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What is one currently feasible change you could make to improve the condition of indigenous and rural healthcare?
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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
What are some difficulties faced by physicians during the pandemic?
Intermediate
What role do genetics and genetic testing have in the Canadian healthcare system?
Beginner
If you were on the admissions committee, what would be the most important thing you look for in a candidate?
Intermediate
You are a doctor working ER intake during a particularly busy shift. What do you do?
Intermediate
Describe a time when you doubted yourself.
Beginner
Some medical schools have a preference for selecting medical candidates from certain geographical locations. What are your thoughts about such selection policies?
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
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 are your thoughts on universal basic income?
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What are some pros and cons to health system family medicine models that pay based on how many patients the family doctor sees?
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Describe a time when you stood up for someone.
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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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Imagine you are a resident and you had a patient that came in with a medical reason that was causing them lots of pain. You have properly given them narcotics according to the guidelines, however, the next day they still are complaining of pain. How would you handle this situation?
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You are an attending physician who works at a busy hospital. Patient X frequently ignores the medical advice given by you and seems to dislike being in the hospital. How would you go about handling such patient encounters?
Beginner
One of the patients hands you a basket of baked goods and wine for the holidays as a gift. What would you do?
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You are a physician and you have been treating a patient in the hospital for several days. How would you handle this situation?
Beginner
What are the three qualities you believe would make you a great physician?
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A 16-year-old child wants to have a procedure done but their parents disagree with this. What would you do as the teenager’s physician? Do you have to listen to the patient or the parents?
Beginner
What is your favourite quote and why?
Intermediate
Medical school applicants come from a variety of different backgrounds, with volunteer and leadership experience ranging from small local initiatives to worldwide advocacy trips. Do you think medical schools can fairly compare volunteer and leadership experiences that are dissimilar? If you were in charge of medical school admissions, how would you evaluate applicants’ co-curricular experiences?
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Dr. A is an exceptional surgeon, with by far the best surgical outcomes in the country. However, Dr. A is also highly prone to inter-professional conflict and is frequently disrespectful to patients, hospital staff and students. Do you think exceptional results justify problematic behaviour? If Dr. A threatened to quit in response to any required professional-development or sensitivity training, do you think that this would do more harm than good to patients? Why or why not?
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Have you ever doubted whether medicine is right for you?
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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?
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What is something in your life that you are not proud of? Why?
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What is your opinion on doctors being suspended or facing consequences based on their social media posts?
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What is one major healthcare issue that you believe needs to be addressed in the Canadian healthcare system?
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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?
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Describe a difficult decision that you had to make.
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Describe a time when you did something you were not proud of.
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In healthcare, mandatory vaccinations has been met with mostly support. With COVID-19, mandatory vaccinations and booster shots have been further explored ethically and pragmatically. Discuss your perspective on mandatory vaccinations for COVID-19 compared to others (e.g. flu).
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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
You say you enjoy helping others. There are many other careers other than medicine where you can do that. Why medicine?
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With AI slowly creeping its way into the healthcare field, what are three pros and three cons of AI in medicine?
Beginner
Why do you want to be a doctor?
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
Is there a policy at an institution or organization you were a part of that you disagreed with? If so, why?
Intermediate
Choose a health care debate and discuss both sides. Which side do you agree with most?
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Imagine you were an attending physician who overheard med students complaining about how a resident had treated them badly. What would be your responsibilities in this situation and what would you do?
Intermediate
Your little cousin needs to complete 40 hours of volunteering for his school. He thinks volunteering is useless and serves no purpose since you don't get paid for it. What would you say to convince him of the benefits of volunteering?
Intermediate
What health issue within our province are you most passionate about? Why?
Beginner
What characteristics do you think are important for a physician to possess as members within a team and why?
Beginner
During your final exams week, your grandmother calls and tells you she feels lonely. What would you do?
Intermediate
Recently truckers have gathered to form a convoy in protest of certain decisions made by the federal government. What are your thoughts on this demonstration?
Intermediate
You are playing the card game hearts, and your partner is demonstrably less skilled and experienced than you. After a few hands, you both are down by over 100 points as a team, mostly because your partner keeps apologizing for making stupid mistakes during the game. What do you say to your partner?
Intermediate
You are a judge for a student competition on public health. Student competitors had to present on a current health topic, describing the health issue, current solutions, and possible other health solutions. You and the rest of the judging panel have narrowed down the submission pool to two presentations; one on lung cancer and the other on geographical inequalities in population access to primary care. You and the other judges believe that both projects are extremely well done, but they vary significantly in their subject matter. The competition rules are clear that there can only be one winner. How would you go about choosing a winner?
Intermediate
Describe a time when you disappointed your parents/grandparents.
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?
Intermediate
Experimental medicine can introduce hugely effective new methods of treatment for pathologies that previously could not be treated. Do you think experimental medicine research should be done with children? Why or why not?

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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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