Personal Questions Flashcards
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why do you want to be a doctor and study medicine?
- used to live in Argentina, as a kid grandma has aways had numerous health conditions where she has been in and out of the hospital, but she was always able to beat the odds and come back home and sell be her cheerful self.
why doctor and not nurse?
Nurses are amazing and without them I believe that doctors would not be able to do what they do. While they are such an important of the MDT and have a crucial role in patient care I do believe that doctors are more on the management side of patient care. I do recognize that nurses are also very understanding of pharmacology and are also able to make decisions for their patients, doctors get to make the ultimate decision when it comes to diagnosis and treatment for patients, and nurses collaborate with them to put the pans into practice. I really do value that role of leadership and the problem solving skills you get to develop through the process of going to medical school. To be a physician you have to go through medical school and you get to graduate with a certain level of knowledge in which you know a little bit about every thing.
why this school?
well, it was actually really unexpected but when I started looking into med schools, I actually found out that a friend of a friend who had lived near me attended Queens for medicine. So I started looking into the school in depth and I was really intrigued by the teaching style of case-based learning and how at queens you would get early clinical access in your first year where your interacting with patients as well as whole body directions which I thought was really cool and I know that other med schools around the Uk don’t have that opportunity. Queens also offers some exchanges across the world in the last years of study and I love to travel so it was definitely something that caught my eye.
give an example of when you played an effective role as a team player
- local hospital, nursing home
- for holidays organized a Christmas lightshow with Caroline and some marshmallow roasting outside in the courtyard to bring the residents together
- some don’t have visits
- we as volunteers got into a group and all were assigned different tasks
- i printed out lyrics of the carols so that I could hand them out and residents could follow along with the music and I also helped hang one of the lights out in the couryard.
- after that evening seeing the residents faces was really warming and I was super content that I was able to take part in something that brought these people joy especially during the holiday season.
describe a time where you displayed leadership skills. what attributes does a good leader have?
- at school I am part of leadership club
- we organize school dances, pep rallies, spirit weeks where the student get to dress up, and just fun things for the school to enjoy
- as a senior student I am in charge of the decorating and advertising committee within the club, and so this past halloween, the school had dance and so I got a group of students together who were keen in participating in this role, and we got into a group to discuss ideas and I took the time to listen to everyones ideas and opinions, and tried to incorporate them into what we were doing. I do believe that by hearing and involving others
