ethics or scenario-based questions
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In preparing for interviews I read several ethical questions and tried to come up with "the correct" answer. It just doesn't work. When I got some ethical questions in my interviews I just answered honestly and held my ground when they continued to address the same topic from various angles. Stand your ground...believe what you believe. It worked for me. Good luck!
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For many of the ethical questions that people stress about, you can always just resort to the law. I looked up the laws for many ethical situations, like the popular one where the child needs blood and the parents wont' let him/her have it, to determine the best answer. It's easy to say what you would do but it's even better to have a law behind it to enforce your point. FYI: you can give the child the blood/treatment according to the law
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The point of the ethical questions is just to see how you converse and if you can reason and think on the spot.
JKDMed said:
may be true...but doesn't mean you can't prepare for them. You can think about what you want to say...and how best to express yourself.
Usually when asked interview questions I think they are looking at the way you carry yourself as well as your how articulate & thoughtful your responses are. The way you articulate yourself will include your ability to see different points of view, and then explaining why you believe one is more ethical than the other.
Look on the interviews feedback to get an idea of what types of ethical questions pop up most often.
I can think of three general ones quickly: abortion, death, cheating classmate.
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When I ask an ethicas or value based questions I just looking to see how your thought porcess works. I also want to see if you understand that two people can come up with two differnet conclusions looking at the same data.
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I got a truck load of ethical quesitons dumped on me at one of my interviews. I just answered them honestly, even when they tried to get me to change my mind. Must of worked since I was accepted.
yposhelley said:
Thanks guys for all posts. Well I just had an interview at DMU on friday and I didn't get any ethical questions. Well I will need to prepare for next interview.
yposhelley said:
Yeah that's true. Actually day before I left for interview, I was talking to my employer. He gave me nice advise on this one. He said, based on my experience, whatever I will answer will be like my gut feeling. I shouldn't really stick to the answer as different person will have different opinion. If interviewers try to change your answer, you can politely say that I am not an expert on this matter but I really want to learn by gaining some experience and that's why I want to go to medical school.
