Worst Answer/Interview Messup Did But Still Got In?

[Cytokine123]

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Anyone care to share to ease the tension to those interviewing?

 

[RogueBanana]

Read some posts on these forums from a guy who was applying to both Law and Medical. Accidentally used his law school personal statement instead of his medical one on the AMCAS. Apparently nobody even questioned / mentioned it until after he was accepted.

 

[Chromium Surfer]

Read some posts on these forums from a guy who was applying to both Law and Medical. Accidentally used his law school personal statement instead of his medical one on the AMCAS. Apparently nobody even questioned / mentioned it until after he was accepted.

#legend

 

[redsox93]

Had an applicant being interviewed by a "Dr Smith" and assumed was MD. I think he had been a psych major but then switched. At some point started made some comment about psycho-therapist not as good as a psychiatrist and "Dr Smith" explored this further with the applicant who went on for a bit on how most psych courses were worthless. It was only at the end of the interview did "Dr. Smith" make it clear that he was a Clinical Psychologist

The balls some people have during interviews blows my mind. Why would anyone talk down about another profession during an interview?

 

[DingoPingo]

The balls some people have during interviews blows my mind. Why would anyone talk down about another profession during an interview?

I'm actually quite curious about this. I know this thread isn't about this, but I hear a LOT about doctors that treat coworkers that aren't doctors like ****. I feel like this is a common thread of a somewhat prideful community. One of the reasons so many people dislike doctors.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

I'm actually quite curious about this. I know this thread isn't about this, but I hear a LOT about doctors that treat coworkers that aren't doctors like ****. I feel like this is a common thread of a somewhat prideful community. One of the reasons so many people dislike doctors.

For what it's worth, out of the 22 surgeons and OB/GYNs that I worked with for almost 8 years, only 4 were regularly dinguses. And only 2 of them were ever dick holes to me. My wife is a peds heme/onc nurse, and only one of the dozen docs she works with is a douche.

 

[DingoPingo]

For what it's worth, out of the 22 surgeons and OB/GYNs that I worked with for almost 8 years, only 4 were regularly dinguses. And only 2 of them were ever dick holes to me. My wife is a peds heme/onc nurse, and only one of the dozen docs she works with is a douche.

Might depend on the specialty.

 

[bananafish94]

For what it's worth, out of the 22 surgeons and OB/GYNs that I worked with for almost 8 years, only 4 were regularly dinguses. And only 2 of them were ever dick holes to me. My wife is a peds heme/onc nurse, and only one of the dozen docs she works with is a douche.

If there were ever a specialty that requires you to not be a tool, I think it would be peds heme/one.

 

[libertyyne]

I'm actually quite curious about this. I know this thread isn't about this, but I hear a LOT about doctors that treat coworkers that aren't doctors like ****. I feel like this is a common thread of a somewhat prideful community. One of the reasons so many people dislike doctors.

Might depend on the specialty.

If there were ever a specialty that requires you to not be a tool, I think it would be peds heme/one.

Confirmation bias, retrieval bias, availability bias?

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

Confirmation bias, retrieval bias, availability bias?

Hence the "for what it's worth" part. I only have experience with a finite number of docs. However, surgeons are stereotyped as being dicks, and only 18% of the ones I worked with were jerks. Two of them were only jerks if they thought you were dumb or didn't care, so really only 9% were dicks.

 

[CaliforniaDreamer]

I started talking about my research, and the interviewer asked me about how I was going to control for confounding variables. I had absolutely no idea. I just said "yah I think we can control for gender or... I really don't know." And he told me that typically in interviews the interviewee should know about their own research and that I should figure out the answer to that question for future interviews. He spent awhile educating me on the subject.

Eventually got accepted there and got offered some straight up $$$.

 

[Cytokine123]

I started talking about my research, and the interviewer asked me about how I was going to control for confounding variables. I had absolutely no idea. I just said "yah I think we can control for gender or... I really don't know." And he told me that typically in interviews the interviewee should know about their own research and that I should figure out the answer to that question for future interviews. He spent awhile educating me on the subject.

Eventually got accepted there and got offered some straight up $$$.

Awesome! Congrats and thanks for the relief.

 

[pillowsnice]

I started talking about my research, and the interviewer asked me about how I was going to control for confounding variables. I had absolutely no idea. I just said "yah I think we can control for gender or... I really don't know." And he told me that typically in interviews the interviewee should know about their own research and that I should figure out the answer to that question for future interviews. He spent awhile educating me on the subject.

Eventually got accepted there and got offered some straight up $$$.

This literally happened to me the other day. I'm glad to hear you were accepted!