tell me about yourself

[LAman10]

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How do you approach this question? what kinds of things do you want to highlight in this? basically, I'm trying to figure out if this is a disguised "why medicine?" question or if they want to know about as a person (i.e. "I have x, y, z qualities, my family comes from such-and-such background, in my spare time I like to play basketball, some of my extracurriculars include blah blah, etc.")

Also, how long should such an answer be? this goes for the "why medicine?" question too. If I talked for a good 2-3 min, would that be too much?

 

[LizzyM]

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=660964

 

[insane]

I have an M.D. from Harvard, I am board certified in cardio-thoracic medicine and trauma surgery, I have been awarded citations from seven different medical boards in New England, and I am never, ever sick at sea. So I ask you; when someone goes into that chapel and they fall on their knees and they pray to God that their wife doesn't miscarry or that their daughter doesn't bleed to death or that their mother doesn't suffer acute neural trama from postoperative shock, who do you think they're praying to? Now, go ahead and read your Bible, _Dennis_, and you go to your church, and, with any luck, you might win the annual raffle, but if you're looking for God, he was in operating room number two on November 17, and he doesn't like to be second guessed. You ask me if I have a God complex. Let me tell you something: I am God.

Just say that and laugh like a maniac.

 

[LAman10]

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=660964

Oh wow, I should withdraw all my apps on account of sheer stupidity. I don't deserve to go to medical school after missing this 😱

Thanks LizzyM!

 

[doc totipotent]

I got this a lot from interviewers who didn't read my application before interviewing me. Show that you're a real person by talking about your family or a fun hobby or something like that, but then be sure to highlight a couple of points that you brought up in your personal statement or elsewhere on your application.