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What will you be doing this holiday to relax and recharge for the upcoming semester?

Why do you want to be a doctor?

You learn from your best friend that she was involved in a hit and run accident one night when she had too much to drink and had hit a person crossing the street. She feels badly about this incident. What do you do if anything?

I'm a rainy day person. I love walking in the rain because it's calming to me and helps me think through hard problems. Does the weather affect your mood normally? Would your best friend would agree?

What is it about the holidays that makes it special for you?

You witness two girls hitting a homeless woman and taking items that belong to her. The victim has only a bleeding nose. You approach her after the incident and she tells you she is fine, this has happened before by the same girls and it is no big deal. How do you deal with it?

Why do you wish to attend our medical school?

Can you tell me about an amazing adventure you had? Take a moment to really visualise it. Pause to feel the emotions you experienced during key moments and do your best to relive your story. I'd love to hear it!

Were you naughty or nice?

Stealing to feed the poor is ethical behaviour.

A patient has just been diagnosed with cancer. The patient takes the news very badly and is concerned with pain and the immediate treatment. You know that is it extremely likely that the patient will die within 9 months regardless of course of treatment. What do you tell the patient, what are your ethical obligations, your legal obligations?

What is your greatest weakness?

How do you think your week so far compares with last week? Did you feel you had a good handle on your day-to-day?

What Christmas character do you identify with most?

Burnout is increasingly common among professionals. Mindfulness is one strategy that is used to cope with burnout and as a preventative mechanism. Mindfulness focuses on letting go of thoughts and focusing on one's senses and surroundings.

The Canadian Pediatric Association has recommended that circumcisions "not be routinely performed". They base this recommendation on their determination that "the benefits have not been shown to clearly outweigh the risks and costs". Doctors have no obligation to refer for, or provide, a circumcision, but many do, even when they are not clearly not medically necessary. Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) no longer pays for unnecessary circumcisions. Consider the ethical problems that exist in this case. Discuss these issues with the Interviewer.

Have you considered other careers besides being a physician?

I'm fascinated with influential people and how they affect us. Can you share with me someone you deeply respect? What is it about them that makes them special?

What kind of treat will you leave for Santa and why?

You are a limousine driver waiting in a hotel lounge awaiting your next trip. You are seated at the hotel bar with a colleague who is also waiting for their next trip. Your colleague gets a call informing her of her next trip. You overhear her accept the call, but you have seen her drink beers at the bar while she was waiting.

Your best friend is an identical twin. The other twin has been sick with a variety of illnesses most of their lives. Several times, the other twin has been so ill that your best friend has supplied tissue (e.g., blood, bone marrow) sometimes to help their sibling stay alive. The other twin now needs a kidney transplant to stay alive. Their parents have assumed that your best friend will automatically donate the kidney as usual when tissue has been needed. However, your friend is now balking at this automatic assumption of donation and is considering saying „no‟. What would you say to your friend to convince him to donate the kidney?

If you were on the admissions committee, what would be the most important thing you look for in a candidate?

I adore children's books and the type of illustration that normally goes with it. What's your favorite childhood story? Do you think it has influenced you in some way?

If you could invite anyone to your Christmas dinner, who would it be and why?

`Education is a right, not a privilege.`

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

Your best friend and partner are undergoing in vitro fertilization to have a baby. The technique allows for the selection of certain characteristics for the child by identifying them in the embryo before implantation. Your friend asks for advice on the characteristics they should select. How would you respond to your friend?

I normally have a well-thought out schedule for the week and I slot in time to hang out with friends online over a drink. What are you looking forward to next week? It might be something small or big.

You are trying to parallel park your car on a quiet street late at night when you hit the car right in front of you. There are no cameras on the street, there is no noticeable damage to the other car or yours, and there are no witnesses around.

Tell me about the last time you were upset.

Your friend is of Chinese descent and fluent in Mandarin. You both want to get into medicine. She registers for Mandarin 101, a course in Chinese language for beginners. The course coordinator asks that students who can already speak just a little bit of Mandarin should leave because this is a course for beginners. Your friend remains but makes a sufficient number of deliberate mistakes in the classroom discussions, in the required homework and in the examinations that she will not be detected and yet still receive an excellent grade. What would you do in this situation?

Is winning more important than ethics? Can you tell me a time when you thought you might have crossed the line?

A hospital in Ottawa has made a profit of $1000000 in the last year off their parking. The money went to purchase new ultrasound machines for the Emergency Room. However, some patients' relatives were not able to visit their loved ones due to the high parking costs.

What are the difficult parts of being a physician?

Your friend tells you that a piece of expensive electronic equipment he had bought for $3000 just two weeks ago had stopped working. The store where he bought it had a 7-day return policy. Your friend goes to the store, buys a new piece of equipment and then returns the old damaged equipment in its place for a full refund. The store is owned by your uncle who is struggling to keep the business going. How would you deal with the situation?

There's a saying that "everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about". What is the hardest thing you're currently going through? Does it affect the people around you too?

University students volunteer mostly to make their resumes more impressive.

Your older sister tells you that she values her career and is reluctant to take time away to have a baby. Her husband agrees with her. They have arranged to conceive an embryo through in vitro fertilization. A company in India will implant the embryo in a surrogate mother from a nearby village who will be paid $5,000. Two weeks after the baby is born, the company will deliver the baby to your sister and her husband. Your mother is opposed to this arrangement whereas your father supports her decision. Your sister asks for your support. How would you respond to your sister?

What is the most important issue facing health care today?

Tell me about something you learnt last week. What about it stuck with you?

During the peak of the COVID pandemic, hospital personnel were seen wearing their scrubs on the subways, outside while walking to and from hospitals, in grocery stores etc. One day, you were riding the subway when you saw an individual approaching a man with scrubs and tell him, `you shouldn't be wearing those outside the hospital, especially in these times.` The man with scrubs replied: `are you kidding? I'm a frontline worker. Don't I deserve some respect and appreciation?`.

Dr. Cheung recommends homeopathic medicines to his patients. There is no scientific evidence or widely accepted theory to suggest that homeopathic medicines work, and Dr. Cheung doesn't believe them to. He recommends homeopathic medicine to people with mild and non-specific symptoms such as fatigue, headaches and muscle aches, because he believes that it will do no harm, but will give them reassurance. Consider the ethical problems that Dr. Cheung's behaviour might pose. Discuss these issues with the interviewer.

During your shift, you notice your preceptor is intoxicated. What do you do?

What are you really looking forward to this week? I want to hear whether it'll be by yourself, with friends or family, where it'll be, and something specific why you think it'll be extra special

You are part of a team working on a project with a tight deadline. One of your team members is not meeting their commitments and it's affecting the entire team's progress

What is your opinion on medicine and research?

A man has been responsible for taking care of his wife who is in a vegetative state for 6 years after a car accident. She can breathe on her own but that is the extent of her abilities. He requests that her feeding tube be removed. What should you, as her physician do?

What activity are you the best at and what does that mean to you?

Mrs. Jones has signed a donor card indicating that she is willing to donate her body to science without notifying her husband and son. She gets into an accident and it is determined that she is brain dead. The family doctor, who is on call that afternoon, reviews the chart and determines that she would be perfect for medical students to practice the removal of organs for transplantation purposes. The doctor then talks to the family to discuss the procedure and to confirm their consent. They both oppose the procedure and refuse to allow their doctor to move forward. The doctor points out that Mrs. Jones could be helping hundreds of people by educating the medical students and that technically consent has already been provided. The husband understands how beneficial the educational experience is but is too emotional to allow them to continue. The son, a medical student, refuses because he knows the bodies are not treated with dignity. If you were the doctor, how would you proceed? Why?

During your final exams week, your grandmother calls and tells you she feels lonely. What would you do?

What is the thing you most want to achieve outside of medicine?

Recall a time when you stood up for a principle or belief even when it was unpopular.

You are a second year student shadowing a doctor in the O.R. Once the patient, an obese female has been given general anesthetic and the procedure is under way the doctors start to make comments about her weight and call her names that you find inappropriate but most of all unprofessional. Do you talk to the doctor about his comments or do you keep your comments to yourself? Why?

Social media platforms have been restricting content that is deemed discriminatory and offensive. What do you think about these practices?

Where do you hope you will be in 5 years?

Describe a time when you had to work collaboratively with a person you had a disagreement with.

Two patients need a liver transplant, but there is only one liver available at the time. Tell the interviewer how you would decide between a 64 year old politician who happens to be an alcoholic or, a 26 year old mother of three who is on welfare.

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

If you could go into the past and teach yourself any lesson, what lesson would that be?

Think about a time when you faced a major setback.

You tell a mother her two year old child has leukemia, but she refuses chemo but insists upon seeing her family physician who is a naturopath. What do you tell her, how do you handle this so that you may continue to have some influence as regards the treatment of her child? (The child‟s life is in the balance as the naturopath will be unable to save the child‟s life and you have an obligation to your patient, the child, who cannot make an informed decision. In paediatrics, its beneficence and “the rule of rescue” that takes precedence.)

One of the patients hands you a basket of baked goods and wine for the holidays as a gift. What would you do?

What is your happiest memory?

You've been put in charge of leading a healthcare team in designing a new system for data management.

You have two patients who need an organ transplant and one organ available. One is a 20 year old drug addict and the other is a 70 year old prominent member of the community. Who do you give the transplant to and why? What information will you use to make your decision?

Tell me about the best day of your life.

What are the 3 qualities that most completely describe you and why?

You are leading a patient care team and a major discrepancy occurs with one of your team members.

A 14 year old patient requests birth control pills from you and asks that you not tell her parents. What would you do?

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?

Who is your mentor or role model?

You have been invited to speak at a healthcare conference. You are the only person of your ethnicity in the room.

Compare and contrast between public and private health care.

A member of your family decides to depend solely on alternative medicine for treatment of his or her significant illness. What would you do?

What subject is your favorite and why?

You have been invited to give a presentation to a diverse group of medical students.

The government wants to track citizens across the country in order to maintain public safety in the face of a pandemic. How would you advise the government to do this?

If you have the choice of giving a transplant to a successful elderly member of the community and a 20 year old drug addict – how do you choose?

What is something that is important to your day to day life? Do you live your life in a particular way?

You are volunteering at a homeless shelter. One of the clients seems to be particularly frustrated and hostile, asking for favors that the shelter is not able to provide.

An eighteen year-old female arrives in the emergency room with a profound nose bleed. You are the physician, and you have stopped the bleeding. She is now in a coma from blood loss and will die without a transfusion. A nurse finds a recent signed card from Jehovah's Witnesses Church in the patient's purse refusing blood transfusions under any circumstance. What would you do?

You are a doctor working ER intake during a particularly busy shift. What do you do?

What is the most important thing you have contributed to?

You are a pharmacy clerk, and a customer is waiting for their prescription. As you are processing the request, a last-minute mistake is made requiring you to take an extra few minutes to correct it.

Your mother calls you and asks you to help with a major family decision. Your maternal grandfather is 70 years old and has been diagnosed with a condition that will kill him some time in the next five years. He can have a procedure that will correct the disease and not leave him with any long-term problems, but the procedure has a 10% mortality rate. He wants to have the procedure, but your mother does not want him to. How would you help mediate this issue?

What are your thoughts on universal basic income?

If you had the opportunity to contribute to any organization or effort which would it be?

You are a healthcare professional and an elderly patient has requested a prescription that you do not think is necessary.

You are a genetic counsellor. One of your clients, Linda, had a boy with a genetic defect that may have a high recurrence risk, meaning her subsequent pregnancies has a high chance of being affected by the same defect. You offered genetic testing of Linda, her husband, and their son to find out more about their disease, to which everyone agreed. The result showed that neither Linda nor her husband carry the mutation, while the boy inherited the mutation on a paternal chromosome that did not come from Linda's husband. In other words, the boy's biological father is someone else, who is unaware that he carries the mutation. You suspect that Linda nor her husband are aware of this non-paternity. How would you disclose the results of this genetic analysis to Linda and her family? What principles and who do you have to take into consideration in this case?

You are a physician and you have been treating a patient in the hospital for several days. How would you handle this situation?

How do you imagine your career's legacy, what important contributions do you want to make?

You are a healthcare professional working for a large research institution. Your team was recently assigned a project and you were put in charge of leading the research. Your team consists of highly qualified individuals from various backgrounds whom you are unfamiliar with.

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?

A woman enters the emergency room with stomach pain. She undergoes a CT scan and is diagnosed with an abdominal aortic aneurysm. The physicians inform her that the only way to fix the problem is surgically, and that the chances of survival are about 50/50. They also inform her that time is of the essence, and that should the aneurysm burst, she would be dead in a few short minutes. The woman is an exotic dancer; she worries that the surgery will leave a scar that will negatively affect her work; therefore, she refuses any surgical treatment. Even after much pressuring from the physicians, she adamantly refuses surgery. Feeling that the woman is not in her correct state of mind and knowing that time is of the essence, the surgeons decide to perform the procedure without consent. They anaesthetize her and surgically repair the aneurysm. She survives, and sues the hospital for millions of dollars. Do you believe that the physician's actions can be justified in any way? Is it ever right to take away someone's autonomy?

What is your favourite book and why?

You are speaking at an event, and someone in the audience raises their hand to ask a difficult question.

What is your favourite quote and why?

You are a general practitioner and a mother comes into your office with her child who is complaining of flu-like symptoms. Upon entering the room, you ask the boy to remove his shirt and you notice a pattern of bruises on the boy's torso. You ask the mother where the bruises came from, and she tells you that they are from a procedure she performed on him known as "cao gio," which is also known as "coining." The procedure involves rubbing warm oils or gels on a person's skin with a coin or other flat metal object. The mother explains that cao gio is used to raise out bad blood, and improve circulation and healing. When you touch the boy's back with your stethoscope, he winces in pain from the bruises. You debate whether or not you should call Child Protective Services and report the mother. When should a physician step in to stop a cultural practice? Should the physician be concerned about alienating the mother and other people of her ethnicity from modern medicine?

What is your greatest leadership experience?

What is your greatest leadership experience?

You are a team leader on a project and one of your team members is having difficulty engaging with the rest of the team.

Some medical schools have a preference for selecting medical candidates from certain geographical locations. What are your thoughts about such selection policies?

A patient with Down's Syndrome became pregnant. The patient does not want an abortion. Her mother and husband want the patient to have an abortion. What should a physician do in this situation?

What is the greatest challenge you've faced?

You are working in a healthcare setting when a colleague suggests an action that you know goes against the hospital's policy.

A proposed bill would require all individuals to vote in federal elections or face a $100 fine. What do you think about this bill?

A 12-year old boy is diagnosed with a terminal illness (e.g., malignancy). He asked the doctor about his prognosis. His parents requested the doctor not to tell him the bad news. What should the doctor do in this situation?

When things become challenging, what is the first step you take?

You are asked to work with a team on a project but the leader of the team does not really listen to other members' ideas or incorporate them into his plan.

What role should privacy play in telemedicine and electronic health records?

A couple has decided to have a child through artificial insemination. They asked the physician for sex selection of the child. What should a physician advise in this situation?

If you could write a novel what would it be about and why?

A patient introduces himself to your healthcare team. You notice that he is clearly upset and agitated.

A physician became sexually involved with a current patient who initiated or consented to the contact. Is it ethical for a physician to become sexually involved?

Tell me about a time you handled interpersonal conflict.

What lesson has been the most important in shaping your life?

You are the leader of a team working on a project in which everyone needs to contribute their ideas. At the end of the meeting, one of your team members voices his idea but is met with criticism by the other members.

What are your thoughts and feelings on reflecting your life during the COVID pandemic?

A 17-year old boy lives independently. He is married and has one child. He wants to participate in a medical research study. Does he need his parents‟ permission?

Describe a fear that you overcame and explain how you did it.

You find out that a fellow employee you work with is having difficulty making ends meet, and thus is a struggle to pay for their medical bills.

A physician went to vacation for 2 weeks. He did not find another physician to cover him. One of his patients with hypertension developed severe headache. The patient has an appointment with the doctor as soon as he comes back from vacation. The patient did not look for another physician and decided to wait. The patient suddenly collapses and was diagnosed to have intracranial hemorrhage. Is the physician responsible for this patient?

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

What is your greatest achievement this week and why?

You are tasked with leading a team of healthcare professionals at your hospital. Your team has been assigned a challenging project with the goal of improving patient-centered care.

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

A 40-year old schizophrenic patient needs hernia repair. Surgeon discussed the procedure with the patient who understood the procedure. Can the patient give consent?

What was the most significant event of your day and why?

You are the leader of an interdisciplinary team at a healthcare facility. The team is tasked with creating a patient safety campaign for the facility.

A physician picked up a car accident victim from the street and brought him to the ER in his car. He did not want to wait for an ambulance because the patient‟s condition was critical. Physical examination in the ER reveals quadriplegia. Is the physician liable for this consequence?

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?

What was the most significant event of your week and why?

You are a nurse in a hospital and you are treating a patient who expresses a particular religious belief which is different from yours.

As a physician at a local hospital you notice that there is a man with an alcohol dependency who keeps on consuming the hand sanitizer offered at the hand sanitizer stands throughout the hospital. He is not a patient at the hospital at present but has been many times in the past. Consequently, there is often no hand sanitizer for public use. What do you do? Do you remove/change location of hand sanitizer stands? Do you approach him?

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?

If you were to repeat one day this week, describe the day and explain why you would repeat it.

You are about to give a presentation to your supervisor about an important project you are working on.

A 18-year old man is diagnosed to have suspected bacterial meningitis. He refuses therapy and returns to the college dormitory. What should a physician do in this situation?

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 superpower do you dream of having and why?

You are working on a group project and there is one talented member of your group who you feel is not pulling their weight.

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?

Is it ethical for doctors to strike? If so, under what conditions?

Which of your physical possessions means the most to you and why?

You are a healthcare worker who is tasked with the responsibility of providing support for a patient who is facing financial difficulties.

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

There is an outbreak of an incredibly contagious life-threatening disease. The disease is spreading across the country at a rapid rate and the survival rate is less than 50%. You are a senior health care administrator, and when the vaccine is developed, you have priority to receive the drug. Do you take the vaccine yourself or give it to another person? Why or why not?

What was the most important thing you learned today?

You see a group of classmates preparing to present a solution to a complex problem in their group project. When you try to join in, the group leader is not welcoming and instead actively tries to exclude you from the group.

You are a health researcher at an academic institution. You have been asked to work on a top-secret vaccine that would treat biomedical weapons or other communicable diseases. Before your break through, you are instructed by the government to stop all research and turn over all materials and copies of your work to be destroyed. You know you are very close to finding a cure. What do you do?

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

What was the most important thing you learned this week?

You are in charge of leading a team to complete a project with incredibly tight deadlines.

A patient requests needles and syringes at his/her local pharmacy. They do not present with a prescription, and based on the records you can access, they are not receiving treatment for diabetes. Do you sell the syringes or not?

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

Which of the 4 seasons do you think is best and why?

You are working on a project with a team of individuals from various backgrounds. One of the members is difficult to understand during meetings and you are having trouble figuring out how to communicate with them.

Do you think general practitioners have an obligation to report their patients' health status to a public health agency, if their patients have active infectious diseases?

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

How do you deal with doubt?

You are an intern at a medical practice and you are asked to provide healthcare advise and support to a patient. However, you personally disagree with the patient's beliefs on a certain matter related to their condition.

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

The story of Canadian Olympian and Paralympian Brian McKeever has touched many during the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver. He was the first ever to qualify for both the Olympic Games and Paralympic games, but at the last minute, the Olympic skiing couch decided that Brian has a smaller chance in winning than his teammates, so he did not get to race. If you were Brian's friend, what would you do when he found out he couldn't race in the Olympic Games? You knew that his Paralympic games would take place 2 weeks after the Olympics.

If you had to choose to become any animal, what animal would you choose and what do you think that says about you?

You are a student leader in a group project and one of your group members isn't participating in the project as much as everyone else.

What are some ways to reduce healthcare inequalities in Canada?

Statistics have shown that effects of advanced age such as changes in vision and response time may adversely affect elderly drivers' ability to drive safely. As a matter of fact, many doctors discuss the issue of stopping driving with their older patients as a precaution for the safety of theirs as well as the public's. Do you think older drivers have to give up driving when they reach a certain age?

You have been invited to join a respected healthcare society, but you have been told that all applicants will be evaluated on their communication skills as well.

What is your opinion about stem cell research using fetal tissue?

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

You are a healthcare admissions committee member and you are interviewing a candidate for a position on the committee. The candidate is asked to succinctly describe their experience and qualifications that would qualify them for the position.

When is it appropriate to participate in assisted suicide of a patient? Why or why not?

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

You are out with a group of friends at a public picnic and one of your friends suggests that everyone plays a game of tag. Nobody in the group appears to be opposed to the idea but one of your friends is known to be shy and reserved.

What are some difficulties faced by physicians during the pandemic?

It has been argued that wait times for organ transplants can be significantly sped up through surgeries and donations from other countries. You are a physician working with a patient who you noticed had recently gone to the Mexico to receive a liver transplant. What are the ethical issues involved?

You are a healthcare professional working with a patient who speaks a different language than you. Communicating with them has been a challenge as they are unable to understand you and you are unable to understand them.

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

You are a third year medical student involved in the research of Dr. A, a senior physician. He is testing the efficacy of a new drug on lowering cholesterol. This drug is not yet known be more effective that existing drugs on the market. He insists that you recruit patients for trials even though the clinical risks of the research are still undefined. What are the issues involved for the patients? For yourself?

You are invited to speak at a healthcare conference and discuss your experience with healthcare as a patient.

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?

Dr. Who is a physician for Mr. Bean and his wife. Dr. Who discovers that Mr. Bean has an STI. Mr. Bean does not wish to tell his wife . What should Dr. Who do? Explore the ethics surrounding this scenario.

A patient has made an appointment at the doctor's office, but they have arrived late to their appointment.

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?

You are a young, single doctor working in a small town of 1500. You meet an attractive male/female at the bar that you are interested in. What problems do you foresee?

You are in a multi-cultural city with a diverse population, and you observe that certain public spaces or resources are not equally accessible to all.

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?

You are working in a clinic for street youth. A 16 year old girl comes in seeking sleeping pills that you do not think is appropriate for her. She says she will see another doctor if you do not prescribe them. What would you do?

You are the manager of a team in a highly diverse, multi-cultural office. You have to make a decision about a customer complaint regarding one of your team members.

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 are a physician who has finished his or her day and decide it's appropriate to leave on time for the first time in months. You have promised to meet your family for dinner. You suddenly receive a phone call from Mrs. Black, a 87 year old patient in a nursing home long time, who wishes that you attend to her long-standing condition. She has been patient of yours for 15 years and refuses to see another doctor. What issues are involved? How would you approach this situation?

You are serving a customer at a restaurant and they request a special order that deviates from the menu.

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?

You are on duty in the ER when an unconscious three–year-old girl is brought in. It‟s clear that she needs an immediate blood transfusion to survive, but her Jehovah‟s Witness parents are adamantly against it. What would you do and why?

You are walking down the street and you see a homeless woman sitting on the sidewalk and asking for food.

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 a 1st year med student and you are in the room with a small group of students, a doctor and a young female patient. The doctor tells the patient to remove her shirt to do a breast exam. The patient is visibly uncomfortable but does what she is told. The physician then performs the exam and tells you to do it as well. Discuss your reaction to this situation.

You are invited along with some of your peers for a professional event. You notice that some of the people there are dressed more formally than others.

The Cannabis Act 2018 came into action across Canada. What are your thoughts on how this Act has affected Canadians?

An athlete who is training for the Olympics admits that he is using anabolic steroids and asks you to monitor his liver function. He would prefer to be under your care, as you are his family physician and you know his history. However, he states that if you do not agree, he will go to a walk-in clinic. Discuss the ethical issues in this case.

You are a healthcare professional volunteering at an event to help underserved communities gain access to healthcare resources. However, due to limited resources, the event is only able to provide a certain number of healthcare services to the attendees.

John X is a convicted pedophile and repeat offender. He is about to be released from prison after serving 7 years of his 10-year sentence. He will be in close contact with his parole officer and he will be monitored on a daily basis. Should the community be aware of John X's history? You are in charge of deciding whether or not to warn the community about John X. What issues/factors would you consider in making your decision?

What health issue within our province are you most passionate about? Why?

You are a healthcare professional on an admissions committee reviewing candidates for admission to your program. You are assigned an individual who belongs to an underrepresented minority group who has experienced prejudice and discrimination in the past.

During COVID-19, the Maritimes created an "Atlantic Bubble". What do you think about this decision by public health?

You and 3 friends are watching a 70 yr old man prepare a hot-air balloon. The balloon is ready and the man is holding one of the 5 released anchors ropes that are all 6m long. His 10 yr old grandson is already in the basket. A gust of wind raises the balloon 2m off the ground. The man shouts for help and you and your friends each grab close to the end of one of the other anchor ropes. The balloon raises so high that even though you are holding onto the ropes, you are lifted off the ground to a height of 7m. What would you do in this situation.

You are attending a fundraiser at a local park. A group of people nearby are talking primarily in a language that is not your primary language. They appear to be discussing something serious.

What is your greatest strength and greatest weakness? Which one is more important to you?

At the beginning of your last year of undergraduate studies, the Dean of your Faculty has offered to all of you the opportunity to swallow a „red‟ pill. If swallowed, this pill would increase enormously your ability to „absorb‟ all the educational material being presented to you in all your courses. In fact, this pill would basically guarantee that you would receive an A+ in all your future courses with a significantly reduced workload. Would you take the red pill?

You are part of a healthcare team, and you have to make a difficult decision about a patient's care. You ask for input from your team members, but they are uncertain of how to proceed.

In his recent novel „I am Charlotte Simmons‟, Tom Wolfe bases on life at a typical university in North America. He develops various characters and describes their lives, surroundings, beliefs, and moral behaviour while they are at the university. Wolfe acknowledges that it is 40 years since he himself was a student at university. Consequently, his children, currently at university, read the drafts of the book as it was been written and ensured that the descriptions associated with life at this fictitious university were appropriate for the modern day. What changes to the original script do you think Wolfe‟s children made?

Systemic issues exist in the provincial health care system. Discuss one of them and how you would address it.

You are part of a healthcare team at the hospital working on a new project. Everyone is tasked with certain roles in the project and it is important for all team members to get along and coordinate their tasks to ensure that the project is completed on time and within budget.

Universities are commonly faced with the complicated task of balancing the educational needs of their students and the cost required to provide learning resources to a large number of individuals. As a result of this tension, there has been much debate regarding the optimal size of classes. One side argues that smaller classes provide a more educationally effective setting for students, while others argue that t makes no difference, so larger classes should be used to minimize the number of instructors required. Discuss your opinion with the examiner.

Medical students are involved with many extracurricular activities. Choose one and talk about it.

Your team is working on an important project. You must collaborate in order to meet deadlines such as giving feedback, delegating tasks, and delegating resources. However, a few of your team members are not fulfilling their responsibilities and are disrupting the progress of the project.

A message that recently appeared on the Web warned readers of the dangers of aspartame as a cause of an epidemic of multiple sclerosis. The authors claimed that aspartame remains on the market because the food and drug industries have powerful lobbies in Congress. They quoted Dr. Russell Blaylock, who said. "The ingredients stimulate the neurons of the brain to death, causing brain damage of varying degrees." Critique this message, in terms of the strength of the arguments presented and their logical consistency. Your critique might include an indication of the issues that you would like to delve into further before assessing the validity of these claims.

Discuss your perspective on how social media is being used in the context of medicine.

You are a student in a group project and it is time to assign tasks among the group members. One of your group members offers to take on a task that was not in the original timeline.

You are treasurer of a university Club controlling club money and you are one of 3 members of the Executive. There is going to be a Meeting in another city with similar clubs from other universities. The club has enough money to cover the costs of only 3 members. There are 8 club members and everybody wants to go and for the club to pay their expenses. What do you do?

Medical schools across Canada continue to switch between in-person and online delivery of medical education. Discuss the impact of online medical education.

The hospital has been short-staffed due to the pandemic and you have been asked to work an extra shift. However, two of your colleagues don't want to work the shift and you need to convince them.

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

Imagine you are the principal of a full fee paying school. There has been an allegation by members of the public of an incident in a park in which at least two senior school students were seen verbally abusing a young person with intellectual impairment for the amusement of a group of other students. Two final year students are to attend a hearing with the principal to explain their actions in the incident. What are the issues the principal is likely to consider at the hearing?

You and your team of healthcare professionals are discussing the most effective treatments for a particular medical condition, and the opinions are highly divided.

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).

Data has shown that doctors who smoke are less likely to make good role models for patients. Should doctors be allowed to smoke? Do doctors need to be role models?

You are a member of a research team, and there are conflicting ideas and opinions between members of the team regarding how to proceed with the research.

People infected with COVID-19 variants are experiencing a spectrum of symptoms with some suggesting that it can be compared to the flu or common cold. Some believe that the risk of vaccination side effects (e.g. inflammation of the heart) may outweigh the risk of contracting COVID. Discuss your stance on vaccination decision making when factoring side effects and contracting the disease.

You are a first year medical student who is doing above average in some subjects, and below average on others. What would you do in this situation? What resources would you access?

You are leading a team project and one of your team members is not completing the tasks assigned to them and is missing deadlines.

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?

You are given a list of items that you would want to take in your suitcase for a two-week holiday. You are told that you can only pack half of the items available.

You have recently been hired into a team of healthcare professionals. During your first few days, you have noticed some members of the team seem to be having difficulty communicating and collaborating with each other.

You are presented with a list of 15 individuals, including details of their age, sex and occupation. You are being told that a nuclear attack is imminent and you are only allowed to save 5 of them from destruction. Which ones and why?

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)?

You are a leader of a student organization and someone has reported that a member in the organization is using language that is offensive to a certain group.

Our health care system is supposed to be comprehensive, but it does not cover many services offered by optometry, dentistry, nutrition, and other components of health. What is your opinion on this and what is your solution to improve it?

You are on a day out in London with a group of friends. One member of your group, who has never been to London before, becomes separated from the rest of the group in the Underground. What actions would you take?

There is a huge disparity among races in terms of access to healthcare in your community.

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

Recently, a drug company has been aggressively marketing their HPV vaccine for young girls to protect young women from cervical cancer. The vaccine has gained support because it will be protecting girls from this potentially deadly and costly disease. However, some people think there haven‟t been enough clinical trials. Pick a stance on this issue and prepare to support your argument.

You are at a meeting with a diverse group of people. Everybody takes turns introducing themselves and their views on the matters discussed. One person in the group speaks up with a different opinion.

Physicians are expected to be leaders. In today’s health care system, do you think leadership is important – if so, why?

Some people think that the new or younger generation of physicians are not as hard-working (i.e., wanting to leave right at 5:00 p.m., not wanting to put in as long of a work week) as previous generations. How do you feel about this perception?

You work as a nurse in a hospital and your patient is from an underprivileged background. They are due to be discharged from the hospital today, but have nowhere to stay after they are discharged.

One of the key competencies for medical practice outlined by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada is the need to develop and maintain self-assessment skills. Describe the strategies you employ when assessing your ability.

What is the biopsychosocial model of medicine and what role does it play in the field of medicine?

You are working with a diverse team of healthcare professionals on a project. Despite their different backgrounds, everyone seems to be getting along well and working collaboratively. Suddenly, one healthcare professional comments on another healthcare professional’s culture in a demeaning, insensitive manner.

A high school student has to choose between two colleges. The student had several friends who were similar to himself in values and abilities at each school. All of his friends at school A liked it on both educational and social grounds; all of them at school B had deep reservations on both grounds. The student visited both schools for a day and his impressions were the reverse; he enjoyed school B, but had reservations about school A. Dr. James Wanstedt provided a testimonial that school B provides a superior education. Furthermore, the registrar at school B has just released a report claiming that the employment rate for graduates of school B is 93%, 10 percent higher than it was 10 years ago. Finally, an unbiased consumer advocate reports that 98% of the alumni association have indicated that they were happy or very happy with the education they received at school B. Which school should the student choose? Discuss the student's decision with the examiner.

How would you deal with the death of a patient?

You are walking downtown and realize that the surrounding area is expensive for many people to visit due to prohibitively high parking rates.

A physician picked up a car accident victim from the street and brought him to the ER in his car. He did not want to wait for an ambulance because the patient’s condition was critical. Physical examination in the ER reveals quadriplegia. Is the physician liable for this consequence?

It has been suggested that in order to promote healthy lifestyles, medical schools preferentially admit students who do not smoke. Do you think this approach will be effective? Discuss the implications with respect to health and health care costs.

You are a healthcare professional attending a conference with colleagues from different backgrounds and cultures. During a discussion, a colleague from a different ethnic group voices an opinion that contrasts with the majority opinion of the group.

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?

Imagine you are the principal of a full fee paying school. There has been an allegation by members of the public of an incident in a park in which at least two senior students were seen verbally abusing a young person with intellectual impairment for the amusement of the group and other students. Two final year students are attending a hearing with you (their principal) to explain their actions in the incident. What are the issues that you (the principal) are likely to consider?

You are at a party and notice one of your friends being treated unfairly by another member of the group because of the color of their skin.

The Olympics is a global competition of sport and athleticism. Historically, there have been controversies in numerous Olympic Games. Select one of these controversies and discuss.

You discover that your boyfriend has a substance abuse problem. His conduct has never been influenced by this since you have been together. How do you handle this?

You are in a hospital setting and witness a healthcare professional speak rudely to a patient from a different cultural background.

A friend has accessed your laptop and discovered your draft for an essay that is due by you both who are taking the same course. How do you handle this?

Resident physicians are employees but also still completing their training. What are challenges that resident physicians face?

You are working in a team on a project and the leader of the project does not give everyone the same amount of responsibility in the team, leading to an inequitable experience for some members on the team.

From your file, I can see that you have a lot of experience doing 'x experience'. Please describe your strategy with 'x'. What is the most important lesson you learned?

You are shift supervisor at McDonalds fast food restaurant. The owner of the franchise has called you over. He is very upset as he has received 3 complaints in the last 30 minutes about the meat in the hamburgers being poorly cooked. There are two people (one male, one female both 15 years old) who have been cooking the meat for the past two hours. The female is the owner‟s daughter. How would you handle the situation?

You have just finished a presentation for a project you've been working on for the past few weeks. After the presentation, one of your teammates speaks up and offers some feedback about the presentation.

Why do you like our school over other schools?

You are out with a group of friends at a public event. Someone is recording the event on their phone and turns the phone towards you and your friends. Neither you nor your friends have consented to have your faces in the video. You do not care for being videotaped, but your shy friend seems to be bothered by it.

What about our school appeals to you in terms of your medical education?

The daughter of the interviewer is 16 years old. She is adamant that she have a tattoo next week. The interviewer is against letting her daughter have a tattoo and this is causing much friction in the household. What advice would you give the interviewer?

Your supervisor gives you a project that was assigned to another department. You are now responsible for delivering this project with a tight deadline.

The man who lives next door to you often rides his bicycle in the company of his two young children but without a helmet. In fact, on several occasions you have seen him riding with his helmet hanging by its straps from the handlebars. His young children sometimes wear a helmet, sometimes not. If the man fell off his bicycle and hurt his head in a way that would have been prevented if he had worn a helmet, would it be reasonable to ask him to contribute towards the treatment cost for his injury?

You are invited to a professional event in which you are the only personal representative of the organization you work for.

A student is working in a clinic, where the office double book aboriginal patients. The student asks their reasoning and the receptionist replies that “These people never show up for their appointments.” How would you deal with this situation?

You are in a class discussion about healthcare providers and their roles in providing culturally competent care. You have been asked to provide your opinion.