"
"Why did you do so many community service activities at college? "
"what do you think would make you a good physician?"
"Tell me about managed care"
"questions involving ethical scenarios"
"Why Georgetown?"
"To post my name. Koontz"
"What unique advantages do you believe Georgetown can offer you?"
"What's the biggest problem you see the medical field facing when you enter your practice?"
"questions about my mcat score and whether i thought i should have retaken - sounds like a standard question, but this guy clearly knew nothing about the mcat or how it is scored so that made any explanation very difficult(and this person's on the admissions committee!???)"
"--"
"Nothing really too difficult; I was asked "What clinical experience do you have?" and I only had some volunteer experience two years ago, so that was a little difficult."
"If you had a very strange disease, and no one knew what is was, which doctor would you choose to go to: a docter who is top in his field, but has little time to spend with you; or a doctor who is not top-notch but a good doctor and has time for his patients?"
"So, why aren't you going into public policy instead of medicine?"
"How can the nationwide problem of uninsured people be fixed?"
"how would you answer someone who would say that testing and killing mice is unethical? "
"Describe a disappointing time in your life. "
"how do you propose to change that healthcare problem you named?"
"What is a current pressing issue about medical care in the United States?"
"How can doctors avoid providing the kind of poor care that you described above?"
"Nothing seemed particularly difficult"
"How can you show that you have the responsibility and trustworthiness that it takes to be a physician?"
"What is your opinion of physician assisted suicide?"
"What do you think are the major problems with the US Health Care system? "
"Why Georgetown? (This was only hard because I LOVED THE SCHOOL, there were so many things I wanted to say, but not sound like I was faking it.)"
"Discuss advantages and disadvatages of our health care system compared to that of Britian and canada."
"How do you feel about terminating care?"
"What 3 things about you will make you a great doctor? What 3 things about you will you need to improve to become a great doctor?"
"What do you not like about the field of medicine?"
"Nothing, it was very nice and conversational."
"How to fix US health care system?"
"All the questions were fair!"
"Again, nothing bad. The interview was mostly conversational. "
"None, they were fair and it was more like a conversation."
"How do you propose fixing the problem of not having enough time to talk to patients?"
"N.A."
"How do you see healthcare in 10 years and how would you propose fixing the problems."
"There basically no taxing questions - the above question was probably the most difficult."
"What are the most pressing issues in women's health today?"
"What do you think are some of the important issues or problems in healthcare today and what can be done about them?"
"How does that major fit in with your plans to go into medicine"
"no difficult questions"
"What is the biggest problem facing healthcare today, and how would you fix it?"
"What are the greatest problems facing healthcare and what would you do to fix them?"
"Why should Georgetown want you?"
"My view on euthanasia"
"What compromises do you think you would have to make to come to a school like Georgetown?"
"Imagine that you are a doctor and you have to give me bad news. Explain how you would go about doing that."
"When in your life did you feel most stressed"
"None really. Pretty standard. No ethical questions or state-of-healthcare questions at all."
"What is the biggest problem in medicine AND do NOT say insurance! "
"Describe some problems you see in health care and how to fix them."
"what do you think are the issues facing medicine today?"
"Why would you want to leave sunny San Diego to come to school out on the East Coast?"
"Do you think you have a realistic and accurate impression of what the medical profession would be like?"
"What can you contribute to the Georgetown community"
""what do you think is the cause of health disparities among groups of people?'"
"How do you explain your Freshman GPA?"
"Tell me about your family (I've got a majorly dysfunctional family). "
"How would you solve the problem of America's uninsured?"
"To describe the negative aspects of Gtown"
"No difficult questions. Very open-ended, allowing me to frame my answers in any way I wanted."
"How would you fix the healthcare problem."
"how were the skills you learned in research directly applicable to being a doctor"
"If you were accepted to every school that you applied to, which one would you go to?"
"How did you like the other school you have already interviewed at? "
"None, really"
"Why should we accept you? "
"What will be the biggest problem facing physicians in the future."
"What quality do I possess that would make me a good physician?"
""Where is your college?" I go to a very good school, though it is small. Still, it was an awkward question because it made it clear to me that he didn't know a thing about my school."
"I"
"same as above"
"honestly nothing difficult, my interviewer really just wanted to know more about me."
"Do you think having the primary care physician as the "gatekeeper" in the healthcare system is a good or bad idea? Explain your answer."
"Why not a PhD or and MD/PHD? (I have extensive research experience)"
"If you had to choose between your undergraduate school's med school or your state school, which would you choose?"
"What events inspired you to study medicine?"
"How are you different from your best friend and how does this explain why you want to go to med school and she wants to go to law school?"
"What would you do to fix the problems in our current system (HMOs, lack of health care, etc)?"
"About the Canadian Health care system. I was well informed but don't feel it would work well here. He was from Canada and really liked the system. opps"
"What is it about Georgetown that makes me want to go there for medical school?"
"None of the questions were difficult, though my interviewer was big on "scenarios" which made the questions seem off the wall when they were just the standard ones."
"List five characteristics that make a good doctor."
""Do you have any questions?""
"I was presented with an ethical situatuion, and it went something like this: you are a 3rd year med studenta nd are asked by the attending to inform a patient that she has colon cancer. How do you break the news? "
"What are the certain expectations of doctors"
"n/a"
"No curve balls, nothing hard"
"Same, just because it was an obvious test of character, not just a typical interview question, so it felt more intense."
"What is your opinion about stem cell research (in detail)?"
"I guess same. Everything else was pretty straightforward and biographical."
"Nothing difficult."
"standard questions."
"They really wanted to know why I was interested in G-town and that I was seriously considering the school, not that it was #8 on my list."
"Describe a failure you have faced."
"Tell me about some of our weaknesses."
"Do you think you have enough clinical exposure to know what you're getting into?"
"What is the biggest problem facing healthcare today?"
"nothing too difficult"
"What is your greatest weakness?"
"Why did you pick your major?"
"see above"
"How are the medical schools where you've interviewed different from Georgetown? (didn't require specifying where else I interviewed)"
"nothing difficult"
"No particular question was difficult. The interviewer kind of threw me off because he would ask me a question and then interrupt me halfway through my answer every time. I don't know if he was trying to test me or what??"
"Nada"
"A bunch of ethical type questions"
"None."
"nothing too difficult a few that really made me think for a bit"
"What is the most important issue facing the health care industry today?"
"none really. "
"Explain your thoughts on our current healthcare system."
"eventhough it was a closed file interview, my interviewer didn't ask me any challenging questions. He asked about my volunteer experience, how I chose to become a doctor, etc."
"what is an ethical dilemma i have seen personally where i work (in the emergency room)?"
"Why did you choose to pursue medicine instead of continuing on with psychology, (my undergrad major)?"
"none"
"(I began by explaining my belief in the necessity of Universal Healthcare) Who makes the decision about who receives a transplant and who doesn't? Suppose you had a 40-year old alcoholic who needed a liver transplant? Wouldn't he just waste another liver?"
"read above"
"What do you think of managed care?"
"Suppose you have a patient with bacterial meningitis that can only be treated with penicillin. If you don't treat him within the next 12 hours, he will die. But you call his parents and they say that you can treat him as long as you don't give him penicillin because he is severely allergic. What do you do?"
"How do you feel that a doctor has a different obligaiton to his clients than say a lawyer or an accountant does or something to that effect"
"if you were asked to give a presentation to premeds to persuade them to NOT go to medical school, what would be the 5 most important factors you would talk about. then, given those 5 factors, why did YOU decide to go to med school?"
"What does going to a Jesuit school mean to you? "
"See above."
"general ethics"
"Hypothetical ethical question about what I would do if I made a mistake in treating a patient."
"nothing really"
"same"
"Questions were conversational, but since she was visibly irritated that I was there (she mentioned that she forgot I was coming and was already very busy), the entire thing was difficult because she cut me off a lot, took calls, was working on her computer, etc.. "
"You've worked on a lot of research projects on the past. Georgetown's medical school curriculum is very focused on developing clinical skills. How will you reconcile your two interests?"
"Researched the school, did mock interview with friends and PI, sdn interview feedback surveys"
"Read SDN, mock interviews, recorded myself"
"Familiarize myself with the curriculum and my own application, read SDN."
"Looking at prior interview responses on SDN + Reddit, consulting with friends in the Georgetown SMP program + friends in medical school."
"Review application, practice my responses, relax."
"SDN, practicing common questions out loud"
"Sdn resources and I used other books to help me prepare"
"Reviewed my app , SDN and the website"
"Sdn questions, mock interview w my friend, read my secondary file"
"SDN and the website"
"Reviewed my application, did practice questions"
"Mock interviews with friends and advisors."
"SDN, GU website"
"Talked to friends at the school"
"Mock interviews, review app, SDN"
"SDN interview feedback, school's website, MSAR"
"Read up on the Georgetown website, read SDN and the interview feedback page, talked to someone who interviewed at Georgetown in the past and a physician I know who did his residency there"
"Website and SDN"
"Did not prepare much, jotted down some notes on how I would answer basic questions"
"I reread my application and secondary, and practiced some general answers to why medicine and why Georgetown beforehand."
"Studied these questions"
"Read about Georgetown online"
"SDN interview feedback. Researching the school. Reviewing my primary/secondary etc..."
"SDN and their website. Honestly, going in I thought I was underprepared but I think I did fine."
"Read questions on SDN and reviewed my AMCAS and secondary application materials."
"Went over the website, read interview feedback on SDN, did mock interviews, read through my application the night before"
"I re-read my secondary, looked over the application brochure, examined the website, and read random interview questions I have compiled."
"Read the interview feedback, reread my essays."
"Read over my person statement and essays. Went over their website"
"Mock, SDN, school's website."
"SDN Feedback, starbucks sessions."
"Sdn, school website, looked over my Why GU secondary again..."
"I wrote and tried to memorize everything about myself. Totally unnecessary! Remember what you like about the school, but everything else should come pretty naturally."
"Read through primary and secondary multiple times, researched a little on ethics and healthcare reform, researched the georgetown website, talked with older friends already in med school about the interview process, looked up practice questions, looked on SDN"
"Thought of all possible questions and answers. SDN"
"Read over ACMAS and secondary applications. Studied up on healthcare reform and ethical dilemmas. Read through Georgetown's website."
"SDN, Georgetown's website"
"read sdn, learned about georgetown, read about cura personalis"
"School website, SDN, general interview prep questions"
"SDN feedback, website"
"List of potential questions, intensive research about the school's program."
"Read over AMCAS and secondary, practiced in front of a mirror, SDN"
"There are apparently three questions the interviewee will be asked to answer: Why Georgetown, Why medicine, and What's going on with HC Reform. The rest is verification of your file."
"Read SDN interview feedback. Re-read my AMCAS essay, secondary essay, school website."
"Reviewed the facts of the HC Crisis and made sure I could articulate my opinions clearly."
"SDN. Otherwise, just winging it."
"SDN, re-reading primary and secondary application, interview prep books, school website"
"SDN, reread my primary and secondary"
"SDN, school website, reviewed AMCAS application and Georgetown essay, made a list of possible questions and practiced answering them, researched health care reform a LOT, prayed"
"Read through my application and about Georgetown's program."
"SDN, list of questions, short mock interview. "
"SDN, wrote down a bunch of possible questions and thought of answers to them. Read my gtown essay and my personal statement."
"SDN, school website, etc"
"SDN, my application, reading USA Today, analyzing myself (my strengths and weaknesses, etc.)"
"SDN interview feedback, reviewed application materials."
"SDN, thought about my life, practiced answering questions"
"I reviewed my primary and all my secondary applications, reviewed the SDN interview feedback for GUSOM, and practiced my responses to expected questions."
"I read what I thought was great materials about the school, their philosophy, etc."
"SDN, website, MSAR"
"Read website, studentdoctor.net, and answered questions to huge packet of interview questions from my pre-health office."
"SDN, Georgetown prospectus, read my application"
"Good nights sleep"
"reread website "
"SDN, school's website, meditation"
"SDN, read, mock interview, primary/secondary app, website"
"read"
"Talked to alumni, Mrs. Sullivan's speech, thorough research of website"
"Read SDN, ethics book, read my primary/secondary"
"discussed main points with my fiance"
"Read over secondary essay and school's website."
"other med school interviews, read a book on medical ethics, a book on healthcare, and read stuff about GUSOM online"
"read AMCAS, studentdoctor, and Georgetown website..."
"read bioethics, health politics,etc..."
"sdn, read website"
"read school's website and my secondary"
"Sleep"
"SDN feedback, Georgetown website, reading over my apps"
"SDN, Georgetown's web site. Listened to Mrs Sullivan's speech (this might have been enough even if I did nothing else)"
"thought about previous interviews"
"SDN, read my essays, various interview tips online, mock interview"
"Read over my secondary app essay. Looked over interview feedback on SDN."
"read AMCAS & secondary essay, SDN, mock interview"
"Georgetown website, SDN interview feedback, reading my secondary, my amcas"
"AMCAS, secondary, sdn"
"Read about Georgetown."
"Read SDN, extensive ethical research (not needed), health policy research (not needed), Why Georgetown?"
"Read up on the school's teaching philosophy and my own essays. Mock interviews. "
"School website, interview feedback"
"sdn, georgetown website, reviewed amacas application & secondaries"
"look over Gtown website; read interview feedback"
"web, sdn, msar"
"Exercised the night before and morning of."
"Read school website, SDN feedback."
"read over app"
"Read over applications, research on healthcare and current issues. "
"sdn feedback"
"SDN, reread essay, reread AMCAS application, looked up info on cura personalis (Georgetown's motto)"
"looked at sdn, went over potential questions and answers"
"SDN, other interviews, talked to an M4 I know"
"SDN, mock interview, etc"
"Went over my AMCAS, secondary app, and researched the school."
"website, SDN"
"Georgetown website, literature, other interviews."
"Talked out possible questions with friedns, SDN, AMCAS, secondary"
"Read interview feedback, looked over school's website, reviewed my secondary application and AMCAS."
"read over SDN interview feedback, my application, GT website"
"SDN, schools website, re-read secondary"
"Read AMCAS, CV, this website, school website, talked to students"
"Re-read my AMCAS and Georgetown applications, searched through the school's website, and browsed the SDN interview feedback."
"didn't"
"SDnet, read personal statement, secondary essay."
"Read app, SDN, website, spoke to current students"
"Read Newsweek, school website"
"read my essays"
"sdn, amcas, supplement"
"SDN"
"Read SDN, personal statement, GTown Secondary, talked to a 2nd med student there"
"Reviewed application, SDN feedback"
"SDN, georgetown website, reread my application"
"SDN, school website, personal info"
"SND, read secondary, went to school's web site"
"made sure i knew my application well, kept up on current issues (which was good, because some recent topics were brought up by mrs. sullivan and i felt like i was the only person in the group who ever bothered to pick up a newspaper)"
"SDN, read secondary application, Georgetown website."
"--"
"Georgetown website; the school's mission statement and objectives; a little bit of SDN; review AMCAS and secondary application essays."
"took notes during the morning presentations and used them in my interview"
"SDN, school site, reread amcas, "
"SDN, georgetown website, read over app"
"I read reviews here, read my AMCAS app, read my secondary app/essay"
"read last issue of georgetown medicine magazine, SDN, gu website, mock interview, reviewed app and research data"
"Georgetown website, AMCAS "
"Gtown website, my app stuff"
"Read over essay and AMCAS app."
"Read over primary, secondary, SDN, watched the news, mock interviews"
"nothing really...it was my 4th and i'm a gtown undergrad"
"read the GT website"
"SDN, mock interview, read pro's and con's of current ethical debates, reviewed current health care issues, reviewed AMCAS and secondary, completely went over school website"
"Read over essays, background about the school, walked around the campus."
"SDN, Georgetown website, talked to students "
"SDN, articles on web regarding health care politics, Georgetown website"
"re-read applications, georgetown.edu, cnnhealth.com"
"MSAR, Georgetown website, practice interview"
"SDN Website. Read over my AMCAS. Reviewed research. "
"SDN, read "Blind Assassin" by Margaret Atwood"
"read over my application essays."
"SDN, school website"
"sdn, looked over georgetown website, healthpolitics.com"
"Read application, SDN"
"Read over SDN, went over my AMCAS & secondary."
"Read SDN interview feedback, went through Georgetown's website, and reviewed my secondary essay."
"Georgetown web page, SDN"
"SDN, read about issues on the internet, talked with Doctors and RNs."
"SDN, MSAR, Georgetown website"
"Read over my application and the schools website"
"Read over application and PS, visited GT website"
"Read website, reviewed my AMCAS app and secondary."
"Reread secondary app, looked at SDN, Georgetown website"
"Read SDN, reading the paper, my application, etc. "
"Read the Georgetown medical school website and also some information about the greater university as well. "
"Read Gtown Med School and Hospital Websites, SDN, ethical debates, and healthcare resources"
"Website, updated myself on current health issues, mock interviews"
"Read up on school's philosophy. Not much else aside from reading feedback here."
"school's website, read over my AMCAS essay, SDN, CNN Health to update myself on current issues"
"read up on the school's unique characteristics and saw what others said on studentdoctor.net"
"SDN, WU ethics site, current events, etc. I think practice interviews are the most important and useful means of preparation."
"Read over SDN, read info on Georgetown (MSAR, website, etc.), read over practice questions in my undergrad pre-health handbook, reviewed course descriptions, etc."
"sdn feedback, amcas"
"Read over SDN, checked over the Georgetown website."
"read my essays, looked at SDN, read articles on healthcare"
"Relax and be yourself."
"Read SDN, read over internet material, read PS and secondary, spoke with friends who are MS4s"
"Read this website, bioethical questions on focus on the family's website"
"This websight, my AMCAS app."
"SDN, read over application, school web site"
"read website, reviewed my application"
"GU website, this site, AMCAS, secondary"
"Re-read my statement from the secondary."
"read SDN, AMCAS app, secondary"
"Reread AMCAS, brushed up on current health care events, read SDN"
"AMCAS, secondary, SDN, read over GT's mission and thoroughly explored GT's website, health policy books and articles"
"SDN, school's website"
"talked with current students, SDN interview, read file, read GU website, read GU first year guide"
"Read my file, school's website, SDN"
"SDN, school's website, read over my application material"
"Read over SDN, secondary, AMCAS and health policy papers"
"SDN, GT website, read my app"
"Talked with friends that attend, read online materials, SDN"
"Application and Website"
"website, etc"
"interview feedback+GT feedback"
"Spoke to Alumni, Website, Examined issues facing healthcare, reviewed my application,"
"Talked to student host, website, read over my application."
"SDN, brochures, practice questions"
"AMCAS, SDN, Website, Secondary App"
"reading SDN, reviewing my app, reading the MSAR description of the school, g'town's website."
"Read website, talked to current student."
"read sdn, georgetown website, personal statement"
"Reviewed application, research and read a lot of health care articles."
"talked extensively with a friend who is a GT-1, read the material, attended a recruiting session at my undergraduate university, went out on the town the night before"
"Read Georgetown's website, ethics websites, good night's sleep!"
"SDN, talked to people who had gone before, read up on healthcare stuff, read GU website"
"Looked at website, SDN, read up on healthcare stuff"
"Looked over app. Learned about managed healthcare and healthcare problems."
"SDN, read school website"
"Looked over my application, reviewed the health care problem"
"read interview feedback, researched some problems with HMOs, managed care, and Medicare/Medicaid"
"university of washington ethics page, sdn, went over my secondary app"
"SDN, school website, Kaplan resources, mock interviews, read up on healthcare, other various websites and books on interviewing."
"SDN, School websight, reflect on previous interviews"
"read Georgetown webside, SDN, practiced answers to questions"
"Past interviews and read over primary and secondary apps, SDN, and school website"
"Georgetown is one of a kind. Familiarize yourself a bit with those unique aspects -- curriciulum and philosophy."
"Read SDN, Georgetown's website, talked to a Georgetown med student, read about managed care"
"Read Georgetown website and materials, talked to former grads, read SDN."
"Looked at GU website, sdn, went over applications. "
"this website, my application, listening to what the presenters had to say"
"reviewed my AMCAS and secondary application"
"SDN, Georgetown website"
"web site, SDN"
"Browsed the website, read up in the journals. Interview took place during the Terri Shiavo trial so I spent extra time boning up on patients rights and advanced directive stuff."
"SDN, website, stayed with a 2nd year GU student"
"this site, Gtown website, re-read application"
"read about the school - they want to know if you want to go there and if you know about what they offer"
"SDN, web, AMCAS"
"SDN, read over website"
"SDN, looked over AMCAS essay, looked over secondary, printed out relevant info off Gtown's website"
"SDN, Georgetown website, personal essays etc."
"This site, Georgetown's site"
"Reread AMCAS/GT secondary, checked out SDN."
"SDN, school website, reviewed app"
"New York Times, SDN, reading about insurance issues and things online."
"sdn, msar, amcas"
"Mock interview, this site, reviewed my AMCAS"
"SDN, communication with friend who is an undergrad there, webpage"
"School website, SDN, reviewed AMCAS."
"Read the online prospectus. Reviewed my research and my application. Told myself over and over again to avoid babbling."
"SDN, G-Town Website"
"SDN, school website, refamiliarizing myself with Jesuit traditions"
"Website."
"SDN. AMCAS Application. Preped for ethical questions and such. "
"this website, school's website"
"read SDN, re read my application, etc. Read up on G-town's programs."
"Familiarized myself with the GUSOM website, reviewed my essays, reviewed SDN, and thought about potential questions I might be asked while waiting for my flight out to DC"
"I did not prepare"
"Read SDN, looked at the school's website."
"Read SDN, Looked on the Georgetown website, read my primary and secondary applications, read about current healthcare issues, RELAXED!!"
"GU website, other people who interviewed at GU, and my student-host."
"Looked over Gtown's site, this site, my application, resume, and read up on current events"
"Read this website, Georgetown's website and looked over my app"
"SDN, Georgetown website."
"review app, read up on school, pay attention to the talks before the interview"
"Re-read my application, read the G'town website, read interview feedbacks"
"read the website, and this website"
"Looked over my application, went through lists of questions, etc."
"read over my application and research, read "Becoming a Physician" by Danek."
"looked at this website, looked at the school's website, read up on current events, etc."
"reading books about interviewing, practicing with family, researching school and health care websites"
"read website, this site, amcas"
"I talked with a good friend of mine who interviews people for his company."
"sdn, feedback, website, talked to friends who go there"
"Read secondary, read AMCAS, school's website"
"Read my secondary, looked at their brochure."
"Interview feedback, healthcare stuff, website"
"SDN interview feedback, website, and listened intently during the presentations (prior to interview)."
"Read the website."
"Interview feedback, sdn, website, looked over my application"
"Read the website, talked to med students."
"Read about Georgetown, read about the health care system, read about ethics."
"No preparation, just add lib."
"the five interviews before this one."
"other interviews"
"Checked website, reviewed list of commonly asked questions"
"read the site, read the website, listened to Ms. Sullivan "
"thought about medical stuff"
"Read Georgetown's website, MSAR, looked over my application, current events, etc."
"Read their website, reviewed my AMCAS and other material"
"reviewed the schoool's website"
"The interviewer was very relaxed and focused on having a genuine conversation"
"Georgetown's commitment to supporting their students"
"The interviewer was an MS4 and was very friendly and conversational."
"I liked that they split the info day and interview day into two separate days because it made the experience less exhausting/overwhelming!"
"My interviewer was a complete chiller (they were a 4th year medical student.) From thr get-go, it was clear they were more big-pictutr oriented than run-thru-the-checklist natured, and that led to some great discussion."
"Medical student panel was encouraging about the collaborative environment."
"The way my interviewer described the student population was so positive. Definitely sold me on the school."
"Really nice facilities and a great lunch"
"Clinical opportunities and general Georgetown neighborhood were excellent."
"New curriculum seems really promising"
"I really just liked the students and the atmosphere. DC is absolutely beautiful as well"
"The campus and student body"
"Everyone I met seemed to be really happy with the school, but they did say it was hard"
"The school spirit and how much they care for the students."
"How friendly the interviewer was and the lunch."
"The tangibles - research funding, opportunities for mentorship, residency match"
"The tour and how passionate people were about the school. Really seem invested in their students"
"The location in Georgetown could not be any better, in my opinion. The students and faculty I met were all wonderful. The meal in the faculty dining room was incredible -- easily the best meal I've seen at any school. Enjoy it."
"The campus was beautiful and all of the students were super friendly/chill"
"EVERYTHING. Fantastic opportunities for service locally and international, research, public health and policy integrated into the curriculum, opportunities to learn about policy and advocacy."
"Flexibility in curriculum, match list"
"Very flexible, customizable clinical curriculum. DC."
"All the admissions staff and students were very pleasant."
"The students, the program, the philosophy."
"Mrs. Sullivan's speech. It's worth the interview trip just to hear it."
"all the students were very excited about Georgetown and were adamant about answering any questions."
"Location, school, opportunities, different tracks."
"Honestly, not a whole lot."
"Georgetown's campus is nice, and in a good neighborhood, albeit far from metro access which can make navigating the city a bit of a pain (have to take a Georgetown bus to get anywhere). There's also the prestige of the "Georgetown" name, along with abundant research opportunities, and being in DC, opportunities to get your hands dirty with policy. There does appear to be a strong emphasis on clinical skills and preparing for a positive residency experience. According to the admissions office, the school emphasizes service to the underserved. Ms. Sullivan's speech about selecting a medical school was excellent. Also, there are some unique curricular opportunities (mind-body-medicine, health justice scholars track, etc.)"
"The admissions woman who spoke with us was very knowledgeable about the school and spoke very well."
"The admissions office presentation was awesome, but also intimidating."
"Location, global health opportunities, ISCOPES program"
"Everything"
"students seemed happy"
"Nothing. Georgetown was my top choice, now there is no way in HELL I will go there"
"Organized and informative interview day."
"Culture of the area. The relaxed mindset of the students. They emphasize having a social life outside of med school. School is more focused on producing clinicians instead of researchers."
"I was expecting to not like this visit based on what other interviewees had said about their experience. I think it really depends on who you get as your school speakers that particular day! I had heard they would stress the conservative catholic nature of the school but our guy came right out and said that the only real difference it made (besides their emphasis on caring for underserved populations) was that on your OB/GYN rotation you wouldn't be able to see abortions at THEIR hospital but that they would be happy to set you up with a rotation elsewhere where you could see one.. Hard to say if they are really that chill or if that one guy represented the far left of their admin.... The internist who runs the Hoya clinic spoke to us at lunch and she seemed really awesome! Also I love the location that has some trees and isn't right in heart of downtown like GWU"
"They are truly passionate about their mission to serve the community and cura personalis. Seems like a great atmosphere."
"Everything. I love the school's philosophy, i loved the students i met ( very nice, funny, and personable), i loved the lecture i attended. great professor. i loved the MANY opportunities (volunteering, studying abroad, health justice track, mind body program), early clinical exposure, opportunities to rotate at many different hospitals in DC."
"Cura Personalis, DC, cadaver teaching, close hospital"
"The students all seem very happy to be there, and they all seem to be able to find the time for fun. Love the area (but it is extremely expensive to live in DC!). I love that 1/3 of the students spend time abroad! Georgetown has some unique programs that I'm excited about (Mind-Body, Social Justice, etc)."
"How informative everyone was, how friendly all of the student ambassadors were, it was a great day!"
"the people, the philosophy"
"the location and the number of unique opportunities there are for students to take advantage of"
"The location, Mrs. Sullivan and her straightforward answers, the enthusiasm of the students and all of the people involved with interview day"
"Georgetown's location and legacy seem to attract a varied, interesting group of applicants - I was very impressed by those in my interview group."
"I LOVED Georgetown. It's clear from start to finish that they actually take the idea of cura personalis seriously. Ms. Sullivan's presentation was inspiring. Beautiful campus. Really felt I fit in there."
"Nothing."
"The philosophy of the school. The presentation given by ms. sullivan was very inspirational and informative. "
"Not Much"
"The flexibility of the curriculum. The application of 'cura personalis'. The focus on non-biological factors in the doctoring courses. The responsibility given to fourth-year students. International/service/supplementary/other programs."
"EVERYONE at the school seemed very passionate, and excited to be there. The academic environment appeared non-competitive, and students have time to go out and have fun, instead of studying all the time. Mrs. Sullivan's speech was incredible."
"Everyone was super friendly and nice! The atmosphere was also super relaxed! Sullivan, Steven, Dr. Nolan, and the Dean were all very honest and easy-going :)"
"The school's philosophy, Mrs. Sullivan's speech, every student and faculty member I encountered, the curriculum, the opportunities for research and volunteering, location"
"Everyone was so nice and was very happy to be at the school. The school's culture, mission statement, and location are so awesome."
"Campus, students"
"1)Mrs. Sullivan's speech. What's there not to like? It shows she (and Georgetown) care, and not only because you're potential dollar figures to them. 2)the excellent advise for the applicants, whether you plan on attending Georgetown or not."
"Everyone loves it here. I didn't find anyone who wanted to talk about how bad healthcare is. Everyone was enthusiastic about medical education and the medical field."
"Tons of opportunities to do anything imaginable"
"The location. Georgetown is awesome."
"Great location, amazing student opportunities, great campus, and amazing residency placement."
"the DC area, the students, people were friendly, the curriculum is integrated, "
"Mission, students were friendly and happy, admissions office was frank about what they were looking for"
"The location, the medical community and students' attitude/approachability, and the philosophy of care (cura personalis)."
"um.... my trip home."
"campus, people working there and students, medical center, curriculum, Deans' attitudes"
"The staff was very pleasant and entertaining when you spoke with them one on one. My interviewer was surprisingly casual compared to the others, and we really just ended up having a conversation whereas other interviewees got grilled with scenarios."
"Lots of good residency matches, strong clinical training, emphasis on cultural competency and holistic medicine"
"number of surgeons they put out"
"Students were really nice, I really connected with the overall philosophy and attitude"
"The philosophy of the school. Hands down. Very specific about educating physicians who will go out into the world and help those in need. And the focus on excellent clinical training is emphasized over and over again, which by extension means that Georgetown physicians will be very skillful clinically. Also, the early clinical responsibility given to medical students is very attractive. "
"school location, school philosophy/mission, residency match and board scores, connected to undergrad campus, friendly adcoms"
"area, university"
"I went into this interview with low expectations because of what I read on SDN. I was blown away by the mission/values of this school. I never imagined it would mirror my own so closely. I can't think of a better fit for me anywhere else."
"The other interviewees, the area, the guide."
"I really don't know where to start with this question. First off, the campus was the most beautiful campus I think I've ever seen. The architecture and brick buildings were magnificent and the vegetation surrounding campus was lush and abundant. Each corner I turned as I walked through campus made me want to take out my camera and snap away. And the neighborhoods surrounding campus were very quaint and charming. The two tour guides were extremely upbeat and informative. Their positive attitudes really made me feel like I would welcomed there. I really liked the 'feel' of the medical school facilities. I always have to picture myself in a place (considering it would be a 4 year commitment) and I could definitely see myself spending time there day in and day out, walking down those hallways, and sitting in those classrooms. The library was very impressive. Many courses will be available on audio and video starting next year (fabulous!), the classrooms looked really well-equipped and technologically up-to-date. People around campus were really friendly. Personally, the cura personalis philosophy captures what I've always thought a medical school curriculum should offer. I was hoping that this wasn't a fleeting statement that doesn't really stick when you delve into the medical school course load. But our tour guide, who I really felt was trying to give us an uncensored picture of the school, said that it has always been a constant throughout her time there (she was a 2nd year) and I learned that courses based on morally, ethically, and culturally delicate issues of the profession are a continuous part of the education here. I felt really encouraged by Mrs. Sullivan's talk. What I got out of it was a much different story than what I've read from some other posters on here. Of course she was trying to help everyone come to terms with whether we truly wanted to go to GUMS-- or just get into 'a' medical school, but I also think she came from a genuine place and was trying to help us understand that whether we received an acceptance was OUR choice to make. Loved the idea of working in the Hoya clinic, NIH, WHO, getting involved in health care reform on capitol hill, a gazillion different affiliated hospitals and facilities, doing international electives, and many many other opportunities you can't really beat. "
"The location in Georgetown."
"1) the school's location in DC 2) the friendliness of the student body"
"Georgetown's in the nation's capital"
"cura personalis"
"i actually liked the area, the people, etc..."
"Nothing at all."
"School's philosophy"
"Great part of the city!"
"The fact that they really teach students the art of medicine beginning in the first year, and that everyone there has a persona that really fits their traditions and philosophies. "
"Just about everything. I have literally never seen a school that bases everything that they do on a single (pretty amazing) philosophy. They are SO into helping the students develop great technique early on. LOTS of patient contact almost from the moment you step onto campus. Also, the AI program is genius. Great location. Mrs Sullivan's speech."
"georgetown is a beautiful area; students and faculty seemed happy to be there; awesome opportunities in DC; you can do an MPH at JHU or GW; you can do an MD with an MBA in international affairs; "
"The campus, the 3rd and 4th year program (students are more or less free to choose what they want to do and where they want to do it)"
"the students. seemed to be a really good vibe."
"Beautiful grand entrance to the med school building. Mrs. Sullivan's talk in the morning that everyone talks about... it was amazing and very helpful. The dean, interviewer, everyone seemed friendly, happy, and helpful."
"They seem to truly practice what they preach in terms of their mission statement. They are very up front about the philosophy of their program."
"Everything. I definitely had preconcieved notions about the school and they were definitely wrong. I liked the students, the other interviewees, the faculty, the campus, just everything. "
"The students are really friendly and the new organization of classes is very intuitive. Plus they really focus on holistic but excellent clinical medicine. Mrs. Sullivan is AWESOME"
"All the trees."
"I loved the school. The admissions staff are excellent and really gave us a feel of what Georgetown is all about. Georgetown is a very special place. The students are very happy."
"The city is awesome. Students were surprisingly laid back. I didn't meet many professors but the admissions staff seemed very enthusiatic about their program and the school."
"The fantastic program. I'd give my right arm to be at Georgetown! They will make you a superb clinician."
"The focus on ethical concerns through the cura personalis philosophy. The number of opportunities afforded by their large medical and research network."
"The school really cares about the individual student and the community. They stress compassion and volunteerism. All the students I met also seemed really happy there. "
"Location, student friendliness/happiness, cultural opportunities, facilities (old but nice)"
"students seemed to like it"
"Enthusiasm of the tour guides; Donna's frankness about the mission of the school."
"Beautiful campus and facilities. The ''typical'' institutional aid takes the cost of attendance down to near what my state school costs."
"the looks of the school, beautiful architecture"
"great opener by Dr. Sullivan, commitment to public healthcare and socialital health, very clear on the fact that if you didn't fit or agree with the philosophy then it wasn't the place for you. Interviewer very focused on humanistic side of medicine and my own personal reasons for entering it, focused more on activities rather than academics "
"The enthusiasm of the tour guides, who volunteered their own sparetime to help us. The school actually practice what they preach, especially the humanistic philosophy that guides the curriculum. "
"I really liked Mrs. Sullivan- it was refreshing to hear a direct, blunt assessment of both the positives and negatives of the med school application process and of Georgetown as a school. They've done a good job of branding themselves based on their philosophy and what they are known for."
"Their attitude on caring for the patient as a whole person (mind, body, and soul)."
"Everyone was pretty nice"
"The people, the variety of hospitals in DC, commitment to service and advocacy, the high match rate for residencies"
"my interviewer was so nice =)"
"Very nice folk, a genuinely patient-centered school, great city."
"I feel neutral about the school overall but beggars can't be choosers. I would go if they accepted me. Some of Mrs. Sullivan's points were interesting. "
"Mrs. Sullivan's presenation of the Georgetown philosophy"
"Beautiful campus, DC has tons of resources."
"The school really cares about the sucess and well being of the students. Very friendly atmosphere. Mrs. Sullivan's talk at the beginning was possibly the most informative talk anyone could have given on the Georgetown philosophy and just the whole medical school process in general."
"The Georgetown area and campus are awesome. Would be a fun, but expensive place to live. Mrs. Smith's talk was very helpful too. She definitely put things in perspective and was up-front about Georgetown's strengths and weaknesses. "
"the way they really want you to understand what the school is about. they have a really unique curriculum...it just happens to not quite jive with me!"
"The faculty! They were so positive, approachable and encouraging!"
"THe devotion to educating competant physicians"
"The enthusiasm and conviction of the deans and admissions staff (particularly Mrs. Sullivan). A lot has been said about her infamous orientation brief - from my perspective, it was very informative and provided a realistic insight into what you could expect to receive from your medical education at Georgetown. She does not deserve the criticism she has received because of her firm belief in accountability (by the way, if you do happen to read this, my name is Dan ;) ). I applaud her conviction!"
"The day reminded me of why I chose Gtown for undergrad, it's a great institution and you'll be surrounded by great people."
"They have a taco bell, kfc, pizza hut, and subway in their student center. Oh wait, that didn't impress me either."
"Administration seems really student-oriented. "
"Everything, the philosophy of georgetown, the enthusiasm of the students, the curriculum, the atmosphere, and of course the Georgetown area. I would love to go here. "
"Great philosophical vision, very cooperative student body. (The students in general seemed very fun, enthusiastic and helpful). It's nice to be so close to DC but not right in the middle of the city. The other students interviewing with me were great- GTown knows how to pick em! The staff knew our names and where we were from right off the bat it seemed. "
"all the students we encountered were very nice, they didn't seem as competitive as everyone makes them out to be"
"The city is awesome, and their surgical program is great"
"The area around the school is quite nice. Facilities did not seem as run-down as previous interview feedback would suggest."
"location"
"Nothing at all"
"The school's willingness to consider student opinion w/r/t curriculum"
"I was most positively impressed by Mrs. Sullivan. Her speech was the most useful experience I have had in the application process. It totally changed my view of how the process works."
"Mrs. Sullivan was very forward about what the school was looking for in its potential students and what kind of students essentially fit at Georgetown. I liked how open she was about the school and told the negatives in addition to the posititves about the school."
"Dr. O'Toole: he is in the line of work i plan to pursue. he is funny, very nice, candid and easy to talk to. i interviewed with him and he was great and one of the most positive things about the school."
"The neighborhood of Georgetown itself; Mrs. Sullivan's openness about what Gtown is and is not looking for"
"Everything, the philosophy, the students, the area of DC, the clinical exposure, the opportunities at the school and beyond. Also, the other interviewees in the group seemed like the class would be fun. "
"The school's philosophy. Ms. Sullivan's discussion about the schools was inspiring,"
"the interesting curriculum, mrs. sullivan's talk, post-lunch session with dean mitchell (a very witty and down-to-earth guy), washington dc area"
"Georgetown's philosophy is very unique and aligns to my own. Mrs. Sullivan was very honest, straightforward, and forthcoming. I wish this had been my first interview because she made some really good points about questions to ask at interviews and ways to evaluate schools. I found her to be very informative...she also memorized each interviewee's name, school, and various other info...this makes a nice impression. She may be too abrasive for some, but I like people who don't feed you bs. The faculty and staff impressed me."
"Cura personalis. Tradition of the school, and I'm not remotely Catholic."
"Its educational philosophy for the MD portion; the honest attitude of the staff and how they told me things about their hospital and about their MD/PhD funding that I wouldn't have gotten at other schools."
"extensive clinical experience starting 3rd year and the community service component"
"The devotion to clinical education."
"the school's focus on serving the underserved, Mrs. Sullivan's talk, big emphasis on learning clinical skills (lot of responsibility 3rd and 4th years)"
"The students were very enthusiastic. The admissions counselor told things like they are and did not try to paint a fake picture of the school."
"fellow interviewees, school's philosophy, faculty"
"Mrs. Sullivan and Dr. O'Toole. Mrs. Sullivan strikes me as a no-nonsense type lady. Very articulate, and she's very clear...if you interview at a school and don't get in, you were not able to adequately convey why you are a perfect fit for their school. At least for me, that comment was empowering. In the one hour introduction to Georgetown med, Mrs. Sullivan makes you want to be a part of the Georgetown tradition of community outreach and patient advocacy. Dr. O'Toole is also great. Very friendly, very funny, and you can sense his sincere desire to help the underserved and make changes for the better in medicine. Out of all my interviews, Georgetown really had me at attention and inspired. "
"Pretty much everything was positive from the second I stepped onto the grounds. They did an excellent job of outlining the unique aspects of the school and educational philosophy."
"EVERYTHING!The tradition of the school. The location. The philosophy with which they teach medicine.(Which may not be for everyone by the way.)It impressed me though. The faculty there all seemed very nice and encouraging. The public transportation is very efficient."
"The students and faculty were really encouraging and easy going. The integrative clinical center is pretty nice."
"the tour guides were fun. faculty cares about students"
"-the dean lunch was very nice and informative. -the student tour guides were enthusiastic and seemed genuine -great public transportation in DC "
"Ms. Sullivan's presentation was amazing, the responsibility given to students during 3rd and 4th year clerkships, community service requirement, Dr. O'Toole was hilarious. The students seemed very happy"
"Friendly and helpful students and staff."
"Mrs. Sullivan's speech in the morning. The overhaul of the curriculum and the changes emerging from it. "
"Mrs. Sullivan is as amazing as everyone else on this site keeps saying- you actually have to be there to experience it though!"
"facilities were not nearly as bad as they're made out to be, apparent support for students, curriculum developed by students and focused on fostering the physician - patient interaction"
"Everyone was very friendly. The tour guides seemed very enthusiastic. Mrs. Sullivan was very candid and I appreciated her honesty."
"The quality and intellect of the faculty, particularly that of Mrs. Sullilvan who was phenomenal. "
"The time they took to make us feel welcome. Mrs. Sullivan, who prepped us on G-town and answered our questions, knew our names before she even came in the room. Then, when she was pointing me to my interviewer's office, she remarked on how she thought we'd get along wells since both the interviewer and I loved to travel and had different senses of humor. I couldn't believe that she'd HANDPICKED the interviewer she thought would like me best. Imagine how that kind of thoughtfulness would impress patients!"
"educational philosophy"
"cute neighborhood. within 10 minutes walk of good shopping. seems like students place well in residencies and are well prepared."
"The school's commitment to the patient, integration of alternative medicine and ethics into the curriculum"
"focus on treating entire person, learning about ethis and religious aspects of medicine, and learning about alternative medical treatments (herbal meds, accupuncture, etc) "
"So pretty, facilities aren't as bad as everybody says, awesome part of town"
"The curriculum is very focused on ethics, clinical care, and small-group interactions. DC is an amazing city and the area around Georgetown is simply gorgeous. My interviewer was wonderful, and Mrs. Sullivan gave a strong presentation on the school and its educational philosophy."
"The unique mission of Georgetown and the entire campus."
"Basically everything! The mission, the curriculum is astounding, you get more clinical experience and responsibility than you could imagine and the students were so wonderful. They genuinely seemed to love Georgetown. I got such a good vibe from the students about the program at Georgetown. And the dean seemed to really be interested in the students and even potential students."
"Everything. The school was amazing. The campus is beautiful. The students seemed happy. Their program emphasis having dreams and turning them into realities. There is also an emphasis on clinical care, a program that matches you up with a doctor all four years and allows for 1 on 1 learning, great opportunites for rotations, affiliated with 11 federal and community hospitals in which rotations can be done, programs for rotations abroad. Have great resisdency match results and board scores."
"The match list is absolutely amazing, it really blew me away. They give a lot of responsibility to 3rd and 4th years."
"How great the people are who go to school there and that work there. My interviewer was great and seemed to be very excited to be interviewing for the adcom. "
"Everyone was really friendly and it seemed like a great atmosphere."
"Great focus on social justice in healthcare"
"I really enjoyed Mrs. Sullivan's presentation. She was honest about the school and was enjoyable to listen to. I also LOVE the city and the new advocacy program that Georgetown has started. "
"The friendliness of everyone I met."
"This school has an amazing and unique philosophy-they are so concerned with treating the whole patient. They stress giving clinical experience(learning procedures early on, a lot of feedback on your approach with patients, and a LOT of patient responsibility in the third and fourth years). The school also has very unique programs-namely alternative medicine, ethics, and religion in medicine classes. The people here are fantastic-down to earth, relaxed and happy. Every single encounter I had was positive and genuine. My interviewer was one of the nicest doctors I have ever met, and Ms. Sullivan spent almost an hour successfully convincing most of us how great Georgetown truly is. "
"Students, Mrs. Sullivan, Georgeen, Dean Mitchell, My Interviewer"
"The whole place seemed very upbeat; students seemed to like being there. Faculty and administration seem to be very welcoming to students. The new simulation center is impressive. The location is amazing! "
"The GEMS committe really seemed interested in helping the students to do well."
"location; very firm dedication to turning out well-rounded physicians; the fact that georgetown tries hard to provide its students with unique experiences; students place extremely well in residency programs"
"Georgetown emphasizes the humanistic side of medicine more so than the other schools I looked at (probably b/c it is a Catholic institution)."
"i loved mrs. sullivan. i thought she was very honest and sincere and tried to help the interviewees come to an honest decision about whether Georgetown was right for them. i was also impressed with the medical school students--they seemed very happy to be there and yet they expressed the perks and frustrations of being a med student there very openly"
"The students were very upbeat and interesting, and there seems to be solidarity among the student body. I also appreciate the committment to community service and compassionate healthcare the curriculum demonstrates."
"Just about everything. I felt very comfortable at GU, and liked the students, faculty, fellow interviewees. The curriculum sounds great, the area is beautiful, etc., etc., etc."
"Great location (right in the heart of georgetown), sounds like students get hands on clinical training."
"I really like the emphasis G-Town makes on ethics and serving the underserved. All the other schools I applied to barely touch on these two things whereas G-town integrates them fully into the curriculum. Also, the Georgetown area is GORGEOUS!!!! I fell in love with it...it's just too cute. The faculty that I met were great and seemed really student-oriented. In summary, I think this school is GREAT!"
"I loved this school. The area is really beautiful and the school was nice. The students on the tour were really great and answered all of my questions thoroughly. They also gave us their emails to address future questions. Altough the tour was pretty disorganized, I had a good time and I felt like the relaxed atmosphere of the tour suited me. I was amazed that Georgeen and Mrs. Sullivan knew my name especially coming from a large university where no one seems to care what anyone's name is. The speakers during the day were honest and up front about the school and curriculum. I could not have been more impressed. I really loved this school."
"The students, especially the tour guides. In previous posts, someone mentioned that the students didn't have very much personality and that they only talked about alcohol. However, I thought the students were well balanced, friendly, and energetic. They were also open and willing to answer any questions that we had. The tour was a little disorganized, but the students apologized and told us that the tour route had been changed that day. All in all, I enjoyed my interview at Georgetown."
"I really enjoyed Ms. Sullivan - she's awesomely cool. Oh, and Georgina's a total soccer mom (she called herself that, too!). I liked how Georgetown took the time to talk about its curriculum and mission - and how the Jesuit tradition can be marginalized in everyday life (this was a concern of mine)."
"Every single thing. The intro to the school--Mrs. Sullivan made such an honest and strong statement about what Georgetown is all about, the facilities, the surrounding area, the students, my interviewer--probably the nicest man I've ever met, besides that he's got an MD, law degree, multiple PhD's, he's a Priest, and he used to be a military officer"
"The school's willingness to acknowledge other forms of medicine (i.e. accupuncture, they point out the meridians during anatomy lab) Also, the non-religious approach of students and faculty. Even though it is a Catholic school, it only shows itself very subtley, in a positive way. There are the "very religious" if you are into that kinda thing, but it is very easily avoidable and ignorable."
"My interviewer was a great liberal, which was relieving after the woman from admissions made me think this was not a place for people with change in mind. "
"Not much."
"Students, admissions staff, campus, tour, faculty"
"The admissions staff was EXTREMELY honest with everything about their school, financial aid, and medicine today. Mrs. Sullivan keeps an eye on this very site to see student feedback. Hi, Mrs. Sullivan!"
"I interviewed with a Jesuit priest who was everything I would look for in a professor. He was dedicated to learning in his own life, had really strong values, and was commited to serving the community. I feel that the administration and staff have similar values and goals."
"The interview day was well organized and extremely informative. It was very good information, not just specific to georgetown but for medical education in general."
"Cure Personalis and the outstanding dedication to communitry service. Georgetown's philosophy teaches you to be a fabulous, compassionate physician, and you have numerous opportunities for clinical experience. They have some amazing residency match stats"
"super supportive staff, nice surrounding location (New England feel with the brick buildings, river, and trees), really friendly and happy students, great program that emphasizes the right things, Courage to Care program"
"Students seemed hard-working but knew how to have fun. School is accessible by public transportation."
"friendliness of faculty and students, "cura personalis" motto "
"The students were very friendly."
"the people, the attitude of students, the video/audio taping of clinical skills, the effort for improvements, how nice the faculty and staff is, "
"Ms. Sullivan, and her description of the "like-it-or-not" Jesuit philosophy towards education"
"mrs. sullivan, dr. o'toole and georgina were so enthusiastic about georgetown that made me fall in love with it. "
"The good attitude of the students, the beautiful campus and wonderful Washington DC"
"The Dean's presentation on the mission of the school was fabulous!"
"Staff really cared about applicants, location"
"The whole long talk in the beginning was very well put together, and painted a very nice picture of the Georgetown Community."
"the clinical curriculum is complete and rigorous. it prepares you well for you residency"
"cura personalis and very warm admissions office"
"The quality of the other applicants, the speech by Mrs. Sullivan, Georgeen(the Program Coordinator, one of the nicest people I have ever met)"
"Dr. Sullivan's schpeel about "cura personalis"-- treating the whole person. "
"The ethos of Georgetown is what I am looking for in a medical school."
"Nothing"
"donna's talk was amazing. she told me exactly what g'town was and was not. she clearly defines the focus of the curriculum and clinical experiences."
"Almost everything. My opinion of the school skyrocketed after the fabulous presentations and hearing about the unique curriculum."
"beautiful campus and nice students"
"Four ethics classes, Religious Traditions in Health Care, alternative medicine exposure, they encourage you to volunteer with a disadvantaged group "
"there are so many new and innovative parts of the G Town curriculum, many study abroad opportunities, the Georgetown area, Georgetown's unique mission and philosophy of education, the quality of students; I could go on all day"
"I would be astounded if you can find one unfriendly person on the staff or in the student body at Georgetown. Everyone was amicable and really, really encouraging. I loved the philosophy and mission of the school; it seems like they really do focus on the student's development as a doctor AND person by allowing the maximum amount of choice possible. Great opportunities for everything from community service to spending time abroad! "
"Ms. Sullivan is awesome and Georgina talked to me in Spanish knowing that I was fluent. They all know you when you come in. My interview was supposed to be closed-file, but my interviewer read my file before coming to get me, which was good. It was supposed to last 30-40 minutes. Mine lasted an hour and 20 minutes. I just really clicked with my interviewer. The school's philospohy is great- they want to make sure you really want to go there. They basically told us what we had to say to get accepted. "
"Huge focus on clinical skills. How right when I walked in, an associate Dean immeidately knew who I was. Frankness of Mrs. Sullivan. She says what G'town is all about. Also like how the staff wants the us to make the right decisions about med school."
"I dare you to find one person during your interview day who is not the nicest person you ever met. Also, DC is just awesome. Mrs. Sullivan's speech was great, very informative and gave me the tools to have more efficient future interviews. After meeting her, I think everyone who spoke poorly of her here is insane. Meet her yourself, you'll see."
"Georgetown is a beautiful campus, but you have to REALLY like living in a big city"
"The students were friendly and helpful. The student interviewer was very nice"
"a really great presentation about georgetown's ideals and overall mission."
"Friendliness of staff and students, strength in surgical sub-specialities, atmosphere of tradition, Washington D.C."
"i have to admit i wasn't too excited about g-town pre-interview but after i went there, this school is definitely extremely high on my list and if accepted i'd go. Mrs. Sullivan's speech was amazing, she paints an accurate description of the program and it definitely isn't for everyone."
"The school is in constant flux. True, the facilities are not state of the art, but rennovations are completely underway for many of the facilities, such as the interactive learning center. The curriculum is not static, in that, it is constantly evolving and improving. Mrs.Sullivans speech will definately give you the best picture as to if GU-SOM is or is not meant for you. The students seemed genuinely happy about their decision. THe city of DC is spectacular. There is so much to do. Overall, I loved this place and it is definitely my #1 school of choice."
"Ms. Sullivan, who spoke in the morning, is an amazing woman. Of all the people I have personally met in my life, she is one of the most memorable speakers who exudes amazing character and a genuine concern about others (including the interviewees!). If one were blind or deaf to her wisdom and intelligence, it would be a shame. Pay attention and remember what she has to say, for it applies to most areas of life and one would probably have a richer life if they are aware of such things. Reggie G."
"Mrs. Sullivan's talk was inspirational -- her philosophy toward patient care and training young doctors is humane, holistic, kind, and thorough"
"everyone's honesty about the strengths and weaknesses of Georgetown"
"Mrs. Sullivan's speech was on point -- the most articulate, explicit case for "what makes our school unique" I've heard among all of my interviews."
"The administration knows you by name, and are very genuine about the nature of Georgetown. Ms. Sullivan sets out to paint the Georgetown picture for the applicants. By the time of the interview, you are armed with good information. The Georgetown interview is definitely the most informative of those I've visited."
"The organization of the day. Everyone is really nice and goes out of their way to make you feel welcome."
"The amount of preparation & patient contact you get. I got the sense that they prepare you very well to be an excellent clinician. I also liked the fact that they have a very clear vision and a strong sense of their own strengths and weaknesses. "
"The thrid year sounds awesome, if you are looking for lots of patient contact and responsibility give this school a look. I liked the fact that you could take electives at the main campus, seems like more work then some schools I interviewed at but that is a plus to me."
"i like the jesuit ideas, caring for the whole person. the students seemed to think they were getting a great education and school is constantly adapting its curriculum. also, they gave a great financial aid presentaiton."
"The presentations were very well structured and rehearsed. The speech about Georgetown and the considerations we should have as prospective medical students was very informative and useful."
"Honesty of the staff and students- they were not afraid to admit the weaknesses of the school. Also, I was impressed with the amount of pride everyone had for Georgetown's values."
"Mrs. Sullivan's speech"
"Georgetown is off the hook!! It is an incredible town with everything from small local pubs to upscale boutiques. Being from California I felt that the town was mainstreet USA meets Union Square in San Francisco. "
"The motivational speaker type intro to the school and the honesty about their program"
"Mrs Sullivan's long-winded, yet highly informative talk. They are honest about everything--even your chances of getting in."
"The most supportive, friendly, family environment. Mrs. Sullivan's speech was inspirational and empowering. The students were great - informative and friendly."
"Cura Personalis (I may have spelled it wrong)-- means that Georgetown's curriculum has it's foundation in the Jesuit belief of treating the entire person, not just an objectified body. Very cool."
"georgetown is a really beautiful place and the presentations from the faculty were really helpful. They really stress their values and are honest as to who and what the expect from their students. Georgetown is a great place. Washington DC is also a wonderful city. "
"The passion of the staff, the nice surrounding area, the philosophy of the school that emphasizes the whole person (for example during anatomy you are taught non-traditional medicine in relation to anatomy)"
"Current students all had positive things to say about the school and its clinical opportunities. Clinical experiences are spread out over entire DC area so you get diverse clinical experiences."
"The admissions staffs' love of the school, and dedication to making the experience comfortable, but also doing all they can to ensure you know as much about Georgetown as possible when you leave."
"Everything. I really liked this school, I was far more impressed than I was at any other school I've visited."
"Nice area. Students seemed very happy. I like the cura personalis philosophy."
"Beautiful campus, thorough explanation about the unique aspects of Georgetown"
"They gave a great presentation of their program -- it's strengths and weaknesses -- and they do this BEFORE your interviews, so you can have some sense of how well you match up. Loved the philosophy of the school and the humanistic approach to medicine and to teaching."
"Extra-friendliness, beauty of the Georgetown area, students' enjoyment of life in general, patient contact all four years."
"i liked their honesty about their philosophy, direction, strengths, weaknesses, etc."
"My interviewer was very warm and personable. "
"Proximity to downtown D.C., integrity of medical school (regardless of the values I may or may not agree with)"
"Mrs. Sullivan's presentation was very well done and very honest... it was refreshing. Cura personalis."
"I was impressed by the commitment to compassion in patient care, and the emphasis on clinical education. The students there were all really cool, and they provided many useful insights. The admissions staff were extremely friendly and helpful."
"Admissions staff, admissions staff, admissions staff! They go out of their way to make you feel comfortable. Instead of trying to sell Georgetown to everyone, they urge you to consider whether or not Georgetown is the right school for you. Students seem very happy to be at Georgetown and generally feel well prepared for their residency. "
"I really have no idea why everyone is so scared/intimidated by Mrs. Sullivan's talk. She tells you straight up what Georgetown is about (it is unique), its Cura Personalis philosophy, and goes on to say that it is not the best choice for everyone. She's honest and simply tells it as it is. She even offers a set of wonderful guidelines that can be used to select the best medical school for us. I don't understand what everyone's problem is with her; I guess no one likes her for actually caring about helping us find the school that fits us the best. After reading everyone's reviews about the facilities, i was expecting a garbage dump. However, what i found was decently nice facilities, with many improvements in the works. This is a school rich with tradition and will teach you how to become an all around healer, not just a master of the basic sciences. Listen to Mrs. Sullivan carefully: if you like what you hear, G'Town might be the place for you. If you do not, don't just bash the school: just say it wasn't for you and move on with your life."
"Structure of interview day, students, the surrounding area."
"The surrounding Georgetown area. "
"Faculty, admissions staff, students"
"They have TONS of clinical exposure and service opportunities, right up my alley."
"There were many things that really impressed me during my visit. The presentations by the admissions committee and financial aid were very good. I was very impressed particularly impressed that the office of financial aid had a pretty comprehensive list of scholarship programs on their webpage. Our student guides were very enthusiastic about their education at GU and were very happy with their decision. I was also impressed with the patient-focused educational experiences that GU has incorporated in the first year curriculum."
"Cura Personalis--how to treat the whole person and not just the disease. I was very impressed by Georgetown's training system and how deeply the school seems to care about the well-being of its students as well as its patients. I felt that Georgetown would not only help me become a doctor, but also to become a better person."
"It was snowing on the day of my interview and the city looked very picturesque."
"Their philosophy and curriculum... they fit me perfectly. "Cura personalis"- treat the whole person. They believe in treating the mind, body, and spirit. They teach you not only the science of medicine, but also the art of healing. Ethics is woven into the curriculum all 4 years, complementary and alternative medicine is woven into the curriculum, religion in medicine, etc. Georgetown seems like they emphasize the importance of a well-rounded physician... I like that! Also, the clinical experience there seems really intense and educational."
"The structured presentation of the school and their values. The area around the school."
"The admissions officers really do care about the applicants, which is a great aspect of Georgetown's program"
"Ms. Sullivan's speech, people seem happy"
"The faculty and administration that I was in contact with on interview day seemed very dedicated to and confident in Georgetown."
"admissions staff was the best I have seen yet. they really do care about you and will go out of the way to help. they review your file very thoroughly. nice campus, students seemed pretty happy"
"The faculty and students are very dedicated to healing of the whole patient so they consider a certain amount of spirituality in the education. The residency placement statistics were outstanding."
"I really like their philosophy and their dedication to curing the whole body. They really seem to care about students, and about producing compassionate physicians "
"Washington DC and the surrounding area is impressive, and Georgetown campus is rather pretty. The facilities seem pretty nice."
"G-town's dedication to producing competent, practicing physicians, and not academic physicians"
"the students--even after the whole day was over and i was waiting for my ride, a 2nd year student came into the "fishbowl" just to talk to me and another applicant--i thought it was a nice gesture, and he was very excited about the school. "
"very organized - the admissions people are so helpful and they truly care about how you feel. Mrs. Sullivan's speech made me want to start med school tomorrow, and Georgine's referral to us as her "children" made us all feel very welcome at the school."
"the campus is absolutely AMAZING!! My interviewer was the coolest guy..his style was that he would ask me a question, and then I had to ask him a question, then he asked me...I felt so comfortable. He let me know afterwards that I would be in if he had anything to say about it"
"Mrs. Sullivan's presentation was very comprehensive. The Georgetown philosophy really resonated with me."
"the impressive clinical exposure and their match list"
"Philosophy of education"
"Washington, DC and the surrounding neighborhoods and the school's commitment to clinical teaching."
"Their amazing teaching philosophy"
"the students. my student hosts--UNBELIEVABLE. the school's got such nice people. and there's a note taking service for the class-attendence-ly challenged. very nice."
"How those ladies remembered all the applicants names. "
"cura personalis...their teaching philosophy"
"The different spin Georgetown puts on medical education with the cura personalis philosophy."
What is one of the specific questions they asked you (question 1)?