What are some of the best questions to ask an interviewer???

[theDr.]

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What are some of the best questions to ask an interviewer??? Or, what have you asked?

 

[exmike]

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Originally posted by theDr.
What are some of the best questions to ask an interviewer??? Or, what have you asked?

i would just get right to the point.

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[josehernandez94]

-what brought you to x school? what's kept you here?
-what's your specialty/field and how did you choose it?
-what opportunities are there for a student to do off-site clinical rotations?
-are there opportunities within your curriculum to do meaningful research?
-is there anything you don't like about x school? (much easier to ask this question to a student interviewer)
-do the attendings/residents enjoy teaching? (student interviewer)
-are the faculty approachable? (student interviewer)
-collegial or competitive atmosphere? (student interviewer)
-any elective courses during 1st/2nd year? (either humanities type courses, clinical electives, shadowing, etc)
-in places like philly/new orleans: do you feel safe walking around the campus/hospital at night?

I generally found people to give honest answers to these questions, even the ones that might put their school in a bad light... hope these help.

 

[Sonya]

rather then asking what they don't like. Ask what they would like to change or improve about X school if given the resources. It's a little nicer way of asking the same question.

and really, IS anyone going to tell you "oh, yeah, we're super competitive gunners here". I really doubt people would say anything negative. So, there probably has to be other ways of indirectly finding it out.

Sonya

 

[DoctorWannaBe]

One of the schools I'm interviewing at requires an interview with a local physician. This doctor is not affiliated with the university, so he probably won't know much about the curriculum/clinical opportunities/medical school. What kinds of questions would you ask this interviewer?

 

[G0S2]

Given your experience, how would you compare the clinical skills that students here have in rotations or residency as compared to other programs you may be familiar with?