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"NDA was signed at the beginning of the day."
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"So many stupid questions such as name three world-famous physicians"
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"CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT"
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"NDA"
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"signed NDA"
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"Signed NDA - mostly what you'd expect"
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"Signed nondisclosure contract."
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"what would your high school friends think of you today"
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"Why physician? Why D.O.? Why this school?"
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"Why do you want to become a doctor?"
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"Why DO"
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"Tell me about your experience at you internship? What did you do and what did you learn?"
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"If I rub my finger on the table, how long will my DNA stay there?
(experience on my app.)"
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"why medicine, what not being a disc jockey. What is one thing I had learned that suprised me about the school"
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"Who you would have dinner with (living or dead) and why"
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"If there was something your application that you could change, what would it be?"
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"What is your biggest regret?"
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"Why DO and not MD?"
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"Who is your hero?"
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"Why ATSU-SOMA?"
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"Why D.O. and why ATSU SOMA?"
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"What would you do if medicine wasn't an option?"
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"Why do you want to be a physician? Why D.O.?"
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"Tell us about yourself?"
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"What does your girlfriend think of your decision to apply here?"
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"What do you think should be done about the healthcare crisis?"
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"Explain why re-take MCAT?"
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"What community service activities have you done? "
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"Why medicine? Why DO? Why SOMA?"
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"Why medicine and what interests you about Osteopathic medicine?"
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"Do you think that drug companies should be prohibited from advertising drugs to consumers? Why or why not?"
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"Basically all the same questions that the previous posters have posted. They are all standardized."
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"Group Exercise:
Solve a problem in healthcare and come up with at least 3 points in your answer.
Panal of 3 watched and took notes while we worked. I agree with others that they are more interested in how you interact than what you actually come up with."
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"Who should receive organ donation-convict/single mother?"
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"Is compassion learned through experience and is it necessary to be a successful doctor?"
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"Why DO and why A.T. Still in AZ"
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"Group Interview: Identify problem with health care and come up with 3 possible solutions. Here they obviously want to see how you interact in a group"
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"Part 1 - Group Activity
Interviewees divided into groups of 4, asked to solve a problem in healthcare, evaluated by adcom on how well you work in a group, don't think they really cared about the solution to the prompt"
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"A man who is a criminal, is on a list for a liver and a mother of three who cannot afford a transplant is not on the list, produce a moral model for transplant lists."
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"3 parts to the interview: 1) They watch you do a group activity 2) Closed file interview with a set standard of 6 question 3) File Review where you can talk about dings in your application"
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"What aspect of DO philosophy is most attractive to you and why?"
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"(Group portion, 20 minutes): Come up with a health care issue that you feel needs change, and discuss the three main elements needing improvement."
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"The one about the 9 year old with barely any brain and motor function. Removing th uterus etc... "
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"Tell me about how you got to this point in your premed career. "
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"GROUP PROJECT(30min): They are just testing to see how well you work with others (whether you contribute, interrupt or exclude people). It helps if you are a nice person on this one ;)
BTW, the prompt was related to fixing a problem in health care. Your group has to come up, in a collaborative effort, the solution(s)."
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"How did you come to want to be an osteopathic physician?"
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"one 30 minute 1:1 half-opened file interview where they had everything in front of them except my numbers: why do? why soma? how does emotion play into medicine? what is one positive and one negative emotion you felt during a medical experience? do you think there is a future for CHCs? what is something that you find complex? pretend you are an admissions director- now you are looking you at your app- what is one weakness you would want to know more about? what would you do if medicine was not an option?"
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"What would you do if you caught someone cheating off your exam?"
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"Why do you want to become a D.O.?"
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"The question about the 9 year old girl."
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"Why DO? How will you incorporate DO philosophies into your practice?"
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"Why DO?"
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"Ethics Q - about a little girl getting a radical procedure"
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"See the questions listed by other posters. "
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"A parents of a severely brain damaged 9 year old girl want her doctor to perform a hysterectomy and give the child drugs to stunt her growth and keep her weight at around 75 pounds so that they can better care for her. Do you think this is a radical procedure and would you treat the patient in this way?"
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"Do you believe name-brand drugs should be advertised?"
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"Why SOMA? How will SOMA help you in your career as a physician?"
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"About a growth stunting and reproductive impeding treatment to a 9 year old.... ethical?"
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"do you think compassion can be taught?"
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"Do you think there is a difference in D.O. vs. M.D.?"
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"transplant question"
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"Liver question."
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"How would you incorporate the concept of mind/body/spirit into your practice?"
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"Liver transplant question"
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"liver transplant "
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"The ethical question."
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"Ethical liver transplant choice."
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"Ethical Question about organ transplant, see above"
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"Give a positive and negative example of universal health care. "
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"Ethical question regarding transplant recipients."
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"Hypothetical liver question"
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"What does treating the mind, body, and spirit mean to you?"
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"The liver question"
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"Closed formal: (1)What is lifelong learning to you? (2) Give one pro/con for socialized medicine. (3) Ethics question. (4) What is mind/body/spirit to you, and how would you implement this into your practice. (5) What populations/community do you intend on working with."
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"The ethics liver transplant questions, see above. "
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"NDA"
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"CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT"
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"signed NDA"
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"Signed nondisclosure contract."
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"None, they were all pretty standard, open-ended questions."
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"Why did you feel that as a pre-medical student you did not need to take anatomy."
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"If you were accepted to 12 schools, how would you choose which one to attend?"
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"When all of the excitement of medicine has gone away, what are your core values underneath it all?"
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"Have I met Eddie Aikau?"
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"What kind of people irritate you? (work environment and academic environment)"
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"What do you see yourself doing in 10 years?"
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"Do you think you could handle the rough Arizona winters (I'm from Wisconsin)."
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"What do you know about osteopathy?"
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"personal statement question"
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"In group of 3, identify a problem within our currently health system and ways to solve it."
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"What would you do if you caught someone cheating during an exam?"
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"Asked about desire to work with underserved patients."
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"If embryonic stem cells were able to cure paralyzed patients, would you administer such treatment to those who ask for it?"
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"Do you think that drug companies should be prohibited from advertising drugs to consumers? Why or why not?"
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"Mother/convict question"
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"Is compassion learned and how does it make you a successful doc?"
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"None"
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"kidney transplant"
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"what about the osteopathic philosophy attracted you most to DO"
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"Can compassion be taught?"
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"Does a physician need compassion to be successful?"
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"nothing its the same questions for everyone"
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"How would you keep yourself up-to-date on medical education once you begin practicing? "
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"This one seemed specific to me and was more of a follow-up question than anything else: "It seems to me that you have a lot of interests--what will you do if you are forced to specialize in one area of medicine?""
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"Do you think there is a future for CHCs?"
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"With all the recent talk about health reform, how would you address the debate over providing health care to non American citizens?"
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"Is it necessary for a doctor to have compassion in order to be effective?"
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"The question pertaining to the 9 year old girl whose parents hope to stunt her growth via various medical procedures."
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"Can physicians learn compassion?"
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"The pharmaceutical drugs question about whether it is appropriate to advertise on television"
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"The pharmaceutical companies advertise drugs that encourage patients to get the more expensive drug, rather than generic versions of it. Do you think it is Ok for them to market these drugs? "
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"The questions were the same preset 5 questions that others have posted. None were difficult."
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"The question about the brain damaged 9 year old girl."
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"There is 9 yr old severly brain damaged girl. Her parents want to stunt her growth and give her a hysterectomy so she can be better cared for. Do you think this is a radical procedure?"
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"Something to do with the advertizing of new medications on television and whether I agreed with their presence or not."
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"How do you plan to work with allopathick doctors to serve the underserved?"
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"something about a 9 year old girl who was severely mentally impaired... the parents wanted to care for her at home, but in order to keep her size and weight managable, they had her have a hysterectomy and gave her drugs to stunt her growth.. is this child abuse? should the state get involved?"
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"It was a hypothetical question which I found out really happened...it went something like this: There is a 9 year old female that is clinically braindead. Her parents want to care for her in their home but they are worried that she will grow too tall and weigh too much so they give her drugs to stunt her growth and the girl has a hysterectomy. Do you consider this to be a radical procedure? Is this considered child abuse? Should the state get involved."
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"How does my view of religion play a role in how I would like to practice medicine"
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"Regarding ethics - would I give a liver transplant to an uninsured mother of three or an insured convicted felon?"
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"The questions were the standard five, but they did follow up with questions of their own making. I got ''Do you think the prison transplant program a good idea?''
A couple other questions that were extensions of the standard five, as well."
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"Do you think physicians should consider a patients ability to pay when treating them?"
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"the ethical transplant question "
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"The most interesting question was about the transplant for either a convict or the single mother."
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"As others have said, the choice between who to do the liver transplant for."
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"It was an ethical question regarding whom I would give a transplanted organ to a felon or a single mother with no insurance."
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"Who would you give a liver to, a mother who can't afford it or a prisoner whom the state will pay for it?"
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"What does a mind/body/spirit approach mean to you and how would you implement it in your practice?"
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"There is an ethical question, regarding transplant recipients. They are up-front in telling you that everyone receives the same 5 questions."
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"If you had to choose, would you give a liver to a convicted child murderer (who could afford the operation) or to a mother of three (who could not offord it)"
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"Do you see a difference between MD's and DO's?"
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"If given a choice between a criminal in prison and a mother of 3 which one would you give a liver to if they were both in dire need?"
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"Give positives and negatives of socialized health care."
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"ALL DAY IS GEARED TOWARD ASSESSING YOUR APPROPRIATENES FOR THE PROGRAM"
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"Probably the ethics question that I state for the next question. The other question were pretty standard. Expain a positive and negative aspect of universal healthcare. What kind of practice I would like to have. How I would keep up with current medical knowledge after school. "
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