Medical School Interview Questions
Why (school's name)?
What are some of your favorite classes, besides science courses?
What were some of your experiences which drew you to medicine?
The interviewer asked me (the interviewee) what I wanted to talk about so I basically made my own questions and answered them.
What are you looking for in a medical school?
Would you live in (East Coast) being a California resident?
Why should we accept you?
What makes you an asset to our school?
How serious is your interest in family practice?
How can you bring diversity to the medical school?
How did you get here? (To the interview.)
Why didn't you do so well on the verbal section of the MCAT?
Many students notice that their grades drop drastically when they get to medical school, how would you handle that?
You have been involved in many activities outside of medicine. How do you expect to focus on the demands of medical school should we accept you? (Asked of an applicant who had been out of school for several years.)
What is your research experience?
Are you more interested in research or clinical medicine?
What do you do in the summers?
Most questions were specific questions about AMCAS application, so know it well!
What do you want me (the interviewer) to tell the committee about you (the interviewee)?
Medical student interviewer asked very specific questions about subject matter of upper division classes the interviewee had taken. (Hematology, Virology, Histology.)
Describe your family.
What do your parents think about your decision to become a physician?
Why did you join a fraternity?
What is your fraternity's views on women?
Would you say you had a strong friendship with a small group of guys, or are you friends with a broad range of guys?
Cultural experiences?
If you were to take out a personal ad, what would you write?
What were the happiest and saddest times of your life?
What language skills do you have?
Do you like to travel?
Do you like to work in groups?
Who has been a role model throughout the years for you other than someone in your family?
What is your favorite book?
Most rewarding experiences?
Name a situation in the last two weeks where you took a bad situation and made it a good one. (This was a phone interview.)
In a difficult situation, how would you decide between a patient and your family?
Describe a situation in which you were wrongly accused of something or misjudged.
What do you know about HMO's? How will they influence your career?
If you were a physician of a newly born child with severe physical abnormalities which will most likely cause pain and eventually death, and the parents ask you what to do, what would you say?
How do you feel about euthanasia?