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"Know about their 3rd year structure and what aspects of this design will facilitate your success. You will have to discuss this at some point."
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"all questions were straight from my app -- so i don' think they will be helpful to others who are preparing."
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"suppose you are a 3rd/4th year med student and the resident on call or attending is WAY stressed out. a patient's just died and the resident/attending is just too uptight and stressed to handle delivering the news to the family and begs you to do it for him/her. (Recall that it's technically unethical for you to deliver the news to the family.) What do you tell your resident/attending?"
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"Not really a question, a "role-playing". My interviewer was the vice dean of admin. He pretended to be my uncle who thinks women should stay home and pop out babies, and asked me what I would do in that situation."
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"suppose as an attending physician, you get a call from a resident late at night about a difficult case where the patient is uncooperative and combative? what course of action would you take and why?"
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"Not very many questions, more conversational "
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"Nothing in particular. She just wanted to know about my activities and why I was interested in medicine."
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"just the normal questions about my app"
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"What qualities does a physician need that can't be taught?"
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"If I were President Bush for a day, what law would I pass?"
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"If you were the Dean of the med school, what one thing would you ensure the students knew when they graduated from DukeMed? "
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"If you were interviewing me (the interviewer), what would you ask?"
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"Nothing too interesting"
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"Do you know what it is like to be sick?"
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"If you were made the dean of the school, what would you change/have the students know?"
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"Two questions stand out: what was the latest book that you've read and if you can't become a physician what would you choose as an alternative career?"
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"How would you handle breaking patient confidentiality?"
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"nothing too interesting . . ."
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"If I were a genie and gave you one wish, what is the one thing you would change about the world?"
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"What do your friends say about you going into medicine?"
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"Nothing really"
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"If you speak to anyone, dead or alive, who would it be?"
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"what is the role of religion in medicine (religion was all over my appliction)"
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"How do you feel about embryonic stem cell research?"
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"How do you think your interest in philosophy is relevant to medicine? This totally caught me off gaurd. I got through it ok but nowhere near as well as I would have had I thought about it ahead of time. I have so many ideas its hard to organize them into a concise answer of the top of my head. It made for great conversation though."
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"Imagine you and I are writing a play about a doctor who comes to a town. Who is the doctor, what is the plot, and who is the audience?"
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"I can't think of anything here that I wouldn't have expected."
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"I see you have a background that is non-science. Those we accept at Duke are to be leaders in their field or on the cutting edge of research - have you considered that?"
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"Not a single interesting question."
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"None ... all standard questions .... "
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""If, in fifteen years, you have a car accident with a driver who is HIV-positive, and he is beaten up but you're conscious and able to help him, would you?""
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"What does the term "cultural competency" mean to you? (related to info on my amcas app)"
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"how to cope with a confidentiality issue if/when i thought i needed to spill the beans to someone"
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"If you had to break confidentiality, how would you do it"
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"The beta interview: How do your strong interests in music play relate - if at all - to your desire to be a physician?"
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"Was never really asked a discrete question... more just asked to talk about myself, etc."
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"nothing was interesting"
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"None"
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"Both interviewers asked questions related to my application and my personality. Format was more conversational than other schools."
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"i don't like to reveal specific ques. just be prepared to answer some ethical q's. be honest."
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"Why are prescription drugs so expensive in the US? Propose a solution."
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"You are writing a play called "The Best Physician." The cast includes the patient and the physician. Describe the play and the audience's reaction."
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"nothing much"
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"None really"
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"When you have spare time, what kinds of books do you like to read?"
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"What is a wahoo? (my school is UVA)"
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"So, estrogen is made in males or not?"
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"If you had a chance to interview any one person, living or dead, who would it be? What would you ask them? "
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"Tell me about a classmate you admire and why."
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"What are some difficulties facing physicians today?
When you read the newspaper, what section do you read first and why?"
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"How do you plan on telling young kids that they have a terminal illness?"
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"How do doctors deal with malpractice?"
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"If you were a health care personnel would you want to be vaccinized against smallpox?"
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"What would you have done if you were the surgeon involved in the botched transplant incident that occurred here last week?"
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"Can you show me what Hanmi is? (It's a position in a martial art I study, so I stood up and demonstrated it in my suit..hehe)"
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"If an 8 year old boy came into the hospital and needed medical attention immediately and the mother of the 8 year boy only spoke Spanish and she was frightened once you came out with a big needle, what would you do? "
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"Regarding the current Bush/War on Iraq situation, do you think Med professionals (AMA, AAMC) + Physicians should take a stand on the issue - what kind of stand would that be?"
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"not really any. I got zero ethic questions."
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"I had to make up a play called "The Perfect Doctor" I had to decide who would be the main character, what the plot would be, and whether the audience would be applaud or boo at the end. "
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"If I were faced with a situation where there was a cultural barrier between me and my patient, how would I try to overcome that barrier?"
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"What would I do if I came upon a car accident and the bleeding victim told me that he was HIV positive and when I went to my trunk to look for my first aid kit (which wasn't there) I cut my hand and had an open wound."
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"he showed me a picture of the past class, and asked me what did i notice about the picture that is different from say a med school class from 1970"
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"none of them were particularly interesting. "
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"What makes a school good?"
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"What is the biggest challenge for physician today?"
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"If we made international medicine a requirement, where would you go to study?"
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"the whole interview process was very conversational. mostly "tell me about yourself and how you got here." and "why duke?""
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"What skills from teaching difficult to reach children will be helpful to you as a physician? "
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"Define "diversity" - why is diversity important in medicine?"
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"What do you think is the worst part of being a physician?"
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"What would you do during your third year of medical school here? "
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"what's the best non-science class you've taken?"
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"my student interviewer asked me questions about my job teaching that I had for the past couple of years"
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"I was mostly asked about my research experience"
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"What was the best non-science class you took?"
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"Well, I had a string of questions about the geography of Southeast Asia/Africa, but I gather that's not normal. Like, what's the capital of Australia, and who's the President of South Africa?"
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What are your suggestions for the admissions office?