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Intermediate
Physicians are using social media to grow their network, showcase their lifestyle, and share medical tips and tricks. What are some positives and negatives of this increased exposure of physicians on social media?
Intermediate
Explain our Canadian health care system at a level appropriate for a high school student to understand.
Intermediate
Describe a time when you many have lost your temper.
Intermediate
Do you think physicians should lie or withhold the truth from their patients, even if its for the patient’s own good? What are some benefits to telling the truth?
Intermediate
You are a student in an advocacy group. You feel like another student in that group routinely dismisses the ideas of others and is often stuck in their own perspective of what is best. Do you say anything? If so, what do you say? What would you do if they left the advocacy group as a result of your discussion?
Intermediate
Discuss your perspective on how social media is being used in the context of medicine.
Beginner
What is your opinion on medicine and research?
Intermediate
Discuss your perspective on shifting the COVID-19 crisis from a pandemic to an endemic. What are the positives and negatives? Who stands to benefit and face harm as a result of such a decision? What do you think is the best course of action going forward?
Beginner
What would you hope to achieve as a physician?
Intermediate
Why is confidentiality important for physicians? In what cases should physicians breach confidentiality? Have you ever had to break confidentiality in your life? Why or why not?
Intermediate
Describe a time when you disappointed your parents/grandparents.
Intermediate
What role do genetics and genetic testing have in the Canadian healthcare system?
Intermediate
You started your clerkship rotations coincidently with your best friend. In your conversations, he often mentions patients by name and gives details on their conditions as well as their behaviour. What are some ethical issues that may arise in such a situation?
Intermediate
You have two patients who have been admitted after a serious accident. Both require immediate attention in order to survive. One patient is 20 years old; the other is 60 years old. Which life would you save?
Beginner
A friend who on the basis of religious beliefs is anti-abortion has just had an argument with their daughter who is pro-abortion rights and is asking you for advice on how to handle the situation what would you do?
Beginner
How would you go about suggesting to a family member that they get vaccinated if they are anti-vaccine?
Beginner
If you were the manager of a seniors home how would you address an employee coming to work with symptoms? What would you do if this was during an active outbreak?
Intermediate
What are some pros and cons to health system family medicine models that pay based on how many patients the family doctor sees?
Intermediate
Mistakes can occasionally go unnoticed, with parties involved remaining unaware that anything wrong ever occurred. Do you think it is ever appropriate to keep a mistake private? If so, when and why?
Intermediate
Why is support for physician work life balance important for the care of patients?
Intermediate
Describe a time when you had to be a follower.
Intermediate
You are a surgeon, and you discharge a patient. She becomes ill and dies not long after. The family asks why you discharged her. How do you respond?
Beginner
Pick a health topic that is relevant to today’s society and discuss your thoughts on it.
Intermediate
Describe a time when you felt ashamed.
Intermediate
You are a physician and you have been treating a patient in the hospital for several days. How would you handle this situation?
Advanced
Bill-C7, which amended the Criminal Code to permit MAID for individuals whose natural death is not reasonably foreseeable, was recently passed in Canada. What impact do you think this will have?
Intermediate
A drug formulary is a list of generic and brand name prescription drugs covered by your provincial health insurance. With a finite provincial budget, how would you determine which drugs should not be included in the drug formulary (not covered by health insurance)?
Intermediate
What problems lie at the intersection of indigenous people's relationship with government operated healthcare in Canada and rural communities?
Intermediate
Describe a time when you found that you had “too much on your plate”.
Beginner
What is one currently feasible change you could make to improve the condition of indigenous and rural healthcare?
Beginner
How has technology improved healthcare?
Intermediate
In Ontario, patients will soon be able to read the medical notes their physicians write about them. What are the implications of this change?
Intermediate
You are a medical student on rotation in the emergency department with Dr. A. A patient comes in complaining about pain in their hip. Dr. A gives them some medication and the patient very quickly appears to improve and leaves the hospital feeling better. After the patient leaves, Dr. A reveals that the drug was a placebo and that that particular patient comes in often with a pain complaint that "has no pathological basis". Dr. A says that in cases like that, a placebo can be enough to help patients feel better and that telling patient it is a placebo would ruin the effect. What ethical issues do you see here? Would you say anything to Dr. A? Should you report this behaviour?
Intermediate
Let's say you are a physician and your clinic is already running late. You see one of your patients who has been struggling recently and would require a longer appointment time to sort out their problems. However, your clinic is already running late and other patients are waiting. What are the ethical implications in this situation and what would you do?
Intermediate
Your friend tells you that he wants to take an "Introduction to Spanish" course to boost his GPA even though he is a native Spanish speaker. Native speakers are not allowed to take the course. What do you tell your friend?
Intermediate
What is your opinion on doctors being suspended or facing consequences based on their social media posts?
Intermediate
In Ontario, pharmacists are able to prescribe certain medications to patients now. What are some pros and cons of this change?
Intermediate
What do you think is the biggest "problem" with the Canadian medical system? How can we fix this?
Beginner
What is your favourite quote and why?
Intermediate
Most Canadians have been vaccinated against COVID-19. Why do you think some Canadians are choosing not to get the vaccine?
Intermediate
Describe a time when you felt excited. What happened?
Intermediate
Orphan diseases are diseases whose rarity means there is a lack of a market large enough to gain support and resources for discovering treatments for them. What is your approach to treating orphan diseases?
Intermediate
Describe a time when you had to be a leader.
Intermediate
Describe a time when you stood up to an authority figure.
Advanced
What do you think are the long-term benefits of the Jordan principle, for the indigenous community on a population level?
Intermediate
What health issue within our province are you most passionate about? Why?
Beginner
One of the patients hands you a basket of baked goods and wine for the holidays as a gift. What would you do?
Intermediate
What is something in your life that you are not proud of? Why?
Intermediate
Lord Byron stated “always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.” What does this quote mean to you in terms of how you will pursue your career in medicine?
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If you were a doctor and you had a patient that was unsure about getting their children vaccinated due to things they had read online, how would you counsel them?

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Jamie scored your response an 8/10

You spoke clearly and had a good pacing. I heard a lot of ums in the beginning, so just make sure you practice not using those little words as much as you can. Also, try to show a little bit more enthusiasm so your interviewer knows that you're more engaged in the interview. You were able to identify a strength, a weakness, one is more important, so good job there. When talking about your strength, you did well talking about how you problem-solve on a general level, but your answer would be much more powerful if you could provide a specific example of the time you demonstrated the strength. So you also mentioned your problem-solving is how you live your life . . .

Feedback Score: 4/10

You went deep on where the specific difficulties lie, but I didn't hear anything in terms of how you plan to improve this weakness. A specific plan and example of how you are actively working on your weakness would be again really much more powerful. If you could also tie both of your answers, weakness and strength, into what it means to be a physician or practice as a physician, this would make your overall goal and mindset much more clear. So it's a good start as of now, an overall 4 out of 10, but keep practicing.

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