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Why do you want to be a doctor?

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Why would you be a good doctor?

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Tell me about yourself.

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What do you do in your spare time?

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What are three things you want to change about yourself?

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How do you handle stress?

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What are your two greatest strengths?

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What are your two greatest weaknesses?

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What are your hobbies?

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What is your favorite book? Why?

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Define success.

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Who is the most influential person in your life?

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Describe your clinical experience.

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Describe your volunteer work.

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Describe your research experience.

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Why are you a good fit for our medical school?

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How do you handle failure?

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Are you a leader or a follower? Why?

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What do you think about ______________?

 a. Abortion
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There are 1000 applicants as qualified as you are. Why should you be accepted into our medical school?

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Where else are you applying?

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Have you been accepted anywhere else?

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What is your first choice medical school?

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What will you do if you are not accepted into medical school?

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If you couldn’t pursue medicine, what would you pursue?

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In your opinion, what is the most pressing health issue today?

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Why do you want to go to our medical school?

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What was your favorite class in college? Why?

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Tell me about a leadership role you’ve held in college?

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What are your specific goals in medicine?

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What travels have you taken and what exposure to other cultures have you had?

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Do you have any family members or role models who are physicians?

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Tell me about your decision to pursue medicine. When did you decide to become an MD, and why?

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Why did you decide to choose medicine and not some other field where you can help others, such as nursing, physical therapy, pharmacology, psychology, education, or social work?

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What will you do if you are not accepted to medical school this year? Have you an alternative career plan?

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How do you envision using your medical education?

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Thinking of examples from your recent past, how would you assess your empathy and compassion?

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What skills have you learned to help manage your time and relieve stress?

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Explain a time when you contributed to a group effort.

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What qualities do you look for in a physician? Can you provide an example of a physician who embodies any of these ideals? How do they do this?

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What kind of experiences have you had working with sick people? Have these experiences taught you anything that you didn’t know beforehand?

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What excites you about medicine?

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What are the current trends in our nation’s healthcare system?

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What do you consider an important/the most important social problem facing the United States today and why?

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What kind of medical schools are you applying to, and why?

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What special qualities do you feel you possess that set you apart from other medical school candidates? What makes you unique or different as a medical school candidate?

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Why did you choose your undergraduate major?

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How have you tried to achieve breadth in your undergraduate curriculum?

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How has your undergraduate research experience, if any, better prepared you for a medical career?

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How have the jobs, volunteer opportunities, or extracurricular experiences that you have had better prepared you for the responsibilities of being a physician?

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If you could be granted three wishes for making the world/society/ your community a better place, what would they be and why (or, If you were given a million dollars to achieve three goals, what would you work on and why)?

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What is “success” in your opinion? After 20 years as a physician, what kind of “success” would you hope to have achieved? Please explain

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What qualities do you look for in a physician? Can you provide an example of a physician who embodies any of these ideals? How do they do this?

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What family members, friends, or other individuals have been influential in your decision to pursue a medical career?

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If you could invite four people from the past to dinner, who would they be, and why would you invite them? What would you talk about?

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Does your academic record reflect any major challenges? If so, what are they and why did they occur?

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What do you feel are the negative or restrictive aspects of medicine from a professional standpoint?

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If you had to choose between clinical and academic medicine as a profession, which would you pick? What do you feel you might lose by being forced to choose?

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What do you feel are the social responsibilities of a physician?

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How do you think national health insurance affects physicians, patients, and society?

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In what manner and to what degree do you stay in touch with current events?

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What books, films, or other media come to mind as having been particularly important to your sciences/non-sciences education?

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Freakonomics, Gattaca, Double Helix, The Obesity Code, Podcasts, planet money, revisionist history podcast by malcome gladwell

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Can you think of any examples in our society when healthcare is a right? When is it a privilege? When is it not clear?

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Are you aware of any current controversies in the area of medical ethics? List and discuss some of these

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Have you personally encountered any moral dilemmas to date? Of what nature?

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How do you feel about euthanasia or medically assisted suicide?

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What different feelings and issues might you experience with a terminally ill patient, as opposed to other patients?

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How would you feel about treating a patient who has tested positive for HIV?

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What are some of the ethical issues that our society considers in regard to teenage pregnancy?

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Assume there are limited resources available and you must make decisions in a major emergency with a wide assortment of patients from all ages, backgrounds, and degree of injury. Assume also that there is no “right answer” to this question, only considered and unconsidered responses. Who would you direct to receive the treatment first and why.

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If you are a woman, how has your gender impacted your decision to pursue a medical career?

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If you are not a minority, how might you best meet the needs of a multiethnic, multicultural patient population?

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73
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To what extent do you feel that you owe a debt to your fellow man? To what extent do you owe a debt to those less fortunate than yourself? Please explain.

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Pick any specific medical school to which you are applying, and tell the interviewer about it. What makes this school particularly desirable to you?

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What general and specific skills would you hope an ideal medical school experience would give you? How might your ideal school achieve that result?

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How have you tested your motivation to become an MD? Please explain.

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Is there anything else we have not covered that you feel the interviewer should know about you or your interest in becoming a doctor?

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What were your most memorable accomplishments of your college career?

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Why do you think so many people want to be doctors?

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Where do you see yourself in 10-15 years?

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81
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If you want to help people, why not social work?

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Do you prefer basic research or working with people?

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83
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What about medical school scares you the most?

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Why study medicine when you have so many talents?

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From what you understand of medical school, what part of the program will be most difficult for you?

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Tell us your opinion of the medical school curriculum.

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Describe your style of communicating and interacting with others.

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Give an example of a situation in which you had to utilize effective interpersonal skills.

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Describe a situation in which you were dependable or demonstrated initiative.

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Describe one in which you were not as dependable as you would have liked.

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Describe how you can effectively deal with someone in crisis.

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Tell me about a time when you faced a conflict or anger with another individual.

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How do you make important decisions?

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What do you do when you are not at work or school?

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What experiences have you had working with diverse populations?

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Describe a situation in which you have worked with a diverse group of people – What did you learn from the situation?

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Describe any travel you have done and your exposure to other cultures.

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How would your teammates describe you?

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How would your professors describe you?

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What is your relationship like with your family?

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Tell me about a time you were disappointed in a teammate? How did you approach the situation?

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What books have you read recently?

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Who is your hero and why?

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104
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How can you tell if someone is truly compassionate?

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105
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When you need counseling for personal problems whom do you talk with?

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Describe your childhood.

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How do you handle blood and gore?

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108
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What would you do if you got in everywhere?

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What would you do if you got in nowhere?

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110
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What else do you want us to know about you before you leave today?

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What do you have to offer our school?

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What impact will you have on the medical profession?

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What are you passionate about?

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If I speak to the admissions committee tomorrow, why should I tell them to let you in?

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115
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How would your best friend describe you?

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What is your “cause”?

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Tell me about a time when you were criticized unfairly.

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118
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How do you handle change?

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119
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If you could start your college career all over again, what would you do differently?

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120
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If we contacted your references now, what do you think they would say about you?

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121
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If you could change one aspect of your personality with a snap of your fingers, what would you change?

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122
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In what course did you get the worst grades and why?

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123
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What aspects of your life experiences make you a good candidate for medical school?

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124
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If your best friends were to describe you, what would they say?

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125
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Tell me about a time you failed.

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126
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How do you handle failure?

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127
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What are some of the things you will have to give up as a doctor?

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128
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How do you help people that don’t want to be helped?

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129
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Have you had any negative job experiences, what did you learn?

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130
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Who would you say has been the most influential person in the last hundred years?

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131
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What do you think about HMOs and the changes taking place in medicine?

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132
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What steps have you taken to acquaint yourself with what a physician does?

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133
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If we adopted universal health care in the US, would you still want to be a doctor?

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134
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Why is medicine rewarding?

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135
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What qualities do you look for in a physician?

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136
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Why do you think some doctors are unhappy practicing medicine?

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137
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Do you think a physician should tell a patient he/she has eight months to live?

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138
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Would you practice in the inner city? What do you think happens to people who practice there?

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139
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If there were an accident on the highway, would you stop and help the victims if it could lead to a malpractice claim against you?

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140
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If you had a choice to give a transplant to a successful elderly man or a young drug addict, who would you chose?

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141
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How would you deal with a terminally ill patient?

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142
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If you discovered a classmate cheating, what would you do?

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143
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Do you think there should be mandatory HIV testing for couples that want to be married?

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144
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Do you prefer to provide less effective medicine to more people or more effective medicine to fewer people?

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145
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If you had a magic pen, how would you fix healthcare in America?

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146
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How can we minimize healthcare costs?

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147
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Would you share your religious beliefs with your patients?

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148
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In what field do you think the next major advancement in medicine will occur?

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149
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Tell me about a time when you acted unprofessionally.

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150
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What should be done about the shortage of medical specialists and resources in rural settings?

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Teach me something that most people do not know how to do.

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If you could be any utensil in the kitchen, what would you be and why?

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Tell me about a time you did not get along with a superior.

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Questions to ask them

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Curriculum
1. Are there any special programs for which this medical school is noted?

  1. Please tell me more about the integrated curriculum.
  2. What modalities are used for student lectures?
  3. What are the opportunities for research? What are the policies for taking time off for research opportunities?
  4. How do students get assistance if an academic need arises?
  5. Is there flexibility in the coursework (the number of electives) and the timing of the courses (accelerating, decelerating, and time off) during the pre-clinical and clinical years?
  6. Are standardized tests used such as the NBME shelf exams?
  7. Has this medical school, or any of its clinical departments, been on probation or had its accreditation revoked?
  8. How do students from this medical school perform on the National Board Examinations? How does the school assist students who do not pass?

Evaluations
10. How are students evaluated academically? How are clinical evaluations performed?

  1. Is there a formal mechanism in place for students to evaluate their professors and attending physicians? What changes have been made recently as a result of this feedback?

Counseling/Student Support
12. What kind of academic, personal, financial, and career counseling is available to students? Are these services also offered to their spouses and dependents/children?

  1. Is there a mentor/advisor system? Who are the advisors—faculty members, other students, or both?
  2. How diverse is the student body? Are there support services or organizations for ethnic/cultural minorities, LGBT students, and women?

Facilities
15. Tell me about the library and extracurricular facilities (i.e., housing and athletic/recreational facilities). Is designated study space available?

  1. Are students required to have a laptop?
  2. What type of clinical sites—ambulatory, private preceptors, private hospitals, rural settings, international—are available or required for clerkships? Does this school allow for students to do rotations at other institutions or internationally?
  3. Is a car necessary for clinical rotations? Is parking a problem?

Financial Aid
19. What is the current tuition and fees? Is this expected to increase yearly? If so, at what rate?

  1. Are there stable levels of federal financial aid and substantial amounts of university/medical school endowment aid available to students?
  2. Are there students who have an “unmet need” factor in their budget? If so, how do these students come up with the extra funds?
  3. Are spouses and dependents/children covered in a student’s budget?
  4. Are there services/staff available to assist students with budgeting and financial planning?
  5. Does this school provide guidance to its students and to its graduates/alumni, on debt management?

Student Involvement
25. What medical school committees (e.g., curriculum committee) have student representation?

  1. Are students involved in (required or voluntary) community service?
  2. How active is the student council/government? Are there other active student organizations?

Policies
28. What is the student medical insurance coverage and what is the cost to students?

  1. Is there an established protocol for dealing with student exposure to infectious diseases?
  2. Does this school provide, or does the student pay for, vaccinations against Hepatitis B or prophylactic AZT treatment in case of a needle-stick or accident?
  3. Is disability insurance provided to cover exposure?
  4. Is there a school honor code? Is there a grievance process/procedure? Are the students involved?

Residency
33. May I see a list of residency programs to which this school’s recent graduates were accepted?

Questions to Ask Yourself
34. Does this school have strengths in the type of medicine (primary versus specialized care, urban versus rural practice environment, academic medicine versus private practice) that I will want to practice?

  1. Would I be happy at this school for at least the next four years?

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