How many people interviewed you?
| Response Average | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 1.02 | 328 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| Positively | 235 |
| Negatively | 54 |
| No change | 40 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 3.21 | 329 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 7.29 | 245 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 7.11 | 209 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| In Person | 0 |
| Virtual | 10 |
| 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 | 49 |
| 45 minutes | 81 |
| 50 minutes | 18 |
| 55 minutes | 2 |
| 60+ minutes | 37 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| At the school | 314 |
| At a regional location | 1 |
| At another location | 13 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| One-on-one | 329 |
| In a group | 0 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| Open file | 224 |
| Closed file | 99 |
| Response Average | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 1.02 | 328 |
"Did not use the standardized list of questions, just asked questions based on my essays and applications. Overall was extremely conversational."
"Tell me about your journey to medicine."
"Tell me about yourself and your path to medicine."
"1) Tell me about yourself. 2) Describe path to medicine. 3) Gap year plans? 4) What do you do for fun? 5) Describe ethical dilemna 6) Why Gtown?"
"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 the biggest issue facing healthcare right now?"
"What is an ethical dilemma that you have encountered and what did you do?"
"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"
"Tell me about a challenge you have overcame."
"What is a challenge you have encountered and how did you overcome it?"
"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?"
"What was the most recent thing you learned for fun?"
"Is there anything else you would like the admissions committee to know about your application?"
"What do you think is the most important issue in health care right now?"
"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?"
"Describe an ethical situation you encountered and how you resolved it."
"How would you contribute to the diversity of georgetown"
"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?"
"Did not."
"Reading SDN, Mock Interviewing"
"read sdn, do mock interview with friends and family/mentor"
"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."
What is one of the specific questions they asked you (question 1)?