Now do you prepare?

[Doctor2be17]

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Just wondering how everyone prepares for their upcoming interviews? Do you read any books? Research anything specifically?

 

[HalfListic]

Just wondering how everyone prepares for their upcoming interviews? Do you read any books? Research anything specifically?

Ive found that the best prep Ive had is simply by striking up conversations about current health issues and common interview topics (ie common ethics questions)


It's nice to sound, and actually be, informed and articulate with your answers which really comes by having the conversations multiple times. Then, when you hit a brick wall, like not knowing what the medicare donut hole is, you can look it up and add it to your repertoire.

Any other question should be about yourself and your application (essays and activities) so if you dont know these well, review them also and be able to share any story with the moral of, "thats why I'd be good for medicine and your school"


Those are my thoughts on the matter 👍

 

[Ost3oclast]

Ive found that the best prep Ive had is simply by striking up conversations about current health issues and common interview topics (ie common ethics questions)


It's nice to sound, and actually be, informed and articulate with your answers which really comes by having the conversations multiple times. Then, when you hit a brick wall, like not knowing what the medicare donut hole is, you can look it up and add it to your repertoire.

Any other question should be about yourself and your application (essays and activities) so if you dont know these well, review them also and be able to share any story with the moral of, "thats why I'd be good for medicine and your school"


Those are my thoughts on the matter 👍

+1. I read up on healthcare. Other than that I tried to limit my practice on interviewing...I have pretty good interview skills anyway though so maybe that isnt the best advice. I just wanted to sound like myself and not rehearsed.

 

[Mbeas]

I'm gonna leave this here

http://studentdoctor.net/schools/

 

[WildEMDoc]

I talked to myself in the car. Kind of doing a fictional interview in my head where I answer questions

That was the only real "prep" I did. I'm generally pretty informed when it comes to healthcare related topics so I didn't really need to brush up on that.

 

[EnergyDrink]

I talked to myself in the car. Kind of doing a fictional interview in my head where I answer questions

That was the only real "prep" I did. I'm generally pretty informed when it comes to healthcare related topics so I didn't really need to brush up on that.

I do this too, but I'm always much more articulate when I'm by myself 😛

 

[HalfListic]

I do this too, but I'm always much more articulate when I'm by myself 😛

haha...me too. And I always get the last word! Its awesome...

 

[Night Hawk]

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[Iheartnachos]

I talked to myself in the car. Kind of doing a fictional interview in my head where I answer questions

That was the only real "prep" I did. I'm generally pretty informed when it comes to healthcare related topics so I didn't really need to brush up on that.

+1 for saying the answers out loud. They always sound better in your head than when you actually speak the words.

Also I always like to have a few "canned" answers ready to go. You can either answer specific questions with them or modify them to answer others. Just for basic questions like "tell us about yourself", "good and bad qualities", "Why medicine, why DO, why this school", etc etc.

 

[CDTcorp]

I talked to myself in the car. Kind of doing a fictional interview in my head where I answer questions

That was the only real "prep" I did. I'm generally pretty informed when it comes to healthcare related topics so I didn't really need to brush up on that.

Haha, that's what I did also.

 

[Mosonik]

There's also some good practice questions (I found a document with 100) on school websites, you can find just by using Google. They get your thought process going on a lot of questions that may or may not come up in any particular interview but I found helpful... and some of the those topics did come up!

Check out the one on Colorado University's website... it's a good one
and for the record I don't go there

 

[dudeliness]

Forgive my ignorance. What's the "Medicare donut hole"?

 

[ModernAlchemist]

I re-read Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder during the two days leading up to the interview. It gets me in the zone.

 

[Tianar]

Forgive my ignorance. What's the "Medicare donut hole"?

The gap in prescription drug coverage for medicare patients. Patients utlizing over a certain dollar amount of prescription drugs per year pay out of pocket expenses unless they reach a catastrophic coverage threshold at a higher dollar amount. There's currently a gap of about $4000 between those two amounts, thus a donut hole of no coverage.

I belieeeve the Affordable Care Act is addressing this issue by making generics a much cheaper alternative - projecting to "close" the donut hole in the future.

 

[dudeliness]

The gap in prescription drug coverage for medicare patients. Patients utlizing over a certain dollar amount of prescription drugs per year pay out of pocket expenses unless they reach a catastrophic coverage threshold at a higher dollar amount. There's currently a gap of about $4000 between those two amounts, thus a donut hole of no coverage.

I belieeeve the Affordable Care Act is addressing this issue by making generics a much cheaper alternative - projecting to "close" the donut hole in the future.

Ok that makes sense. Cuz drugs are donuts. Or was it the other way around?
Thanks for the explanation though.

 

[WildEMDoc]

Ok that makes sense. Cuz drugs are donuts. Or was it the other way around?
Thanks for the explanation though.

Drugs are the actual donut, the gap the hole. You are covered up until a gap (the hole) and then after a certain point (on the other side of the hole) you are covered again.

 

[dudeliness]

Drugs are the actual donut, the gap the hole. You are covered up until a gap (the hole) and then after a certain point (on the other side of the hole) you are covered again.

I was really just making a joke. 😀
Along those same lines (the joking I mean) where can you buy donut holes? Remember those? Used to be able to get them at the store but now I don't see them anywhere. 🙁

 

[WildEMDoc]

I was really just making a joke. 😀
Along those same lines (the joking I mean) where can you buy donut holes? Remember those? Used to be able to get them at the store but now I don't see them anywhere. 🙁

I thought you might be after I re-read your post lol

I also have not seen donut holes for a long time 😕

 

[zipnogg]

www.realclearpolitics.com and www.cnn.com for current events.

read some JAMA article abstracts.

And don't forget to breathe.

 

[gmcguitar4]

I just research the school on their website for like an hour the night before and review my answers to my essay questions. Sometimes I will review some medical ethics stuff. Always kill interviews..except for this job interview I bombed yesterday 🙁

 

[Dr.TurkandJD]

I research the school, talk to people who have interviewed, and read SDN school specific thread. Then I put on my blutooth and pretend to talk on it, but in reality I am just driving in the car and talking to my self, practicing my interviews. Bluetooth so I dont look crazy 🙄

 

[virtuoso735]

I have a notebook full of interview answer outlines. I jot things down when I think of them. For my DMU interview (my first one), I must have done 5 mock interviews with friends/family/prehealth advisor. I also talked in front of a mirror. That helped a lot. After that I was a little more relaxed since I had done an interview already. I'm on my 6th one now and the only thing I really need to do at this point is research the school.

 

[ClemsonFirst]

Download Medscape and Medpage apps and read articles. Meet with the health professional school interview faculty and practice real interview questions from the school interview reviews on here.

 

[Doctor2be17]

Do you guys have any tips for practicing for mmi? I have never done that style so I have been researching but am a bit nervous for them!

 

[qwerty2012]

I video record myself in different poses while talking and see what I need to work on.