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University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
  • Year founded: 1883
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University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Allopathic Medical School
Aurora, CO
  • SDN RANKING 4
  • INTERVIEW FEEDBACK 5 194 Responses
  • SCHOOL REVIEWS N/A 0 Responses

Overview

Overview

School Stats

  • Resident Tuition $41,584
  • Non - Resident Tuition $67,539
  • Application Fee $100
  • AVG MCAT 515
  • AVG GPA 3.8
  • LIZZYM Score 72.2
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Admissions Information

  • Office of Admissions
  • Mailstop C292
  • 13001 E. 17th Place
  • Aurora, CO 80045
  • United States

School Overview

University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine Fast Facts

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School Info

The School of Medicine is a part of the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, located in Denver and Aurora, CO. The Health Sciences Center also includes the schools of dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, and the graduate school.

Curriculum

The curriculum is designed to provide the scientific and clinical background to prepare graduates for the practice of medicine. Most of the basic science courses are taught during the first two phases. Students attend clerkships during the third and fourth phases. The third phase includes the core clerkships, which can be taken in any order, and the fourth phase consists almost entirely of electives. As part of the School`s commitment to produce more generalists, a 3-year course is integrated into the required medical school curriculum. The course, entitled Foundations of Doctoring, will place students with practicing generalist physicians one-half day each week to see patients over time, learn interviewing and diagnostic skills, and experience primary care practice.

Facilities

Basic science and clinical opportunities for the medical students are located throughout the Denver area in a number of hospitals and clinics. Rural health experiences are found throughout the state of Colorado.

Interview Feedback

Interview Feedback

Results Overview

How did the interview impress you?

Response # Responders
Positively 151
Negatively 16
No change 24

What was the stress level of the interview?

Response Avg # Responders
3.79 190

0 = low, 10 = high

How you think you did?

Response Avg # Responders
7.73 135

0 = low, 10 = high

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"Interview us before showing the 3-4 hours of presentations about financial aid, curriculum, or branch campuses. Especially over Zoom, I was pretty tired after sitting in my chair from 9am to 2pm." More from this Member | Report Response

"Website is not up to date as of 2014-2015 application cycle" More from this Member | Report Response

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"Don't scare the crap out of the OOS applicants in the last 5 minutes of the day. Try to end on a positive note." More from this Member | Report Response

"It was very distracting to hear other interviews through the thin walls!" More from this Member | Report Response

"Longer interviews, and better preparation of student panel/lunch - hard to hear students because of loud environmental noise." More from this Member | Report Response

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"Not very on top of things with the secondary app this year, subsequently scrambling for interviews." More from this Member | Report Response

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"Hypothetical question about a patient who was terminal but whose mother wanted doctors to do everything possible because she believed in a spiritual healing by way of medical interventions." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

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"Do you think it is ok to use mice for research purposes? What about dogs? What about monkeys? What about humans? Why don't we just experiment on the prison population? (I work in a lab that uses animals)." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

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"Why do you want to be a physician?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

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"If I brought my father in and he was basically non-verbal and dying and I asked you to do something to make the process quicker and painless, what would you do? (the interviewer was a lawyer)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

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"What would you do to fix the US medical system?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"an uninsured patient needs life-saving procedures. can you think of any creative ways or resources to help the patient pay?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

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"How did you end up here at UCHSC, interviewing for medical school?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"tell me about your research" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"I was asked to expand upon several statements in my AMCAS essay." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"what do you think about euthanasia" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What will be a major area that will affect the practice of medicine in the 21st century?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What specialty of medicine are you drawn to?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about yourself and how you became interested in medicine." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Explain your research as if I (the interviewer) didn't know anything about medicine." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What is the best thing that has happened to you (and how has this helped you)?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If a patient wanted you to prescribe a medication that you didn't think was indicated, what would you do?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"As a physician would you consider assisted suicide for your patients? (The question was a lot more case specific than this)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What athletics are you involoved in? (this one was asked three or four times by one of my interviewers and the answer didn't change:NONE!)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Have you ever failed?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How would you fix our medical system?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What would you do if you saw someone rustling through papers while taking a test (they have an honor code system, so you can take your tests anywhere)?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"My background as a fine arts major" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you want me to tell the committee I am about to meet? " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why do you want to go into medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Define critical thinking and how do you know when it is happening?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

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"Why do you want to be a doctor?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What will you contribute to your class?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why are you interested in medicine? " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Explain ethical issues that you are aware of." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Discuss an ethical issue- your choice" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Have you ever had to teach yourself anything?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

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"What are your top three schools that you applied to and why did you choose them?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about your family." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you think is the most important issue facing health care in the US?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How would you improve the American medical system? What do you think will happen with health insurance?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"interesting questions that provoked some organization and thought" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Last book I read" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Do you know anything about bioethics? Pick an issue and discuss it." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you do in your free time?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Nothing unusual, except a detailed explanation of the type of rural town that I would like to live and practice in." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What is one ethical situation that you might encounter in your career that you would like to talk about?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you know about socialized medicine? What are some possible ways in solving the current financial crisis in healthcare?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"You are a pediatrician with a patient who is 24 weeks pregnant and beginning labor that you will most likely not be able to curtail. The child has a high likelihood of being born with cognitive and developmental problems. How do you counsel your patient?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

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"AMCAS!!!!" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why do you want to practice rural medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell us about your strengths and weaknesses. I skipped strength and went straight to weakness. I figure the best strength a person can have is to understand his or her own shortcomings and to be able to communicate them. So maybe I faked a move toward weakness and demonstrated strength." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

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"Why MD instead of DO?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

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"euthanasia vs. physician-assisted suicide; legality of both in Colorado, how I would respond in specific situations" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

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"What is the worst thing that happened to you? Why?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What are some problems facing healthcare today?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

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"What is a major problem in the US healthcare system? Why?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

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"80 year-old patient asks you to put him on the heart transplant list, he is on medicair, as well. What do you do?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

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"A woman with a family history of breast cancer wants her employer to pay for genetic testing to determine if she has the defective gene. What do you think should be done?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

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"How would you explain how environmental and public health policy are related?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Specific questions relating to my research. " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

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"How do you find balance in your life?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Describe signigicant medical experiences that may not have been detailed in the AMCAS application (interviewers only have access to the essay and secondary experiences from the AMCAS)." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

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"Do you think that people who believe people with AIDS are being punished by God are fanatics and are crazy?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

What was the most interesting question?

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"Most were pretty standard, but the interviewers were SO laid back it was hard to judge their thoughts... Seemed to care a lot about what I do outside of school/work." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

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"I was asked to talk about specific issues in the research I'd done." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"open ended what do u think about health care reform, what ideas do you have." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Are you going to have any more kids?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you had an extra year to pursue you own endevors, what would you do?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"So you have seen the great medical capabilities of the CU campus and also have some experience in rural medicine. How would you bridge the gap between the urban and rural medical environments?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"#2" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Say you have a couple walk in, and the woman is pregnant. They are not married, and tell you that they do not want an abortion. The mother is addicted to crack/cocaine and refuses to give it up. What would you do? Would you recommend abortion at all?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you knew your best friend in medical school cheated on a test, and they would get kicked out if caught, what would you do?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about your family?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you plan to do with public health?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"A patient comes in with calf pain, you do a work-up on them which is negative a send them home. The next day the die. It turns out they had a DVT and then a PE. How would you deal with the patient's family and how would you proceed?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"A discussion we had on the best way to execute global health projects" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about your view on global warming" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

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"What is the difference between someone with a PhD and an MD? I thought kind of obvious...but wasn't sure if interviewer was looking for something in particular?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"what about going into medicine scares you?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me in Spanish how you came to the decision to pursue medicine." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Is there anything you wished I would have asked? (knowing that you would have to answer it of course)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why don't they include growth factors in injectable stem cell therapies? One other question specific to my research." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"''Would you say that our healthcare system is relatively on task with the complications of such a complicated issue or does the thought of US healthcare make you sick?''" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"what did i learn from being a patient? (i had back surgery when i was 20)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How do you think the increasing cultural diversity is affecting medicine in America?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Do you understand how much work this is?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you think about alternative medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"what was the last book I read that was not science related" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What is the difference between morals, beliefs, and attitudes, and which is more malleable?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What did you have for breakfast?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"15 yr old girl is pregnant, doesn't want parents to know, what do you do?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"It's all a blur, but the questions mostly followed from my resume and statements. Nothing surprising." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"some very specific and personal questions about my essays." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

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"What is an interesting ethical dilema you encountered in your internship?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What had I done to evaluate the negatives of a career in medicine" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"The number of male applicants to medical school is declining while the number of female applicants is increasing. In 10-15 years, what will be the implications of this?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Are you comfortable?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"what is the best/worst thing your closest friend would say about you?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"I was given three different terms (diligence, empathy, and honesty) and asked to choose the one I thought was most important to the practice of medicine and explain why it was. " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Describe the interaction between spirituality and healing." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"As an older student I was basically solicited to tell the story of my convoluted path to medicine, with occasional very specific questions where apropo to my research, and concerning medical ethics (euthanasia) and health care systems (uninsured) " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How living overseas will affect my practice of medicine." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What does the Colorado motorcycle community feel about mandatory helmet laws and Colorado's lack thereof? (I put on my AMCAS that I ride a motorcycle.)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Pick a health care ethics topic and explain your point of view. " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What kind of role should the government play in ethical issues? (specifically in the context of really expensive palliative or Terri Schiavo-type care)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What are your views on alternative medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Who was the weirdest patient you've treated?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What has the volunteer work that you have done taught you about medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Describe a time you had to be really flexible" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you had a patient that wanted to use herbs or alternative medicine, would you support him/her?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"In what stage of grief are you over your grandmother's death?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"just personal questions, i seemed to have a lot in common with one of the interviewers" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you find will be the most pressing issue in health care (your standard policy/ethics question depending on how you want to play it)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Define integrity and tell me of a time when yours was challenged and what you did in return." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do I think about stem cell research?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Who is your role model?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What types of patients do you think you may have problems dealing with?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What should I look for in a medical student?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Do you where sunscreen?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about the most challenging event/situation in your life." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Are you more like your mom or your dad and why" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Is there any question you were specifically worried about coming into the interview?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Questions about resource allocation, medical insurance, and the US healthcare system. " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Who are you most like in your family?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Describe an ethical issue in medicine that you might be faced with as a physician." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"I was asked if I knew a particular symphony by a composer who I had taken a class about." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Support and then defend universal health care in the U.S." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Talk about some ethical issues facing medicine." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Questions were all VERY general" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How would you handle a patient who has termnial cancer and wants to die?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"i was asked some pretty obscure questions relating to my non-science degree that aimed (I'm thinking) to see how well i thought on my feet and could articulate on short notice" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"None. Straight forward questions about myself and experiences" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about the situation between China and Taiwan (my parents are from Taiwan, and I mentioned that I had recently visited the country). " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What's your biggest intellectual challenge?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What would your friends say about you? Would you participate in Doctor Assisted Suicide? " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What size of town do you envision yourself practicing in?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If I had your husband here, what would he tell me about you?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"As a woman, how will you handle the pressures of family life and being a physician if you were to get married? This was somewhat difficult since I am not planning to get married any time soon." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How did my experience working in an orthopaedic oncology clinic influence the way I would treat my patients/the role I would take on as a doctor?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How do I deal with stress and what kind of support system do I have?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What are qualities that would be bad for a doctor to have? Do you have any of them?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Have you ever made a decision that appeared correct at the time, but now you realize was the wrong decision? " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"A question about the ethical issues surrounding physician-assisted suicide." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Had I ever experienced reverse culture shock after any of my travels?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"You are a physician....a 16 year-old girl comes in and is worried that she is pregnant. How do you handle the situation?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Do you think doctors make enough money?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Have you taught yourself a skill on your own?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What makes people come to you for help/leadership?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Do you have any experiences with people from other cultures of ethnicities?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What are some books or movies over the past year that have significantly affected your life?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Do you believe in the legalization of marijuna?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How do you think doctors are perceived by society?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Would you consider being a teacher for the next 30 years?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How I thought the influx of women into this profession was going to change the field." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you were the director of WHO and had an unlimited budget what one health issue would you address?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

""Explain how your tutoring experience will assist you when you become a Physician?"" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you think about the high cost of medical education and its influence on what type of medicine doctors practice?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me your favorite story about your swimming career." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you were an interviewer, how would you determine a student's integrity from a short interview?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"none" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Do you know who invented calculus?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What would you change, if anything, in your application?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How much money do you think a doctor should make?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What's the most interesting case you've witnessed? (I work in an ob/gyn's office)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell us more about your self. Very little was said about me as a person." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How will you help patients to improve their long-term health? (based on my AMCAS essay; testing to see whether I had a realistic perspective on how much the physician can do vs. what the patient needs to do)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me what you learned while living in Argentina for two years." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How have your experiences gotten you to this point?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you were a doctor treating somebody in a life- threatening situation and the family members came by and asked you to stop treatment, what would you do?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If our positions were changed, what would you want to know about me as a med school applicant?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Nothing that was truly interesting or unexpected. Questions about my activities for the past year (how I am different from last year), What other career I may choose if medicine was not an option, and the standrad ethical questions." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Is there a time in your life you would not like to relive?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What will you do to contribute to your community outside of the practice of medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What books have you read lately?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How would you get a Hispanic male without medical insurance treatment for his failing kidney? " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me why you like Native American art history as opposed to western? (I'm an art history minor)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you do to help relieve stress? " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Nothing that out of the blue...I guess the best and worst/hardest thing I had to go through in my life" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If two people needed a liver transplant (Mickey Mantle and a homeless person) who should be given the liver and why." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"I quoted from the book "On Doctoring" the interviewer wanted to know where I got the quote and what I knew about the author. " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Do you think the Suzuki method or a simple method based on music theory is more useful for teaching guitar (I tutor guitar students)?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you think will limit you as a physician?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What is your favorite book?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you had a crystal ball, what would you see in the future for you and medicine?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How would you fix the current health care system? I answered, and then we talked about the answer for about thirty minutes. The interviewer was involved in introducing legislation to change health care coverage systems, and was very interesting. " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Would you perform a physician assisted suicide if the patient was in extreme pain and begged you for mercy to let them die?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me about a lecture that motivated you." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What was the best experience of your life? Worst experience? " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"My most interesting questions were about string theory and the characteristics of a 10 or 26 dimension universe." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Tell me everything that has taken place in your life to get you in this chair at this moment." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"what do you think is the biggest problem facing America's youth? (this was NOT in context to any discussion we were having)" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"NO real difficult questions." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"None, the interviews were mostly a review of my application. " More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"As chief of operations for a major hospital, you must decide which of two patients receives a heart for transplant; either a 65 year old philanthropist who is a pillar of the community, or a 15 year old gangbanger with a history of drug abuse." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If you could tell me one thing about Polynesian herbal medicine, what would it be?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Basically: "How do you feel about genetic testing?"" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"If the four-year medical students were to put on a skit roasting their fellow students, including you, which of your traits would be mocked?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Do you know the history behind St. Crispin's Day? (WHAT?!?) But he didn't care that I didn't know it and proceeded to tell me for TEN minutes!" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How would you tell a Vietnamese family who speaks little english that their newborn son may have down syndrome?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Nothing really out there. Mostly standard questions" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"How do you think health care got where it is today?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"What do you think of the current Mid-East crisis?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Did I know Samuel Johnson's definition of "oats?"" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

""Do you think AIDS was put here to punish gays?"" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

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