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I know for medical school they ask you questions about the health care system. Should we know it for dental interviews too?
Do you any online stuff we can look at to help us familiarize ourselves more as well?Just went to an interview where I was asked about it. I'd familiarize yourself. Luckily I had read up and had something prepared to say for it.
...and also connected it back to why I chose to do dentistry in the first place. If you can connect the question to something and make it significant, they'll love that. For example: talk about new dental technologies and how you saw that utilized in one of the environments you shadowed in.
So, I had shadowed and volunteered in a clinic that specifically treated people without insurance free of charge. I talked about that place and the people that a) helped me to realize how great of a need there is for dentists in low-income areas, and b) cemented my desire to become a dentist.
And then I said that I felt a responsibility to contribute practically in any way that I could toward the communities that helped to craft my perspectives on dentistry. I think I came across well, because the interviewer said he loved it. If you can take questions that they throw at you and answer them, but then spin them to talk about something meaningful on top of it, they'll love you. So I would always start thinking about questions like these... Go online and try to find practice questions and think of unique angles you could take for each. Way better than just answering the question and then sitting there waiting for the next one to come.
Honestly, one of the best advice I have seen in this forum regarding interviews.