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On the interview day:
... questions you answered 
... questions you asked 
... and shouldn't have asked 
Keep this on topic!
Suggestions welcomed!
Edited by prep4usmle on 10/03/05 - 11:13 PM
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| sanz
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| | 10/12/05 - 02:48 PM
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QUESTIONS THEY MIGHT ASK YOU
1. List three accomplishments of which you are most proud of and what each accomplishment indicates about you?
2. List three abilities you have that will make you valuable as a resident in this specialty?
3. What clinical experience have you had in this specialty?
4. Do you have any questions?
5. Tell me about yourself?
6. What three adjectives best describe you?
7. What might give me a better picture of you than I can get from your resume?
8. Tell me a story about yourself that best describes you?
9. If you were going to die in 5 minutes, what would you tell someone about yourself?
10. Of which accomplishments are you most proud?
11. Are there any hidden achievements or qualities that you are secretly proud of?
12. How have you changed since high school?
13. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
14. Tell me about your "secret identity" – The part of your personality that you don’t share with strangers?
15. Any skeletons in your closet you want to tell me about?
16. How well do you take criticism?
17. What’s your pet peeve?
18. If you could change one thing about your personality what would it be?
19. If you could be any cell in the human body, which would you be and why?
20. Do you see yourself as more relaxed/casual/informal or more serious/dedicated/committed?
21. Which is more important, the ability to organize, structure, and prioritize or to be flexible, modify, change and make do as needed?
22. Which is more important, knowledge or imagination?
23. Strangest Halloween costume you ever wore?
24. What do you value in your own life?
25. If you had unlimited money and (x amount of time) what would you do?
26. 3 wishes, what would they be?
27. What kinds of people are your friends?
28. Describe your best friend?
29. How are you similar and dissimilar to your best friend?
30. How would your friends or co-workers describe you?
31. Who are your heroes?
32. What is your favorite movie, book?
33. What is the last book you read?
34. What do success and failure mean to you?
35. What do you do in your spare time?
36. Favorite games/sports? Why?
37. Have you done any volunteer work?
38. How did you choose these outside activities?
39. If you had a completely free day, what would you do?
40. Describe for me your typical day?
41. What is the most bizarre thing you have ever done (in college, high school, etc)?
42. What is the most unusual occurrence in your life in the past (x amount of time)?
43. Which organizations do you belong to?
44. What are your plans for a family?
45. If could not be a physician, what career would you choose?
46. Why choose to be a doctor?
47. How do you make important decisions?
48. Are you a risk taker or safety minded?
49. What made you choose your undergraduate major?
50. How did you select undergraduate college and medical school?
51. What were the major deficiencies in your medical school training? How would you plan to remedy this?
52. If you could begin your schooling again, what would you change?
53. Have you ever dropped a class, why?
54. Have you ever quit or been fired from a job?
55. Biggest failures in life and what have you done to ensure that they won’t happen again?
56. Have you always done the best work of which you are capable?
57. Which types of people do you have problems working with?
58. What qualities drive you crazy in colleagues?
59. Describe the best/worst attending with whom you have ever worked?
60. Do you prefer to work under supervision or on your own?
61. With which patients do you have trouble dealing?
62. How do you normally handle conflict?
63. How do you respond when you have problems with someone?
64. What do you do if someone senior tells you to do something you know is wrong?
65. With what subject/rotation did you have the most difficulty?
66. Why do you want to go into EM?
67. What would you be willing to sacrifice to become an emergency physician?
68. What is the greatest sacrifice you have already made to get to where you are?
69. If EM did not exist, what would you do?
70. How much did lifestyle considerations fit into your choice of specialty?
71. Why did you apply to this program?
72. What qualities are you looking for in a program?
73. What interests you most about this program?
74. What have you heard about our program that you don’t like?
75. Are you applying here because it is a familiar environment?
76. What will be the toughest aspect of this specialty for you?
77. How will you handle the least interesting or least pleasant parts of this specialty’s practice?
78. What qualities are most important in this specialty?
79. What kind of qualities does a person need to be an effective emergency physician?
80. Why should we take you over other applicants?
81. What can you add to our program?
82. What computer experience do you have?
83. Describe your ideal residency program?
84. What is your energy level like?
85. How many hours of sleep do you require each night?
86. How well do you function under pressure?
87. How do you handle stress?
88. Can you handle stress without the resources you are accustomed to relying on?
89. Tell me about the patient from who you learned the most?
90. Most memorable experience in medical school/college?
91. What errors have you made in patient care?
92. Greatest fear about practicing medicine?
93. Where do you see yourself in 5-10 years?
94. How do you see the delivery of health care evolving in the 21st century?
95. Is health care a right or a privilege?
96. What problems will our specialty face in the next 5-10 years?
97. What would you do if the house staff had a strike?
98. What do you think of what’s happening in mid east? Congress? Economy?
99. Teach me something non-medical in 5 minutes?
100. Where else have you interviewed?
101. What if you don’t match?
102. Can you think of anything else you would like to add?
103. How do you deal/cope with failure, give example?
104. What was your favorite course in medical school?
105. Describe a conflict you had with someone and how it was resolved?
106. Describe something that was very difficult in your life, how you dealt with it, and what you learned from it?
107. What needs to be changed in our health care system?
108. How can you do your job more effectively?
109. What is the most pressing problem in medicine today?
110. What is the most rewarding thing you have ever done?
111. Tell me some of your successes?
112. Tell me some of your failures?
113. How do you show your commitment to medicine?
114. Who is the most influential in your life?
115. What is the worst thing that has ever happened to you?
116. What do you do for fun?
117. When did you decide you wanted to be a physician?
118. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
119. What leadership roles have you held?
120. What are the biggest problems in medicine and EM?
121. What do you think of socialized medicine?
122. Do you know how hard residency is?
123. Do you want research to be a part of your career?
124. What is your most important accomplishment?
125. What makes you different from everyone else?
126. What do you expect out of EM?
127. What is your most important lesson learned from childhood?
128. What do you expect will be the hardest part of residency for you?
129. Who in your family are you closest to?
130. What makes you happy?
131. What makes you sad?
132. What makes you unique?
133. Is there anything else not in application that you want to tell me?
134. How do your friends describe you?
135. 3 people you would invite to dinner and why?
136. Describe important relationships you have had with people?
137. Anything else you want to tell me about yourself?
138. What was your most difficult challenge in life?
139. Why do you want to come here?
140. What are some challenges that will face this specialty?
141. What motivates you?
142. Why are you here?
Thought I would share these with you and hope you would find them useful!
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| Ouli Maty
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Thanks. It will be hard to come up with another question not listed here.
I am starting my homework right now with this list.
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| Springd
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Thank you sanz, for taking ur time to do this, God bless u. it's very helpful and covers everything. Good luck to all.
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| alhambramd
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wow! 
i wonder, do interviewers appreciate humor?  with some of the questions, i cant help but try to crack a joke
also, i wonder how personal could you get? it's a fine line between being honest and being too honest any ideas on things that are just "too much information"?
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| mailstapedius
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Thank you sanz thats a great help ....now to find the answers
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| bbb
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i wonder, do interviewers appreciate humor? with some of the questions, i cant help but try to crack a joke
You'll have to play that one by ear - if the interviewer sounds receptive, then as long as it's clean, politically correct, etc. - why not. It would show your comprehension of the language, nicht wahr?
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bbb - trying to combine common sense and humour into realistic answers, but not going to guess on anyone's chances of getting into a position....
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| jaylike
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Thanks Sanz..that's superb.
jaylike.
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| migs
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I dont think the problem is the question itself, most of us can answer these questions off the top of our heads. I think the problem in most cases is the tension during the interview, getting nervous, anxoius that can really mess up an interview.
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| drrsm
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migs... when i go to i think of it as talking to an uncle of mine or someone i know or met in a casual party ... works for me
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| sanz
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To be honest, they dont really ask these difficult questions. But I guess it is good to read thru them for some mental preparation. Most questions were: tell me about yourself, why this speciality, why here, what do u see yourself in 10 years.
Hope everyone is having fun interviewing 
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| som
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yes, sanz is right. I met a girl( amg) who had her 1st interview and she told me that the que the pd asked her are mostly related to her career....like why did u like our programme..where do u see urself in 10 yrs..how do u want to help our programme... etc..
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| alhambramd
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Here are the recurring questions I've encountered:
1. How did you find out about our program?
2. What have you been doing since you graduated? What have you been doing recently to further your medical education/career?
3. How do you feel about heavy workloads? a lot of OB/Peds/whatever?
4. What are your plans for yourself after residency? How do you see yourself 5/10/20/100 years from now?
AND THE ONE QUESTION YOU SHOULD ALWAYS BE PREPARED FOR...
5. Do you have any questions?
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| female doc ny
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my brother who had an interview he said they had asked him medical knowledge questions like where are the ekg leads placed if u have an arrthmia what would it show stuff like that he was oging for internal medicine
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| blizkonebe
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i don't think it is legal for them to ask about 'plans of a family'...
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| Lorena
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It is illegal to ask about family plans and/or religion.
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| blizkonebe
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thank you lorena, i thought so...
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| waqastariq
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a nice collection of questions
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| csdude
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that is very comprehensive ....
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| ciap2211
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hey gus...i need an advice here
I received and invitation from a Program in Sept. Is the only invitation I have so far so I schedule an appointment for Oct over the phone, and they said they would send a second mail with further instructions but they haven’t sent it.
I wrote a mail and call but no answer…what should I do?? I have to buy an airline ticket.
Do you think Oct is not a good month for interviews?
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