Positively
2 out of 10
60+ minutes
At the school
2
One-on-one
Open file
"If you were on the ward by yourself, which hopefully wouldn't happen, what sort of doctor would you want to come to your aid? (This was really a question about what kind of doctor did I want to be.)" Report Response | I was asked this question too
"In reference to a biography on Jackie O. that I was reading and took along for those "down times" I had read about on sdn, "Have you got to the part in her life when she was married to Onassis?" I hadn't, yet, but gave my impressions of her life to that point. The only downtime I had was the few minutes before the second interview." Report Response | I was asked this question too
"What job have you found the most intriguing/enlightening? (In reference to my work in a group home for MR patients, a veterinary clinic, and an oral surgery office)." Report Response | I was asked this question too
"Oddly, about my father -- "Describe your father to me."" Report Response | I was asked this question too
"See above" Report Response | I was asked this question too
"SDN, school website, AMCAS app, annoying the docs for whom I work on "hot" topics in healthcare/medicine" Report Response
"I was genuinely pleased with the friendliness and down-to-Earth quality of all those I formally met. The interviewers did not seem to be the Ivory Tower sort, but normal people who worked hands on in medicine." Report Response
"Parking for visitors -- in the lot across the way $14 for the day. Really, Ms. Welch, if you read this -- maybe interviewees ought to be offered a day pass!! :)" Report Response
"see above (parking)" Report Response
" Before my first interview, I was able to observe about 10 minutes of 1st year physiology class where a hemodynamics demonstration was in progress. Having come into the middle of it, I was a little baffled. I was then off to the hospital for my first interview, which was with a clinician in pediatric nephrology. He was very welcoming when I entered his office and took my coat. He asked about my life in Ohio (where I grew up) as he is an alumnus of OSU. I believe our interview lasted about 35 minutes, which surprised me, but it was very comfortable. He told me about the school -- more focused on producing practitioners rather than researchers (a bonus for me), as well as about living in Syracuse (snow). I returned to the meeting room we interviewees were assigned and met up with some others who were waiting for lunch. We opted to take a peak into the physiology class, which had changed topics and instructors since I had been there. This bit on blood pressure didn't seem as foreign to me as the first class(stuff I am exposed to at work), but alas a little hefty for my comrades. We returned and chatted and ate lunch -- wraps, fittingly simple and good. And as a fellow interviewee has already posted, the Director of Admissions talked with us about financial aid, acceptance, etc., as well as the 3rd/4th year campus choice. Soon, I was off to my second interview, which surprisingly lasted nearly an hour. We chatted about the book I had brought, other perspectives brought through different fields of study (as in anthropology and psychology), books, and of course stuff in my AMCAS app. Again, I stress how comfortable the interview was. The difficult question for me was the one about my father, a little personal, but I suppose it gives the interviewer a perspective of how I handle myself with 'close to home' questions. We discussed the virtues of taking up a cause an going with it, finding better medicine for childhood asthma was the example. I could see myself finding such an issue, but I was adamant that I wished to maintain a practice and not becoming an administrator. The hour had passed quickly and I was then off for a long ride home. I was nervous about the 4 week wait to hear news, but alas 2 1/2 have passed by already! " Report Response
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