General/Personal Background
1.
Can you tell me about yourself?
2.
Tell me about where you came from and your family.
Undergraduate/Pre-med Education
3.
Tell me about a time of personal growth.
4.
Tell me briefly about your academic achievements and what they have meant to you.
5.
What are you most proud of and how has it influenced your current perspective?
6.
What are your weaknesses?
7.
What challenges have you overcome?
8.
What is something that you are most proud of?
9.
What student group on campus have you been a part of? Talk about the process of making a difference in this setting.
Personality/Fit with Medicine
10.
Can you name a time when you've ever felt a "call to duty."
11.
If money was of no issue, and you could take a trip for one year, what would you do and why?
12.
Was there a particular event in your life or moment that led you to pursue medicine?
13.
What do you do in your spare time?
14.
What do you think is the secret to being a great physician?
15.
What do you think you'll like most about being a physician, and how will that suit you?
16.
Who do you turn to for support and how do you handle your stress?
17.
Who's a person of great influence for you?
Skill/Goals for a Medical Student
18.
Do you have any hesitations about entering medical school? What are they?
19.
How are you a match for our medical school?
20.
How do you deal with failure? And have you ever thought about coping with the death of your future patients?
21.
How would you express to a physician that you are right and he/she is wrong? And how would you express that to a patient?
22.
If you couldn't go to medical school what would you do?
23.
Tell me about your research.
24.
What attribute would you bring to a small group?
25.
What have you done since you have finished writing your application to us?
26.
What haven't we talked about that you want to share with me now?
27.
What is one path of medicine that particularly excites you?
28.
What would you bring to the student body here?
29.
When you are retiring as a physician, what do you want your patients and staff to say about your career?
30.
Why do you want to practice clinical medicine?
Topics in Medicine
31.
Do you have any perspective into the health care system dilemma in America?
32.
STD test requested - how do handle the situation?
33.
What do you think is the relationship between medicine and art?
34.
What is a doctor's role in the controversy around stem cell research?
35.
What most recent advances in medicine have occurred that you believe will have the greatest impact on patient care?