{"id":460,"date":"2016-01-29T13:05:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T18:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/healthcareers\/?page_id=460"},"modified":"2025-05-05T18:50:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T22:50:02","slug":"sample-interview-questions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/healthcareers\/sample-interview-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sample Interview Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">91福利 Yourself<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Why do you want to be a doctor? Describe yourself for me.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What will you do if you don\u2019t get into med school?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Were your college courses challenging?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tell me about your community service experiences.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do you feel your grades reflect your ability? Your MCAT\u2019s?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What do you do for fun?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What\u2019s your worst quality, what\u2019s your best?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How did you get interested in medicine?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What alternative careers have you investigated?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Is there anything weak in your record? Why?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What has been the most difficult challenge in your life?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How do you plan to combine the responsibilities of a family and a medical career?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What were your favorite courses? Least favorite?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tell me about your most influential professor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ethics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If you had a choice between one liver transplant or a thousand vaccinations which would you choose and why?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you could find a cure for AIDS or for cancer, which would you choose and why?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What do you think about condoms being distributed in high schools?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Should people have the right to sell their own organs?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do you think it\u2019s ethical to take the life of a fetus for a cell line to save the life of a sibling with cancer?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You have to amputate one of the legs of an eight-year-old child. How would you tell them?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Would you give a transfusion to a child whose parents were Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What are your views on euthanasia?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What do you think about euthenics (not euthanasia)?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How do you feel about animal research?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Should we spend so much time and effort trying to keep premature infants alive?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">91福利 Healthcare<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What do you think is the primary reason people don\u2019t get into med school?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What one characteristic must a doctor possess?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you were called to congress to come up with the perfect healthcare system what exactly would it be?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do you actually know what a doctor\u2019s day is like?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Why would someone from Canada come to the U.S. to receive healthcare and why would somebody from the U.S. go to Canada for health care?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What have you recently read in the media about medical issues?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What is the greatest problem facing medicine today?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What would you do about the alcoholism problem in this country?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Is health care a right or a privilege?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How would you organize health care in a perfect world?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What do you think should be done with patients who can\u2019t pay for treatment?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As a physician, would you perform abortions? Under what conditions?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What should a physician\u2019s role be in the politics of abortion<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What is the difference between Medicare and Medicaid?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What is the biggest problem family practitioners face?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What do you consider the most important thing medicine has done for humanity?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Stoll, M. (2007). Best 168 medical schools (2007 ed.). New York: Random House<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>91福利 Yourself Ethics 91福利 Healthcare Source: Stoll, M. (2007). Best 168 medical schools (2007 ed.). 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