Interview: should your answers match your PS?

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Should your answers to interview questions match what you wrote in your PS perfectly? Is there room for some additional stuff that was not mentioned in the PS?

 

[mrspecialist]

You only have so much time during your interview, stick to the basics.

 

[steeeeveo]

I don't think the point of the interview is to be so formulaic. Just speak like a normal human being and you'll be fine.

 

[BurghMed]

Should your answers to interview questions match what you wrote in your PS perfectly? Is there room for some additional stuff that was not mentioned in the PS?

Not sure what you mean by "match perfectly." If you mean just memorize parts of your PS and repeat it, then no, not at all. Just be able to recall what you wrote in your PS, as well as what is in your AMCAS so that you can hold a conversation with someone who asks some basic questions about your past experiences. Do not make yourself sound robotic or super scripted. Just be able to hold a reasonable discussion with someone. Physicians/Residents/Medical students are normal people too.

 

[gannicus89]

Don't recite your PS lol. One of my interviewers commented on my PS so I knew that that information was read and that I could go into other things, so as to not rehash the same topics. Feel free to talk about your other interests, or other reasons for going into medicine aside from what you've written. I think it's important to NOT contradict what you've already written though...