how are you preparing for interviews?

[yumi43]

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any advice? thanks and good luck to everyone!

 

[vlct0ria]

any advice? thanks and good luck to everyone!

Probably the same way as most people...check SDN interview feedback, browse school website, and make sure I am very familiar with any and all aspects of my application that they may ask me about! Plus the whole looking nice thing, but that's a given. 😀

 

[lazybummy]

On my way back to Maryland for my first interview tomorrow.. this is what i've done the past week besides dying from my stomach flu..
Went to "how to ace interviews" seminar
Went to prehealth interview workshop
Copied and pasted every single questions listed for the particular school under interview feedback.. answered all of them
Read dental news article
Went on other school's predental club or society website
Read a lot of SDN posts..
Talk to myself while i shower and sleep lol
And listening to Drake's "Best I ever had" ... need the mental prep 👍

 

[yumi43]

where do i find interview feedback?

 

[txgirl]

where do i find interview feedback?

Menu bar at the very top of the sdn webpage. It's between "Bookstore" and "Blogs". I actually just noticed it too. Once you click on "Interview Feedback" click on "DDS/DMD" and it'll have a list of all the schools.

 

[mueladeljuicio]

read the interview feedback and keep those questions in the back of your mind.... over time you can think of a good response.

 

[Ryltar]

Some practice with five strangers helps to get used to the "stage fright" aspect of interviews. For example, friends of the family who you don't know too well or college mock interview.

 

[mll34]

i used this link to prepare
go down to post 87

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=405372&page=2

 

[D3ntalDud3]

I'm going to put on "The Final Countdown" and jog in place

 

[txgirl]

List of questions from LSU predents. Interview feedback says that LSU interviewers ask 90% of the questions on this list:


Why do you want to be a dentist?
Are you a good teacher?
If you see a kid his thumb with a hammer what would you do?
What was your last idea?
If Mrs. Brown’s husband called Sunday night and said his wife couldn’t come in to work, what would you do and say?
What do you do if one of your employees is 10 minutes late? (obligation to patient)
Are you a good loser?
Do you get stressed out?
Do you get angry and what do you do when you get angry? Do people know when you are mad?
Are you empathetic?
What are your good qualities? Bad qualities?
What do you need to improve on?
What got you interested in dentistry?
What have you done to prepare yourself for dentistry?
Are you humble?
If you don’t get in, what are your future plans?
If you can’t be a dentist, what will you do? (occupation)
Rank your reasons for wanting to be a dentist.
What books have you read?
What do you do in your spare time? (hobbies)
What projects have you done lately?
Do you get depressed?
Are you mechanically inclined?
What was the last thing you made with your hands?
What are some ethical issues you have dealt with?
When did someone last show opposition to your advice and what did you do?
Why is dentistry important?
Would you recommend a patient to another dentist for further treatment?
What material items do you want in life?
What do you do if someone is misbehaving?
Give two or three ethics that you live by.
What is the purpose of your life?
When was the last time you showed opposition to a cause of a majority?
Critique your chalk carving. What is wrong with it? Grade it?