What school's interview is the most stressful?

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[Goro]

Impossible to answer. Some people hate group interviews. Others hate MMIs

 

[Mad Jack]

I enjoyed the LECOM interview the most. Interviewing with other candidates really allowed the adcoms to see who actually knew what was what. You could tell who was getting admitted and who wasn't with 100% accuracy before we even left the room.

I'd imagine it would be the most stressful interview for people that aren't particularly good at that sort of interview.

 

[kamakazi5]

I enjoyed the LECOM interview the most. Interviewing with other candidates really allowed the adcoms to see who actually knew what was what. You could tell who was getting admitted and who wasn't with 100% accuracy before we even left the room.

I'd imagine it would be the most stressful interview for people that aren't particularly good at that sort of interview.

This is actually one thing I worry about with the LECOM interview. One on one, I'm usually great, but put me in a group and I tend to listen more than I speak. I need to find some sort of way to practice this in the next month or so.

 

[allantois]

MMI is exhausting. You get 10 mins to tell your life story. Three times in a row. It’s like rapid fire, and you can’t really go into much depth.

I much prefer the conversationalist nature of an individual in-depth interview, or group interview.

 

[Mr. Saigon]

MMI is exhausting. You get 10 mins to tell your life story. Three times in a row. It’s like rapid fire, and you can’t really go into much depth.

I much prefer the conversationalist nature of an individual in-depth interview, or group interview.

+1

ATSU-SOMA has one of the longest and tiring interview days, IMO. It goes from MMI --> speed dating --> group activity --> one on one --> and some random SOMA discussion where you're being judged.

 

[ctaim]

This is actually one thing I worry about with the LECOM interview. One on one, I'm usually great, but put me in a group and I tend to listen more than I speak. I need to find some sort of way to practice this in the next month or so.

Just completed 2 LECOM interviews. Being a listener isn't going to be as much as a pitfall as you think. At one of the campuses, they actually said to interviewees that they were looking for people to screen out rather than people to screen in. Meaning, that they didn't want to see ego, babbling, poor communication skills, antisocial behavior, etc (yes, they said this part too). Usually people in the group are very friendly since they know it's in their best interest to be cooperative, and everyone will answer the question at some point. In my experience, it was best to say something memorable and/or something that indicated that you had researched the school a bit - think more humanitarian wise: clubs, special projects, etc.
Good luck.

 

[Ho0v-man]

I enjoyed the LECOM interview the most. Interviewing with other candidates really allowed the adcoms to see who actually knew what was what. You could tell who was getting admitted and who wasn't with 100% accuracy before we even left the room.

I'd imagine it would be the most stressful interview for people that aren't particularly good at that sort of interview.

LECOM was my favorite one too. It was way more chill than SDN leads you to believe.

I never did mmi. My most stressful was cusom. They pulled some tricky stuff. One interviewer asked me questions from the secondary and asked me to answer those questions in a way that was different from how I did in the secondary. Another interviewer concluded the interview, offered to buy me a coffee before the next interview, and then hit me with 3 more interview questions as I was sipping the java. Totally blindsided me.

 

[Mad Jack]

LECOM was my favorite one too. It was way more chill than SDN leads you to believe.

I never did mmi. My most stressful was cusom. They pulled some tricky stuff. One interviewer asked me questions from the secondary and asked me to answer those questions in a way that was different from how I did in the secondary. Another interviewer concluded the interview, offered to buy me a coffee before the next interview, and then hit me with 3 more interview questions as I was sipping the java. Totally blindsided me.

Lol, MMIs are so stupid. It's a big corporate interviewing strategy, and, while I do fine with it, I feel that it tests your ability to improv more than anything and isn't really appropriate for medicine. They're my least favorite interview form to participate in because they're so contrived and meaningless, but hey, at least my improv class in college paid off.

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

Your first one.

 

[Doc_Ock]

I've had lots. AZCOM was the worst. Was asked my stance on abortion, capital punishment, if I'd administer capital punishment, if I'd refuse to resuscitate someone if I thought they'd be a vegetable, physician-assisted suicide. Of course there are "no wrong answers." pfft.

 

[MADD!!!]

Can't judge because interviews are dependent on WHO interviews you too I.e me and a friend could both interview the same day, they had a chill interviewer and I had a harsh one... sometimes it's just luck of the draw. Just know your app well, why do, why medicine, why that school, and wing the rest.

 

[Darth Revan93]

Can't judge because interviews are dependent on WHO interviews you too I.e me and a friend could both interview the same day, they had a chill interviewer and I had a harsh one... sometimes it's just luck of the draw. Just know your app well, why do, why medicine, why that school, and wing the rest.

Yeah, I just interviewed at Touro-NY Middletown, and it totally sounded like others in our group had chill interviewers, while I had an interviewer hounding me about every question, asked me to elaborate on every question when I went in as much depth as I could, and they didn't bother to get to really know me as a person. The whole interview process is extremely subjective and biased, and really dependant on who interviews you. I really dislike the whole process and its frustrating and stressful.

 

[bears1992]

I've had lots. AZCOM was the worst. Was asked my stance on abortion, capital punishment, if I'd administer capital punishment, if I'd refuse to resuscitate someone if I thought they'd be a vegetable, physician-assisted suicide. Of course there are "no wrong answers." pfft.

Wow. Each of my interviews had one ethics/oddball scenario, but I can't imagine an entire interview full of them. I think when an interviewer asks a bunch of those, they are looking to see if your views line up with theirs which is pretty dumb.

 

[MADD!!!]

I had an interview at a school which still angers me to this day.... I was asked about healthcare reform and I was saying how healthcare should be a right and not a privilege. My interviewer said "is that a fact or your opinion." I said it's my opinion then he said "how many ppl do you think agree with that statement." He said a little less than 50% and was condescending on me throughout the interview afterwards. Needless to say, if a school doesn't believe that healthcare should be a right for everyone, that's not the school for me.

EDIT: also have to add that a similar topic came up at one of my other interviews, I said the same things, and my interviewer and I hit it off well together from that point on and expanded on the topics! So being yourself is key!