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Just to help you out a bit, here's how mine went down with each interviewer.
1) Had notes on my app (personal statement, mostly) and asked questions about many individual areas of the PS. Asked what interested me about osteopathic medicine. Asked about health care reform.
2) Asked the why doctor question. Proceeded to selected random questions from a list/packet of questions he had (some ethical).
So, yeah, I WAS asked about the whole osteopathic thing. However, my answer was not a long spew about how DOs were better than MDs or anything like that. Perhaps some people go that route, but I think it's safer to simply establish a few things without getting into which ideal set is best:
*It's a great medical school (don't have to mention it's DO....it's MEDICAL school)
*It offers a rational, logical method to medicine (this IS complimenting the osteopathic approach), and it is evident that it is working since so many other schools in Texas and around the country are beginning to use some of the same approaches.
*Everyone I've read about that has come here really enjoys/enjoyed this school.
*The school obviously has a great track record for putting out wonderful primary care docs.
See, so really only one of those bullets refers to the methodology of osteopathic medicine. Moreover, even that bullet explains that other schools (the MD schools) are starting to incorporate that mindset of holistic medicine.
These are just my ideas about this question. I hope it helps. All I'm saying is that you don't have to go on about how osteopathic medicine is the best. Just respect it, treat it as it should be treated - as a medical school that will make you a DOCTOR. I even admitted that while I truly believe in the whole-body approach, I really didn't know much about manipulative medicine. My interviewer was completely cool with that.
Oh, I was accepted here. That doesn't mean I did well with this question, but it certainly means I didn't completely bomb, haha. BEST OF LUCK BUD!!!!
1) Had notes on my app (personal statement, mostly) and asked questions about many individual areas of the PS. Asked what interested me about osteopathic medicine. Asked about health care reform.
2) Asked the why doctor question. Proceeded to selected random questions from a list/packet of questions he had (some ethical).
So, yeah, I WAS asked about the whole osteopathic thing. However, my answer was not a long spew about how DOs were better than MDs or anything like that. Perhaps some people go that route, but I think it's safer to simply establish a few things without getting into which ideal set is best:
*It's a great medical school (don't have to mention it's DO....it's MEDICAL school)
*It offers a rational, logical method to medicine (this IS complimenting the osteopathic approach), and it is evident that it is working since so many other schools in Texas and around the country are beginning to use some of the same approaches.
*Everyone I've read about that has come here really enjoys/enjoyed this school.
*The school obviously has a great track record for putting out wonderful primary care docs.
See, so really only one of those bullets refers to the methodology of osteopathic medicine. Moreover, even that bullet explains that other schools (the MD schools) are starting to incorporate that mindset of holistic medicine.
These are just my ideas about this question. I hope it helps. All I'm saying is that you don't have to go on about how osteopathic medicine is the best. Just respect it, treat it as it should be treated - as a medical school that will make you a DOCTOR. I even admitted that while I truly believe in the whole-body approach, I really didn't know much about manipulative medicine. My interviewer was completely cool with that.
Oh, I was accepted here. That doesn't mean I did well with this question, but it certainly means I didn't completely bomb, haha. BEST OF LUCK BUD!!!!