Medical School Interview Questions

Since NMAT results are now out, the next step to your #RoadToMD journey is the medical school interview. Most of medical schools (except UST-FMS) include personal interview to screen their aspirants before accepting them in their medical school. Medical schools do this to see the personality of the applicants and to know if the applicant has the potential to survive medicine as well as to know how well the person carry themselves in pressured situations. 

You are probably looking for some ideas on what are the common questions you'll encounter to your medicine interview to your medical school of your choice. Well you went to the right blog 'coz I'll spill all the questions that I know, encountered and heard about different medical school interviews. Trust me when I say that they can ask anything under the sun and can caught you off -guard. They  actually do this on purpose to know you more indirectly so beware of those kind of questions. 

This blog will be ***updated*** from time to time for additional medical school interview questions in order to help you guys more and future readers to prepare for the most important interview of your medical career, yet.

This will just be a run down of the questions I know, heard of and actually encountered. Feel free to share your experiences and questions in the comment section.

1. Why do you want to become a doctor?
2. Why do you want to study medicine in this school/university/institution? 
3. Are you comfortable working with a team?
4. How do you work in a group?
5. How do you solve conflicts in your group?
6. What if you don't like one of your groupmates?
7. What do you think are your traits for becoming a doctor?
8. How do you see yourself in 5 years? ....in 10 years?
9. What if this school/university/institution, did not accept you, what are your plans?
10. Have you experienced working under pressure? State your experience.
11. How do you handle pressure?
12. Tell me about your college thesis? 
13. What are the results and your thesis findings?
14. What are the conflicts and problems did you encounter while working on your thesis? How did you resolve them?
15. How do you cope with stress?
16. Did you apply to other medical schools? Which ones?
17. If you get accepted in this medical school and in other medical schools, where would you study and why?
18. Tell me something about your family.
19. Who will pay for your tuition?
20. What are your parents jobs?
21. Since your mother/father is a *mention parent's job*, do you think they can continuously send you to medical school?
22. Do you drink? Smoke? Have taken/tried illegal drugs? 
23. What are your strengths?
24. What are your weaknesses?
25.  Why should we choose you among the applicants? 
26. What are your advantages over other aspirants?
27. Tell me something about yourself.
28. What can you offer this school/university/institution?
29. What if you parents/financier suddenly dies, who'll pay for your tuition and other medical school fees? 
30. What is your NMAT percentile rank?
31. What is your GWA?
32. What are your hobbies?
33. What are your thoughts about Dengvaxia?
34. Name some current programs of the DOH.
35. What are your thoughts on the vaccination problem right now?
36. Any thoughts about the measles outbreak?
37. What do you think of the VAT-free medicines for hypertension, diabetes and high cholesterol?
38. What will make you quit medicine?
39. Which branch of medicine are your most interested in and why?
40. What is your study habits like?
41. How many times do you need to read a material before you can actually master it?
42. Do you consider doing research after earning your license?
43. Name a health advocacy that you're actually passionate about and tell me why you choose it.
44. Why did you apply in this school/university/institution?
45. Any thoughts about the current administration?
46. Where do you plan to practice medicine?
47. What are your motivations to become a doctor?
48. Who are your role model/s on becoming a doctor?
49. What are your best qualities as a doctor?
50. Any plans of considering public health and/or community medicine as your area of focus? Why? 
51. Tell me about your family
52. What's a typical day with your family like?
53. Do you have relatives who are doctors?
54. If you have relatives who are doctors, where are they practicing now?
55. What's the most difficult crisis your family ever faced?
56. How did your family resolve and handle the said crisis?
57.  Tell me about your alma mater.
58. Do you have a regular study schedule that you follow?
59. What's your favorite subject in college? Why?
60. What's you GWA?
61. How did you come up with the said GWA?
62. Are you active in co-curricular activities? Like what?
63. Are you part of an school organization?
64. What is your role in the organization?
65. Mention a time you had a difficultly in college.
66. How did you overcome this difficulty?
67. What are you hobbies/activities/interests outside school?
68. Do you consider training/practicing abroad?
69. Any thoughts about the relevant social issues now like RH Law, Divorce, Abortion and Sin tax?
70. Who's your role model and why did you choose him/her?

Feel free to practice on answering these questions but make sure that you'll sound as natural as possible during the interview and not sound rehearsed. Another effective thing to practice this is writing the questions and your answers, this way you can re-read your answers from time to time which will help you have an automatic answer for every questions thrown at you.

Beware of the follow up questions as these are critical questions and breaking point that the interviewers really considers. These questions can caught you if you're lying or not so make sure to be honest in every answer that you give and really stick to it.

I really hope this post will help you in acing your medical school interview/s and get in to the medical school of your choice. Good luck pinoy doctors!