Medical School Interview Questions, Sample Panel

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Medical School Interview Questions

Our list of classic medical interview questions represents all the questions an interviewer can ask about their decision to seek medications from their perspective of universal health care. The key is to think about your answers to the most difficult questions here before you cross the door.

Questions About Your Education

  • Why did you choose your undergraduate degree?
  • How did you try to achieve the breadth in your degree program?
  • How did your undergraduate research experience, in your case, prepare you for a career in medicine?
  • To what extent did the jobs, volunteer opportunities, or extracurricular experiences you prepared better prepare you for a doctor’s responsibilities?
  • How do you plan to use your medical training?

Questions About Your Character and Your Personality

  • What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses?
  • What trips did you make and what exhibition did other cultures have?
  • Thinking of examples from your recent past, how do you rate your empathy and compassion?
  • As a pre-medicine, what skills did you learn to help you manage your time and relieve stress?
  • If you could receive three votes to improve the world / society / your community, what would they be and why? (Or, if you were given a million dollars to achieve three objectives, what would you work on and why?)
  • What are you doing for fun?
  • What is “success” in your opinion? After 20 years as a doctor, what kind of “success” would you expect to obtain? Please explain
  • What qualities do you look for in a doctor? Can you give an example of a doctor who embodies one of these ideals? How do they do it?
  • What kind of experiences did you have with sick people? Did these experiences teach you something you did not know beforehand?
  • Do you have relatives or models who are doctors?
  • What family, friends or other people influenced your decision to pursue a career in medicine?
  • If you could invite four people from the past to dinner, who would they be and why would you invite them? What would you talk about?
  • Does your school record reflect major challenges? If so, what are they and why did they occur?

Questions Related To Medicine

  • What excites you about medicine in general?
  • What do you know about the current trends in the health system of our country?
  • In your opinion, what are the most urgent health problems? Why?
  • In your opinion, what are the negative or restrictive aspects of medicine from a professional point of view?
  • If I had to choose between clinical and academic medicine as a profession, which would I choose? What do you think you could lose by being forced to choose?

Questions Related To Society

  • What do you think are the social responsibilities of a doctor?
  • What do you consider an important / important social problem for the United States today and why?
  • How do you think national health insurance affects doctors, patients and society?
  • How and to what extent do you keep in touch with current events?
  • What books, movies or other media come to mind as particularly important for your science / non-science education?
  • Can you think of examples in our society where health care is a right? When is it a privilege? When is it not clear?

Questions about ethics

  • Do you know the current controversies in the field of medical ethics? Make a list and analyze some of them.
  • Have you personally encountered moral dilemmas until now? What kind of nature?
  • What do you think about euthanasia or medically assisted suicide?
  • What are the different feelings and problems you may have with a patient with a terminal illness, unlike other patients?
  • What would you think about the treatment of a patient who tested positive for HIV?
  • What are some of the ethical problems that our society considers with respect to teenage pregnancy?
  • Let us suppose that the available resources are limited and have to make decisions about major emergencies with a wide range of patients of any age, of any origin and the degree of the injury. Suppose also that there is no “correct answer” to this question, only the answers are considered and not considered. Who would you go to first for treatment and why?

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Questions About Diversity

  • If you are a minority candidate, how do you think your training will exclusively prepare you and influence your role as a doctor?
  • If you are a woman, how did your gender influence your decision to pursue a career in medicine?
  • If you are not a minority, what would be the best way to meet the needs of a multiethnic and multicultural patient population?
  • If you are economically disadvantaged or have limited financial means, how has this adversity shaped you?
  • To what extent do you feel you have a debt to your neighbor? How much do you owe to those less fortunate than you? Please, explain

Questions About The Medical School

  • What special qualities do you have that distinguish you from other candidates for medical school? What makes you unique or different as a candidate for medical school?
  • What type of medical school is applied and why?
  • Choose a specific medical school to which you are applying and tell the interviewer. What makes this school particularly desirable to you?
  • What general and specific skills would you like to have given you the ideal experience of a medical school? How could your ideal school achieve this result?

Questions About Your Motivation

  • Discuss your decision to search for drugs. When did you decide to become a doctor and why?
  • Why did you decide to choose medicine and not another area where you can help others, such as nursing, physiotherapy, pharmacology, psychology, education or social work?
  • How did you evaluate your motivation to become a doctor? Please, explain
  • What will you do if you are not accepted at the medical school this year? Do you have an alternative career plan?
  • Is there anything else we have not covered that you think the interviewer should know about you or your interest in becoming a doctor?

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