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What are you supposed to say when you're asked how you would change your education if you could? It seems like they're just trying to make you point out a deficit in your education. Can you just say that you wouldn't change anything because it's made you who you are? But that sounds a little fake.

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What are you supposed to say when you're asked how you would change your education if you could? It seems like they're just trying to make you point out a deficit in your education. Can you just say that you wouldn't change anything because it's made you who you are? But that sounds a little fake.

Tell them you would have studied overseas for a semester/summer
 
Yeah the study abroad thing sounds nice. Say i would have studied abroad and learned a new language.
 
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Talked more with my professors sooner because they have a lot of life lessons to teach you.
 
Audited more classes for my own knowledge (although I do this now as it is)......
 
If you're heavy science background, say you wish you would have had more time to study things like philosophy, ethics, art, etc.

If you're not heavy science, say you wish you'd realize how much you enjoy science sooner so you could take more classes in it before graduation.

Either way it makes you look well rounded and realize medicine is part art, part science.
 
Audited more classes for my own knowledge (although I do this now as it is)......

You could also tell them you wish you have cured cancer (and you would have TOO[!] - but your Counter Strike clan needed you . . .)

Perhaps write an essay about how CS influenced you want to be a physician
 
If you say you would not change anything... it sounds too good to be true. Spend more time thinking/researching opportunities that you would have liked to pursue.

Instead of sounding negative/regretful, you can twist it into something positive by saying how you will manage to incorporate such opportunities in the future... in med school/long term.
 
You could also tell them you wish you have cured cancer (and you would have TOO[!] - but your Counter Strike clan needed you . . .)

Perhaps write an essay about how CS influenced you want to be a physician
I've actually never played Counter Strike.....nor Warcraft or whatever that one RPG is called..... :laugh:

BTW what's wrong with auditing classes?
 
I've actually never played Counter Strike.....nor Warcraft or whatever that one RPG is called..... :laugh:

BTW what's wrong with auditing classes?

You seriously missed out . . .

Nothings wrong with an audit, per se, but since you don't receive a grade there is no indication of your drive or motivation outside of your word.

I audited a gradute biochem class - no one was impressed
 
I don't care about impressing anyone (which is one reason my profs are amazed to find out I'm applying to med school).....I mainly do it to learn things I otherwise wouldn't get the chance to (Spanish, Polish (come this fall), French, art history, piano, etc).
 
If I'm asked what my greatest accomplishment has been so far, can I say it's in progress? I'm almost done with my research project; I just need a few more months to verify the results and so I would like to talk about that. But it's not exactly in the past, as the "so far" implies.
 
If I'm asked what my greatest accomplishment has been so far, can I say it's in progress? I'm almost done with my research project; I just need a few more months to verify the results and so I would like to talk about that. But it's not exactly in the past, as the "so far" implies.
How about coming up with answers to your own essay prompts? That would could make an interesting and unique answer!
 
1) These are practice interview questions, not essay prompts for essays I might be working on.
2) I have already come up with what I want to say, I just want to make sure I'm not so far off the mark that I'll trip myself up.
 
You could also tell them you wish you have cured cancer (and you would have TOO[!] - but your Counter Strike clan needed you . . .)

Perhaps write an essay about how CS influenced you want to be a physician

Actually, this works :p


Surgeons who play video games more skilled - U.S. study
19 Feb 2007 21:00:22 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Andrew Stern

CHICAGO, Feb 19 (Reuters Life!) - Playing video games appears to help surgeons with skills that truly count: how well they operate using a precise technique, a study said on Monday.

There was a strong correlation between video game skills and a surgeon's capabilities performing laparoscopic surgery in the study published in the February issue of Archives of Surgery.

Laparoscopy and related surgeries involve manipulating instruments through a small incision or body opening where the surgeon's movements are guided by watching a television screen.

Video game skills translated into higher scores on a day-and-half-long surgical skills test, and the correlation was much higher than the surgeon's length of training or prior experience in laparoscopic surgery, the study said.

Out of 33 surgeons from Beth Israel Medical Center in New York that participated in the study, the nine doctors who had at some point played video games at least three hours per week made 37 percent fewer errors, performed 27 percent faster, and scored 42 percent better in the test of surgical skills than the 15 surgeons who had never played video games before.

"It was surprising that past commercial video game play was such a strong predictor of advanced surgical skills," said Iowa State University psychology professor Douglas Gentile, one of the study's authors.

It supports previous research that video games can improve "fine motor skills, eye-hand coordination, visual attention, depth perception and computer competency," the study said.

"Video games may be a practical teaching tool to help train surgeons," senior author Dr. James Rosser of Beth Israel said.

While surgeons may benefit from playing video games, the study did not give parents a pass if their children play the games for hours on end.

A 2004 survey by Gentile found 94 percent of U.S. adolescents play video games for an average of nine hours a week. Game-playing has been linked to aggressiveness, poor school grades and can become a substitute for exercise.

"Parents should not see this study as beneficial if their child is playing video games for over an hour a day," Gentile said. "Spending that much time playing video games is not going to help their child's chances of getting into medical school."
 
For the rest of you --thanks for your advice!
 
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