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11. How do your parents feel about your career goals?

12. What are the characteristics of aromatic compounds?

13. Why do you think that life was based on the carbon atom?

14. What do you think about and how did you prepare for the MCAT?

15. Can you explain why your MCAT scores went up (down) when you took the

test a second time?

16. Would you be willing to serve in an area where there is a physician shortage?

17. What subspecialty are you considering?

18. What message would you like me to convey to the admissions committee in

your behalf?

19. What were your most favorite and least favorite courses in college?

20. What demands do you think medicine will make upon you?

21. How will marriage and having a family fit in with your career plans?

22. Have you been interviewed or accepted at any other school?

23. What are your thoughts about the expected physician surplus?

24. What are your views on abortion, gay rights, capital punishment, and animal

experimentation?

25. What are your thoughts about the use of animals for medical research?

26. What do you feel should be the physician's role as far as abortion is concerned?

27. What are your opinions about the issue of universal health care?

28. How do you feel about the level of compensation of interns and residents

(house staff)?

29. Do you feel an obligation to treat the indigent or uninsured patients?

30. What three words describe you best?

31. What do you do for recreation?

32. What do you think of the idea of closing some medical schools to limit the out-

put of physicians and thus avoid a physician surplus?

33. Do you have a physician role model? If so, who and why do you perceive that

person as a role model?

34. If you were an interviewer, what one question would you always ask an appli-

cant?

You can improve your performance by preparing for it (as indicated in the preceding

sections) and by learning from the mistakes you may have made at the interviews you

have had. Thus, after each interview, evaluate your performance along the following

lines.

1. Did I come across effectively?

2. Where did I flounder and become excessively talkative?

3. Did I keep my cool after a blunder?

4. Was there some basic information I should have known, but didn't?

5. Were my prepared responses effective?

6. Did I sell myself, especially my assets, adequately and effectively?

7. Did I establish a good rapport and behave in a well-mannered way?

8. Did I seem to show the appropriate interest in the school at which I was being

interviewed?

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