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"Do you think you will spend alot of time getting involved on campus?(student interview)"
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"What career would you choose if not something in the healthcare field"
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"How can physicians best deal with their own unconscious bias towards certain patients?"
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"What's fun about you?"
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"What book did you recently read?"
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"If you were a cookie, what kind would you be?"
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"Do you have any regrets?"
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"Something similar to "what type of cookie would you like to be?""
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"How would you handle a situation where a parent refused the MMR vaccine because of a fear of causing autism?"
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"Why do you want the responsibility of being a doctor?"
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"Why did you get a B in this class?"
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"What do you do in your spare time? What will you contribute to the school?"
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"more like a discussion... but we talked about burn out in med students and doctors."
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"The entire Connecticut history fact quiz (optional)."
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"The questions about being "apprehensive" a/b HCR or not. I was interviewed by a person who coordinates the free clinic. We had a great conversation about the ethical need for reform, and the real concerns about going to far with reform. A great conversation!"
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"What's one thing that bothers you about Doctors..or something you hope you can fix, and how would you fix it?"
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"Why do you think [my undergrad institution] was initially reluctant to establish a medical school?"
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"What do you think your patients would like most about you?"
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"Nothing really."
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"Nothing really too interesting"
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"Mostly the standard questions....perhaps, ''tell me about yourself'' which led on to a casual conversation that covered the bulk of the interview."
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"I actually didn't get asked anything very unusual. Mostly standard questions like ''why medicine'' and ''why uconn'' but also some more detailed questions about my background and application."
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"Why do you not consider math a science?"
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"Tell me about your family. What makes you you?"
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"how do you think your having to assume adult responsibilities early in life affects your practice of medicine?"
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"A question about being given a blank check to to use for fixing communication problems within a hospital"
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"tell me about your parents"
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"Nothing that I can recall"
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"About my family"
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"You were the head of a team, and everyone was assigned a job. Your close friend on the team did not complete their part. What do you do as the leader?"
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"Do you think that a high level of education ( if become MD) will make you loose your connection with your friends ( who do not have college degree)?"
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"tell me what led you to walk through the doors of UCONN?"
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"none"
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"Was it a conscious decision to leave your piercing in?"
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"how do you view the importance of research for practicing physicians?"
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"Tell me about your grandparents."
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"What do you want me to write on your recommendation?"
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"1. If I could be any animal what would I be? (just bizarre)
2. Any questions that the other interviewer asked that you wished you had answered differently?"
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"Can't think of any."
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"Why did you risk dropping out of a BS/MD program?"
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"How do you think your parents' divorce negatively impacted you?"
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"What do you honestly think about socialized healthcare?"
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"Do you believe in chiropractors?"
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"What would you like me to tell teh admissons committee about you that is not in your file"
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"The dean of the medical school asked me if I wanted to tell him anything that he couldn't find in my file. It seemed almost like a last plea. "Let me in!""
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"How could your previous work be used here?"
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"What's a movie you would recommend I watch?"
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"What compelled you to make X life decision? (This decision was NOT the one pursue medicine.)"
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""Tell us a funny story." This was in a large group setting that felt somewhat like an interview, the interviewer was taking notes and had our files out as we spoke. "
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"So many of them were very interesting and original. One was " How can you shoe me your creativity?""
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"What role do you see technology playing in medicine in the future?"
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"What are your feelings on the environment?"
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"Why did you change careers? (Went from Media to Medicine)"
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"I can't remember..."
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"What do you plan to do once you have your MD?"
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"Considering your experiences in Africa (I studied abroad in Kenya), how will you apply what you learned there to your future patient care in the US?"
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"What would you do if you had to give up _______(extracurricular activity) due to your medical schedule?"
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"My views on health care disparities "
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"ethical/policy question dealing w/future shortage of physicians."
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"What do you think about the issues surrounding medical ethics over the next forty years?"
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"How would you motivate a fellow student who seems to have lost his love of medicine? How do you keep from feeling disillusioned in this field?"
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"all conversational. Discussed evolution with bio prof."
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"tell me about your extensive travels"
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"You have dinner plans with your family but you also have an acutely ill patient. How would you handle this situation?"
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"I was asked an extremely specific question about a research timepoint"
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"Why do you think that when doctors prescribe medicine to patients, about 70% of patients actually improve?"
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"Why would I possibly be interested in joining an ethics committee or IRB (an eventual goal of mine)?"
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"Questions all seemed to be conversational...nothing out of the ordinary."
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"how do you plan on balancing your career and your personal life, like a family? (the reason this did not offend me was because it was from an aweseome female ob/gyn)"
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"How are you different now compared to when you first applied to medical school two years ago?"
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"Tell me about this class you took that sounds interesting."
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"What do you forsee as some of the worst things about being a doctor?"
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"Do I have a girlfriend"
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"What do you think about living in Farmington?"
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"What was one of the weak points of my personality?"
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"My faculty interviewer asked me about my age because I will only be 20 when I enter medical school"
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"What do you do for fun?"
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"What is the most difficult situation you've ever faced?"
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"The student interviewer was picky...he asked me lots of questions on the various courses I had taken, the results of my summer research, even questions on why I chose to take certain gym classes..."
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"Describe the process by which you ended up in this room (ie; the interviewer's room)...it was a nice change from "Why do you want to be a doctor"?"
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"How will you be affected by having to tell someone they may die?"
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"How I would feel about coming from a bigger city to a slower pace. I think this is a good question, showing they really want people who will be happy there."
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"Questions regarding what areas of medicine I was interested in and why. Interesting conversation with faculty member about how he chose his specialty."
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