Showing posts with label Medical School Interview Questions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medical School Interview Questions. Show all posts

Med School- General Interview Questions

General Questions

  • Tell me about yourself.
  • How do you want me to remember you?
  • What are your goals?
  • There are hundreds if not thousands of applicants, why should we choose you?
  • Convince me that you would make a good doctor.
  • Why do you want to study medicine?
  • Why do you want to be a doctor?
  • What will you if you aren't accepted to medical school?
  • What makes you special?
  • What are your 2 best points?
  • What are your 2 weakest points?
  • What makes you special?
  • How will you pay for medical school?
  • What do you do in your spare time?
  • How did you get here?
  • Which family member has influenced your life so far and why?

 

Med School- Academics-Interview Questions

Questions Related to Academics:

  1. Why did you choose your present course of studies?
  2. What is your favorite subject in your present course of studies? Why?
  3. Would you consider a career in your present course of studies?
  4. Can you convince me that you can cope with the workload in medical school?
  5. How do you study/prepare for exams?
  6. Do you engage in self-directed learning?

Med School- Interview Questions Related to Social Skills or Interests

Questions Related to Social Skills or Interests:

  1. Give evidence that you relate well with others.
  2. Give an example of a leadership role you have assumed.
  3. Have you done any volunteer work?
  4. What would you do as Prime Minister of Canada with respect to the persistent national debt?
  5. How would you address Canada's constitutional crisis?
  6. What are the prospects for a lasting peace in South Africa? Eastern Europe? the former USSR? the Middle-East?
  7. What do you think of the free-trade agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico?
  8. Why would you be a good doctor?
  9. What are your strengths?
  10. What do you feel are the most important qualities in being a good doctor?
  11. What are your hobbies?
  12. Are you a leader or a follower? Why?
  13. What exposure have you had to the medical profession?
  14. Discuss your clinical experiences.
  15. Discuss your volunteer work

Med School- Interview Questions on Case studies/ Situations

Questions on Problem Situations:

  1. A 68 year-old married woman has a newly discovered cancer. Her life expectancy is 6 months. How would you inform her?
  2. A 34 year-old man presents with AIDS and tells you, as his physician, that he does not want to tell his wife. What would you do?
  3. You are playing tennis with your best friend and the ball hits your friend in the eye. What do you do?
  4. You are taking a final exam and notice there is a student cheating. What would you do?

 

Med School- Personality Oriented Interview Questions

Personality-Oriented Questions:

  1. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
  2. How would your friends describe you?
  3. What do you do with your spare time?
  4. What is the most important event that has occurred to you in the last five years?
  5. If you had three magical wishes, what would they be?
  6. What would you do on a perfect day?
  7. What are your best attributes?
  8. What is your greatest fault?

 

Med School- Miscellaneous Interview Questions

Miscellaneous Questions:

  1. Should the federal government reinstate the death penalty? Explain.
  2. What do you expect to be doing 10 years from now?
  3. How would you attract physicians to rural areas?
  4. Why do you want to attend our medical school?
  5. What other medical schools have you applied to?
  6. Have you prepared for this interview?
  7. Have you been to other interviews?
  8. If you could do anything different in your education, what would you do?
  9. Where else are you applying?
  10. Have you been accepted anywhere?
  11. What is your first choice of college? and why?