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"why medicine"
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"Why medicine, specifically Osteopathic Medicine?
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Ethical question: If your preceptor during clinical rotations asks you to prescribe medication for a patient, how would you deal with the situation?...What if she insists that you do it, even if you say no?"
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"Ethical types: 1) Is you saw a fellow student cheating on a test, what would you do? 2) If you were chief resident and a resident came in with alcohol on their breath, what would you do?"
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"Generic- Why DO, why medicine, more about yourself, if not accepted what would you do?"
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"What is Osteopathic Medicine?"
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"At What age did you start thinking about becoming a Doctor? I anticipated this question because of my background Registered Nurse. People often wonder why nurses would want to go to medical school."
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"What would you do if the 14 year old daughter of your best friend came to you for birth control pills?"
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"why medicine, why DO, why chicago"
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"If you were a doctor on a rescue boat after hurricane katrina, and you came upon a house where two people were trapped in an attic and you could only save one, who would you save (25 yr fem. severely injured or 60 yr old healthy male)-- water is rising and there won't be time to come back for the other one."
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"What about my osteopathic shadowing experience made me like osteopathic medicine more."
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"Tell me about your masters program.
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"why medicine and not research?"
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"A couple questions about my major in college (they were confused and thought I only got an economics major and missed my biology major)."
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"What experience have you had with DO (in long term prior career listed on my resume)? Have you ever seen OMM?"
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"The HMO one..."
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"If a friend's 15 year old daughter came to you and said she wanted BC pills, what would you do? "
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"What came of your anesthesia research? (note: if you've been published, it's a good idea to bring a copy of the article to give the interviewers)"
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"How has diabetes helped you in your decision to become a physician."
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"Why D.O.? Why Midwestern University?"
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"Why medicine, why osteo med, why Midwestern? All separate questions. What other schools did you apply? Where else have you had interviews? "
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"Why osteopathy."
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"why you wanna be a doctor."
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"Look at step 3, second part."
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""If we were both doctors and you saw me doing drugs at a party, and the next day I was making some bad calls in the hospital what would you do?""
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"ethics questions related to my background (they don't appear to ask the same ethics question to every student, so I would become comfortable with the general base of medical ethics issues)."
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"These were all the questions I was asked during my interview. So I was surprised I wasn't asked similar questions to other applicants, such as Why CCOM? Or anything regarding the D.O. profession? However, I have had significant experience in alternative forms of medicine via my veterinary experiences, shadowing of a D.O., and working in a P.T. clinic."
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"Argue the health care debate from both sides. "
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"ethical questions"
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"nothing really."
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"none really"
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"I had a story about how I developed an interest in DO program. They asked me about that."
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"More of the fact that the MD in my interview decided to lecture me about the stress levels of med school and then asked me how I planned on dealing with it."
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"what question do you want us to ask you? "
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"nothing really interesting...just basic interview questions..."
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"say you were watching tv and all of a sudden it goes black. what do you do?"
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"I had two ethical questions back to back. Euthenasia: a patient who is suffering request your assistance to end his/her life. What would you do? What do you do about a patient who is refusing blood transfusion?"
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"If the 14 year old daughter of your best friend came to you for birth control pills, what would you do?"
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"About the medical implications of Hurricane Katrina and how to prevent problems in the future"
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"They asked about my years working at a nursing home and how I handle losing one of my residents."
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"1) What are the cons of socialized medical care?
2) If your friends 16 year old daughter came in for birth control pills what would you do?"
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"A patient comes in with pain in there upper right abdominal cavity, whats there and what could be wrong?"
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"(at the end of the interview) Sum up your interest in osteopathic medicine and CCOM and your background; what do you want us to remember when we think back on this interview? (something along those lines)"
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"Honestly, all the questions were standard questions...I know that most of the other students had ethical questions. "
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"I actually posted the one before this, but made some mistakes in posting and failed to revise it before posting, so the questions are identical to the last post."
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"If you were Terrell Owens, and teh docs are sayin don't play in teh superbowl cuz you might get injured more, and you had a chance to talk to him, what would you say?.... Then if you were Terrell Owens, what would you do? Would you play? I am from Philly, so that's why. But it was fun and friendly."
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"nothing too interesting--typical questions."
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"How much money does a chicken farmer make? Just kidding..."
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"You are an astronaut and alone on a space station. There is a malfunction. You have only ten seconds of oxygen left. What would you do? Whosh, didn't expect this one. The DO interviewer seemed to want to test my ability to think and react quickly. (This was near the end of the interview, so I was pretty relaxed. I just tried to handle the question with a bit of humor and a calm sense of realism)."
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"A question about why i picked my email address (I have a unique name i suppose)"
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"What is electrofishing? [Related to a job I had.]"
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"I write poems so the interviewer asked me: What inspires you to write poems? What kind of poems do you write? Do you think of a topic and then write or does it come with flow?"
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"I am a talker, so it was an open discussion for most of the time. Simply who are you, and how did you get here sort of questions. "
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"nothing really hard. no ethics at all. just wanted to know what experiences i had."
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"Nothing out of the ordinary."
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"How my previous experience as a mechanic will help me to be a better doctor."
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"nothing too interesting. interview was relaxed, talked about info on my resume' mostly"
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"A terminal patient asks you, "When am I going to die?". What do you tell her?"
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"What do you think about the growing number of non-English speaking patients, and what woudl you do about it as a doctor"
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"Nothing that out of the ordinary. A lot about my background and activities."
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"I talked about volunteering abroad so they asked if the people there resented an American in their clinic"
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"You are a physician at a high school health fair. What would you want to talk about and why?"
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"Nothing super interesting, but there were two or three ethical questions."
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"cubs or sox? (if you say sox, you're automically out, just kidding :)"
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"Would you tell a terminal elederly pt. that they only had a few months to live if the family begged you not to? Lots of ethical questions."
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"Pretty standard hypothetical questions"
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"If the 14 year old daughter of my best friend came to me for birth control pills, what would I do?"
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"If another doctor's patient came to you for a prescription refill that he had no medical indications for, what would you do?"
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"If I think in Russian (my mother tongue)or English. "
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"Ethical: You have a homosexual patient whose mate wishes to see the patient. However, the family disgusted by such a relationship refuses the mate's wishes to meet the patient. The mate comes to you, what do you do?"
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