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"Signed non-disclosure agreement"
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"MMI format - just look up example scenarios and go over them in your head"
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"Signed a NDA for the MMI. Just prepare by reviewing your own application and think about the AAMC's core competencies."
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"I signed a non-disclosure agreement. But a girl who interviewed with me said that they reuse the same questions every year and that her friend told her everything in advance."
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"Who would you choose to interview if you had the chance?"
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"What are the qualities of a good physician?"
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"Why become a physician and why the U of M?"
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"What kind of doctor do you want to be?"
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"Tell me about yourself and some detail about your extracurriculars"
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"Tell me about an ethical dilemma you have experienced."
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"Why do you want to attend the U of M?"
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"Describe what exposure you have had to diverse backgrounds and perspectives"
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"Tell me about your research"
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"Why U of M Med School?"
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"Describe an ethical dilemma you have faced."
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"If you were accepted only to University of Minnesota - Duluth (which I did not apply to) would you go and why?"
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"What do you think is one of the problems with our healthcare system?"
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"MD: Tell me about .... (Asian Studies major, studying abroad, internship at HCMC) more asked about specific things that intrigued him on my application)"
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"Why do you want to addend UMN?"
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"Describe an ethical dilemema and how you handled it."
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"How will your experiences apply in your practice?"
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"Give me one positive and one negative thing about the public option that they are currently trying to pass. (This was back in Fall 2010)."
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"Asked me about my native country (intl student), how I get around."
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"Tell me about your early life?"
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"What have your other interviews been like?"
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"I noticed a general questions worksheet. I think the faculty member chooses which questions off the worksheet they find interesting or which ones they want more information on."
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"Why do you want to attend the "U""
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"Do you have any ideas how to fix the healthcare problems?"
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"Aside from what was on your AMCAS and secondary, what else led to your decision to be a physician?"
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"They just asked me stuff out of my application and secondary and we chatted about health care policy, although other students who interviewed that day were asked more traditional questions like "why medicine, why this school, etc...""
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"Nothing tricky. Most of the questions were "tell me about ________ on your application.""
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"Why is an insurance at Texas less expensive than one at Minnesota? (It's not meant to stress you out. It's just to test your knowledge in future aspects of healthcare.)"
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"Tell me about your path to medicine?"
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"No real specifics here; it was more like "tell me about yourself, etc.""
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"Interviews were open file for the main interviewer, and closed for the 4th yr student interviewer.
Specific quesiton... Really specific stuff about my personal statement."
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"tell me about your family"
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"Tell me about yourself /why medicine /why now / why this school / why MN?"
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"When were you faced with an ethical dilemma and how did you deal with it?"
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"Tell me about yourself."
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"Tell me about your research X 10"
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"Tell me about yourself"
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"what are your weaknesses?"
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"Describe your research"
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"Is the U. of M. your #1 choice?
Why not the other Minnesota schools."
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"Why do you want to be a doc? Why the switch from business to medicine (I'm non-trad)? Tell me more about what you did at your jobs."
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"Biggest problem in health care"
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"Why do you want to be a doctor? (He asked this again but in a different way)"
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"Stuff about research/activities/jobs"
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"Tell me about XX experience.."
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"Very detailed/pointed questions about everything on AMCAS and personal statement. Also, be prepared to give a very good explanation of why you want to be a doctor, and why they should pick you at U of M."
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"How did you set up your research experience at Mayo Clinic?"
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"Research questions...."
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"How do you feel about patient autonomy?"
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"What are you researching?"
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"Q: "How long have you been employed as a CA (community/residential advisor)and what have you done about college drinking?"
(I've never been a CA)"
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"What are you currently reading?"
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"Do you see yourself living in Minnesota?"
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"Discuss the US system of health care."
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"Why 8 years of school"
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"Tell me about your research experiences. "
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"What books have you read lately?"
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"What books have you read lately that you weren't required to read?"
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"Why Medicine?
Tell me about your research?"
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"Who is your favorite composer, favorite woman composer, favorite woman soloist, favorite conductor, all asked in rapid succession so I didn't even have a chance to answer "
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"What strengths do you have that will help you be a good physician?"
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"What is your medical experience?"
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"Tell me about your current research."
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"Tell me about yourelf."
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""Do you have any personal connections to Minneapolis?""
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"what is your motivation to become a doctor (stemming from my AMCAS essay)?"
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"What problems do you see in rural communities today? (I am from a rural area and am placing an emphasis on rural medicine in my studies.)"
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"Describe a current medical crisis."
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"Tell about your path to medicine."
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"So why did you not want to keep playing music in a band?"
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"Nothing too hard. Just questions stemming from conversation about me, my experiences."
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"Why medicine?"
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"What does activism mean to you?"
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"Why do you want to be a doctor?"
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"Describe your experience volunteering in the ER?"
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"What is the biggest issue/challenge you think you will face as a physician?"
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"How do you think you'll deal with being probably the oldest student in the class?"
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"Abortion question (see above)"
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"Why the U of M?"
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"Why UofM?"
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""What does your day-to-day work involve?" (I've been out of school a while and holding down a "real" job.)"
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"What to do about health care in America?"
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"There were few discrete questions... it didn't feel like a list. We just had a conversation that flowed in out of my education, background, work experience, health care, study abroad, etc. "
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"So, what do you want to know about the University of Minnesota?"
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"Why do you want to live in Minnnesota?"
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"Tell me about your experiences in Egypt (went on a medical mission there)"
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"just things specific to my application, detail clarifications."
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"Every little detail from my personal statment and secondary. If you interview with my person, you better know everything you said about yourself or the interviewer will humiliate you."
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"know how to find a particular gene if you want to (pcr)"
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"Is there anything you would like to tell the admissions committee, or anything abt the school that you need more information about?"
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"What are some challenges you can see physicians would face?"
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"Why haven't you done any research?"
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"Why Minnesota?"
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"Special interests"
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"What would make you choose UM instead of other schools? (see above)"
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"Do you expect to cure disease?"
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"Describe your research."
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"Why do you want to be a doctor? Why do you want to do this to yourself?"
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"I see here you have experience researching the GFAP protein in autistic post-mortem brains, and you also worked with a teenager with autism. How would you explain to him what you were researching?"
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"What was the last book you've read?"
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"What prompted your decision to pursue a medical career?"
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"All questions were personal and specific to my essays."
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"What is my role in my family?"
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"Where do you see yourself in 15 years?"
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"standard questions."
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"What do you think of universal health care and if the US will have it anytime soon?"
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"What kind of doctor is your father?"
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"What makes you think you would be a good doctor?"
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"What do you do for fun?"
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"Tell me about your research."
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"Describe how you get frustrated/stressed."
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"Healthcare costs are rising rapidly. What are your thoughts? What possible solutions are there?
My interviewer and I had a really good discussion about it."
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"Where do you see yourself 10 years from now?"
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"Why do teams fail?"
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"I moved here about 15 years back and one thing that surprised me was how big youth sports are. Were you involved in sports as a child?"
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"Why minnesota? (im out of state)"
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"What was your leadership style"
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"How do you deal with failure?"
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"Describe a time when you were placed in an ethical situation."
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"Tell me about... (about to talk conversationally about your PS and secondary essays)"
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"You seem to have a good thing going at (current school), why do you want to leave?"
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"How would you deal with X type of patient (not following treatment plan, engaging in risky behavior, etc.)"
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"How would a friend describe you/how would an enemy describe you?"
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"What do you like to do for fun?"
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"What is something that you were exposed to during your volunteering that you seeked out more information about?"
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"As a physician, how would you handle the death of a patient?"
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"Health Care reform"
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"What are you reading?"
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"Do you stay up-to-date with news? How do you get it?"
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"Patients I remember from my volunteering."
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"(Gave an example of an emergency room end-of-life decision he had to make earlier that week) What would you have done?"
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"How did you do on the MCAT? This was interesting since interviewers were given all info except GPA and MCAT to reduce bias. I guess I would be curious too if I were interviewing someone."
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"Stuff about abortion"
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"Are you going to be able to handle dealing with sick people all the time? What about when you can't help them?"
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"How does the health care system in the U.S. compare with the health care system of Germany (based on my experiences, not random!)."
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"Discussion about DIY home genetic tests."
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"If we were able to switch positions, I were the applicant you were the interviewer, what would you ask me?"
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"what is your biggest weakness that you don't spin as a positive?"
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"Do you ever get involved in political causes?"
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"What do believe will be the biggest challenge for you in medical school?"
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"Why do you want to go into primary care? (Although our conversation was interesting and engaging at times, I wasn't asked any terribly interesting questions.)"
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"Let's switch roles... If you were the director and I were the student, what 1 question would you ask me?"
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"What do you think of the health care system in the US?"
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"are you confident that you'll be admitted to medical school this year?"
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"Current political climate in post-Soviet Russsia"
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"Besides diabetic interventions, what Other things need to be done if a patient's pancrease is removed? (I work in an organ transplant unit and the interviewer is a physiology prof)"
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"None--they were all very standard questions."
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"Tell me more about making maple syrup? (it stems from one of my volunteer experiences in my application)"
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"What would you do if a patient told you to not tell his wife about his terminal illness?"
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"all very basic...why an MD, where will you be in 10 years, why this school"
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"All of the questions were VERY easy and definitely totally comfortable ''get to know you'' sort of things. Actually..my interviewer asked how slow the process had been which I thought was interesting (especially since MN has been very slow)."
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"Very general questions about my primary and secondary application. "
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"What is your greatest accomplishment?"
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"Just information about my AMCAS and secondary application, clarification about activities, questions about my research and interests"
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"Have any relatives attended this school."
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"You are in charge of limited state health budget: give me programs to do. What book recently. Why do you want to be doctor? What are major issues in medicine to you? How could we fix them. What about a doctor's responsibility to prevent suffering? What about your family? What baout another occupation? Anything else to tell me? Any questions? "
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"everything was pretty interesting"
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"Is this reaaly your first choice?"
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""Where should we sit?" (upon arriving in the large conference room were my one-on-one interview took place)"
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"Which aspect of the HIV/AIDS epidemic strikes you as the most interesting?"
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"What kind of outdoor activities do you like to do?"
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"Discuss the US system of healthcare."
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"Most of the questions had to do with my research, the interviews were really just conversations about my research, and sometimes, the interviewers research."
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"What would you do if a patient filed a malpractice suit against you? "
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"Would I do overseas work?"
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"From your shadowing experience, what was one thing that totally caught you off guard, positive or negative?"
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"I was given a specific medical scenario and asked what I would do in that situation"
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"Have you read any good books lately?"
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"What is your thesis about?"
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"Why did you choose to go to undergrad where you did?"
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"why do you think physicians have one of the highest rates of alcohol abuse?"
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"What is the largest problem you see with the US healthcare system? This may not seem like an interesting question but since I was an MPH student at the time, I fortunately had a lot to talk about and enjoyed sharing my views. "
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"tell me about your trips to the boundry waters canoe area"
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"Tell me about your parents."
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"The interview was more of a conversation during which I learned so much about both the school, it's program and resources and also medicine in general. It was laid back and so fluid that I cannot remember a specific question except for: "do you have any personal connections to Minneapolis?" and "How will you afford the tuition?" (I am an out-of-state applicant."
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"what is a health-care issue today that is a problem?"
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"Tell about your international experiences."
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"Name two people who were influential in your outlook towards life and the how and why of their influence."
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"They were looking for reasons for choosing medicine and path taken to get there. There is room for "diversity" in unique situations."
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"Tell about your path to medicine."
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"What do you think needs to be done to fix the current crisis in healthcare?"
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"Would you do (my major) over again?"
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"Standard questions"
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"Do you think today's physicians are involved enough in activism?"
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"Why would someone from the south ever want to go to school in the very cold minnesota climate?"
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"What scares you the most about becoming a physician?"
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"What have you learned outside of the classroom?"
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"How do you think you'll deal with being probably the oldest student in the class?"
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"What would you tell a 19yr old female patient who was pregnant who wanted an abortion. "
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"Nothing out of the ordinary."
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"All the standard questions."
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""Why do you think you know what you're getting into?""
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"Nothing out of the ordinary. What should we do about the "health care problem""
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"A question about the neighborhood where I grew up."
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"What would you tell a patient who asked you to do something you morally disagreed with, such as perform an abortion?"
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"What books have you read lately?"
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"They were all pretty bland typical interview questions."
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"i go to a catholic school and he asked quite a few questions about it."
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"How can you explain the fact that Canadians have a longer life span compared to Americans? What does that mean for healthcare"
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"what did you read in your brain and fiction class?"
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"What would you cook for me if I asked you to cook your favorite dish (related to a hobby...)"
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"Why do you feel like helping poor people? (this question was in reference to my volunteer work in a third world country)"
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"What was your biggest disappointment/accomplishment? "
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"What do some of the physicians you've shadowed think about our current health care system?"
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"What scares you the most or makes you apprehensive about the medical field? "
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"Why do you think you'd make a better physician relative to being a research scientist (I did a bunch of research work)?"
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"How many newspapers do you read each morning?"
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"Imagine you had to describe your research to a group of legislators from Minnesota in laymen's terms and then had to explain why it was important for the state of Minnesota. Also, you only have one minute."
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"Nothing. The questions were mainly about things that I mentioned on my secondary."
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""If two rockets take off, onw at the equator and one at the north pole, which one will reach orbit first" "
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"hmmmm, nothing too interesting"
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"Standard set of questions."
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"What do you think are the most difficult challanges faced by academic medicine researchers?"
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""What do you see as the biggest problem facing medicine today?""
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"What do I think of the situation in the Middle East?"
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"How does the social system in Germany differ from the U.S.'s? (Came up during conversation about my experiences abroad)"
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""You probably won't go to Minnesota if you get accepted here, will you?" (an interesting twist on "why minnesota?") This was followed by a series of questions regarding the likelyhood of me staying in MN after graduation (do you have family/connections here, etc.)."
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"What do you think of universal health care and if the US will have it anytime soon?"
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"What do you think of "The Remains of the Day"? (I was reading it while waiting for her)"
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"How would you describe your relationship with your step-mother?"
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"Describe the last book you read?"
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"just questions about my research"
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"Do you read at all? last book read?"
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"Have you seen the movie "The Jerk"?"
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"None of my interviewer's questions struck me as interesting...they were all pretty straightforward."
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"if you had a magic wand and could change anything about medicine, what would you change?"
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