New Interviewing Style for Medical Schools. Will Dent. Schools Follow?

[Longcatislong]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/11/health/policy/11docs.html?_r=1&ref=education

Instead of focusing on academics or personal issues, these mini interveiws assess problem solving and social skills of applicants. I think it's great! Does anybody see dental schools adopting this type of interview style? Do you think it would be helpful in evaluating applicants and, of course, in selecting social-capable of team-oriented dentists?

 

[Longcatislong]

Oops, I just noticed a thread already exists for this topic. My bad.

 

[theilleztpaki]

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its ok...lol

 

[rockclock]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/11/health/policy/11docs.html?_r=1&ref=education

Instead of focusing on academics or personal issues, these mini interveiws assess problem solving and social skills of applicants. I think it's great! Does anybody see dental schools adopting this type of interview style? Do you think it would be helpful in evaluating applicants and, of course, in selecting social-capable of team-oriented dentists?

i'm 100% behind this. hope it catches on at more medical and dental schools. the current interview style of basically re-hashing what's already on your application and claiming things like leadership, altruism, etc. based on activities that you may have sucked at and may have lied about the duration of makes no sense. from a patient's point of view, we've all dealt with socially inept, awkward, terse, and/or uncaring doctors and dentists. hopefully this goes a long way in weeding those kinds of people out of healthcare and redirecting them into academia or industry.

P.S. i saw stanford, UCLA, and cinn medical listed in that article (in addition to the new virginia school obviously)...of those, UCLA also has a dental school so maybe it will be one of the first to try this out for dentistry.