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"How do you manage your own well-being?"
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"What is evidence-based medicine and what does it mean to you?"
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"How do you deal with stress?"
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"Why DO, why HCOM"
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"What is one time you've dealt with conflict in the workplace? How did you go about resolving it?"
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"How would you handle the stresses of working as a physician?"
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"What does evidence based medicine mean to you?"
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"Tell me about yourself."
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"Why do you want to be a doctor?"
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"To talk a little about my service, volunteer and leadership activities."
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"Tell me about your service."
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"Why OU"
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"Why should we accept you over the other students?"
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"Why osteo/OU?"
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"Can you tell me a joke?"
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"Do you have any questions for me?"
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"How is your family?"
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"First interview was about my file and that was pretty much it. Very laid back conversation with the dean of admissions. "
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"Strengths/Weaknesses"
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"How many schools did I apply to? Where do they rank on my list? What is my top choice school"
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"Tell me about yourself"
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"Who do you consider to be your mentor (like a role model)?"
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"If you had the opportunity to speak with Obama about healthcare reform, what type of suggestions would you give."
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"What are your strengths and weaknesses?"
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"Why shouldn't we accept you?"
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"Why Osteopathic medicine? What has been the hardest situation in your life and how did you deal with it? "
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"Why OU? Why DO? Why should we accept you? "
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"Why Medicine? Tell me about yourself. What field are you interested in?"
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"three people to dinner--not supposed to include friends/family members, why?"
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"you took the mcat twice, how did you raise your score so much?"
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"Why did you serve a Mission for your church?"
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"What would I change in the world
if I could change anything?"
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"You say your compassionate?...why do you think that?"
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"What class have you taken that you have disliked and why? (both a science and non-science course)"
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"So, you're from [my town], huh? (this was about the only direct question I was asked. the rest of the conversation with this interviewer i had to struggle to keep going)"
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"An explanation for a specific, low, grade on one of my class."
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"Describe your research/lab experience."
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"What brought you here?"
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"If we brought in 3 of your best friends, what would they say about you?"
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"Tell me about your research"
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"Tell me about your family."
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"Had I done any research...what did it consist of?"
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"Why did you go to your undergraduate school?"
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"Why did you pick your undergrad school?"
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"What makes you think you can be a physician?"
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""Why do you want to enter into a field with so many problems and issues?" "
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"lots of questions about application (school, classes, etc)"
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"Read this article and then discuss it. What does it mean to you? - Not very difficult... It's not like a scientific journal article or anything. This will not cause anyone a problem!"
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"How do you learn? Which curricular tract suits you better, CPC or PCC? I assume this was to see how well versed you are with the college's programs."
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"Who has been the most influential person in your life and why?"
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"Why DO? Why OUCOM? How do you know you want to be a doctor? What's wrong with engineering? Do you like research, have you considered the DO/PhD program? Tell me about your current research. How will you and your husband manage the distance?"
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"3 people you'd go to dinner with and what you would talk about?"
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"Questions were mainly specific to my application and interviews were very conversational."
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"again, aside from the basic why medicine?, why OU?, why DO?...it's all very conversational, situation specific stuff."
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"What made you want to go into osteopathic medicine?"
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"Tell us of your experiences with other cultures?"
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"Why OU?"
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"After taking time off to do the things you wanted to do, do you think you'll be able to settle down to four years of medical school"
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"tell us about yourself..."
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"How have your experiences in the veterinary medical field prepared you for a career in osteopathic medicine?"
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"How would your friends describe you?"
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"Why should we select you?"
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"why do, why oucom and why do over md?"
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"Why medicine? Why DO? and Why OUCOM?"
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"First interview - what have you learned today about OU-COM, Why don't you want to be a lawyer like your dad?, What have you learned from your parents?, One word to describe you?, What is your "problem?", Why med school, Why DO, why should we take you, Research, Curriculum, where else did you apply?"
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"Who is your role model?"
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"Why should OU-COM accept you over everyone else?"
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"After reading the article:
What do you think it was about?
How would you rate it on a scale of 1-10? then, it hit me between the eyes, 10 absolutely, why not for you?
Why do you think there is so much medical literature these days?"
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"Tell me about your research. "
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"first interview was a conversation"
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"What are some of your hobbies? (who has "hobbies" anyway?)"
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"Why do you want to be a doctor? Why do you want to go into medicine? Why Osteopathic medicine? All three of these questions can be answered the exact same way."
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"What do you like about OUCOM?"
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"Why osteopathic medicine?"
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"Same as other postings"
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"Why do you want to be an osteopathic physician?"
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"The standard--why osteopathic medicine?"
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"What positive qualities would you bring to the class?"
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"Why Osteopathy?"
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"Of course, why do I want to be a physician? Why do I want to go into Osteopathy in particular? What I am concerned about in our healthcare system. "
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"Why medicine and why osteopathic medicine?"
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"What traits do you look for in a physician? How can medical students learn these positive qualities/ how have you demonstrated these qualities?"
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"What are your strengths? your weaknesses?"
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"When did you first decide to be a D.O?"
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"Why OU-COM?"
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"What was a major obstacle/challenge you encountered and how did you overcome it? Who/what were encouraging factors in this?"
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"How do these so called "inspirational" books affect peoples lives? in reference to books like the chicken soup set"
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"Explain your [low] science GPA. Why did you choose to attend X University? What other med schools did you apply to?"
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"Why medicine, why DO?"
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"Tell me about an issue in health care here or abroad and how you would solve it."
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"Describe Yourself? "
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"Why osteopathic medicine? Why medicine in general?"
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"What do you think your strengths & weaknesses are?"
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"Describe the research you did over the summer?"
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"Describe yourself to me and explain your faults and passions."
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"Adaptation is an important tool in life, give an example where you have adapted to a situation"
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"My first interviewer asked me about my musical hobbies and my personal statement/journey to medicine."
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"If I had dinner with your best friends, what would they say is your biggest weakness"
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"I think the open-file style of these interviews leads to a lot of great conversations. There wasn't one question, in particular, this interested me. Instead, it was the depth of discussion and openness I felt with my interviewers."
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"What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?"
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"What would you recommend as a way to fight the obesity problem America is facing?"
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"Why Athens, OH?"
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"I see you have minors outside of medicine. Please explain this relevance to your medical career?"
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"If you want to help people, why not write public health policy so you can have the greatest impact?"
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"Did any of your non-science courses change the way you look at the world?"
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"Tell me a joke"
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"Would you like a cup of coffee?"
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""Who is your role model?""
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"If two of my friends were in the other room what negative thing would they say about me."
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"Thoughts on the state of health care in the U.S. "
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"What suggestions do you have for improving the state of healthcare today? "
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"None really"
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"(I took a couple swimming-endurance classes) "I see that you've taken some swimming classes, do you swim?" And then we got into talking about the swim team that the interviewer is on and she suggested that I think about joining if I go to OU. :D"
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"None were really wierd they all came form my file."
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"How can you tell if someone is compassionate during an interview?"
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"What is your biggest regret?"
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"Who is your hero? (*pause*)"
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"All pretty straightforward."
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"what 3 people (dead or alive) would you invite to dinner and why?"
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"If you could invite 3 people to dinner, who would they be and how would they get along?"
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"All the questions came from my file"
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"Why did you serve a mission for your church?"
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"If you could do anything in the world with any type of power what would you do and why?"
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"If you could invite three people to dinner dead or alive, who would you invite, and how would they react to each other."
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"What can we learn from the sick?"
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"Is there anything about your application that isn't perfect? (there was.)"
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"What 3 people would you bring to dinner, living or dead, and why?"
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"If you could invite 3 people,living or dead, to dinner who would they be and why? I was asked this twice and apparently they ask this question a lot so be prepared."
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"None really."
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"If there was absolutely no way you could become a doctor, what other profession would you go into?"
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"If you could invite three people to a dinner party alive or dead who would they be and what would you want them to talk about?"
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"interesting conversation more than questions."
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"How many brothers and sisters I had. What my friends did when we hung out in high school. How did I know that I denervated the right nerve (pertaining to my research)."
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"what are your plans for this summer?"
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"If you could invite three people dead or alive to dinner, who would they be and why and how would they interact with one another?"
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"Which hotel are you staying at? Is it a dump? "
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""Why do you want to enter into a field with so many problems and issues?" "
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"how are you going to handle difficult patients day in and day out. what do you have in your life that will make you keep going"
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"They for the most part asked basic questions about my file."
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"One of my interviewers asked me to pick him out in a group photo from when he was younger and luckily I got it right."
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"Where do you get your hair done? (The interviewer and I are from the same area of Ohio, which is really weird since it is in the middle of nowhere and most people never leave it. This interview was the last of the day and was really more of a get-to-know-you type of thing. I think she just wanted to see if I had any kind of a personality.)"
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"Can you pick me out of this photo? (I couldn't. :) )"
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"If you could go out to dinner w/ 3 people...who would they be and what would you talk about with them?"
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"Read a moving piece of narrative medicine and was asked to comment on it and discuss it."
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"it was almost all very case specific stuff...tell me about this experience, this class, this grade, etc. "
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"Regarding your senior research in undergrad, do you recall the mechanism of action of "X" compound?"
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"what is your favorite comic book charater"
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"Specific questions regarding personal experiences "
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"these MCATs, grades, these aren't you. I want to know who you are.
So your dad was an MD, and you're applying to an osteopathic school..."
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"tell us about yourself"
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"I actually wasn't asked a whole lot of the typical questions you would expect from an inteview of this magnitude. The interviews were very conversational in that the interviewers wanted to get to know what type of person you are rather than your accomplishments; besides, they already have your file, so they know what you've done."
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"what do you look for in a medical school?"
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"If we bring 3 of your best friends, how will they describe you?"
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"Have you ever taught yourslef how to do anything?"
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"what did you learn from this particular course(exploring jewish new york)"
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"What have you learned today about OUCOM that you didn't already know?"
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"What have you learned from your parents?"
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"I was asked what one of my biggest passions was, and I talked about music, but then my interviewer kept asking me about more and more passions. So be prepared to talk about everything you enjoy doing (my range of passions was from music to socializing to reading to baking - so don't hold back, no matter how weird the passion is)"
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"Read this article and we'll talk about it when I get back...What did you think it meant? (it was an article about a resident who had a nazi prison camp survivor as a patient and realizing this truth and its impact on her (the physician))"
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"Name one thing you want the admissions committee to know about you."
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"why i chose avocation rather than vocation to describe my interest in medicine"
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"Do you have a big ego?"
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"If you could be any organ or cell in the body, which would you be and why?"
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"What is the biggest difficulty a physician faces in the workplace?"
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"Who is your biggest role model?"
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"About my tour around the world, but that is what usually happens to me when i'm being interviewed. "
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"none really; some about my work experience"
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"Give an example of an ethical problem in medicine and how would you solve it?"
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"Question specific to my file"
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"How do you think working as a sales associate could help you in medicine?"
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"What types of books/authors do you like to read?"
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"Why should we choose you?"
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"What cartoon character most likely reflects your personality?"
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"My second interviewer and I had a conversation about a book that both of us had read. I was asked what my thoughts were about the author, and what the author meant by referring to a Renaissance man."
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"What impact do you think recent advances in molecular biology will have on clinical medicine?"
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"If your friends were to describe you to me, what would they say?"
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"If you were admitted to OUCOM and another school from your home state, which would you attend?"
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"How will you make us proud?"
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"To talk about Ultimate Frisbee"
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"How do these so called "inspirational" books affect peoples lives? in reference to books like the chicken soup set"
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"Describe your experience at [you post-secondary option program] (I took college classes while in high school)"
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"What has been a rewarding moment in your life?"
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"Tell me about a positive pivotal moment "
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"What do you think is the biggest problem with American healthcare today and how would you propose we fix it?"
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"About sociology classes I had taken."
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"What types of books do you like to read?"
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"Who do you lean on for support when you get stressed out?"
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"What was the last book you read?"
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