unless all they're posting in the first place is just the period...
Advice: Don't smirk when your interviewer talks about their experience in medical school and says "you get IN what you PUT OUT."
Haha you're supposed to say so you'll be the best radiologist ever!I'll contribute
Interviewer: If you could have any one superpower what would it be?
Me: oh jeez, what the heck? Ok, focus, don't say anything stupid ... uh... X-Ray vision *with a smirk*
*Both female interviewers look at eachother, burst out laughing"
Interviewer: ya, you're definitely going to have to explain that one
Me: mental facepalm... time to think fast... oh! I know! That way, next time I'm on some show where I need to pick a door and get the prize behind it, I'll win every time
All of that wasn't too strange. I should have known the insurance stuff off the top of my head and I probably shouldn't have mentioned religion to a guy with religious items in his office etc.
Yep.
you said yes when you should've said no, and no when you should've said yes. was this the whole interview? do you have other interviews in the future?
I had another nightmare after that a week later.I drove to the interview drinking 3 big reds and staying focus and hype. Then I entered the room...
Interview: Good afternoon, nice day huh?
Me: Yeah its nice out. (with a huge grin)
Interview: ??? (slight look of disgust on face)
Interview: So.. tell me about yourself.
Me: Blah blah blah yada yada yada
Interview: ??? (same look on face with a curious stare)
Me:* why are they looking at me like this* stomach boiling with gas from soda and butterflies
Interview: So tell me about this on your app
Me: Huh.. *too focused on holding gas within my body, almost pulled a ass muscle*
Me: Eyes began to water and I could not hold it back. The more I tried to think happy thoughts the more red and watery my eyes got.
Later it was over and I stood up knowing if I dare take a step I would blow a whole in my pants. They shook my hand looking at me from head to toe and gave me a eyebrow raising look. I walked toward door pooting with every step and I KNOW they heard them.😕 It smelled like bigred and failure. I went to restroom and noticed I had on a brown and grey shoe like a f*ing *******! Thats why the awkward look when I left and my teeth was the color of an apple from the soda! I wish they said something so I could have explained.🙁 Interviews just isnt my thing or god hates me...
this is one that i kicked myself over at the time, but now that i know the interviewer better, may have been the best possible answer for me to give:
After explaining that one of the main reasons i wanted to be a doctor was because i just really enjoy patient care, the interview challenged me with:
Interviewer: "if you just want to take care of patients, why not be a pa or nurse practitioner? You'll probably get a higher volume of direct interaction sooner with less hassle or debt."
me: "uhh... Ego?"
Had a three person panel.
Walked in with two of the people present and we start talking about my grad work in nutrition....im talking about obesity
Third person walks in and she's obese
They make me start over again with my answer
decision....REJECTED
So all I could think about was how nice florida was compared to new york (it was COLD when I left)
Interviewer: So why do you want to come to school here?
Me: it's close to the beach
Interviewer: you know most people respond with answers about the curriculum
Me: o..(long pause)... well I like that there's early patient contact
guess they like the beach too. decision.....Accepted
Wow people have never heard of the phrase MRS Degree????????? what world do you come from???
Its a common phrase because in the day and age of our parents or grand parents a lot of owmen were sent to university or school to study but still had the expectation they'd be stay at home wives.
I use this phrase a lot to describe how things are in India. Many women as far back as 15 years ago still were being told to get educated and go to college, earn some sort of masters or ugrad in something like psychology or english or things of that nature for the purpose of being educated but then it was the expectation after they'd find a husband to be a stay at home wife and mother who helped also take care of the in laws and run the household while the husband provided for the family. It is like this with many of my older cousin's families and also my mom's era women so many of the aunties in my town fall in this category.
But in India, even girls going to medical or dental school are many times not doing it with the intention of practicing down the road but with the intention of getting the degree to find a husband because many wealthy men want a very well educated wife but they don't necessarily want her to use this education because they want her to run the household.
I've heard of stories of indian men like that here in the US as well. Like there were stories of fam. friend's daughters who went in medicine and dental medicine and other health professions such as optometry. And these kids well when they were looking for guys when they were single, well some of the guys they came across told them to quit their jobs otherwise they didn't want to be with them but they didn't want to find someone who would be stay at home but not a doctor or other higher health profession because they wanted a woman who was educated. its sooooooooooooooooo stupid. Why anyone would waste the time, blood, sweat of going through arduous medical and dental education to be a stay at home is stupid. But some men are not the brightest bulbs in the pack so to speak to have this common sense.
first off, desi power!!! =D sorry, I love running into indian people on here. second, I completely agree with you on this. It's really upsetting to think that the only people some people go to school is to get a MRS/MR degree and are taking up seats that other people actually WANT! It's horrible to think that people are getting rejected only so someone can have that seat and do nothing with the degree.
Also, there are MR degrees. I know about 5 guys personally who only went for their degrees because their girlfriend's were educated and the girls family wouldn't let her marry the guy because he didn't have a degree. 😡
this is unoriginal brah
Its still interesting, and making a new thread keeps us from having to wade through pages of year old posts we've read before to get to the new stuff.
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Its still interesting, and making a new thread keeps us from having to wade through pages of year old posts we've read before to get to the new stuff.
😕
you don't have to wade through anything. you click the "last" button and it takes you to the most recent posts. plus, the older, traditional threads have a lot of funny stories that can keep you entertained for hours 😀
WTF. Are you seriously telling me I can't even figure out how to use a freaken forum? 😡😡😡 Why didn't someone tell me this earlier? Though I still can't find said button. apparently I'm ******ed.
I said "yea and then you have friends who are business majors over there that dont have to work nearly as hard in undergrad"
Interviewer "some of us were those business majors"
Me:, Quick subject change
Not a med interview, but I was at the dentist today with my friend. We were talking about other majors and I said "north campus majors (non-science majors at UCLA) are all a joke!". Turns out the dentist went to UCLA as a north campus major.
I would have been embarrassed.... but he was a dentist and has no soul.
Though my dentist is the only doc I know who seems actually happy with his career, and suggested I become a dentist...
I agree with this, the whole point of threads sticking around is to be used again and prevent forum clutter.😕
you don't have to wade through anything. you click the "last" button and it takes you to the most recent posts. plus, the older, traditional threads have a lot of funny stories that can keep you entertained for hours 😀
Calm down there bro.WTF. Are you seriously telling me I can't even figure out how to use a freaken forum? 😡😡😡 Why didn't someone tell me this earlier? Though I still can't find said button. apparently I'm ******ed.
Two moments from this cycle... one of which doesn't involve an interview question, but was still awkward. Both happened at the same school.
During one of my interviews the interviewer (the Dean) asks me why I didn't end up doing my ugrad at a well known public school in my home city - I talk about how I wasn't a fan of the campus culture and didn't really think I fit in there... after spending a good 5 minutes eliciting what I didn't like about the school, he revealed that his son was a current ugrad.
Earlier that morning they had breakfast set up for the interviewees in a conference room off of the waiting area. We hung out for a while and then went and had our first info session. When we came back I decided I wanted to eat some breakfast, so I walked into the conference room and started picking out what I wanted. I soon realized that despite the room being full of people, it was silent.... I looked around and the Dean and all of the interviewers for the day were having some kind of meeting in the conference room before interviews started. I just mumbled something semi-apologetic and said that I just wanted breakfast and they were like yeah... just get out we'll bring the food out in a few.
Two moments from this cycle... one of which doesn't involve an interview question, but was still awkward. Both happened at the same school.
During one of my interviews the interviewer (the Dean) asks me why I didn't end up doing my ugrad at a well known public school in my home city - I talk about how I wasn't a fan of the campus culture and didn't really think I fit in there... after spending a good 5 minutes eliciting what I didn't like about the school, he revealed that his son was a current ugrad.
Earlier that morning they had breakfast set up for the interviewees in a conference room off of the waiting area. We hung out for a while and then went and had our first info session. When we came back I decided I wanted to eat some breakfast, so I walked into the conference room and started picking out what I wanted. I soon realized that despite the room being full of people, it was silent.... I looked around and the Dean and all of the interviewers for the day were having some kind of meeting in the conference room before interviews started. I just mumbled something semi-apologetic and said that I just wanted breakfast and they were like yeah... just get out we'll bring the food out in a few.
+1gonna plug this into the "worst interview answers" thread.
Gonna plug this into the "Worst Interview Answers" thread.
My friends and fam constantly tease me about my bath-tub studies. Not quite sure how forcing an interviewer to picture me nude in 3" deep warm water while talking to myself like a schizophrenic will work out. Currently waiting on the final decision.![]()