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Hi everyone (esp. Nebraska residents),
I just finished my interview at UNL for the UNL/ISU professional program in veterinary medicine (PPVM). This is the program in which Nebraska residents spend their first two years at UNL for didactic work and then the next two years at ISU for clinical work.
I noticed when I was looking for interview information on the forum that not a lot of people have written much about interviewing in Nebraska. Unless you did and then I'm sorry for not searching properly. I prepared according to the style and questions of ISU since I thought maybe I'd interview with an ISU faculty member. I also prepared as if it were a one-on-one interview. Both of these were incorrect.
UNL interviews are committee style with five members interviewing one individual. It included three UNL faculty and two members of the Nebraska Veterinary Medical Association who are practicing vets in Nebraska.
Interviews are also open file. I had prepared a rather long "tell me about yourself" since ISU are closed file so I hope I didn't bore them too much with info they already could have just read.
I would not consider the interview behavioral (as ISU is). They asked a few hypothetical questions like ("How would you handle a situation where a person comes in with a sick or injured animal and doesn't have the money to pay for treatment and just wants to euthanize it?" What if a staff member volunteered to help pay for the treatment if the owner surrendered the animal?" So behavioral in a sense, but not the traditional, "When was a time you...And how did you handle it?"
I actually enjoyed this sort of interview more than I do the behavioral style.
My impression of the members interviewing me was very positive. They seemed like bright, interesting people and very friendly. I don't think any of them tried to trick me or give me a difficult time about anything. They took turns asking me questions that ranged quite a bit from ethical to specific things about my file.
Some of the questions I now remember:
Say a client comes in and wants to do an elective surgery on their animal, and during the surgery, the animal dies unexpectedly due to circumstances that may have not been your fault, what do you tell the owner and how do you contact them to tell them?
If a patient came in and had a condition unfamiliar to you, how would you figure out what it is?
One member had an item in a paper bag and had me reach in and without showing the other members, describe it to them in detail so they might guess what it is. That was an interesting one.
In regards to research: What is your favorite molecular biology technique?
Did you ever find anything interesting in your research with horse doping?
It looks like from your profile you are interested in a DVM/PhD, what is your final goal for that? Research? I said practice and research. He reminded me, as others do, that that is difficult to impossible and that most people have to choose. But I affirmed that I want to try to work it out some how.
Well those are all the questions I remember now.
I know that today was the last day of interviews so no one this year will find this useful but maybe people searching it next cycle will find it helpful. And maybe so will I if I don't make it this year. I received my interview invite on 12/26/12 and interviewed today, 1/10/13, and they have done interviews this whole week.
If anyone has questions, feel free to message me this year or next year.
Cheers,
M
I just finished my interview at UNL for the UNL/ISU professional program in veterinary medicine (PPVM). This is the program in which Nebraska residents spend their first two years at UNL for didactic work and then the next two years at ISU for clinical work.
I noticed when I was looking for interview information on the forum that not a lot of people have written much about interviewing in Nebraska. Unless you did and then I'm sorry for not searching properly. I prepared according to the style and questions of ISU since I thought maybe I'd interview with an ISU faculty member. I also prepared as if it were a one-on-one interview. Both of these were incorrect.
UNL interviews are committee style with five members interviewing one individual. It included three UNL faculty and two members of the Nebraska Veterinary Medical Association who are practicing vets in Nebraska.
Interviews are also open file. I had prepared a rather long "tell me about yourself" since ISU are closed file so I hope I didn't bore them too much with info they already could have just read.
I would not consider the interview behavioral (as ISU is). They asked a few hypothetical questions like ("How would you handle a situation where a person comes in with a sick or injured animal and doesn't have the money to pay for treatment and just wants to euthanize it?" What if a staff member volunteered to help pay for the treatment if the owner surrendered the animal?" So behavioral in a sense, but not the traditional, "When was a time you...And how did you handle it?"
I actually enjoyed this sort of interview more than I do the behavioral style.
My impression of the members interviewing me was very positive. They seemed like bright, interesting people and very friendly. I don't think any of them tried to trick me or give me a difficult time about anything. They took turns asking me questions that ranged quite a bit from ethical to specific things about my file.
Some of the questions I now remember:
Say a client comes in and wants to do an elective surgery on their animal, and during the surgery, the animal dies unexpectedly due to circumstances that may have not been your fault, what do you tell the owner and how do you contact them to tell them?
If a patient came in and had a condition unfamiliar to you, how would you figure out what it is?
One member had an item in a paper bag and had me reach in and without showing the other members, describe it to them in detail so they might guess what it is. That was an interesting one.
In regards to research: What is your favorite molecular biology technique?
Did you ever find anything interesting in your research with horse doping?
It looks like from your profile you are interested in a DVM/PhD, what is your final goal for that? Research? I said practice and research. He reminded me, as others do, that that is difficult to impossible and that most people have to choose. But I affirmed that I want to try to work it out some how.
Well those are all the questions I remember now.
I know that today was the last day of interviews so no one this year will find this useful but maybe people searching it next cycle will find it helpful. And maybe so will I if I don't make it this year. I received my interview invite on 12/26/12 and interviewed today, 1/10/13, and they have done interviews this whole week.
If anyone has questions, feel free to message me this year or next year.
Cheers,
M
