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Here is a handout I made for one of my pre-pharmacy society meetings.
CREDITS: SDN
A list of interview questions, that I complied from the interview section.
Potential Questions:
1. Tell me about yourself.
3. What extracurricular activities and community service organizations are you involved with?
5. Why do you want to become a Pharmacist?
8. What do you feel the role of a Pharmacist in the community is?
10. What qualities do you see are needed for an exceptional pharmacist?
11. What is Pharmaceutical care??
12. What is the leading factor of ailments in todays society?
13. What would you do in an ethical issue?
14. What would you do if you suspected your best friend, who is also a first-year student, was cheating in class?
18. If a patient wanted a drug that you were morally against, what would you do?
19. You are counseling a patient on the proper use of his medication when your technician informs you that Dr. Jones is on the phone and wants to talk to you now. How would you handle this situation?
20. While explaining to an elderly patient how to take her medication, a hurried shopper demands to have his refill dispensed immediately. What do you do?
Come up with questions to ask them....
Faculty:
--How heavy is the coursework? Would I have free time to work and/or volunteer?
--What would you recommend a student to be involved in their first year?
-- Things specific to the school (aka how they grade, classes, etc)
--Why did you decide to be a faculty member here at the University? Do you do any sort of research?
Students:
--Is it difficult to find housing?
--How they enjoyed their experience at school.
--What is something you wish you knew when you were interviewing and/or applying to schools?
CREDITS: SDN
A list of interview questions, that I complied from the interview section.
Potential Questions:
1. Tell me about yourself.
--How would you describe your personality?
--What 3 characteristics best describes you??
--What are your strengths and Weaknesses?
--How do you routinely communicate with others?
--What are your hobbies/what do you do in your free time?
2. Describe a time when you successfully resolved a conflict between yourself and someone else.--What 3 characteristics best describes you??
--What are your strengths and Weaknesses?
--How do you routinely communicate with others?
--What are your hobbies/what do you do in your free time?
--Do you prefer to confront conflict or tactfully avoid it?
--Has there ever been a time when you had to deal with a lot of stress? What did you do to deal with the stress, elaborate.
--Has there ever been a time when you had to deal with a lot of stress? What did you do to deal with the stress, elaborate.
--Tell me about a recurring problem that you were able to resolve.
--What is your usual approach to solving problems?
--Where do you turn when your usual problem-solving approaches are not successful?
--What is your usual approach to solving problems?
--Where do you turn when your usual problem-solving approaches are not successful?
--Tell me about a time when you put someone elses interests before your own
--Tell us of one instance where you went out of your way/stepped out of your box to help someone in both the everyday and the pharmacy environment
--Do you see tutoring children as a clinical activity?
4. Is your GPA an accurate reflection of your academic ability?--Tell us of one instance where you went out of your way/stepped out of your box to help someone in both the everyday and the pharmacy environment
--Do you see tutoring children as a clinical activity?
5. Why do you want to become a Pharmacist?
--Where do you see yourself in 5 years in 10 years? What is your vision as pharmacist?
--What do you have to contribute to the field of pharmacy? What traits do you believe will contribute to you being a good pharmacist?
--Who had the greatest influence on your choice of pharmacy as a career path?
6. Why do you choose school?--What do you have to contribute to the field of pharmacy? What traits do you believe will contribute to you being a good pharmacist?
--Who had the greatest influence on your choice of pharmacy as a career path?
--We have hundreds of applicants, why should school choose you?
--If there were only 1 spot left, why should we pick u over the other 9 applicants?
7. What challenges do you see for the field of pharmacy??--If there were only 1 spot left, why should we pick u over the other 9 applicants?
8. What do you feel the role of a Pharmacist in the community is?
--What do you see as the role of the pharmacist today?
--What do you think is a pharmacists role in the community?
9. What would you do if you didnt get accepted into any pharmacy schools this year?--What do you think is a pharmacists role in the community?
10. What qualities do you see are needed for an exceptional pharmacist?
11. What is Pharmaceutical care??
12. What is the leading factor of ailments in todays society?
13. What would you do in an ethical issue?
14. What would you do if you suspected your best friend, who is also a first-year student, was cheating in class?
--What would you do if you knew another student was cheating?
--What would you do if you caught a student cheating?
--If you knew a friend was cheating what would you do?
--Many of the assignments in pharmacy school require group work. What would you do if you found out that someone in your group plagiarized their part of the paper?
15. What would you do if a pharmacist you work with was caught drinking?--What would you do if you caught a student cheating?
--If you knew a friend was cheating what would you do?
--Many of the assignments in pharmacy school require group work. What would you do if you found out that someone in your group plagiarized their part of the paper?
--If you noticed that a fellow pharmacist had alcohol on his/her breath, how would you handle the situation?
--What would you do if you came to work and a pharmacist you worked with took a valium every day without a prescription?
16. How would you handle a group member who was not pulling their weight in the group?--What would you do if you came to work and a pharmacist you worked with took a valium every day without a prescription?
--If you were in a group and you noticed someone was slacking on purpose, how would you handle the situation?
--What would you do if were working in a group and you noticed that one of the group members was purposefully not pulling their weight?
17. Should or should not alcohol and tobacco products be sold at a retail/community pharmacy?--What would you do if were working in a group and you noticed that one of the group members was purposefully not pulling their weight?
18. If a patient wanted a drug that you were morally against, what would you do?
19. You are counseling a patient on the proper use of his medication when your technician informs you that Dr. Jones is on the phone and wants to talk to you now. How would you handle this situation?
20. While explaining to an elderly patient how to take her medication, a hurried shopper demands to have his refill dispensed immediately. What do you do?
Come up with questions to ask them....
Faculty:
--How heavy is the coursework? Would I have free time to work and/or volunteer?
--What would you recommend a student to be involved in their first year?
-- Things specific to the school (aka how they grade, classes, etc)
--Why did you decide to be a faculty member here at the University? Do you do any sort of research?
Students:
--Is it difficult to find housing?
--How they enjoyed their experience at school.
--What is something you wish you knew when you were interviewing and/or applying to schools?
Thank you so much.
