Traditional Interview Questions
As I’ve mentioned before, there will be some MMI stations that will tend to feel more like a traditional interview question type station, these are the questions I was asked way back when I interviewed under the traditional interview system, that I remember:
- Why do you wish to do an accelerated combined medical program instead of the traditional route that most physicians do? ---- EXPECT TO GET THIS ONE FOR SURE sometime during interview day.
- Why do you want to come specifically to UMKC’s medical school?
- What is a book/novel that you have read that was not assigned to you in school? What was it about? What did you learn from it?
- You’re sitting in class taking an exam, and you notice a classmate cheating. What do you do?
- Why medicine?
- If you were not to get into UMKC’s combined medical program, what would you do?
- Tell me a time you faced an adversity or a challenge and how you overcame it.
- What specialties do you think you’re interested in?
- What experiences motivated you to pursue medicine?
- What do you think is your greatest personal weakness/flaw?
***** http://krnpremed.blogspot.com/p/a-guide-to-my-posts.html (this has a link to both traditional interview AND MMI questions – click where it says “Link:” for both types) — one document is 15 pages the other is 17 pages. This is more than enough practice on its own to be prepared for UMKC’s interview.
More traditional interview links:
http://www.colorado.edu/advising/sites/default/files/attached-files/Med_100%20intquest.pdf
http://www.futuredoctor.net/questions_and_answers1.shtml
http://gradschool.about.com/cs/medicalinterview/a/medquest.htm