What role do genetics and genetic testing have in the Canadian healthcare system?

What is your greatest weakness?

Explain our Canadian health care system at a level appropriate for a high school student to understand.

How has technology improved healthcare?

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)?

What is something in your life that you are not proud of? Why?

Imagine you were a third year clerk working in a clinic with an attending. Clerks are supposed to be released from clinic at 5pm. However, the clinic is running late and it's already 5:30pm. What would you do in this situation?

If you were a med student and you are working with a resident who has been nothing but nice to you. But you saw them yelling at another resident, how would you react?

What do you think is the biggest "problem" with the Canadian medical system? How can we fix this?

Why do you want to go into medicine?

With AI slowly creeping its way into the healthcare field, what are three pros and three cons of AI in medicine?

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?

Discuss one extracurricular experience where you had an impact on another individual?

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?

What are some pros and cons to health system family medicine models that pay based on how many patients the family doctor sees?

What are some pros and cons of a three-year family residency program?

Tell me about a time you handled interpersonal conflict.

How would you go about convincing a parent who does not want to vaccinate their newborn?

What are some ways to reduce healthcare inequalities in Canada?

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?

What do you think health inequality means? What does health inequity mean? Have you ever felt treated unfairly in your own life?

What are issues that people living with addiction face during a pandemic? What are some solutions to these problems?

Aside from the Medical Expert role, select another CanMED role and discuss why you think it is the most important one for a physician.

Pick a health topic that is relevant to today’s society and discuss your thoughts on it.

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?

What are some difficulties faced by physicians during the pandemic?

What do you think are the long-term benefits of the Jordan principle, for the indigenous community on a population level?

Most Canadians have been vaccinated against COVID-19. Why do you think some Canadians are choosing not to get the vaccine?

What is the Jordan principle? What are some long-term benefits of this principle to a child’s life?

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?

Choose a health care debate and discuss both sides. Which side do you agree with most?

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?

Can you tell me why a physician must also be a good collaborator, and provide examples?

You say you enjoy helping others. There are many other careers other than medicine where you can do that. Why medicine?

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?

Describe a time when you had to say “no”.

What is your favourite quote and why?

You are a family physician. You notice bruises on your patient, a 10 year boy. What would you do?

You are a family physician and another physician at the clinic is dating one of their patients. What would you do?

Have you considered other careers besides being a physician?

There have been more medical students and physicians participating in activism. What is your perspective on our role in activism?

Describe a time when you asked for help.

What are your thoughts on universal basic income?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?