Medically Related Questions:
- What do you think will be your greatest challenge in completing medical school or learning how to be a doctor?
- In your view, what is the most pressing problem facing medicine today?
- What are the pros and cons to our health-care system?
- If you had the power, what changes would you make to our health-care system?
- What is your opinion of HMOs and PPOs?
- Do doctors make too much money?
- Is it ethical for doctors to strike?
- What is the Hippocratic Oath?
- What is the difference between Medicare and Medicaid?
- Should fetal tissue be used to treat disease (i.e. Parkinson's)?
- If you were a doctor and an under age girl asked you for the Pill (or an abortion) and she did not want to tell her parents, what would you do?
- Should doctors be allowed to `pull the plug' on terminally ill patients?
- If a patient is dying from a bleed, would you transfuse blood if you knew they would not approve (i.e. Jehovah Witness)?
- What do you think you will like most about medicine?
- What do you think you will like least about medicine?
- Expect questions concerning what you think about ethics and healthcare (e.g., abortion, cloning, euthanasia).
- Be prepared to discuss managed healthcare and changes in the US healthcare system.
- How are you a match for our medical school?
- Would you perform abortions as a doctor? Under what conditions?
- What are three things you want to change about yourself?
- How would you describe the relationship between science and medicine?