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"all standard questions"
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How did you prepare for the MCAT?
How is your mother doing?"
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"most questions were pretty standard...the most interesting might have been what do you think is the most ethical dilemma facing physicians?"
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"Two along the same lines...The interviewer first asked me, ''What's the hardest question I could ask you?'' (say that question is). Then he asked me what's the hardest question I could come up with for him. "
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"I was given a scenario where somehow the top five doctors' knowledge was programmed into a machine that could replace a doctor in practicing medicine. I was the chief counselor to the president who would be making the decision on whether or not to incorporate this miracle wonder into today's healthcare system. I needed to give 5 pro's and 5 con's."
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"N/A"
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"None really. Just conversational"
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"Nothing really that interesting. Mostly conversational."
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"What are you most proud of in your life?"
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"What was your favorite course in undergrad?"
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"What is unique about you that sets you apart from other applicants?"
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"How do you like St. Louis? (My interviewer had lived there.)"
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"What do you do out side of school and work?"
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"Interesting? I started talking with an interviewer about his research and he started asking me questions (testing me I suppose) about how I would go about solving a certain problem. Good thing I remembered some cell bio."
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"Questions about my religion as compared to Catholicism or Protestantism."
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"What would you do if you didn't get into medical school?"
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"If you were a pediatrician, and you had been seeing the same girl for 16 years, and now she wanted birth control pills but wanted you to keep the information from her parents, what would you do?"
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"What city is most typical of rural texas life? (I'm interested in rural medicine)."
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"If you could have dinner with anyone in history and they paid who would it be?"
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"Tell me where and with what molecules emboli can form from?"
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"Do managed care programs get in the way of physician's effots to effectively cooperate and communicate?"
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"So are you going to employ your language and literature background in your medical studies?"
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"What is your biggest fear about becoming an M.D.?"
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"You seem more like Baylor material, why are you applying to UT-Houston?"
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""What would you change about medicine?"
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"Why UTMB Houston?""
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"There wasn't any particular interesting question asked most of it was about my background, having come from out-of-state, and then the rest of it was just conversational questions. "
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"Is there something that can be done about the healthcare problem? (was told my answer had no bearing on his evaluation of me.)"
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"Where do you see yourself in 10 years? (the questions were not out of the ordinary)"
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"Nothing really. Both of my interviewers just went through my application with me."
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"Should America's military pull out of Iraq? "
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"Anatomy questions. WHOA!"
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"Why are you interested in the MD/MPH program?"
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"Why not business school? Why not become a salesman? (He later compared both back to being a researcher and a physician, respectively.)"
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"Who would you say is your biggest hero?"
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"What do your parents do for a living? (I don't know that it's of any importance, maybe he was just trying to learn more about me)"
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"What do you know about our school?"
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"Do you know what your middle name means? turns out it is a pretty cool arabic word."
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"What books are you currently reading?"
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"What was the last book you read for fun?"
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"What are your personal goals, outside of medical school?"
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"Don't remember anything that stuck out - it was all general questions about work, why medicine, etc."
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"Name one thing about you that is not in your application that you want me to know about."
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"What was your favorite class."
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"How do you think that you would handle having an infant that was critically ill or abused?"
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"why did you mention religion in your personal statement?"
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"Conversational so not a whole lot of outright questions. Talked about the knowledge base being so wide that doctors are now more managers. Also alot about my study abroad exp."
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"Do you like to play music? (This lead into a long and interesting conversation about music)"
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"Standard stuff, nothing unusual"
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"nothing too interesting, standard stuff"
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"none too interesting."
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"If you could have lunch with anyone from history, who would it be and why?"
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"Do you play sports? Where is Medicine going? What are the negative aspects of new technology?"
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"Do you know any good elementary schools in the city? (he has a 3 year old)."
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"Nothing too out of the ordinary. One interviewier talked a whole bunch and then towards the end asked, "what is the one thing about yourself that you want me to convey to the admissions board?""
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"What was the last book you read?"
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"How does your daughter feel about you going to medical school?"
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"What do you think X country will be like in 15 years?"
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"What do you think the Astros chances are next year?"
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"Why medicine instead of business?"
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"Who do you think was more just in the Peleponnesian Wars? (after asking about my favorite non-science class) "
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"nothing really.. all were straightforward"
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"I was just asked to tell about myself"
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"Who inspired the altruistic part of you?"
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"Tell me about a patient you worked with at_________."
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"Why did you go to ____ for your undergraduate degree? (when I said that I had some attachments to my family, she proceeded to ask me whether that would play a role in me going to medical school in Texas)"
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"What do you think physicians themselves can do to rebuild doctor-patient trust?"
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"Questions regarding running."
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"Tell me about your best friend. "
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"Do you like to read, and if so, what do you read?"
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"When do children become "them." When do experiences begin to shape who they are?"
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"Do you have a significant other that will be moving with you? (she said I didn't have to answer it since it was personal)"
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"My interviewer asked me if i had applied to TCOM and if I didn't why not? I knew it was a D.O. school and I just gave her a truthful answer. I'm not sure if she was a D.O. or not."
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""Many years ago, I was reading an article from the literature that criticized the biomedical model and suggested that it should be referred to the biopsychosocial medical model. What do you think biopsychosocialmedical model means?""
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"What non-clinical activities should I be sure to tell the admissions committee about that prepared you for medicine?"
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"What was the most recent book you have read?"
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"What do you think of the current healthcare system/how would you fix it?"
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"What do you think of stem-cell research? (out of the blue)"
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"What do you like to brag about?"
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"Give me an anecdote from your life that will tell me that you are willing to be inconvenienced (ex. personal time) by medicine."
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"how do you plan to have a family and practice medicine"
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"A list of 1st & 2nd year medical school basic science courses were presented. The interviewer went through each one and asked if I had any experience/background in the subject from undergrad."
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"Explain some of your grades. Why UT-H? Do you know what kind of specialty you want to pursue?"
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"Do you want to explain your GPA for Fall of your Soph. year?...this wouldn't have been interesting if my GPA hadn't been above a 3.5 for that semester. It was my lowest GPA, but it didn't effect my cumm."
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"One interviewer asked detailed questions about what I'd studied in my computer science classes, which is unusual."
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"all standard questions"
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"Tell me about your research experience working at the CDC working with the HIV virus."
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"How have you prepared yourself for a life in medicine outside of academia?"
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"Did you write your personal statement yourself?"
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"If you can tell me what this is and convince me why it is what you think it is, you will get into medical school. (showed me a case containing a kidney stone)"
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"Pretty standard questions. Unfortunately the most interesting questions had to do with hindsight and whether I would change anything about myself or my experiences."
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"Nothing out of the ordinary"
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"What books have you read recently?"
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"What could you do to improve your application?"
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"Why don't you want to be an OBgyn?"
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"What will you do if you're not accepted to med school?"
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"Is there anything you would change about your life so far?"
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"What are you doing now? Would you like to come to the hospital with me?"
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"Tell me about yourself"
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"As a busy physician, how will you balance your time to include your family?"
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"What are you reading now?"
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"Tell me what you think about preventative medicine?
How do you study?"
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"So you have an interest in medicine. Why do you want to be a physician rather than a nurse, PT, etc.?"
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"Just the standard get to know you questions."
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"Why do you want to subject yourself to becoming a doctor, considering the problems facing the field today?"
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"Nothing interesting really....just get-to-know you questions"
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"As you know, the medical field has been changing in the last few years. Where do you see it going in the next 10 years? (how do you know?)"
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"What are today's greatest ethical challenges as you see them?"
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"My 1st interviewer didn't really ask me any standard questions. He just said, "Tell me what you want to know about the school. Ask me anything." We still managed to talk for about 30 minutes, but it was different from what I was expecting."
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"None...they were all ordinary get-to-know-you questions."
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"I know you just put down primary care to play the admissions game. What specialty are you really after?"
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"do you know what the chief role of a hospitalist is?"
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"I somehow ended up with 2 very laid-back interviewers. They didn't really ask many questions - we just talked. I also got the quesiton "Do you know what your getting in to?" This was my first interview and it couldn't have a better introduction. Everyone was so very nice. Very minimal stress."
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"What's the weirdest class you've taken?"
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"Do you plan to provide services to a county?"
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"Explain Cultural Anthropology to me. (my undergrad)"
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"How do you plan on using your degree in political science? Even consider lobbying?"
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"What do you think of the health care system and is its involvement with politics integral? "
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"What is something that I would like to tell the admissions commitee."
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"Why are you minoring in History? How will this help you with your medical practice?"
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"How do you define premedical experience, and how would you rate yourself on your premedical experience?"
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"How do you feel about the current health system in the U.S.? What would you do to change it? "
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"Nothing really creative...all standard questions."
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"Where do you see yourself in 10 years? How do you plan to balance family and medicine in the future?"
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"Where do you see yourself in 10-15 years? Seriously, how do you answer that?"
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"If you could spend one hour with the president of the United States, what you talk to him about?"
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"How do you plan to deal with failure as a doctor (i.e., when you can't help your patients)?"
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"If you had 10 minutes to speak with President Bush, what would you tell him?"
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"What is the hardest question you've ever had to answer?"
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"What do you envision yourself doing in the next 10 years?"
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"My 13 year old daughter is about to lose her virginity so she comes to you for birth control pills. Do you give her the pills and what do you tell her?"
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"Hmm.. the questions were pretty standard- background, motivation for medicine, comparisons between access to healthcare here and in Nigeria where I grew up. My first interviewer wanted to know why I was applying to the school instead of other well known schools-I'm from Houston but went to school out of state. Hobbies etc...."
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"I was given a series of ethical questions. The one I received is a common one but one that I feel was very interesting.
John has a terminally ill wife. There is a new type of private drug out in the market. However, this drug is very expenisive. John is not wealthy and therefore can not afford to pay for the medication. He tries to collect money, attain loans, talk to the company, basically everything in his power to do this legally. He comes to you to discuss a plan to steal the drug. What do you tell him?"
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"Do you have any musical abilities?"
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"What are your interests other than medicine?"
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"Why do we as a country spend more on health care than another nation yet still ranking in the middle as far as life expectancy or infant mortality? How can we fix this?"
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"What would you do if a patient did not agree with you on a course of action you want them to follow? "
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"What is the biggest problem that you will face in medicine?"
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"since I didn't have a whole lot of clinical experience one interviewer asked how I knew for sure that I wouldn't pass out during a surgey. (no idea what the proper response is)"
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"Nothing really - both of my interviewers just flipped through my app and asked me questions about my personal statement, volunteer experience, etc."
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"many ethical questions--do i agree with animal research, if yes would i volunteer my dog for research...."
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"One of my interviewers was a microbiologist (my major) so we talked about the subject for about 10 minutes. "
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"All were very standard (motivations for medicine, life story, etc.), except for the question listed below under "Most Difficult Question." "
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"What kind of books do you like to read, and why do you like them?"
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"What the economy was like in my hometown? I think they asked this to see if I was really interested in staying in Texas or heading back home to Nebraska."
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What are your suggestions for the admissions office?