The following questions have been asked of Ouachita students at interviews for health professions schools.
1.
Why do you want to be a doctor/ dentist/ veterinarian?
2.
You are a physician. You
have a premature infant that is on a respirator and a heart and lung machine.
The infant has been there for many months.
The chances of a normal life look slim.
What would you do? Would you
try to remove life support? Who
would you consult? Why?
3.
What do you know about HMOs? What
if you, as a doctor had an expensive new treatment that was able to treat a
patient of yours who had terminal cancer? But,
the insurance doesn't cover that treatment.
What would you do?
Is the current HMO/Insurance plan advantageous for today's population?
4.
If you could have dinner with the three most important people in history,
who would they be and why?
5.
If you were stranded on an island what would you do?
6.
You are in a life boat with your parents, your sister, and your
"sickly" grandmother and rescue is nowhere in site.
You all are getting hungry. What
would you do?
7.
What is Molarity, Molality, and Normality of solutions?
8.
If you were a surgeon, and you were praying with your patient before an
operation, and a family member walked in and rudely told you to stop praying,
what would you do?
9.
What are your weaknesses?
10.
What are your strengths?
11.
How would you describe your support group?
12.
Where else have you applied?
13.
Why should this institution consider you?
14.
What do you think medicine will be like in the next 5, 10, 15 and 20
years?
15.
Where do you see yourself in 5, 10, 15, and 20 years?
16.
What are your other options if medical school does not work out?
17.
What would you be doing on this Saturday morning if you were not here at
this interview?
18.
What research have you been involved in or are you currently involved in?
19. How important is religion in healing?
20. Tell us about you. What do you want us to know about you?
21. What have you done to prepare your hands for a
career in dentistry?
22. What makes you a better candidate for dental
school than someone else?
23. What are some of your hobbies?
24. What experience have you had observing dentists in an office setting?
25. What types of volunteer work have you been involved with?
26. If I were to go to your wife right now and asked her to tell me three positive things about you and one negative thing, what do you think she would say?
27. You are a physician and have been for many years. During that time, you have developed a healthy relationship with one of your patients that is an older man. Over the many years of being his physician, he has shared repeatedly of his dream to travel to England. The man is now in his sixties and has informed you that he is on route to achieve his dream vacation in three years. You discover after some diagnostic tests that he has terminal cancer and has only a few months to live. Tell me how you would inform your patient of this dreadful diagnosis.
28. Tell me what you think the number one problem in health care is today, and then explain your ideas on how to fix that problem.
29. You’re a physician within your own clinic. It is the end of the day and you have already seen your last patient. You are finishing your last minute work and preparing to leave on a vacation with your family. Two patients arrive and both patients are a life-or-death situation. One patient has insurance, but the other patient doesn't. Which patient do you accept?
Note: LSU School of Dentistry requires a chalk-carving test. For details, click here.
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