Interview: Where I want to practice vs. mission of the school

[YorkH]

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My dream is to someday practice medicine in Alaska, but I've noticed that a lot of osteopathic schools want to produce physicians that will practice medicine in that school's region. My question is, if I mention this during the interview could that hurt me?

 

[mathnerd88]

My suggestion for this is that this only matters to those osteopathic schools with in-state bias and lowered in-state tuition, so don't mention this to those schools. For private schools which accept a lot of OOS, it wouldn't matter as much.

 

[FutureDrB]

My dream is to someday practice medicine in Alaska, but I've noticed that a lot of osteopathic schools want to produce physicians that will practice medicine in that school's region. My question is, if I mention this during the interview could that hurt me?

If you mention it, I would simply say that you are interested in practicing rural medicine and (if applicable and prompted), proceed to tell them that this is one of the reasons you are interested in attending their school. Maybe their affiliated hospitals are more rural and will better-prepare you for those types of cases...something of that nature.

 

[Grace184]

There are a lot of schools that promote wilderness medicine and I would try to mind out more about those, as well as rotation sites

 

[Grace184]

Plus if you have a degree in a mission based school, working with rural medicine, taking on wilderness medicine electives, you would be very marketable for the IHS after graduation

I know my friend was able to arrange a pharmacy rotation through the IHS in Alaska and thought it was beautiful and loved the experience

@gyngyn i know you worked through IHS, do you have any input?