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So, I haven't had any medical school interviews yet, but my school does a mock interview with the pre-med committee prior to writing a committee letter of recommendation (I assume this is pretty standard). I wasn't well prepared for this interview, and they threw in a lot of ethical dilemmas such as:
A child needs a blood transfusion, but his parents are Jehovah's Witnesses, and their religion prohibits it. The boy will die without the transfusion. What do you do?
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You perform a physical for a pilot and find that he has mild seizures. Do you report this to the airline he works for?
For questions such as these, I explained both sides of the argument, and took a very neutral position, taking into account doctor-patient confidentiality and the will of the patient. However, at the conclusion of my interview, the committee informed me that they were trying to get me to make a decision because that's what a doctor does. My question is, in med school interviews is it better to take a side or stay neutral during ethical dilemma questions?
A child needs a blood transfusion, but his parents are Jehovah's Witnesses, and their religion prohibits it. The boy will die without the transfusion. What do you do?
-and-
You perform a physical for a pilot and find that he has mild seizures. Do you report this to the airline he works for?
For questions such as these, I explained both sides of the argument, and took a very neutral position, taking into account doctor-patient confidentiality and the will of the patient. However, at the conclusion of my interview, the committee informed me that they were trying to get me to make a decision because that's what a doctor does. My question is, in med school interviews is it better to take a side or stay neutral during ethical dilemma questions?