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3. You said that as a former attorney, one of the drawbacks was the paperwork, yet physicians must deal with enormous paperwork. What makes you think medicine would be different?"
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1. What motivates you to pursue a career in medicine?
2. What physician do you admire and what qualities does he/she embody
that you would like to emulate?
3. What do you see as the major problems with the US health care
system and what should be included in the health care plan to address
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(unethical, would have suggested more focused/quality care of the 6 children she had already, reprimand...he implanted 8, protocol is 3 for her age group)"
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What would you do if her mom finds the pill pack with your name on it and angrily confronts you about it in the supermarket? (I said I'd prescribe birth control)"
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"how is the canadian system different from the US? what are the main problems of the US system? what would you do to change it? why is that a solution? is cost the only factor? (as you can see, we went on this topic for a good amount of time)"
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"Basically what everyone already said. I might as well just tell you all of them. Why med? Where do you see yourself years from now? What are some current problems in med in US? What is the deal with the aging population? What should we do about it? Is the Canadian system a possible solution? Why do HMOs cut off services? Why do people specialize when there is primary care shortage? What books do I read? Tell us about a personal failure. Tell us about a person in your volunteer program. If patient wants prescription to buy drugs in Canada, do you do it? "
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"Let's say the US is switched to a Universal Health Care system like Oregon state, where everyone got basi health care, but certain procedures were not covered. For example, a 40 year old man, regardless of situation/health, will be refused a kidney transplant. Is this fair?"
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"Tell me about a patient that left an impression on you. (Not really an interesting question but really one of the only ones where I felt I could really shine and they finally wanted to know about ME, not just standard boring healthcare questions or "If you had a million dollars for healthcare...""
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"Ethical role-play. You are in a private practice with several other doctors, including me (your best friend). When you come into work one morning, your nurse tells you she smells alcohol on my breath."
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"Role play: 14 year old obese girl with no other health issues wants a note to get out of PE. (It wasn't a "what would you do", rather a "let's act this out, right now.")"
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"A role play question with the excom: One of your terminally ill cancer patients asks for prescription pain killers. What do you do? ... Patient calls you on a busy afternoon and says that instead of taking the medications as prescribed, he is planning to take them all at once to end his life. He has discussed his decision with family and friends and says you cannot change his mind; he is simply calling to say goodbye and to thank you for your help. What do you do?"
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"We set up lots of theoretical constraints regarding health care reform that were not hard, but sort of tricky to keep track of. As advised on the UWSOM website, think out loud."
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"Compare and contrast your experience working with the patients in the geriatric exercise clinic versus the varsity athletes in the training room. (both volunteer experiences in my file)"
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"#2"
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"a role-play. it was kind of weird but fun."
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"You are seeing a pt with kidney failure who refuses dialysis. He later loses consciousness, and his family requests that you dialyze immediately. What do you say?
Later he regains consciousness and wishes to start dialysis, how do you think the family will feel towards you?"
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(compose music, write)"
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"A new drug has clinically been proven to extend the life expectancy of a terminally ill patient with lung cancer from 9 months to 10.5 months. The drug costs $80,000 per patient. The Canadian healthcare system has decided they will not cover the cost of this drug for patients, but Medicare here in the US does. Would you use this treatment, knowing it costs as much as it does?"
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"(While suggesting options about a case study) That's not going to work. What else?"
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"Small role-playing scenario: I was the physician, on of the interviewers was a 55 year old obese diabetic woman living in poverty. She comes to you looking for a way to afford her medication. Where do you send her/what do you tell her?"
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"All ethics questions. You really need to be up on your game with current medical policy, ethical issues, and health related news."
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"A lot of role playing. My entire interview group was given role playing. there is only ethics questions. my entire interview group was only asked ethics questions. read an ethics book. recommended. look online for some ethics book. dont waste time, just do ethics"
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"About medical error, if I had ever seen one in my volunteer experience and how did I handle it."
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"Although the ethical questions I was given were incredibly difficult, they were nonetheless ''interesting''. By interesting I mean it must've taken my interviewer quite a while to come up with such a moral enigma..."
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"The ethics question: A 60 year old man who you have been treating for a while calls you in the middle of the night and thanks you for treating him but now he is ready to die. What do you say to him?"
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"Patient comes in and wants antiviral drugs for their family to protect them from the Avian Flu although they have little to no risk of getting the disease... then, buisnessman who travels to areas of high risk wants the drug... etc, etc. Do you give them the drug? Then, when they begin threatening you, etc. what do you do?"
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"A series of questions involving the Mitchell Rupe case. If you're not familiar with this man, he was on death row, ballooned up to 400 pounds, went to court saying that he could not be hung because the likely decapitation of so heavy a man would be cruel and unusual punishment. He later developed severe liver problems and needed a transplant. The case goes on, but you can imagine the sorts of questions meant to tease out my process of reasoning in ethically thorny situations."
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"what i would do if a patient of mine needed an immediate surgery which only i could give him and which he couldn't afford until his insurance kicked in in 72 hours, would i write a false date on the insurance claim?"
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"1. What types of activities did you do in high school? 2. How would you fix the health care system? 3. What are the disadvantages in the Canadian and UK systems? 4. What did you learn about medicine from your experiences?"
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"I was asked about 2 ethical scenarios that were both interesting. The scenarios kept evolving based on my answers, which made the discussion even more interesting."
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"If you had a patient with a tumor who didnt want to recieve treatment because she believed in eastern medicine, what would you do? And what would you do if she tried eastern medicine, it didn't work, and the tumor grew?"
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"ethics question on genome sequencing"
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"A Cambodian woman with HIV and an HIV + child doesn't want her kid to take ARVs-- what would I do as her doc?"
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"Given your public health experience, why have you chosen to pursue medicine?"
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"What would you do if you had a patient who had severe COPD and the only medication that made him comfortable also had the side effect of killing him. Would you give him the med?"
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"Your long term patient of 85yo has breast cancer and is at the end stage of life. She calls you and requests sleeping pills in a quantity that could end her life. How do you handle this?"
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"I was given a question where I was asked to role play being a doctor to a family that came in. Basically, the wife (who was not present) was pregnant and wanted and abortion. The rest of the family (the grandparents and the husband, who were present) didn't want and abortion. They came to me to ask what I could do. What was tough is that I actually had to play a doctor instead of just answering a question."
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"If a collegue gave a patient the wrong medication, and the patient came back in because the medication didn't work, how would you approach your collegue and what would you do?"
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"I wasn't asked anything that I hadn't expected, the only "unknown" was the lone ethical question (see most difficult question.)"
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"The question that surprised and allowed me to express my personality was , "What is the one movie you would suggest that all of us see?" This was a follow up question to what I did for fun, in which I said I watched a lot of movies. "
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"ethics question: say 20 years down the line one of your patients wishes to select positive traits and remove negative traits in their next child. would you do it or what would you advise them?"
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"The famouse, "would you like a cookie?" question. I knew it was coming, but still intrigue."
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"So you're interested in public health and you worked in restaurants for years...didn't all the drinking and smoking offend you?"
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"If someone came to you and said that they were from some religious sect where they have to get a lot of piercings and asked you if you could do the piercings for them because they trust you more than the person who normally does the piercings, what would you do? (What the heck?!!??)"
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"A rambling question about named reporting of people who test + for HIV."
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"They asked me what I would do in the situation involving Terri Schiavo (the women in FL who is the subject of all the lawsuits about removing her feeding tube)?"
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"what do you think of the CDC limiting flu vaccines to at risk populations and then ending up with thousands of unused vaccines?"
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"A 15 year old girl comes into your office who is having sex with her boyfriend. Her mother has arranged for you to give her a depo shot, but when she shows up she tells you she doesn't want to have the shot, she wants to get pregnant and have a baby so the government will give her money! What do you do? "
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"one of your terminally ill cancer patients calls to let you know he has made the decision to take his life. what do you do?"
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"Why not psychology? "
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"What would you do if you had a 2-year-old patient who needed a life-saving blood transfusion but her parents, Jehovah's Witnesses, refused the treatment?"
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"Costa Rica has elected to spend the majority of their health care dollars on the young vs. elderly--what do you think of this policy."
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"Ethical situation: How do I react to a patient who wants me to help kill him. "
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"Since I like analytucal, methodical processes, how will I deal with patients who rarely fit into that category."
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"Question about being a physician and treating two very different forms of illness, chronic disease versus treatable infectious disease, and how a physician must adjust and adapt (mentally, etc.) to the different situations."
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"A patient of yours with a very painful terminal cancer calls and tells you that he has 54 sleeping pills and plans to take them. What do you do?"
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"End of life issues"
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"Question 3--see below. "
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"[Note: I prefer not to answer the "which questions were you asked" questions to safeguard my privacy.]"
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"what was your SAT score? (less interesting than just surprising)"
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"How would you fix the US health care system?"
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"please tell us about your experience with tango"
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"All the questions I was asked were the same as some that have been posted previously and some stuff right off my application."
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"What challanges do rural communities face regarding both primary and psyciatric care? I thought it was interesting to address the psychiatric componant."
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"scenerio questions aimed at investigating my thoughts on larger issues: quality of life, hot health topics, balance."
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"Bioethics situation in which I had to choose which patient I would treat.. and why."
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"Pretty crazy weather back there, huh?"
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"What would I say if a patient of mine, who had an arm injury at work covered by worker's comp, asked me to write his boss a note for his work since next week was fishing season? Just seemed way too obvious to be an ethics question."
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"How has the view of death in Latin American countries changed the way you view the practice of medicine?"
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"A lot of emergency rooms are being forced to shut down, why do you feel that is the case?"
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"An ethical scenario in which family members disagreed about end-of-life care for an elderly relative"
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"Do you think that the current trend in healthcare where physicians are given less autonomy and more paperwork will continue?"
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"Ethics question"
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"Ethics: See below."
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"Why do you say want to do primary care in a rural community if you have no experience in any rural area? (they acted like I was lying!)"
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"nothing very interesting... pretty standard stuff- ethical question + discussion of my activities"
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"ethical question about lethal dosages of pain medication"
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"You're the only doctor in a small town and a close family friend comes to your house furious because you prescribed birth control for her 14 year-old daughter. How do you handle the situation?"
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"If you design a new chemotherapeutic drug for children, would you test it on children?"
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"kid needs a blood transfusion but his parents are jehovah's witnesses-what do you do? what if they still refuse?"
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"If healthcare was universalized, what would physicians lose and what would patients lose."
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"What is your opinion on programs where American physicians work overseas for a certain period of time? Some say these programs do not account for what happens after the physicians leave the area and there is no longer the expertise/technology/service for the community to continue after the physician is gone. What do you think about that?"
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"If a pt requested that you write a prescription to be filled in Canada (where it is presumably cheaper) would you agree to do so?"
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"An ethical role play where I was the physician/counselor to a family who could not come to a consensus on their mothers end of life care."
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"None. They were all pretty mainstream."
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"why consider rural medicine "
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"Since more western physicians and medical staff are going to developing countries to learn about other cultures and provide treatment some indigenous peoples are becoming skeptical of their own doctors. Is it a good idea for western physicians to continue to visit developing countries if barriers and such skepticism are being created? "
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"How do you address the problem of healthcare in a region that is extremely poor? (in the context of talking about one of my life experiences)"
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"If you were practicing medicine in another country and diagnosed a patient with tuberculosis and that patient refused to take antibiotics and instead wanted to take herbal medicine, what would you do? What if there were children around that were at risk of contracting tuberculosis and they attended school? How would you address the risk to the children and the community? Would you try to force them to accept treatment using the community or by passing a law mandating treatment?"
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"Do you believe that someone with affirmitive action status, i.e. any minority, should have first grabs at admission?"
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"What would you do if a quadraplegic asked you to remove his pacemaker so that he could die?"
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"compare and contrast the health care situation in my home land and the US. "
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"What motivates you to be a physician?"
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"illegal immigrant needs expensive meds...what do you do as their physician?"
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"Why I felt the scandals in the service academies were such an issue as compared to other schools"
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"The bioethics question"
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"How do we face the challenge of an aging population?"
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"The ethics question: An older patient comes to see you, is saving pills, and wants to know how many it would take for her to kill herself. Her daughter is with her, supports her choice. Would you tell her?"
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"why did you decide to take a couple years off after college?"
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"How has growing up in a rural area affected your descision to study medicine?"
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"Lots of great ethical questions"
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"Baseball fan?"
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"What would you do if you were a physician and..............? (basically asking you to take a stand on some very tough issues)."
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"Who has influenced your decision to study medicine and how?"
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"How would you help the uninsured obtain health care?"
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"Tell us about a patient you worked with.
Me: Any specific type of patient, or incident?
Them: Just tell us about one."
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"What's your take on the British Healthcare System?"
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"Why medicine?"
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"If I had to chose Time's "person of the year" who would it be?"
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"Of all the countries you've been to, which had the best/most interesting health care system?"
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"How was your flight?"
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"whats changed since last year"
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"The ethical questions were interesting, but I was ready for them. They asked me about malpractice insurance and how we could fix the current problems."
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"If you were czar of the world, how would you fix health care?"
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"If you had unlimited research funds, what experiment would you conduct ?"
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"If you went to a bank for a loan to pay your malpractice insurance and the bank owner came to you and basically said it would be no problem to give you the loan if you would test his son for drugs without him knowing. What would you say?"
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"A couple came to my office and requested an abortion because they do not want another girl. What should I do?"
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"Cancer patient of yours comes into your office stressed out and is at the end of her rope. She asks you to prescribe her a months worth of pain pills and sleeping pills. You suspect that she wants to committ suicide. What do you do?"
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"Where do I get my "spunk" from?"
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"Nothing out of the blue....I felt prepared for most of the questions they would ask me because I had done a lot of reading. I suppose the one thing that threw me off was, "where do uninsured people go to receive medical care?" It felt almost like a trick question but the answer was pretty obvious, so I blurted out a few alternatives they would have. That question just felt a bit odd for some reason, mostly because it felt too simple to ask....I thought I was missing something."
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"A patient is brought to the ER and has had a massive MI. He dies before anyone has a chance to do anything to him. The attending physician approaches you and asks if you would like to practice your intubation skills on him. What do you do? How about a put in a sub-clavian? What if the family is right outside waiting to view him? Do you ask them if they mind?"
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"Do you have any clinical, one on one medical experience? If so do you remember any patients in particular, and what stands out from the others?"
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"Do you think it is ethically reasonable for the surgeons in West Virginia to go on strike?"
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"To prioritize the medical procedures on which we should spend our health care money. "
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"What is the biochemical function of the gene you are studying?"
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"How would you feel if the federal govt decided to stop paying for dialysis for patients over the age of 75 and use that money instead to provide medical insurance for all children in the United States?"
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"Ethical questions, i suppose. Ethical questions tailored to what kind of doctor you want to be. "
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"Mostly about my personal experiences. Read your AMCAS and personal essay. "
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"How have sports helped prepare you to be a doctor?"
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"Were you ever hospitalized for your asthma? I'm still not sure of the purpose of this question..."
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"How will you respond to people who say you don't have enough life experience to be a doctor?"
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"How would I feel about my life looking back on it 20 years from now."
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"What would you do if a Chinese woman approached you with the desire to abort her female baby because she wanted a male one?"
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"What is wrong with a specific federal grant program that serves rural hospitals?
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"Do you know how doctors function in developing countries?"
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"How I would treat a terminally ill patient and their family."
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"So you have a patient who...(insert 5 minutes of setting up a complicated ethical scenario)...what do you do?"
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"Were the people in Ireland happy with their healthcare system? (I had studied there)"
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"The ethical question,which was expected, became very interesting at the end when the issue of death certificates arose. Question was what would I, the doctor, write on the death certificate as the reason for death when I might have good reason to believe my patient had downed a bottle of painkillers. "
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"All questions were based on my application and so, they were fairly standard. Surprisingly, I was not asked any ethical dilemma questions."
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"Describe a problem that you see in healthcare"
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"The most interesting questions were specific to my file"
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"We talked alot about my current work."
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"Specific ethical questions related to my interests."
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"Hard to say... Many were very specific to my interest in a particular field of medicine."
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"You are a family practice physician and your long-time patient tests positive for HIV. He asks you not to tell his wife, who is also your long-time patient. What would you do?"
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"Situation: A longtime patient of yours has terminal cancer and is in a lot of pain. He asks you for a months worth pain medication with the intent of killing himself. Do you give him the perscription?"
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