NOTE: Jennifer and Kelly were applicants during the 1989-90 academic year and were both accepted to enter medical school in the fall of 1990. They, at their initiative, kept this record of questions from their interviews to provide help to subsequent ISU applicants.
 

1. What is the biggest problem facing medicine today?

2. What do you see happening in the field of medicine in the future?

3. What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses? Why?

4. Why should your application stand out from the rest?

5. What can you add to our school?

6. What will you do if you're not accepted?

7. How did you study for the MCAT? How did you feel when you'd finished taking it?

8. What interests do you have outside the field of medicine?

9. What are you involved in now besides school?

10. Do you work? Where? Doing what?

11. How did you arrive at your decision to go to medical school?

12. Wide range of questions about:

family, hobbies, pets, your city and state, house, car, parents/siblings.

13. How do you plan to finance your education?

14. What is the most significant biological discovery in the last 20 years? How has this discovery changed medicine?

15. What do you think of HMO's? Would you like to work in one?

16. What is most important to you?

17. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

18. How did you prepare for this interview?

19. How do you think you're doing at this interview?

20. Have you interviewed at other schools? Where? How do you think you did there? Why?

21. How will you handle living in this big city?

22. What are good medical ethics?

23. Are you involved in research? Tell about it.

24. What other medically related experiences have you had? What did you think of them?

25. What was your worst medical experience? Your best?

26. What classes are you taking this semester? How are doing in them?

27. What is your least favorite class and why? Your most favorite class and why?

28. How do you feel about animal labs? Cadavers?

29. Have you talked to other students at this school to see what they think of it?
 

QUESTIONS ASKED DURING OUR INTERVIEWS, Horst & Manning, Pg. 2
 

30. If you could practice anywhere, where would it be? Why?

31. What would you like to specialize in? Why?

32. How have you and your spouse/significant other planned to handle the pressures of medical school?

33. What was the last:

novel you read, movie you saw, vacation you took, fun activity you did with a friend, time you went out to eat.

34. Given that 30 percent of all IV drug users are HIV positive, should we distribute sterile needles to them to alleviate the spread of the HIV virus?

35. How did you get to this city for your interview? Does it bother you to fly? Did you have a hard time finding your way around?

36. Why do you want to go to school here?

37. If you are accepted here, what is the thing you are most looking forward to doing in your spare time?

38. All sorts of ethical questions on:

AIDS, cancer treatments, euthanasia, abortion, socialized medicine, teenage pregnancy, contraceptives, medicare/welfare, suicide, fetal medicine.

39. Tell about your experiences following doctors around.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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