Premeds, Sometime before your interviews, Take a Health Policy Course!

[RainerMaria]

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I really can't stress this enough, how much studying health policy made me literate in a lot of the "stress" questions in my interviews. Having basic knowledge of the history of our healthcare system, its stakeholders, and future directions allowed me to have an interesting conversation with my interviewers much more than just, "I want to help people." I'm sure there are a zillion courses you should take but I think this is in the top 5.

Rhode Island is neither a Rhode nor an island, discuss.

 

[Lukkie]

i can do all those without a course

 

[Bacchus]

Staying current on events will help a lot.

 

[RainerMaria]

Obviously only take it if it interests you, but it's likely to interest most future docs who will work in our health care system. Just reading a book or wikipedia in advance might come off as canned answers or interests. A semester course would give you some more nuanced knowledge of Am healthcare IMO.

 

[BlueElmo]

Urg, my schedule is full next semester. Is it absolutely crucial to take such a course to do well on interviews? I'm reading the Health section in NY times and was going to read the Wikipedia this summer. Shouldn't that be enough?

 

[cbrons]

Urg, my schedule is full next semester. Is it absolutely crucial to take such a course to do well on interviews? I'm reading the Health section in NY times and was going to read the Wikipedia this summer. Shouldn't that be enough?

What is that health policy book everyone on here recommends?

 

[itsallthesame]

Rhode Island is actually the name of the largest island in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, fool.

 

[RainerMaria]

If you absolutely can't, I'd skim:

http://www.amazon.com/Understanding...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238191675&sr=8-1

But I think a course helped me a ton. More than one of my interviewers said, "Most interviewees aren't interested in health policy; it's nice to have someone to discuss the thorny issues of universal health care/risk rating/ health care mandate in massachusetts/SCHIP/Medicaid/Medicare/younameit"

 

[Bacchus]

Plenty of students don't take a course in health policy and do just fine. I don't see the point.

 

[RainerMaria]

Rhode Island is actually the name of the largest island in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, fool.

way to miss an SNL reference. Noob.

 

[phospho]

I had quite a few interviews, and as for health policy questions, I wasn't asked anything that a 12 year old who watches the news couldn't answer... I'm getting an MD, not an MHA/MPH.

PS: The origin of the name "Rhode Island" is unclear. It may have been given its name because of its similarity in shape to the island of Rhodes in the Mediterranean. Alternatively, it may have been bestowed by Dutch navigator Adriaen Block who visited the island in 1614, who may have named it Roode after the Dutch word for "red".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquidneck_Island

 

[Lukkie]

PS: Phospho is the most average looking German girl in the world. 😀

 

[phospho]

PS: Phospho is the most average looking German girl in the world. 😀

German chicks are hot! 😀

 

[87138]

Urg, my schedule is full next semester. Is it absolutely crucial to take such a course to do well on interviews? I'm reading the Health section in NY times and was going to read the Wikipedia this summer. Shouldn't that be enough?

You'll be fine.

Look what you did, OP, you've got them running scared.

 

[BlueElmo]

You'll be fine.

Look what you did, OP, you've got them running scared.

 

[bodonid]

PS: Phospho is the most average looking German girl in the world. 😀

actually, didn't that study conclude that average isn't the most attractive?

i.e. there are particular nonaverage features that make someone more attractive... so phospho isn't average at all! despite being an average herself... i've gone crosseyed 😕 what was I talking about?

 

[phospho]

actually, didn't that study conclude that average isn't the most attractive?

i.e. there are particular nonaverage features that make someone more attractive... so phospho isn't average at all! despite being an average herself... i've gone crosseyed 😕 what was I talking about?

lol, you just confused the crap out of me... but this is what the study says about my avatar:

"This woman was found most attractive by our test subjects. Also staff of the model agency selected it as being suitable for a model career. But this person does not exist in reality - she was computed by blending together the eight most attractive original female faces. Their skin is absolutely perfect and actually looks rather artificial. But it is this kind of perfection that obviously attracts test subjects".

http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakult...I/beautycheck/english/virtuelle/virtuelle.htm

It's a really cool study😀

 

[hermit]

Just reading a book or wikipedia in advance might come off as canned answers or interests.

Huh. Well, I know of at least 8 adcoms who are looking for canned answers then.