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University of Virginia School of Medicine
University of Virginia School of Medicine
  • Year founded: 1819
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University of Virginia School of Medicine
Allopathic Medical School
Charlottesville, VA
  • SDN RANKING 4
  • INTERVIEW FEEDBACK 5 166 Responses
  • SCHOOL REVIEWS 4 5 Responses

Overview

Overview

School Stats

  • Resident Tuition $50,004
  • Non - Resident Tuition $61,114
  • Application Fee $80
  • AVG MCAT 516
  • AVG GPA 3.9
  • LIZZYM Score 73.4
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Admissions Information

  • Office of Admissions
  • PO Box 800725
  • Charlottesville, VA 22908
  • United States

School Overview

University of Virginia School of Medicine Fast Facts

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School Info

The University of Virginia School of Medicine has a long tradition of excellence in a highly collaborative atmosphere within the School, the Health System, across the grounds, and throughout the Commonwealth and beyond. We at the UVA School of Medicine are serving as a national model for excellence through innovation and collaboration.

Curriculum

The Health Sciences Library is a modern, fully automated facility with meeting rooms, audiovisual viewing rooms, typing rooms, microcomputers, and photocopying machines. Free self-service searching of journal and full-text databases, such as MEDLINE, is available. All basic services of the Library are computerized for in-house and remote access. The Library maintains well developed collections of books, journals, and audiovisuals, as well as numerous databases related to health care for easy citation retrieval. The Learning Resource Center maintains a substantial collection of video cassettes and computer software, as well as a variety of players, projectors, recorders, monitors, and microcomputers. Medical students have access to all University athletic facilities including five gymnasiums, three swimming pools, tennis and basket ball courts, racquet ball/squash courts, softball diamonds, and soccer fields. Medical students may also take advantage of exhibits at the Bayley museum, dramatic productions at the Culbreth Theater, and concerts in Cabell Hall.

Facilities

Interview Feedback

Interview Feedback

Results Overview

How did the interview impress you?

Response # Responders
Positively 136
Negatively 10
No change 17

What was the stress level of the interview?

Response Avg # Responders
2.64 157

0 = low, 10 = high

How you think you did?

Response Avg # Responders
8.00 109

0 = low, 10 = high

Select Questions & Recent Responses

What are your suggestions for the admissions office?

"No complaints" More from this Member | Report Response

"Please don't change. Everyone was awesome." More from this Member | Report Response

"N/A" More from this Member | Report Response

"Nothing-totally wonderful." More from this Member | Report Response

"None, they were an absolute pleasure to meet and spend the day with." More from this Member | Report Response

"Admissions staff were exceptionally friendly! They went to great lengths to ensure that we were comfortable." More from this Member | Report Response

"None" More from this Member | Report Response

"N/A, the nicest i've come across!" More from this Member | Report Response

"Stay as friendly as you are now!" More from this Member | Report Response

"A better electronic application and a status page would be nice." More from this Member | Report Response

"Having a more extensive tour of the hospital would have been great...UVA has such an impressive medi" More from this Member | Report Response

"The people who toured us, weren't really that prepared. I feel like we were just led around based on" More from this Member | Report Response

"Use E-mail!!!" More from this Member | Report Response

"The admissions office was great, I can't ask for any better. Although it was a little nerve wrackin" More from this Member | Report Response

What is one of the specific questions they asked you (question 1)?

"Tell us about yourself" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What was your journey to medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Which of your volunteering experiences do you value the most?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Specific questions on my Extra curriculars, they read everything" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me more about your research." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you like about UVASOM?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"A patient in your clinical trial feels like they are being used as a guinea pig. What do you do?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"talk about X experience" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about your clinical experience" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about (specific activity)." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you think about being a doctor and having a family?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What brought us to your attention? (i.e., why would someone from the other side of the country apply to Virginia?)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What are you all about?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What questions do you have for me?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why did volunteering motivate you to go into medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Explain your research award." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How did you decide on medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about how you decided to pursue medicine." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about your experience" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What would you do if you had a patient that refused to quit smoking? Would you stop seeing them?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about your clinical experiences." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What field of medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about ... on your application." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What is the one thing that needs to be done in health care reform to best improve health in the population? " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why medicine? What made you decide to become a doctor?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How do you deal with stress?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Where do you see yourself in 10 years?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

""Why are you sitting here at a medical school interview? Why have you chosen medicine?"" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What have [these experiences] taught you?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me your 3 biggest strengths that will prepare you to be a physician" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Where do you see yourself in ten years?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"I'm completely paraphrasing these questions, because I don't quite remember them. Do you have anything else you would like me to know about you? " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"tell me about yourself" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What are you passionate about?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Research" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What's your support system? What's gonna get you through med school when you hate your basic sciences, get jealous of your friends going out on the weekends and you're home studying, etc etc. ??" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"''Do you know the origins of Midlothian, your town name?''" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"general stuff about my application. nothing special" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you want to know about Charlottesville?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"The question about the clinic." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"give me a specific example of a clinical case you have observed" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How did your parents' occupations influence your decision to go into medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you feel will be your biggest challenge as a woman in medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Immigration issue (see above)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about your story you used in your personal statement?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"questions were specific to your file" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Talked about stuff on my application" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about your research" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Is my family member (who I mentioned was ill in my essay) doing OK now?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"why a doctor?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What are your feelings on accepting pens/samples/gifts/etc. from drug reps?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What have you learned from working in the ER?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you want the admission committee to tell me about you ? (ie, best qualities about yourself) " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why would I want you as one of my classmates? (the 4th-year asked this one)." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What current medical technology do you feel will have the largest impact on medicine." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"With all the research you've done, why do you think you should be an md not a phd?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you had a medical award named after you, what would you want it to be for? (ex. most capable doctor, most compassionate doctor, most groundbreaking doctor, etc.)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What has you exposure to medicine been?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What is your most valuable community service/medical expereince?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you know about ethics?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What are your positive qualities? Negative?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"I don't understand what bioengineers do. Can you explain it to me?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about the learning community that you were involved in." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What has been your favorite non-science class?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why do you want to be a doctor?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why are you interested in medicine?/When did you decide to be a doctor?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"From your 3rd MCAT, I see that these are very solid numbers. Can you explain to me what happened during the first two tests?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Once in medical school, what do you feel will be your biggest challenge." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why the doctors let me give HIV results back to patients and how I have been trained for that?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How do you think that healthcare for individuals from rural areas differs from care for those in more urban areas?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me aboout your research." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about (AMCAS Post-Secondary experience)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about your time in Germany." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Questions relating to my personal statement (over half of the discussion sprung from my essay)." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What would you do if you did not become a doc?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What is your opinion on the designated hitter rule in baseball? (I'm from St. Louis and currently live in Boston, so since the Cards and the Sox were both doing well, we started talking about baseball)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"General questions about my application and course work as an undergrad. Along with these questions went the question about what I want/expect out of a medical school." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Name one problem in health care and tell me how you would fix it. " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What are you looking for in a medical school?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Describe your passion for medicine." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about the clinical experience you had." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"When did you receive your medical school epiphany? " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"So you shadowed a surgeon in Scotland...what do you think about socialized health care?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Is healthcare a privlege or a right?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"why uva " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Name a few strengths and weaknesses you believe you have." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What is your role in research, and what have you discovered?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"respond to this statement(an ethical/stressful situation written by a med student)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you parents have to say about the University of Virginia (They're UVa grads)?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How did you decide to be a doctor" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"so how was the drive up this morning?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How do you handle stress?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about yourself." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"what do you think is the most pressing ethical issue in health care today?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What did you learn from your research that applies to medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"can't remember... nothing even remotely challenging besides the questions i already mentioned." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How did you like your undergrad school? Why did you choose to go there?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you think about drug companies giving perks to doctors?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about your drive here." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about your major." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What would you do if you didn't go to medical school?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why UVa?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about your experiences in Ghana" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about your research? Are there any possible clinical correlations to your research?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Talk about your research" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Anything you would have done differently in your life?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What type of medicine do you hope to practice?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why UVA? " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about the evolution of your interest in medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"From essay - what do you see as the biggest problem in US healthcare today? How, specifically, would you fix it?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Describe yourself" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"See above" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why medicine? Why now?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you want to do with your medical degree (not specialty)?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you do for fun?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How do you think your (untraditional) background will benefit you in medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why U.Va.? Where do you want to practice? " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about your research." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me more about your volunteer experience." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"explain your c's in chemistry" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

What was the most interesting question?

"What are 2 qualities that are important as a physician?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Talked about my study abroad experience and potential curriculum future changes" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"When do you lead and when do you follow?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"asked about an activity I didn't have much hours in" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What are you most proud of" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"A question discussing the cultural contexts of patient care." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you like to cook? (Mentioned in my secondary that I loved cooking)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How would you deal with an ungrateful patient?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Do you think encouraging people to have an implantable chip with all their medical record information on it is ethical?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"describe a memorable patient" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Probably about how I reconcile my faith and interest in science." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Most were about my file, nothing too crazy" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Scenario based question in which administration is upset that you take longer per patient than a colleague. How do you handle this" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"We discussed the differences between diagnosis using advanced radiological instruments vs. physical exams." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Describe an interesting clinical case you observed." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What would you want someone to say in your eulogy? " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell about this specific patient in your clinical experience." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What is music?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Do you really want to stay here for 4 more years?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Honestly, I didn't find any incredibly interesting, though the conversation with my first interviewer was very friendly." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How do you see yourself working to study culture's effects on health? What approach will you take? " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What books would you recommend I read?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How would your friends describe you?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How do you take care of you?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

""What is the biggest challenge you think you've faced and come out of as a better person?"" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What have you learned from your mother? What about your father?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"(I mentioned that I had been with a patient who had died while I was there) What was it like, watching someone die for the first time? " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Can you elaborate on X?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"The onion one" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"It's been awhile, but all the questions were very specific to my application. I wasn't really asked too many general questions. I guess why my one of my MCAT sections scores was so low in the first place." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why did you pick your instrument? (I'm a musician)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"why medicine" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Do you think science could stand to be more self-reflexive? (specific to my major)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"what are you most passionate about?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Talk about your travels abroad. " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Volunteering, you must have seen pharmaceutical company representatives come in and give free pens to physicians and take them out to lunch, etc. What do you think of that?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What really stands out/something you'll remember about your undergraduate career? " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"''How can you explain the lower rates of gastric cancer in Americans versus Japanese people given your research?''" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you could be health care god for a day what would you do?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If I were to call your mother up right now and ask her what your biggest weakness was, what would she say? ...yea, my mother." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What would I do if I was working in a clinic and got yelled at for only seeing 20 patients when my coworker was able to see 30?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What are some ethical issues your generation of physicians will face." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How do you feel about moving to Charlottesville? (i went to college at Chicago)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"None really" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you think about Honor?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What lesson have you learned from your brother (who has down syndrome)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What should we be doing about the illegal immigration issue (overall and in terms of health care specifically)?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Both asked about my " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you think should be changed about health care in the U.S.?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Nothing really" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Will my conservative religious views impede me from providing medical services to anyone of a differing background?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why would I want you as a classmate? (Ask by my 4th Year interviewer)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"case scenario about an uncomprimising patient" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Nothing really stood out here." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why would I want you as my classmate?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you invision your greatest challenge in medical school to me?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you were working as a pediatrician in a rural area and a 15 year old girl asked you for birth control but not to tell her parents, what would you do?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you think "entitlement" means? Follow up question: Do you feel people in your generation feel they are entitled to something?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"My interviewer is a big runner and I just ran a marathon so just talking about that experience." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Have you seen a lot of class discrimination in the places you've traveled?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"There were a few that were asked that were interesting. Most were drawn from my research experience. 1. What factors do you think have contributed to the increase in diagnosis of ADD in the past 30 years? 2. What do you think about a link between mercury and autism?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Nothing really mind blowing - the interviewers really just wanted to get to know me." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"i was given a scenario,in which as a physician, I had to balance the business end of health care with quality of patient care" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about you major and why you chose history?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Who is a mentor/ person you look up to and why? " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"The interview was more conversational than direct questions and answers." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"All pretty standard." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How will deal with the celebrity of being a doctor?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What would you ask a prospective medical student that I haven't asked you already?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you do when you there is no known way to treat your patient?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What would I do if one of my athletes were using steroids? (I want to be team physician)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How do you think your religious background will affect your decisions as a physician?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What is your favorite Law and Order spin off?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"My first interviewer was the director of Student Health at the school, so he asked me something about what the school should do to help prevent the abuse of alcohol." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Nothing out of the blue, a lot of stuff about my fraternity because I talked about it in my personal statement" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you do when you have to tell a patient that they have HIV and they are going to die? (In reference to my job)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why might a patient not comply with a treatment?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Do you think that there should be more connection between neuroscience and psychology departments?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What is the most difficult job you've ever had?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What is a current scientific project that could have a large impact on medicine in 10-15 years?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How do you think you may want to integrate your experience in alternative medicine with traditional(western) medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What type of non-academic reading do you most like to do?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do I want out of a medical school? (Both interviewers asked this question)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"I was asked a lot of questions about my minor." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about playing the piano, and how you think what you learned will help you be a good doctor." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Do you think medical research is going in the right direction?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How would you solve the problem of bad physicians being a danger to their patients?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If robots took over all doctor's jobs, what would you do then?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What health-related experience made you most want to be a physician?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about your family." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How do you think John Kerry is going to fund the health care plan currently received by congressmen for all Americans? I told him I had no clue-he said that was a fine answer because he didn't know either." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Nothing really out of the ordinary. I guess it would have to be "So where do you go to bass fish?"" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Nothing really out of the ordinairy. Their questions were mostly about my profile." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"questions about my minor and the future of healthcare" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How I would react to other classmates in medical school, looking up to me with respect to almost all of the first-year classes I have previously taken and currently tutor." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If medical school didn't exist, what would you do?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Given your goals, what would you do if all medical training ceased to exist?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Do you like playing video games?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"none...all basic" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"what impression of you should i take away from this interview..." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What is one way in which you're beliefs have been challenged in college and how did you deal with that?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"I work for a campus Safe-Ride at my undergraduate school and I was asked how we handled very drunk passengers." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"I see you do a lot oral cavity research, why not be a dentist?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"what do you think is the most pressing ethical issue in health care today?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"see below" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"from your file, you're apparently very smart. what's the square root of 483?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What would you do if you were being pressured to see more patients?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you do to relax?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What medical advances have you read about in the news in the past year?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Nothing." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"None really. Very stereotypical interview questions." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"So, I've got an impression of you from reading your file. Now I want you to tell me how I should think of you, so I can see if it matches my premeditated impression? [WTF?!?]" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"No real interesting questions. The interviewers were really laid back and more interested in getting to know me as a person. " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Extremely open-ended questions about integrity and the pt-physician relationship, why Americans are self-obsessed, and what I could do about all of this." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Is there any examples you have seen set by doctors that you would not like to emulate?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me more about your research - specifically." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you were in charge, how would you deal with the influence of HMO's and insurance companies?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Questions about my trip to Australia." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Was my essay really true?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"The doctor handed me a paragrapth that describes a situation in which a 3 yr toddler died and you pressed by your chief resident to practice intubation on the boy to gain experience while the parents are waiting outside for their son. We talked in some great length about the subject." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Explain to me what you meant on your AMCAS essay when you wrote XYZ? [many of these]" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"I have a set impression of you from your file. What should I know about you that your file might not illustrate?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"From reading your app. I have an impression formed about you.. but could you describe yourself and tell me what's unique/important about you? I want to know if it matches to my idea about you?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What's the job you've had that you liked best?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Nothing, just standard stuff!" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

""Tell me about one of the patients you saw while shadowing the orthopaedic surgeon." - and that was 2 years ago!" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How do you think you can use your major (humanities-related) in your study and practice of medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What's the greatest Problem with the American healthcare system and how would you fix it? Why UVa? Describe your life ten years from now. " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Respond to an ethical vignette I was asked to read." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"I had spent some time volunteering in Morocco, and one of my interviewers asked me to evaluate the healthcare system they had. " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"nothing really tough; very conversational." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"nothing really, all were very friendly and conversational" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Assuming that all the science and altruism is gone out of your day, the patient's family is griping, complaining and disrespectful . . . . how are you going to behave?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What is your passion?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What is an ethical situation you think you will face in medicine and how would you solve it?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What challenged do you anticipate facing during med school?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What was your fovorite pert of college?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

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Overall, how satisfied are you with this program?

Response Avg # Responders
7.00 5

0 = Terrible, 10 = World Class

What do you like most?

"Fantastic, approachable faculty, friendly staff and students, great research pedigree and opportunities, and the city has everything." | Report Response

"The faculty are great teachers, and encourage you to do well." | Report Response

"Pass/Fail; stress-free, cooperative student body" | Report Response

"My classmates are amazingly brilliant, down-to-earth, and motivated. I love the accelerated curriculum and the pass/fail system." | Report Response

"Flexibility of curriculum and classroom attendance. Great camaraderie between students and good social atmosphere and events. A very tech savvy student base and everyone is always willing to help each other out. Great location to come to school without too many other distractions." | Report Response

What do you like least?

"The microbiology curriculum is a little bit lacking." | Report Response

"Certain organizational aspects annoy me. Little things, like not being able to answer questions about a certain aspect of the curriculum or not providing information in a timely manner." | Report Response

"Library" | Report Response

"The undergrad vibe, which somewhat seeps into the medical school, is very preppy. Not enough people are interested in careers beyond clinical medicine." | Report Response

"Location is not the best. Charlottesville is a college town so rowdiness and parking is an issue. It's not a very diverse location so if you need a big city to thrive, this is not the school for you." | Report Response

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