Medical School

► What do you think about the health care system and which way should it go?

► What do you think is wrong with the current health care system in the US?

► Name a meaningful experience you've had and how it shaped you to pursue work as a physician?

► Is there a good deal of drug use at your school? Possible follow up: Have you taken drugs?

► Which languages do you speak? Why?

► Which of your college courses interested you the most?

► If you couldn't ever be trained to be a physician, what would you be?

► In your present living situation, how do you settle disputes with your roommates?

► Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

► What interests you outside of medicine and getting into medical school?

► What are your goals in medicine? Answer this one in a similar fashion to why you want to be a doctor?

► Where do you see yourself in 15 years? (what specialty will you be in/ where do you plan to practice) are all the same questions?

► Do you plan to continue your hobbies through medical school?

► If you had one day to do anything, what would you do?

► What was the last book you read? What did you think about it? Would you recommend that I read it? The last movie you saw? What did you think of it?

► What was the last medical book that you read/studied? If you have not studied one, don't lie. But usually, everyone has looked at medical books when someone in the family has been sick. One good book that I had used in undergrad was the Merck manual which discusses most common illnesses?

► Which classes did you enjoy most? Why? --talk with great enthusiasm when you are talking about things you like in general. Make sure that your enthusiasm is at its highest when you talk about medicine?

► How would your friends describe your personality? --AKA, what are your strengths?

► If you were stranded in an island, what three books would you want to have with you and why?

► What are your strengths and weaknesses? What would you change about yourself?

► Describe the most exciting (scary, unusual, etc.) event of your life?

► Is there something about you that would make it difficult to get along with you?

► What do you think will be the most difficult aspect of medical school?

► Why did you do so poorly in bio 191?

► Imagine that you find a lamp that gives you three wishes? What would they be?

► What qualities would you look for in a doctor?

► What qualities would you look for in your patients?

► Who do you admire the most in your life?

► Have you always put forth your best effort in every situation?

► Tell me about something that you know a lot about?

► What are the pros and cons to our health-care system?

► If you had the power, what changes would you make to our health-care system?

► What is your opinion of HMOs and PPOs?

► Do doctors make too much money?

► Is it ethical for doctors to strike?

► What is the Hippocratic Oath?

► What is the difference between Medicare and Medicaid?

► Should fetal tissue be used to treat disease?

► If you were a doctor and an under age girl asked you for the Pill (or an abortion) and she did not want to tell her parents, what would you do?

► Should doctors be allowed to `pull the plug' on terminally ill patients?

► If a patient is dying from a bleed, would you transfuse blood if you knew they would not approve?

► What is the difference between Medicare and Medicaid?

► Why did you choose your major? How has it prepared you for a career in medicine?

► What was your favorite class and why?

► Discuss a book that you've recently read for pleasure. Why did this book interest you?

► How do you spend your free time?

► What do you consider to be your strengths and your shortcomings?

► There are 1,000 applicants as qualified as you, why should we select you for our class?

► Do you have specific goals in medicine? Where do you see yourself in 5-10 years?

► What will you do if you don't get into medical school?

► Do you have any questions for us?