How many people interviewed you?
| Response Average | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 1.10 | 272 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| Positively | 216 |
| Negatively | 25 |
| No change | 38 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 3.05 | 275 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 7.81 | 180 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 6.69 | 146 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| In Person | 0 |
| Virtual | 4 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 5 minutes | 0 |
| 10 minutes | 0 |
| 15 minutes | 0 |
| 20 minutes | 3 |
| 25 minutes | 1 |
| 30 minutes | 16 |
| 35 minutes | 5 |
| 40 minutes | 15 |
| 45 minutes | 38 |
| 50 minutes | 41 |
| 55 minutes | 5 |
| 60+ minutes | 155 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| At the school | 264 |
| At a regional location | 0 |
| At another location | 7 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| One-on-one | 272 |
| In a group | 0 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| Open file | 264 |
| Closed file | 5 |
| Response Average | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 1.10 | 272 |
"What are 3 of your strengths and 3 of your weaknesses?"
"Describe (this activity)"
"Asked about what my parents do for a living and how old my brothers are/what they're doing in school"
"What are you most proud of?"
"went through my entire application ECs and became a conversation"
"Talk about (AMCAS activity)"
"Tell me about an ethical dilemma"
"What happened in undergrad? Explain your huge discrepancy"
"Tell me more about your research"
"Sometimes doctors have to make tough choices for their patients. Can you think of a, sort of, moral problem that might come up?"
"Describe the differences between Medicare and Medicaid."
"How do you think your background in science/engineering will help you as a physician?"
"Why do you want to come to NJMS?"
"If you had $100,000 that could support one cancer patient or 100 healthy patients, how would you allocate the funds?"
"what happened last year? (I'm a reapplicant)"
"What are your exposures to medicine"
"Do you understand Obama's health care reform bill?"
"Why the variation between MCAT score and GPA"
"Are you sure you want to go into medicine?"
"What is the biggest problem affecting American healthcare?"
"What I think about the current status of health care and the reform?"
"Where do you see yourself in 10 years?"
"Tell me about X activity/experience on your AMCAS."
"Why UMDNJ?"
"What is your motivation to become a doctor?"
"Tell me about your research?"
"You can help people in different fields, why medicine?"
"Why not veterinary medicine? (why medicine?)"
"Why medicine"
"What is one area of medicine in which you'd like to see more work being done?"
"Have you given thought to what you want to specialize in."
"What's wrong with healthcare?"
"Health care"
"see above"
"Where do you see yourself in 5-10 years?"
"Why NJMS? Why NJ?"
"What has inspired you to pursue this career?"
"When did your interest in medicine begin?"
"Discuss 2 major issues in healthcare today."
"Tell me about yourself?"
"Tell me about your research."
"Personal stance on US healthcare system?"
"If a medication has been approved or touted in the media as more efficacious for decreasing hypertension in black people, should you prescribe that drug to black people, and further, should you indicate the body of a black person is different and this drug will work better for them? "
"Tell me about your background both professionally and personally."
"How do you cope with stress?"
"How will you deal with the population served at this school?"
"What is the main problem facing medicine now? "
"If your brother was here right now, what would he say about your life choices?"
"What is your ideal picture of how health insurance should be organized?"
"Tell me about yourself, family, origins etc."
"Tell me about your time studying abroad."
"Describe yourself."
"When you returned to school, what made it easier?"
"Tell me a little about yourself."
"All the questions pretty much came from my application and personal statement."
"How did you decide you wanted to be a doctor"
"Do you have any questions for me?"
"What do your parents think about your going into medicine?"
"List three problems with the healthcare system in America"
"Are you familiar with Hillary Clinton's health care bill? [I gave him a mediocre answer, and he disagrees and tells me-> Question 2]"
"Why do you want to enter medicine?"
"Tell me about your research in cancer genetics."
"Do you know where your name originates from?"
"Tell me about your research and clinical experiences."
"So tell me about your research experience"
"What are some healthcare problems in America today? Solutions? (then she asked me even further questions about my responses and if they would really work). I think it all went really well. "
"So tell me about your major/tell me about your research."
"How many Americans are uninsured?"
"Explain your MCAT writing score (I got an L)."
"Tell me about youtself was the only question I was asked"
"What activities do you do outside of medicine?"
"You have a very typically asian background; how do I know this is your choice and not your parents? "
"How should a physician deal with the problems of obesity and smoking? This was the only question."
"What did you do in X activity?"
"When did you decide on medicine?"
"When did you know you wanted to become a doctor?"
"Why New Jersey? (I'm a native Californian, but went to school back East)"
"Tell me more about yourself."
"When did you know that you wanted to do "this"? (He meant becoming a doctor)."
"Tell me about your family. Do they encourage your pursuit into the medical field?"
"Describe yourself"
"What do you think of HMOs?"
"What do you think about the future of Healthcare HMOs?"
"What are your weaknesses"
"Tell me about (AMCAS activy)"
"What you think about US healthcare?"
"What do you do for fun?"
"What are your extracurriculars?"
"When did you know you wanted to be a doctor?"
"HOw do you see childhood obesity in America?"
"Tell me about your parents. "
"Why do I want to be a doctor and Why did I want to go to NJMS?"
"What were some of your favorite subjects in college?"
"What are your strengths and weaknesses?"
"Do you have any questions about NJMS? (Asked repeatedly until I was out of questions)"
"Why do you want to go into medicine (and why do you think you will make a good doctor)?"
"What do you think about that state of healthcare in this country?"
"What's the biggest problem with healthcare in America today?"
"What brings you to Newark? "
"AMCAS stuff (MCATS, GPA); where else have you applied and/or interviewed? Motivation to become a physician?"
"Why did you go to the undergraduate college that you did?"
"Tell me what you know about US healthcare?"
"Discuss 2 or 3 major healthcare issues facing our country."
"I see you are Brazilian..."Do you know 'some city?'" I thought he was talking about somewhere in Portugal since he told me he was of Portuguese descent but he was talking about Brazil since I'm of Brazilian descent. I was all confused."
"How do you know you want to be doctor? Have you had any experience?"
"You seem like a person who could do many different things. Why specifically did you choose to be a doctor?"
"Why NJMS?"
"Why did you go to your undergraduate school? At such a big school, what made you choose to be pre-med? What is your specific interest in NJMS? How do you study? Explain why you took the mcat twice."
"What would you do to improve the health care system in the US? "
"Tell me more about yourself?"
"Specifics about my application. She was well prepared."
"Why Medicine? What do you know about medical school? Why did you choose your major at XXX college? Describe your research? Volunteer activities?"
"Asked about current coursework, research, activities."
"What do you want the admissions committee to know about you?"
"Tell me something about yourself"
"Tell me about yourself, your family. What do you do for fun. Talked about her family too."
"So, everyone in your family is a doctor and that's why you want to be a doctor? (I never told him anyone in my family was a doctor)."
"What would you do if you could not become a doctor?"
"Questions regarding my low science GPA given my MCAT scores."
"Tell me about youself, your family."
"Why do yo want to be a doctor?"
"Why did you want to go into medicine"
"refer to the comments section."
"Health care questions... they love these type questions be prepared!!!"
"Why nj med?"
"You didn't do well at the beginning of college... (I didn't do THAT badly.)"
"How did I decided on choosing to apply to medical school? "
"Questions about research, family, study abroad"
"Why are you applying early decision?"
"As above "
"Why medical school? Do you realize that the reality of being a doctor is very different from the dream of being a doctor? Would you still want to go into medicine if you were limited to only making $30,000 a year as a physician? "
"Describe yourself and how others would describe you."
"How can you get a population of individuals to be proactive in their health"
"What do you think about managed care?"
"What is the most rewarding research experience you have had?"
"What do you think about the US healthcare system?"
"What do you think it will take to get the African American community to maintain/create a better standard of health (going for check-ups, proper diet, better healthcare, etc)?"
"Your previous career was in research psychology, why did you not simply change to another branch of psychology such as counseling rather than starting over in a medical career?"
"Health care questions."
"Please tell me about yourself (the med school standard)"
"describe your research"
"managed care, HMO's, why UMDNJ, grades MCAT"
"Tell me about your research/specific program/etc?"
"Are you compasionate?"
"What do ur parents think about you becoming a doctor?"
"Tell me about your MCAT scores"
"what qualities do you have that would make you a good doctor?"
"do you think there is al queda in the Philippines"
"Why did you switch out of your undergraduate major?"
"What are you doing now that you are not a full-time student?"
"Tell me why you picked your undergraduate college? Tell me about New jersey medical school?"
"When did you decide to be a doctor? What motivated you?"
"Why did you switch your major?"
"Where is the medical fied going and how would you change it's direction?"
"Why do you want to be a doctor? "
"Tell me about yourself"
"Above"
"What do you think about medical insurance?"
"What qualities do you think a doctor should possess?"
"Why medicine?"
"If Bob has been a patient of yours for 10 years, is suddenly laid off work, and can't pay for treatment, would you continue to see him? (Answer) If Bob's wife also couldn't pay for treatment, would you continue to see her? (Answer). If Dan, one of Bob's former coworkers who had also been laid off, couldn't pay, but heard you were a great doctor came in to see you, and asked if you could help without pay, would you see him? etc. . . "
"What do you know about health care in the US?"
"what type of medicine and why? "
"Why I wanted to become a doctor"
"What are the 2 biggest problems facing health care today? How would you solve them?"
"A 7 year old boy with fatal cancer which has spread to his bones. he already has one leg amputated and now has cancer in his pelvic bone. The attending has reccommended another partial amputation and the parents want to do everything to keep their son alive. You know that the treatment is painful and the child will die anyway....what do you do?"
"Have you ever considered the military? working for the FBI in forensic science?"
"When did the thought finally crystallize that you wanted to be a physician? Why do you want to be a physician?"
"With both your parents involved in medically related fields (they're not doctors), have they been supportive of your decision to pursue medicine?"
"Why should we pick you? "
"Tell me about yourself."
"What do you know about HMO's and health insurance?"
"Tell me a little bit about your last 3 years and your decision to apply to medical school. "
"Tell me about your family."
"Why do I want to become a doctor?"
"Describe my research and how I would solve the problem"
"What 'clicked' to make you want to do this?"
"Why do you want to become a doctor?"
"Computers:Positive or Neative addition to society?"
"What are the two largest concers in healthcare today. How do you solve them .."
"What brought you to medicine?"
"What would you do if a patient came to you wanting oxycontin?"
"What are 2 issues that face medicine today?"
"What do you know about health care today?"
"Why do you want to be a doctor?"
"Tell me about.....(something on my application)."
"Why are you taking time off/what are you up to this year? How do you think your activities during your time off will prepare you for med school?"
"What do you think about Managed Care and how you would improve it."
"What are your views on managed care?"
"How did you come to the decision to apply to medical school after going to graduate school?"
"Research, family, Why medicine"
"Do you have any medically-related extracurricular activities?"
"What is the biggest problem facing healthcare today?"
"What do you like to do in your free time?"
"I was asked to discuss my research experience and why I switched labs"
"tell me about your activities."
"Were you pushed into medicine by your parents?"
"how would you solve the problem of the large population without health insurance?"
"How do you handle disappointment?"
"Why medicine? Why NJMS?"
"Why our school?"
"Tell me about yourself?"
"Name 3 things that you are working on in order to improve yourself."
"What are your opinions on the state of our healthcare system? How would you fix it?"
"Tell me about your failures"
"I had a significantly lower 1st MCAT score and I was asked what happened?"
"Has your research changed the way you think?"
"You know, a lot of our students volunteer abroad in Africa. It's not too late for you, have you thought about doing that?"
"What healthcare reforms do you think are most important to improve service to our patient population?"
"Why do you want to be a doctor/go into medicine?"
"Specific research and service questions from my application."
"Explain your previous academic record (poor grades)"
"If you had a patient with terminal cancer and 6 months to live whose relative asked you not to tell the patient about their illness, what would you do?"
"Healthcare Reform"
"If you found out your best friend intended to cheat on an academic assignment, what would you do?"
"Do you have a role model?"
"Basically do I really know what I am getting into?"
"Compare mathematics to engineering to medicine."
"Tell me about the healthcare system."
"What else do you do?"
"Are you sure about medicine // what do you know about medicine?"
"Are you sure about medicine"
"Why medicine?"
"What do you think of health care reform?"
"What is comparative politics? (I'm a political science major)"
"What do you know about healthcare?"
"How would I change health care?"
"What do you think about our healthcare?"
"Tell me about worms (research I've been doing)."
"Tell me about yourself, your family"
"Are you sure you want to go into medicine? How do you know you'll survive 10 years of schooling?"
"Describe your research in 1 sentence"
"If you do not get into medical school, what would you do?"
"What are the side-effects of Gardasil?"
"Your MCAT is ok (30), but your verbal is low (8) are you satisfied with this score or are you going to retake?"
"see above"
"How can you guarantee that you'll be able to handle medical school?"
"Have you received other interviews?"
"Tell me about your family."
"Tell me about your family"
"What do you do when you have free time?"
"Did your parents have any influence on your decision to be a doctor?"
"Why did you choose your undergraduate school?"
"Why did you take off 2 years between undergrad and medical school?"
"Tell me about your school?"
"Why did you choose medicine? How did you know this was the field for you?"
"Tell me about your research...how you got interested in spinal cord injury research."
"Favorite books?"
"So you just mentioned the reason you want to be a doctor is to help people, why not be a nurse instead?"
"What do you know about the direction in which health care is moving?"
"Is there any one doctor whom you interacted with that you would emulate? "
"How do you deal with stress?"
"How do you know you want to do medicine?"
"Why do you want to be a doctor (followed up four times with ''why''? as I gave each answer)?"
"Describe the importance of ethics and professionalism in medicine."
"Why do you want to become a doctor, why not become a nurse or a PA isntead?"
"Do you travel?"
"Are your parents influencing your decision to practice medicine?"
"Do you agree that cultural competency is a critical part of a medical education?"
"How is the health care system in Zambia?"
"Do you have any questions for me?"
"What would you do if you are not accepted to medical school?"
"Why did you decide to take a year off?"
"Do you feel that the United States government wants to help people with limited access to healthcare?"
"Ok now pretend you are the secretary of health, tell me how you will fix the health care system? "
"Tell me about your research?"
"My interviewer then proceeded to talk in great length about what he liked about the med school, which was kinda nice as I hadn't done any research on the school."
"Where do you see yourself in 10-15 years?"
"So tell me something else about you"
"Are you creative? (lol it seemed like this was just a really random question that was mandatory of her to ask at the end or something)"
"why do you want to be a doctor? Do you know what you want to specialize in?"
"How did you choose your undergraduate school?"
"What will be one of your biggest strengths/qualities as a physician? (something like that)"
"What should we do about patients who don't go to the doctor until it's too late?"
"IF for some reason you could not go into medicine, what would you do?"
"Why did you choose neuroscience as a major?"
"What do the members of your family do?"
"Why do you want to become a doctor"
"Describe your college life."
"What happened Junior year? (grade discrepancies)"
"How should we deal with the problem of increasing number of uninsured people in the country?"
"What are 3 of the problems faced by US Hlthcare system today?"
"Where do you see yourself ten years from now?"
"You mentioned there are good and bad aspects of medicine. Elaborate on the bad."
"What do you see as the most presisng issue the US healhcare sytem would have to deal with"
"Can you tell me about a problem with the US Healthcare system"
"What do you think about the uninsured?"
"What are your strengths"
"Tell me about the research that you did here at NJMS."
"Is there any pressure from you brother or family to do this? (My brother is currently in medical school)"
"What clinical experience do you have?"
"Why UMDNJ-NJMS?"
"What makes you tick?"
"Make sure you get the name of the interviewer. One of the applicants interviewing that day didn't didn't know the name of whoever interviewed him and had to ask the secretary (not good)."
"What kind of volunteer experiences have you had? "
"Talk about an important issue that the US health field is facing right now?"
"What are you looking for in a medical school?"
"What do you do to relax?"
"Do you know anything about the healthcare system? What should be done about all of the problems?"
"How would you deal with an uninsured person who shows up at your hospital if your hospital doesn't provide charity care?"
"What would your friends say are your greatest strengths? What would your mom say is your weakness?"
"If you had to choose between becoming a MD or PhD which one would you choose and why."
"What is the most important quality for a physician to have?"
"What do I do for fun? "
"What do you think can be done about the healthcare situation in the US? (This question was asked in the middle of conversation, not right out of the blue)"
"Describe what you know of stem cell research. Why do you think doctors and scientists are so excited about human embryonic stem cells?"
"What are you looking for in a school?"
"What kind of student were you in high school?"
"Tell me about your research."
"What do you like to do in your spare time (he asked me this twice)"
"You have an 80 year old patient who has amnesia (some specific kind)on top of many other illnesses. You walk into the room and overhear his family talking about who gets the ring, the watch, etc. What would you do?"
"What do you think are the biggest problems with the U.S. healthcare system?"
"Tell me about yourself, your family?"
"Verbal? (My weakest section)"
"what are some of your non-science experiences?"
"As an engineering student, you haven't had any biology. Do you think that it'll hold you back in medical school?"
"What are your thoughts on healthcare? Do you think its a privelege or a right?"
"Why do you want to be a doctor"
"Tell me about your published manuscript."
"What's something difficult for you? (example given as something the interviewer found difficult was death, especially in young people)"
"Wh did you choose Johns Hopkins University?"
"What do you want to do when you become a doctor?"
"What do you think about healthcare and what would you change? Why NJMS?"
"If you went to high school in this country, why is your MCAT score so low?"
"Where would you most like to practice medicine?"
"What would you do if a 60 year old man with no health insurance came to your private practice and needed a non-elective surgical procedure like open heart surgery?"
"Where do you see the future of healthcare?"
"the toughest question, check above."
"What about medicine really creates a spark in you?"
"Hypothetical from above"
"What have you been doing since college?"
"How would I describe myself? "
"Why medicine"
"Tell me about your family . . ."
"Tell me about your decision to pursue medicine. "
"What do you do to relax and get away from the stress in your life? "
"Tell me about your research and how it pertains to medicine? (My research was in the exercise science and psychology fields)."
"What are two problems facing healthcare today."
"What does your family do?"
"What do you like to do in your spare time? "
"Tell me about why you want to be a doctor"
"How can you go to medical school and also ensure that your children are adequately cared for?"
"Describe volunteer experiences. "
"Question regarding the uninsured citizens mentioned above"
"what do you look for in a med school? "
"tell me about you family, how would your friends describe you both positively and negatively"
"What do you like to do for fun?"
"What is your best quality?"
"What did you learn from your volunteering?"
"questions pertaining to the fact that physicians aim for a 90% survival rate...in other words, not everyone will be saved...what will you do in certain situations..etc."
"What made you decide to change careers? (Big change--my undergraduate work was in something completely different.)"
"those tough ethical questions above..."
"just review your amcas and be able to elaborate on it"
"So you are majoring in Biology."
"Who have been the most influential people in your life?"
"What do you think about today's economics and healthcare (insurance problems, etc), and how will you deal with uninsured and illegal patients?"
"Tell me two aspects of healthcare you see important in the future? Questions about managed care as well "
"What is your favorite book?"
"Describe your research? OK, but what role did you specifically have?"
"How do you feel about the HMO problem and how would you solve it?"
"What do you do for fun? "
"What skills do you have"
"Why take the MCAT again?"
"Talk about the new medicare bill that was recently passed."
"In college, how many times a week did you eat pizza?"
"How many brothers and sisters do you have? What do they do?"
"Why do you want to be a doctor. "
"Other than that it was basically...Tell me about yourself?"
"explain your mcat scores? "
"Why I picked the major that I had picked"
"Will the U.S. ever have adequate health care for all of its citizens?"
"What does your mother do?"
"A 19 year old Korean girl with leukemia. The parents (very quiet and conservative) do not want you to tell the girl that she has cancer. What do you do?"
"Why are you here? What will you do if you don't get accepted?"
"What do you know about the way healthcare is in the US? The ethical questions followed after this question. "
"What attributes/characteristics do you possess that will make you a good physician?"
"Tell me about your MCAT scores and Grades?"
"Why has your father inspired you so much (in my app)?"
"Tell me about Boston. What did you like about that city? (I went to undergrad there)"
"What fields of medicine are you interested in? "
"How did you decide on medicine/surgery?"
"What did I think of current healthcare in US? How could it be changed?"
"What type of specialty I'm interested in"
"Why New Jersey?"
"Specific questions about family (brothers, sisters), background, etc."
"Favorite kind of beer? ( worked in a brewery as a side job in college)"
"Where do you see yourself in fifteen years. What type of medicine will you be practicing, where, etc."
"How would your friends describe you?"
"What are the major problems with the healthcare system in the US today, and what are some viable solutions?"
"Why UMDNJ?"
"If it costs the same to give a boy with leukemia a bone marrow transplant as it does to treat 100 ill poor people, who should get the care?"
"Why do you want to attend NJMS?"
"Why do you want to be a doctor?"
"What are four qualities that you feel will make you a good doctor?"
"What field of Medicine currently interests you."
"What do you need to work on to make you a better doctor?"
"Why NJMS?"
"Tell me about yourself."
"What might be your solution for the large population without insurance. "
"Why do you want to come to this school?"
"Do you agree that there are less people applying to med school b/c the pay of a doctor is not as good as it used to be? (basically, she wanted to ask me are you in it for the money)"
"the rest were general interview questions about my application, medicine in general, etc."
"What makes a good physician?"
"What is one strength/weakness"
"Why not nursing?"
"What led you to medicine?"
"What specialty are you interested in?"
"Tell me about your family"
"Expand a bit about your experience as an EMT"
"Tell me more about (leadership position), have you learned anything from this that could translate to medicine?"
"What honors and awards have you received in college?"
"How did you find out that medicine was the right career path?"
"What are your hobbies"
"Why specifically do you want to be a doctor? There are many ways to combine servicing people and science. What is it about being a physician that you like/want for yourself?"
"What will you do if you are not accepted anywhere this year?"
"Is there a specialty you're interested in?"
"What are the ultimate goals of a physician? (kinda like what do you think should be the ultimate goals of a physician)"
"What area of medicine are you interested in?"
"What differentiates you from other applicants?"
"What do you think about medical reform?"
"Physiology question"
"What made you decide to become a doctor?"
"Where do I see myself in 10 years?"
"If you were dictator, what health care system would you implement? "
"What is the most recent book you read? The one before that? What is the most recent movie you saw? The one before that?"
"What is wrong with healthcare?"
"Why do you want to come to UMDNJ?"
"Why not Harvard/Yale/Hopkins?"
"What does your brother do?"
"What are the problems that you think health care is going to face in the future and how would you solve them?"
"Tell me about this situation here where your grades started to go up dramatically."
"What healthcare reforms would you propose?"
"Tell me about your experience with <insert AMCAS activity> and how does it relate to your desire to go to medical school?"
"Did you do any research?"
"How do you know you can handle the stress of medical school"
"Qualities you possess that would make you a good doctor / weaknesses that you would need to work on."
"Do you have any questions?"
"What is your brother up to?"
"Why NJMS (of course)?"
"Where do you see yourself in 10 years?"
"How will you adjust to living outside your home?"
"Asked me a little bit about my research and volunteer experience."
"Why not PhD?"
"How was volunteering in the clinic?"
"Why do you want to be a doctor?"
"How will you deal with the stress of medical school?"
"Tell me about your experience with . . .(basically he ran through my AMCAS experience list)."
"How have your previous experiences prepared you for medicine?"
"Why NJMS?"
"How would you avoid being burned-out by work in a community where socioeconomic status and lack of knowledge led to the constant rise of infectious disease, such as HIV?"
"What are the difficulties physicians face?"
"Why do you want to come to UMDNJ? How do your interests and the mission of the school combine to make a good fit?"
"What do you do in your spare time?"
"Why medicine and not public health?"
"Why do you want to go into pediatric oncology and how did your research lead you that way?"
"What is the failure of US healthcare?"
"What can I tell you about this school?"
"How do you know medicine is for you?"
"If you weren't interviewing here today and had 24 hours free to do whatever you like, what would you do?"
"about my classes"
"If you were in charge, what steps would you take to fix the healthcare system in America?"
"What is Alzheimer's Disease? What is Parkinson's? "
"how would you fix the problems of healthcare? What does the US does well in ters of providing health care"
"What else would you like me to tell you about the school? (he would ask this every time the conversation came to a pause, which must've occurred at least 5 times)"
"Tell me about the stem-cell research controversy."
"How many uninsured in America? How would you reduce costs?"
"What more would you like to know about this school?"
"What do you like to do to relax?"
"Why are you interested in our school?"
"What do you think about your MCAT scores?"
"We talked about languages and the importance of cultural awareness."
"What do you think about the current problems in health care?"
"What do you think about HMOs"
"What type of extracurricular activities have you been involved in?"
"What are some healthcare problems in the US today?"
"Tell me about your MCAT scores (it's considerably low wrt my GPA). "
"What one thing, other than what we already discussed, do you want me to tell the committee about you?"
"What do you think of your grades?"
"How would your friends describe you? (there were others, but this sticks out in my mind)"
"Where do you see yoursel in 10 years"
"What do you do during your spare time"
"Why do you want to go to NJMS."
"Are you happy with your mcat score?"
"What field(s) are you interested in?"
"What do your parents do/Do they support your decision to become a physician?"
"Manyt patients refuse to seek treatment until their diseased state has worsened. What would you do to circumvent this problem? "
"What are your strengths/ weaknesses"
"How do you deal with pts if Managed care only allowed you 15 min per patient?"
"What do you like about NJMS? "
"What is the most interesting class that I have take at Rutgers so far?"
"How did you get interested in medicine?"
"What approach would you take to get 'stubborn' people to go to the doctor?"
"What would you do if you were delivering a baby and it was extremely sick when it was born?"
"Why did you decide to take a year off between college and medical school?"
"What drives you?"
"Most students I talk to are most interested in primary care. Why aren't you?"
"Why did I take World Mythology and what I learned in that class?"
"Tell me about your research."
"What is the greatest book? "
"Why medicine?"
"Tell me about your mission to Guatemala..."
"Did you find chemistry hard? (that was my lowest grade on my transcript)"
"We discussed why I would want to go to school in NJ (I'm a NY resident)"
"When your not studying what do you do for fun?"
"You have a patient who was just found to have a malignant brain tumor. She is 19 years old. Her parents overheard the doctors talking and asked if you would not tell their daughter about her condition. What would you do?"
"How would your best friend describe you?"
"Tell me about your.. (research, study abroad, volunteer work)"
"How much do you want me to fight for you in the admissions committe? followed by, "what would you say if you were in front of the admissions committe?""
"what are your thoughts on this scenario: a person has been shot and the ambulance drives him to a nearby private hospital. the hospital refuses to treat him because he does not have insurance. by the time the ambulance reached a public hospital, the guy has passed away."
"Discuss specific grades. A whole bunch of other standard questions."
"Why NJMS"
"What have you learned from your extracurricular experiences?"
"I was asked about my EMT experiences."
"Tell me about your research"
"Tell me about your work abroad. Why did you go to XXX college?"
"What do you do in your job?"
"What do you think is the biggest problem in healthcare today?"
"What do you do in your spare/free time to relax?"
"Nothing else really, we mostly talked, well she talked."
"How will your best friend describe you?"
"Tell me about your work experience?"
"Why do you want to become a Doctor?"
"Healthcare problems/solutions"
"Am I satisfied with the grades I recieved during my undergraduate career? "
"What did you come to NJMS expecting to find?"
"Tell me about your research . . ."
"Tell me about your high school"
"Why specifically do you want to attend NJMS?"
"Do you have any questions to ask of me? (Be prepared with some intelligent questions to ask so that you aren't fishing for last minute questions at this point)."
"Why did I choose that particular subspecialty of medicine to practice in my medical career. "
"Why did you choose your undergraduate institution?"
"What is your strongest weakness?"
"Why didn't you go to medical school right after undergrad? (I'm a few years out) "
"Medical scenario questions as stated above: No real way to study for them, just make sure your truthful in your response."
"Would you treat an illegal immigrant"
"What do you think of preventive medicine?"
"WHY DO YOU WANT TO BE A DOCTOR"
"What do you think are qualities a physician should have?"
"What is your worst weakness?"
"What do you think of that cute lady to your left? (During our rounds in the hospital)"
"Do you have kids? (Followed by friendly advice not to put off having them and that it's perfectly possible, etc. The interviewer seemed like a very nice lady who was really interested in putting together a good class.)"
"why do you want to go to newark?"
"Where else did you apply?"
"What would you like me to tell the admissions committee about you?"
"What was your favorite part of college?"
"Where else have you applied? Where do you really want to go?"
"What will you do for a year if you do not get accepted?"
"How would you solve the health insurance problems that people face in the US?"
"Why do you think you did not get in last time after you interviewed?"
"What do you want the admissions committee to know"
"Describe your experience with such and such activity."
"Did your parents force you to become a doctor?"
"What qualities do you feel would make you a good doctor? Why do you want to be a doctor?"
"What do you want to do with your degree - specialty? teaching?"
"How do your parents feel about your attending medical school? "
"your weakness?"
"What experiences have I had in college relating to medicine such as any research or clinical experience"
"How do you feel about your MCAT score?"
"What happened during your junior year that your grades went down?"
"A 30 year old heroine addict who is pregnant (6 months) for the 4th time (3 other children in foster care). She is non-compliant with her medications and does not show up for her appointments. What do you do? "
"What do you do for fun?"
"What specialty and why?"
"With 41 million un/under-insured Americans, what role can you play as a physician to address this disparity?"
"What is your opinion of HMOs and healthcare today?"
"Where do you see your career heading? What fields? What's your grand plan?"
"Tell me about your family."
"Talk about something that you are interested in (not medicine)."
"Where else did you apply? Which school your number one choice? (followed by "you don't have to tell me that this one is... odd)."
"How would I contribute to the school?"
"Problem with healthcare"
"How would other people describe you?"
"How did you handle working with living subjects? ( I did research on rhesus monkeys)"
"How do you feel about your MCAT scores. (they are fine, so it was an odd question)"
"What kind of medicine are you interested in?"
"What do you do for fun? Activities, family, future goals as a physician "
"How would your friends describe you as a person?"
"Why did you take French as a language when Spanish is so much more important?"
"What schools have you been admitted to?"
"What does your family think about your decision to become a doctor?"
"How do you feel about caring for indigent and/or uninsured patients (opinions on insurance and healthcare coverage)?"
"What would you do if you did not get into Medical School this time....Try again, ofcourse!!!!"
"Why should we pick you? Why NJ Medical School?"
"List 3 strengths/weaknesses."
"What do you do to get away from your studies?"
"how did you feel your experiences while growing up shaped your mindset. "
"Describe your youth growing up."
"What are your hobbies?"
"how will you address social determinants of health as a doctor?"
"Nothing was too interesting"
"Asking about a specific social event they have and how it parallels my experience in college"
"How does your mom feel about you doing medicine?"
"What would you do if you couldn't become a doctor"
"What does your father do for a living? Your Mother?"
"Tell me about your family"
"Tell me how you feel about the single payer healthcare system"
"How should we deal with physicians who are no longer competent to practice (as a result of mental illness, substance addictions, or otherwise)?"
"They were all very straightforward."
"What is a moral dilemma that you have had to overcome?"
"What else would you have done if you weren't working this year?"
"What are your hobbies"
"What was one thing you would change about your past/record? (I'm a non-traditional with a tainting first semester of undergrad)"
"Healthcare Reform"
"What do you think you would be doing if you had stayed in your country of birth?"
"If you were going to build the ideal doctor's personality, what would you include? What if that doctor was managing other doctors?"
"What have other physicians told you about being a doctor?"
"Had quite a few questions ethics. I find medical ethics particularly interesting, but maybe that's just me..."
"How can we reduce malpractice? (it's a piggy back on me talking about how malpractice is a huge part of medical costs right now)"
"Are you really really sure about medicine"
"Would you make house calls?"
"The questions were all pretty standard."
"all usual"
"all pretty standard"
"What would you do if you couldn't fix a problem with a patient? (student interview question)"
"Nothing was really a surprise."
"Since it was the day after the election, we talked a lot about Obama's health care plan and what it meant for the future of medicine in America"
"What do you know about the healthcare crisis?"
"Do you like Chinese food?"
"What are the side-effects of Gardasil?"
"You say you are Hispanic, but your last name is Asian. What happened there? (She actually said the question in Spanish)"
"What do you like to read?"
"Compare and contrast the healthcare system of some country you may be familiar with with the one in the U.S."
"How did you feel about <certain incident> described in your personal statement."
"None. The interviewer read questions off a list."
"How do you write?"
"Nothing interesting, basic interview questions"
"How would you help medically indigent individuals?"
"Nothing too out of the ordinary, just basic interview questions. Maybe why did you decided to take off 2 years before medical school (not really interesting but...)"
"What are 2 major issues in healthcare today?"
"So how is the nightlife in your area?"
"Nothing really"
"I talked about working in a clinic where the patients spoke a language that I did not. He asked how I thought the patients felt."
"My personal stance on US healthcare system."
"Do you think you would make a good doctor?"
"How do you cope with stress, and separating everyday stress from your studies and schooling?"
"What skills from my previous experiences will help me in medicine"
"What case have you seen that most interested you?"
"A case-profile of a admitted cancer patient and the attending's ethical breach was presented, I was asked to respond as the resident...what I would do both in the interest of the young patient and that of medical ethics."
"If my mom needs open-heart surgery should government-sponsored health care cover it?"
"What do you think you can bring to the Doctor-Patient interactin. (Basically, whats your personality like)"
"What do you think needs to be done to solve the US healthcare system's problems?"
"No questions that were particularly thought provoking, they were pretty generic"
"Does medicine often fall victim to ''invention is the mother of necessity?''"
"If there was one thing you would bring from Zambia (my country or birth), what would it be?"
"How do you think you will deal with the type of patients usually seen here? (urban, low socio-economic standing, uneducated)"
"the future of health care reform/possibility of universal health care in the US"
"If you weren't interviewing here today and had 24 hours free to do whatever you like, what would you do?"
"What do your parents think about your applying to Medical school"
"Were you surprised you were invited for an interview? Why do you think so?"
"How I got into Hopkins with a 1400 SAT score. "
"What are a physicians expectations for treating the uninsured?"
"If you were dictator of the United States, what would you do with the healthcare system?"
"If you were able to change the healthcare system in the United States in order to deliver healthcare to everyone, how would you do it?"
"Tell me about *** experience."
"If you were the sole person in charge of the American health care system, what would you do to change it?"
"It was all good... I dunno about interesting.. Asked me some random bio question?"
"What are some of your hobbies?"
"What do you think of the conflict between China and Taiwan? (I'm Chinese.)"
"We talked about my major (kinesiology)."
"I was not really asked questions. The only thing I was asked was tell me about yourself, which I did. He asked me to expand on one research experience which I did. He then talked for the next 50 minutes about how great Newark was."
"Where do you see yourself practicing medicine?"
"What do you think about providing medical care to the underserved medical community?"
"I honestly cannot remember a single question I was asked."
"What do you think is the highest goal for a physician?"
"How should a physician deal with the problems of obesity and smoking?"
"What kind of medicine I would like to practice and why I chose that field."
"He asked what I did when I wasn't doing anything medically-related. Not incredibly interesting, but it was a rather ho-hum interview anyway."
"Tell me what you think about the US Healthcare system."
"How is it working at a religious medical school? (I do research at a Seventh Day Adventist school)"
"None really"
"What's your nickname (I have a rather difficult and rare name)"
"What have you learned about physicians from working at a pharmacy?"
"Tell me the most interesting thing about you."
"How would your friends describe you"
"Would you spend more time with your patients even if you were under time constraints"
"How would your friends (others) describe you?"
"Did you know what the average science GPA is for african-american students?"
"If you were placed in front of the admissions committee right now, what will you tell them to convince them to accept you."
"We talked about football for a while, that was interesting."
"Tell me about your Criminology class."
"I was not asked anything too interesting, it was mostly conversational."
"How do you feel about HMO's?"
"What makes you tick?"
"How do we deal with pts who are not willing to come to doctor? Beyond educating patients, what else can be done?"
"do you know what kind of bacteria causes the bubonic plague? have you ever played a musical instrument? what foreign countries have you been to? tell me about all of these "behavioral" classes you have taken. "
"What are your favorite TV shows?"
"How do you feel about working with underserved populations?"
"What do you see as a problem in health care today"
"Where did you go to high school? (who really cares?)"
"Would you spend over 15 minutes with each patient even thought this puts you in conflict with MCOs that dictated this time limit?"
"Tell me about your research."
"What drives you to get up in the morning besides medicine and research?"
"What is the most important quality for a physician to have?"
"Why did I take World Mythology and what I learned in that class? (just came up in a conversation...not really an official question) "
"nothing really.."
"How would you feel about treating patients in a largely urban environment where the bulk of the patients are minorities? (I didn't know what the interviewer was looking for because I happen to be a minority and he could obviously see that) "
"Explain about this paper you wrote (from my amcas application)"
"Tell me what you know about US healthcare?"
"If you could change anything, what would it be? (this question was applicable to anything in one's life, not just academic)"
"What sports teams I like."
"How do you know you want to be a doctor?"
"Should immigrant workers that are documented have the right to healthcare here in the states?"
"How do you plan to reach the poor and the medically indigent?"
"Do you know anything about the history of medicine? Was also asked if I was a Yankees fan. (not so much an interesting question, but certainly odd)"
"If you were standing in front of the admissions committe what would you say?"
"do you realize all the "
"Did you apply to the University of Cincinatti? Why not?"
"If someone was in college, what kind of major would you reccommend in preparation for medical school? Would you reccommend a social sciences/humanities major, pure science, or engineering like yours (BME) and why?"
"If you didn't become a doctor, what would you do?"
"What do you do for fun?"
"Why did you choose the saxaphone? ( it never occurred to me why i chose it and so I had to think for a second.)"
"Why does the United States have a deficit? (since I am an economics major)"
"What would you like your legacy to be?"
"Just asked me about my application, but nothing really interesting."
"What do I think about the separation of church and state on a national and international level?"
"What kind of books do you read?"
"How will your best friend describe you?"
"why did you leave Hawaii to go to college in New Hampshire (Dartmouth)? why did you choose Columbia to complete your post-bacc pre-med requirements?"
"No one question in particular. I thought the whole interview was a pretty good conversation from start to finish"
"None. All were standard questions"
"What surprised you about America's criminal justice system after taking criminal justice this semester?"
"Hypothetical situation: how would you handle an uncompliant patient?"
"You've diagnosed me with the disease you're studying (I work in a clinical lab). What do you tell me? I started to stumble on this one, so I deferred to the interviewer which started an interesting conversation on what people do tell patients who have new diagnoses."
"policy about insurance fraud"
"How I planned to balance having a family and a career as a doctor? "
"4 years ago, you were picking colleges and you decided on X. What has surprised you or made you happy that you went there?"
"What do you think of socialized medicine?"
"Why did you study German?"
"Why do you want to go to NJMS?"
"If I (interviewer) asked your friends "What are some of your least favorite characteristics about Daniel (me)?", what would they say?"
"About my research papers."
"As a minority, how would you give back to your people if you were to become a physician?"
"Describe how you are a pioneer and a leader."
"What would you like the admission committee to know about you?"
"What do you think is the solution to lowering the number of individuals who do not seek medical care?"
"What are your hobbies?"
"The interview was great, very laid back, and my evaluator was filling in for someone, although she was on the adcom. She asked very few structured questions, and focused directly on specific things in my application that she wanted clarified. Overall, a great experience. "
"What will be the two major issues affecting health care in the next five years?"
"How can you go to medical school and also ensure that your children are adequately cared for?"
"How to change the health care system and what to do with the increasing amount of malpractice suits."
"What do you do in your free time?"
"What do you think about the mounting uninsured population in the United States? As a physician, what would you do for these people?"
"Being asian, did your parents force you into medicine?"
"How do feel about managed care"
"Tell me about yourself. Interviewer went in depth asking about background, childhood, high school, and college experiences."
"How do you believe computers influence and help medicine today?"
"Why is your last name different than your Dad's, though it's the same as your mom's, yet ur parents are married..."
"It was pretty by-the-numbers. Why do you want to be a doctor, why did you make the decision to change careers, how will you handle being in med school with a husband. "
"what would you do for a terminally ill patient, who had lost consciousness and had no hope for recovery if 1. she had asked to be kept alive 2. she left no directives, but her family wanted her kept alive"
"all questions were about extracurriculars and pretty much just asked to further explain what was on amcas. nothing too dificult."
"How do you feel about healthcare in America? "
"How did you know you wanted to be a neuroscience major?"
"Do you know how much tuition is for this school?"
"What do you think about today's economics and healthcare (insurance problems, etc), and how will you deal with uninsured and illegal patients?"
"If you were trying to open a medical practice in an urban area as Newark, how will you attract patients, and teach them about preventive medicine, regular checkups because here they tend to not trust doctors and wait until last minute when the problems become worse?"
"Why did you switch your major? What specifically did you not like about it?"
"Nothing, she asked the same old questions, then grilled me to the ground."
"All the questions were pretty interesting."
"nothing interesting"
"I was asked what skills/qualities I possessed in terms of wanting to be a doctor and to give examples of things I have done to examplify them."
"What is the biggest healthcare issue you see in the next 5 years?"
"None"
"If I were a boating captain in charge of transporting oil across seas, what measures what I use to prevent an oil spill from occuring in the ocean?? (Based on this Environmental Disasters class I had)"
"None was overly interesting."
"What will you do if you don't get in this year? (I had just been accepted 2 days prior and actually forgot this fact until after I answered, so to me this was really funny knowing that I don't actually have to "work harder and try again next year")"
"Describe yourself using as many one word adjectives as you would like."
"What's your favorite movie?"
"if there is one think you would like to change form the past, what would it be?"
"Nothing too difficult, just standard questions"
"Why did you choose your undergraduate institution?"
"None, my interviewer forgot she was supposed to be on rounds and had to cut the interview short. Questions were very basic: Tell me about yourself, tell me about your family, grade explanation, and that was all."
"The doctor asked many ethical questions...she gave me multiple cases that had come up in front of the ethics board at the hospital and I had to tell her what I would do in those cases."
"Why did Abraham choose Isaac and not Ismael, and where was Sara during all of this? (in reference to a philosophy class I took!)"
"Ethical questions that were based on real life situations my interviewer had encountered as a physician"
"In your medical practice, how would you address patients that want to take herbal remedies for their ailments?"
"What was your opinion on HMO's and healthcare today?"
"Do you think you would just do research once getting an MD/PhD like many people with that degree do?"
"Which do you think was your most problematic course?"
"Where do you think medicine (any aspect of it, clinical, research, etc.)is going in 5 years?"
"Nothing really interesting. Asked about research and grades."
"What the most important problem in healthcare for society, and what is it from your point of view?"
"As a female, how would I cope with a family and career?"
"Do you think it's fair for a 60 yr old male to be denied surgery by its insurance company due to his age?"
"Nothing "interesting." Standard interview questions."
"What would you do if you don't get into med school this year?"
"Why would you still want to go into medicine, since your father is an MD and you know all the problems in the system right now?"
"What was your childhood like?"
"what do you want to be when you grow up?"
"Give me 2 pressing issues in medicine today."
"What would you do if a patient came to you wanting oxycontin?"
"How would I educate a population to be more proactive about their health?"
"There are 3 types of successful medical students - ones who have amazing memories, ones who work extremely hard, and ones who have an amazingly strong science background. Under which category do you fall? (This was from the med student interviewer)"
"Bioethics case scenario"
"Tell me why you should be accepted to this school."
"How would you deal with a patient population that is largely poor and uninsured?"
"Disadvantages with current health care system, how affects doctors and has this discouraged you?"
"how did you manage your time between academics and extracurriculars in college?"
"Nothing too interesting...just standard questions about my application, academic record, activities, about my research...etc."
"What are your thoughts on the present condition of managed care in the US?"
"What is my opinionon managed care?"
"What is the meaning of your name?"
"What should we do with the non/underinsured?"
"Nothing too interesting"
"How should we deal with those people who can not afford healthcare? Do they deserve it and how should we provide for them?"
"Why do you like research?"
"How would you begin to solve the problem of the large population without health insurance. "
"None really - just very specific to my application. You could tell the researcher had done his homework to find out additional information about my activities. "
"What do you like to do for fun?"
"Tell me about this college class you took in high school? What?"
"basic stuff about my activities, jobs, research..."
"none. just general questions about my application, activities, etc."
"how would you advise a fellow student who wanted to find a research position? (she's a PhD and even tried to convince me to go into MD/PhD)"
"standard questions, nothing too interesting"
"What makes a good leader? Tell me about a project you built from the start"
"What is one positive and negative thing your mom/dad would say about you?"
"Weren't any difficult questions but my interviewed did tell me I was wrong after every answer, even after the why do you want to go here question"
"Why medicine for reasons stated below"
"Name one medical discovery from the last 5 years that has really impressed you"
"Tell me about an ethical dilemma"
"No difficult questions, he was pretty direct"
"How did you overcome your past and find confidence"
"Do you read any physician writers?"
"Healthcare policy question."
"In 10 years, what do you want your patients to say about you?"
"What was the most difficult thing you did in life?"
"Explain your previous academic record"
"What specifically about being a physician, because my interviewer kept giving me examples of other careers that would also sort of encompass what I was saying."
"Healthcare Reform"
"Can you tell me how the healthcare reform will affect doctors?"
"What 3 words would your friends use to describe you?"
"What do you think you'll be doing that is medically-related outside of work?"
"Give me an example of how math is applied to medical research."
"The interview was very conversational and laid back. The interviewer wasn't trying to interrogate me or stump me. He just wanted to get an idea of what kind of a person I am and what kind of a physician I would become. The questions were not difficult, they were probing."
"Tell me about health care and reform in the US. (was more open-ended than I expected)"
"What goals should a doctor have / what fields should a doctor explore (looks like he wanted to hear 1. clinician 2. research AND 3. teacher"
"How would you implement X health policy in the community? (Referring to my interest in public health.)"
"Again, the questions were all pretty standard."
"all usual"
"all pretty easy"
"Why do your grades suck? (paraphrase)"
"If your parents were here, what would they say you need to improve on when you start medical school? (asked by student interviewer)"
"Can you tell me the differences in the socialized health care systems of Denmark vs. Great Britain? (in relation to my study abroad experience)"
"If a patient comes into your practice with no insurance, what do you do?"
"What is one area of medicine in which you'd like to see more work being done?"
"Tell me about yourself (and then he didn't say anything for the next 30 minutes...until I really ran out of stuff to say about myself)"
"What are the side-effects of Gardasil? (Because this has been a topic of contention recently) and What is wrong with healthcare?"
"Question 3"
"What do you think about the state of healthcare today?"
"Explain reason for some bad grades and why it won't happen once you are here."
"Explain this discrepancy in your grades."
"Tell me about yourself. (the question is not hard, but the interviewer seemed so bored that it came out of nowhere, and I couldnt figure out if what kind of answer she wanted: personality, where i grew up, intellect, etc)"
"same - how do you write?"
"Nothing too difficult, asked about the basics (grades, family, interests, etc)"
"What do you know about the direction that medical insurance is moving in? (current issues)"
"Nothing really. Why do you want to study and work in this community (only difficult if you don't know about the area/community I think)"
"all about the same"
"How will you deal with living outside your home?"
"What do you think of the healthcare delivery system?"
"Same as above."
"How would you fix our current health care system to help the under and un-insured?"
"NONE...VERY LAID BACK"
"What is a specific example of your ability to handle a stress"
"Explain the heart transplant you saw."
"If you had reason to believe your family ever showed serious concern over your decision-making capability, when would that be and why?"
"Describe the importance of ethics in medicine."
"Same as the most interesting"
"Same."
"What makes me think I can handle medicine?"
"Convince me that you're not going to hitchike out of here to a kibbutz, if we place our investment in you."
"What do you think about the healthcare system in the US? What's good? What's bad? How would you improve it?"
"How do you think you will deal with the type of patients usually seen here? (urban, low socio-economic standing, uneducated)"
"see above; being grilled on most recent research projects (I was asked to clearly explain what I did, experimental design of the project, results, etc.)"
"If you weren't interviewing here today and had 24 hours free to do whatever you like, what would you do?"
"The interviewer just kept asking if I had any questions for her. There was nothing too specific or memorable."
"What are the different forms of healthcare systems out there, what system does Britain use, what can be done to fix them?"
"Were you surprised you were invited for an interview? Why do you think so?"
"What was Hillary Clintons health care bill?"
"What are a physicians expectations for treating the uninsured?"
"What else would you like to know about New Jersey Medical School? (asked this repeatedly)"
"Tell me about the healthcare plan that Hilary Clinton had propsed when Bill Clinton was in office?"
"How would you fix healthcare? (for some reason I got stumped on this...)"
"Random bio questions on my research"
"none. this was really a no-stress interview."
"What was your biggest mistake?"
"There really weren't any hard questions, it was mainly just a conversation."
"What do you think can be done for those without medical insurance?"
"How would you fix the problems with insurance companies in healthcare today?"
"I was only asked one question."
"Nothing difficult. The closest one would be: Name three problems with healthcare and how would you fix them?"
"He didn't ask any difficult questions. I was surprised."
"What do you think about HMOs"
"None of the questions were particularly difficult."
"How should the healthcare problems in your hometown (uninsured, rural) be addressed?"
"Most minority men don't do regular check up doctor visits. How would u convince them that routine check up is important if they already have the mentality that it is difficult and expensive."
"If you were the commissioner of the healthcare field, what would you do to change the impression that people have of doctors today?"
"What do you think about the US healthcare system"
"low MCAT question"
"Can you tell me about a problem within the US Health Care System? (something to that effect) - be prepared for a question like this; it will definitely be asked in one form or another. Also, the interviewer asked me about an inconsistency in one part of my grades -if you have some sort of inconsistency, be prepared, but more importantly, be honest and clear."
"How would your friends describe you?"
"what do you think about HMOs and what will you do about it"
"No really difficult questions."
"Explain the weakness in your application."
"Nothing"
"What do you think about rising malpractice insurance rates?"
"What are three most significant problems in medicine today?"
"There were no questions that threw me for a loop."
"1. What are 3 issues US healthcare is facing today? "
"how would you fix our health care system?"
"Why do I want to be a doctor and Why did you apply to NJMS?"
"You have pretty good grades, but tell me why you have a C in chemistry? Is that a hard subject for you? (taken during my first year of college)"
"What are two things that you see as a problem for practicing physicians"
"If you were a doctor and you had a lot of patients coming in to see you and none had health insurance what would you do?"
"What is your flaw?"
"What percentage of the GNP does healthcare represent in the United States? In Western Europe?"
"Strengths/weaknesses"
"Where have you demonstrated leadership as an undergraduate student (based off my LORs)?"
"My interviewer says she only asks one question for every interview: What's the biggest problem with healthcare in America today?"
"again nothing I didn't expect"
"Thoughts on this scenario: You're driving and you see a car accident along the side of the highway. Do you stop to help the victims knowing you could be sued for malpractice? (Some people find that this question is easy to answer but it's hard to answer it not knowing what your interviewer will think of you afterwards)"
"Why is your writing sample score so low? What happened?"
""Will your parents be mad if you dont get into medical school this year?" I rashly replied no since I have already been accepted at other schools. I had to cover my tail by telling him last year I applied and didnt get in and my parents told me to keep at my dream and dont give up. "
"what is the biggest problem facing healthcare system"
"None really."
"A patient comes in to the emergency room on some substance, pregnant, and HIV positive. She already has 4 kids who are cared for by her mother. She will not listen to you. She's loud, combative, and just wants to leave. What would you do?"
"Why should we accept you?"
"Why should we accept you? (along those lines)"
"None, questions were mostly what I had expected"
"what are some of your non-science experiences? (my mind drew blank when i realized that i've forgotten to review my resume and then i tried recalling as many as possible on the spot)"
"How do you think that you will do in medical school? This question is tricky b/c if you say that you're going to smoke it, they'll think you're cocky, but obviously you can't say that you're going to struggle, either."
"Explain some grades, specific questions from my file, transcripts, etc."
"What do you think about the healthcare/insurance issues? Do you think HMOs help or hinder the healthcare field?"
"Describe the biggest problem facing healthcare."
"Why does India have no EMS system? (since I am from India and I am an EMT)"
"What is the greatest book? ( I sort of answered what my favorite book is, not necessarily the greatest.)"
"None, but was very fixated on why my MCAT score was so low (it's only in the low 30s)."
"If a sick woman came to you but did not have health insurance would you treat her?"
"What would you do to improve health in a low-income urban area given your public health background?"
"Where do you see the future of healthcare?"
"How can the problem of lack of healtcare insurance for minorities can be solved? What can we do in terms of prevention?"
"What do you envison for the future of healthcare?"
"How would I feel about learning medicine in an urban medical envirnoment where the patient population was largely minorities that didnt take good care of themselves. Would I go into medicine if the system became socialized Explain my poor grades in my junior and senior years. "
"The interview was really laid back, I wasn't asked any difficult questions. It was more of a conversation about my college career and extracurriculars."
"How would you solve the insurance crisis? I stumbled on this one, but now I feel more confident for future interviews. I guess if there were easy answers, there wouldn't be a crisis."
"same"
"How would I fix the problems facing health care today? "
"not really any difficult questions"
"What do you think of socialized medicine?"
"Why did you study German?"
"Ditto above."
"Why did I want to go to NJMS."
"I was asked how I would deal with a patient who needed a surgery but didn't have insurance... when I said that, if the case was life threatening, I would do everything possible (i.e. look for charity or corporate sponsors), the interview asked how I would deal with the global strain on tax payers by taking on a case like this... I think I answered okay though."
"What do you think is the biggest problem facing medicine today and how would you go about fixing it?"
"What will you do should you be rejected to all schools? (While the question itself was not difficult, answering it correctly was a bit challenging. I found it a lose-lose kind of question. If I said that I wasn't go to stop until I was accepted, I might appear to be a dreamer. However, if I offered an alternate career path, the interviewer might misconstrue this as having a lack of committment to the field of medicine)."
"If you were practicing here at UMDNJ, What kind of research project would you come up with? How would you go about it? ( I have a lot of research experience)"
"N/A"
"As a re-applicant, what have you done in the recent year to improve your application and why have you not taken any additional coursework?"
"How do are you a scholor"
"Some medical scenario questions regarding a woman having Huntington's disease (dominant disease) and she has 2 children (aged 31 and 29) and she doesn't want to tell them that she has the disease because there is a 50% chance that either of them have the disease. What do you do?"
"How would you, as a doctor, deal with the growing unmber of uninsured Americans?"
"Please see above"
"What do you think of preventive medicine? (threw me off balance) "
"How do you feel about HMO's and managed care, I didn't know how to answer these questions"
"What do you think will effect physicians ability to treat patients in the future?"
"What will you as a doctor, personally bring to the field of medicine?"
"What did u learn from ur volunteering (like she kept asking over and over)..."
"As above, nothing really difficult. Because I'm a non-trad with an extensive work history, we spent most of the time going over my CV, and I would tell her about various parts."
"One of the hypothetical medical situations she gave me."
"If you were granted acceptance at the end of your interview day, and you had to make a decision right then, would you come here? "
"How will you balance your family with your career as a physician?"
"Where is the medical field going? How will you change it? How do you think professors should change their teaching styles with these changes? And do you see any problems that medicine will face?"
"A question about HMO's"
"I was given a scenario where a patient had terminal cancer and was in severe pain. It a physician assistant suicide issue and I had to state my stand. "
"above?"
"No difficult questions"
"How do I feel about caring for an indigent population?"
"Nothing difficult in the slightest bit. Mostly a conversational interview...likes/dislikes, hobbies, etc."
"if there is one think you would like to change form the past, what would it be?"
"Just standard questions"
"If I talked to your friends, what would they say are your strenghts? and your weaknesses?"
"Explain some of your poor grades."
"The ethical questions. "
"How do I expect to make a living during the health care crisis?"
"What was my greatest failure in life?"
"nothing really difficult"
"Where cloning research was done, differences between US and Canada health systems"
"Same question"
"only typical questions"
"I know what you liked about working in a clinical setting, what didn't you like? "
"See above... I gave a really stupid answer for the "my point of view" one"
"see above"
"About my MCAT scores (were not that great) "
"DO you think that a doctor can earn their patients trust in the short amount of time spent with each patient?"
"None."
"How do you plan on motivating a community of people who does not attempt to get health care to do so?"
"nothing really"
"None really mostly about myself."
"Why did you switch your undergraduate major? Are you an indecisive person? (This was from the faculty interviewer)"
"Same as above"
"What would you do about the problem with the uninsured?"
"Why not more volunteering experiences? (this was a weakness on my application, the lack of clinical experience)"
"none really"
"None...only non-personal question he asked was about my opionion on managed care."
"Why would you make a good doctor?"
"None"
"ditto."
"Nothing too difficult either"
"above"
"None of the questions were very difficult."
"Nothing too challenging"
"what will you bring to the program (in light of my low scores), and any final things to add?"
"Describe the research you did as an undergraduate (I did very technical research which is hard to describe without pictures, next time I will take some pictures with me)."
"how do you feel about the problem of the uninsured? (but not too difficult b/c that question was expected.)"
"SDN questions"
"I made sure to know my personal statement and activity list very well."
"Random question generator"
"Practice with parents/friends"
"Online research"
"Read the school website, read the responses here, browse Reddit. practice answers to the common questions with friends."
"Read school website, preparing to be confident"
"Reviewed the school's website. Make sure you understand their mission statement."
"SDN interview feedback, youtube channels on how to prepare for interview questions"
"SDN, school site, review primary and secondary applications."
"Reviewed AMCAS, secondary essays, looked up NJMS"
"Reviewed my research, thought carefully about answers to common interview questions"
"Mock interview with premed adviser, prepared answers to most common questions seen on SDN"
"Student Doctor Interview feedback, reviewing my secondary essays, and the school website."
"Review basic interview questions. They were all asked."
"Read about ethics, health care reform (neither of which was talked about)"
"As a non-traditional I have a longer path to this point so I diagramed it, and thought about key points for each time period that I definitely wanted the person to know."
"Read up on current info about healthcare reform, read over primary and secondary applications"
"Read interview feedback, practice with a friend going into a healthcare profession, rehearsed responses to common questions."
"Briefly looked over the admissions website, reviewed my research."
"Mock interview(s), SDN, AMCAS app, practice in front of friends. Talking to random strangers and gaining confidence talking to strangers."
"Research on the internet, especially health care reform news and the AMA website. Practiced interview questions."
"school's website, SDN."
"This site, staying current with the news and health care reform (via CNN and NYTimes), brushing up on medical ethics, reviewing AMCAS and school's website"
"SDN, reviewed amcas app, look at school website"
"SDN, school website, primary, newspaper"
"SDN, school's website, reviewed AMCAS and secondary apps."
"Read website, SDN feedback"
"SDN, MSAR, nytimes.com for the current events of the health insurance debacle, my AMCAS application."
"SDN, Healthcare books, school website"
"SDN, MSAR, school website"
"SDN, school website, healthcare reading on wikipedia"
"SDN interview feedback, UMDNJ website, briefly read over US, England, and Canada health care policies"
"mock interview, SDN"
"SDN Feedback...interviewer pretty much asked the exact questions that others previously listed"
"SDN, School Website, my file"
"Secondary application, school website, SDN"
"AMCAS application, SDN, read up on healthcare in US."
"Didn't."
"SDN, MSAR, school website, Obama's and McCain's website for health care plan."
"schoo wb, sdn, amcas"
"SDN, school website, went over applications"
"Read sdn, talked to people in the school about it, wikipedia about healthcare"
"Looked at NJMS website, SDN, personal statement, reviewed medical ethics information."
"SDN, amcas app, school website"
"SDN, practicing interview questions with family/friends"
"Read healthcare books, medical school interview books, SDN, practice in front of mirror"
"SDN, mock interviews"
"SDN, Website, Healthcare book"
"SDN feedback, used Barron's Guide and went through the sample questions, researched the school website, talked to a friend who goes there"
"1 or 2 mock interviews with admissions counselors that I knew. I read the first section of the Wall Street Journal the 5 business days before the interview. Reviewed the website and asked anyone I knew that was related to the school questions."
"mock interview, research school"
"Looked over current events, browsed the school website, my AMCAS application and went through the interview feedback on student doctor"
"Compiled all my personal stories, read up on healthcare, ethics, news..."
"Read SDN, application, State of the Union, NJMS web site"
"Reviewed app + SDN"
"SDN, questions from other interviews, studied up on general working of healthcare system."
"SDN, AMCAS, online practice questions"
"SDN, AMCAS application, school website"
"SDN, health politics, internship logs, and brochure"
"A review of my own performance and the school's interest...this was my second interview at the school this year."
"med school interview guidebooks, SDN, AMCAS, school website"
"Re-read AMCAS and essays, check out school wesbite, also went on the tour before my interview (highly suggested)"
"SDN, MSAR, school's website"
"Read the website, AMSAR"
"SDN feedback to review questions"
"SDN reviews, website, practice"
"SDN, researched health care on the internet, school website."
"mock interview, looked over prep Q's from my school's careers office, a little bit of review of my research (I had a hard time finding info about the school's curriculum but luckily they handed me an informative packet while I waited in the AM)"
"SDN, School website, personal statement"
"SDN, Website"
"studentdoctor, website"
"SDN, read brochure, dean's letter, NJMS stats for 2005"
"SDN and AMCAS"
"Looked at website, read brochure, practiced basic question answers"
"SDN, read a couple magazine articles"
"SDN, school website, read up on current issues, went to interview prep workshop"
"experience, school's website"
"SND, read over AMCAS, looked at school website"
"Student doctor net, school website"
"Read SDN feedback, looked at school's website."
"reread amcas, school website, student doctor, read on managed health care in the US, and universal healthcare"
"SDN, read the school website, looked over AMCAS."
"tried to relax, reread amcas, read up on school website"
"SDN, read up on HMOs, etc..."
"SDN, AMCAS and googled some other interview questions "
"AMCAS, SDN, school website"
"other interviews, SDN, mock interviews, relaxation"
"SDN, my AMCAS app"
"SDN, talking with my mentor (neonatologist)"
"SDN website, reviewed my research papers, reviewed AMCAS information"
"read my AMCAS, school's website, talked with my cousin who graduated from NJMS."
"SDN, AMCAS application"
"SDN, Websites related to US Hlthcare, AMCAS primary, school web site "
"Read studentdoctor feedback, talked to others who had interviews, researched possible questions online"
"SDN; other interviews; read current ethical issues"
"school website, SDN always"
"spoke to people who had been interviewed there, sdn, and website"
"Read of my AMCAS, read the school's website extensively, researched healthcare issues/opinions/etc, thought about strengths and weaknesses, why I wanted to be a doctor (which was asked as well), and I chose reasons why I liked NJMS. Prepare for the interview, but don't over-prepare because it was not a stressful process."
"website, application, AMCAS"
"this website, read code of ethics from AMA website but I didnot have any questions on ethics"
"SDN, mock interview, previous interviews"
"this website, the schools website, and mock interviews"
"SDN, AMCAS, and kept calm"
"read school's website"
"SDN, Re-read primary and secondary"
"SDN, reviewed my research literature, and read school's website. "
"Read questions from SDN (This is key, most of my questions they asked, I already knew). Reviewed school website, looked up current eventsl."
"current events, articles about our health care system, NJmed website, this site "
"studentdoctor.net, NJMS website, help from my peers"
"this website, mock interviews, reading the school's website"
"Had a few mock interviews and read the brochure on the school."
"Studentdoctor.net, school website"
"SDN, Mock interview, read over the school's website"
"Read feedback on SDN, mock interviews at my undergrad school, read articles, talked to current medical students"
"SDN, website, health care reform books/articles, current events"
"Mock interview, Read their brochure, looked at this website."
"SDN, read some articles on some of the current issues (Terry Schiavo, etc...), read over my AMCAS app, school website"
"SDN, went over my personal statement, read the website"
"SDN website, the UMDNJ website, mock interview and went over my personal statement."
"looked over my amcas, read their website"
"SDN, mock interviews, books, magazines, newspapers, internet"
"SDN, UMDNJ's website, talked to friends that had previously applied"
"Student doctor but it was of no use since he didnt ask me anything difficult."
"This was my first interview. SDN, amcas, internet sources, research paper"
"Read SDN and school's website"
"SDN, NJMS website, Internet-healthcare issues, my friend who is a NJMS medical student"
"studentdoctor.net, NJMS website, researched info on current health issues, moch interview"
"Talked to students who attend the school, and faculty who have graduated from or teach at the school. MSAR was of limited help, the school website was more helpfull. The tour (before the interview) was the most imformative and gave me alot to talk about during the interview. "
"student doctor, read on healthcare, and school website"
"looked over the medical school website, researched on heatlhcare issues, briefly reviewed my ps"
"I watched the presidential and vice-presidential debates reviewed the University of Washington's bioethics page."
"SDN, read over application"
"sdn, njms website, wall street journal"
"web site, AMCAS application review, speak with faculty outside the adcom"
"Mock, reread AMCAS"
"SDN, website, mock interviews"
"this site, SDN, NJMS catalog, students who were interviwed here"
"sdn, read health articles, NJMS site."
"Read reviews on SDN & had friends and family interview me."
"School brochures, internet."
"SND, reviewed my AMCAS application"
"SDN, UMD website, talked to previous intervewees."
"My application,school website and other students."
"school website"
"SDN, school's brochure, talked to medical students"
"Had talking points for the majors (why medicine, why NJMS) and looked over the interview feedback for questions in the past. I got the impression they dont change their questions much and they didnt. "
"Amcas, school site, sdn"
"I read the MSAR and meditated (in that order) ;)"
"SDN, amcas, reviewed old research"
"I read this website, MSAR, and the school website."
"sdn, mock interview"
What is one of the specific questions they asked you (question 1)?