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""Tell me about yourself""
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"Define success."
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"Tell me about your family"
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"How would you solve the current food shortage that is currently affecting Springfield, IL?"
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"What makes a good team member?"
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"If you were not accepted this cycle, what would you do?"
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"How do you feel about PBL? Can you handle it?"
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"Tell me about yourself"
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"How do you feel about healthcare reform?"
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"Tell me about your childhood."
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"Tell me about your family, home life, school, etc."
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"Why medicine? Why SIU?"
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"How did you prepare for your MCAT?"
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"Why Southern"
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"How did you hear about SIU?"
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"Why do you want to attend SIU? (make sure you mention PBL because it's huge there)"
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"Since the curriculum is PBL style, they asked me how I do in a group learning situation."
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"How did you study for the MCAT?"
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"What is the school's mission? How do you fit within the mission? "
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"General: Why is SIU a good fit for you? Why are you interested in SIU and how will you do with the Problem-Based Learning system?"
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"What sort of social things do you do at college?"
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"Why SIU? Why is PBL a good fit for you and vice versa?"
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"Tell me about yourself? Explain Grades and MCAT."
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"Tell me how you interact with other cultures/about the importance of cultural diversity to you."
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"If you didn't get into med school this year, what would you do?"
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"How did you prepare for the MCAT?"
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"Tell about how you arrived at the decision to go to med school."
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"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
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"What do I think about the PBL curriculum?"
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"If you could change the current healthcare policies, what would you do?"
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"What got you interested in medicine?"
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"Why SIU? Why would you want to go into medicine?"
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"Why did I choose my undergrad?
Tell me about international health care.
How will you chose from multiple acceptances?"
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"tell me about urself...y do u wana be a doc? why SIU? "
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"Same ole stuff, greatest strengths and weeknesses."
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"Where do you intend to practice?"
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"talk about family, past experiences, motivation to work in medicine, etc. "
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"Tell me a little about your family."
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"Why do you want to come to SIU?"
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"Have you done any travelling?"
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"tell me about your family... siblings, parent's job etc. tell me about your hometown."
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"How would your best friend describe you?"
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"tell us about your family was a common question."
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"Why is Southern the right school for you?"
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"why medicine"
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"What do your siblings do for a living?"
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"Tell me about your volunteer experiences."
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"How would you approach and treat a homosexual male patient who presented with and STD?"
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"Tell me about yourself, they ask you this even though they have your file in front of them. "
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"What small group settings have you worked in? (PBL)"
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"Did you like your MCAT score?"
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"What issuses in medicine or outside of medicine are of interest to you? "
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"About my research"
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"What specialties do you want to go into?"
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"Tell me about your military experience."
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"Tell me about yourself."
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"How did you prepare for the MCAT? Were you happy with your scores?"
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"How will you pay for Med. School . . . will you work?"
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"Tell me about your hospital-related experiences"
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"What do you think about what's going on with Iraq?"
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"When did you decide on medicine?"
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"Have I worked in academic groups to solve problems?"
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"What and who has motivated you to become a physician?"
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"Tell me about yourself?"
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"Why do you want to be a doctor?"
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"Do you have any questions for me? I was asked this about 50 times."
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"What characteristics do you feel a good physician should possess?"
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""What was the most difficult part of college for you?""
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"Asked questions about my family relations and the kind of support I would recieve while attending medical school."
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"What do you know about SIU?"
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"Are you married? Would your girlfriend be coming with you?"
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"Why medicine?"
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"Why SIU? "
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"How do you explain some bad grades on transcript?
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"Why did you chose to go to Indiana for undergrad (I'm from IL)?"
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"What was the last gift you gave someone?"
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"What are five qualities you believe a physician should have?"
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"Tell me how to make a peanut butter and jelly"
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"None of them really."
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"What are your hobbies?"
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"N/A"
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"Discuss how you've demonstrated self-directed learning."
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"You are an ER doctor and a patient comes in with kidney disease and alcoholism. He also has HIV. Do you treat him?"
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"Pick a controversial topic (doesnt have to be medical) and argue both sides of it."
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"What are some learning strategies you use to retain large volumes of information?"
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"How will my theatre background help me in medicine?"
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"Everything in you application aside, we interview hundreds of applicants for 72 slots. Give me something, a story, a piece of information, that I can remember you by when we go to the committee."
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"What's the last book you've read? What is your favorite movie?"
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"How would I alter the medical malpractice lawsuit system"
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"What is one thing about you that makes your friends complain?"
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"If you were a dollar off in your checkbook, how long would you spend looking for the error?"
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"Why did you transfer? (I transferred after my freshman year)"
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"How to reconcile differences in a learning atmosphere that works to have everyone do well"
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"What are some of your goals before graduating from college?"
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"Tell me about how you picked your schools. What was your thought process for picking a certain school?"
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"Let's say that later in life a physician (not from SIU, of course) comes out of a hospital room, angrily says to you, ''Well, you really screwed up back there,'' and walks away without further explanation. What would you do?"
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"Tell me about living/working in New Zealand."
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"My interviewer presented me with a situation that happened earlier in the day during her rounds at the hospital. She asked how, as a physician, I would deal with a nurse demanding me to sign a consent form to give an obese man in the ICU an IV drip. "
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"pretty straightforward... nothing too unexpected"
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"The 'tell me about yourself''. it wasnt general, he literally asked how/why my parents emigrated to the US, their occupations, where I was born, what each of my siblings do, and my full academic history. "
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"What is the biggest challenge you have ever encountered?"
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"What do you dislike about medicine? Followe by What do you like about it?"
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"What do you like to do on vacation?"
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"How often do you see your oldest brother? (he lives out of state)"
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"My best experience in life"
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"Nothing"
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"Why this circuitous route to medicine? (Because I'm a non-traditional student). "
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"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
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"How should we fix the high cost of pharmaceuticals?"
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"The defining moment of my life"
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"Why I like "
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"What do you fear most as a doctor?"
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"What is your sister thinking of studying?"
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"If i cant dont become a doc, what would i be?"
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"Why do you think you should be given a spot over someone younger?"
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"What was your favorite non-science class and how do you think it will impact you as a physician?"
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"(I'm an immigrant)Was there anything about American culture that you were uncomfortable or uneasy with? "
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"what would you do if you found, after balancing your checkbook, that you were off by 7 cents from your bank statement?"
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"Almost all of the questions I was asked were straight forward and predictable. "
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"Nothing really interesting."
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"See below..."
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"How do your parents feel about you becoming a doctor?"
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"What are you most proud of in your life? What would you change about your current life?"
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"tell me about the orange krush (student cheering section). We talked about sports for 10 mins!"
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"How many brothers and sisters do you have?"
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"did not feel that any interesting questions were asked"
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"Do you know what barometric pressure is??"
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"What do you think about the steroid issue facing baseball?"
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"How would you approach and treat a homosexual male patient who presented with and STD?"
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"Tell me about your family"
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"Do you play hockey?"
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"Tell me about your high school."
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"What do I think intergrity is?"
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"What will your generation be remembered for?"
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"What can be done to address the nursing shortage?"
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"So you reach your goal, you become an MD, what then?"
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"What will be remembered from your generation? (Like the older generation is known for beatles, jfk, etc)"
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"How do you think medicine will have changed by the time you finish residency for yourself personally and all of medicine?"
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"All pretty generic questions."
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"Do you think Doctors should be involved in community, local, or even state government?"
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"Nothing out of the ordinary. What books are you reading. Why I picked my undergrad. etc."
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"Let's pretend medicine is not a profession at all, what would you do?"
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"What do you think will be remembered as the defining moments of your generation? i.e. 9-11, war in Iraq"
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"What book am I reading? What is my favorite thing I've done in college?"
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"Where were you born and what happened after that to get to where you live today?"
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"They were pretty bland... Why SIU? Why do you want to be a doctor? etc."
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"What would you do if your friend was contemplating suicide?"
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"Do you have a girlfriend?"
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"Why I would want to come back to Southern IL after living in CA?"
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""How can honesty and dishonesty affect the work of a physician?""
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"If placed in a PBL group with a dominating person who may be considered rude and overbearing, how do you think you would handle such an individual?"
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"What do your parents do?"
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"What would you be willing to sacrifice for your education?"
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"Elaborate on this specific point in your AMCAS personal comments section."
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"How do you think politics effects healthcare in the United States?"
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"How do we determine if medical school applicants are ethical people? "
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"No interesting questions. It was all a "get to know you" interview."
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"What do you think about the PBL (group) learning style?"
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"What would I do if I did not get into med school?"
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"None-mostly "tell me about yourself" and why SIU kind of things."
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