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Beginner
Some medical schools have a preference for selecting medical candidates from certain geographical locations. What are your thoughts about such selection policies?
Intermediate
Describe a time when you helped someone in need.
Intermediate
What role do genetics and genetic testing have in the Canadian healthcare system?
Intermediate
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?
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?
Beginner
Pick a health topic that is relevant to today’s society and discuss your thoughts on it.
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?
Intermediate
Describe a time when you felt excited. What happened?
Intermediate
Discuss one extracurricular experience where you had an impact on another individual?
Beginner
During your final exams week, your grandmother calls and tells you she feels lonely. What would you do?
Beginner
What are the three qualities you believe would make you a great physician?
Intermediate
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?
Intermediate
Describe a difficult decision that you had to make.
Intermediate
A lot of people you work with have noticed that many random things which they own are going missing. It appears that some personal items that are not extremely valuable have gone missing over the course of the last two months. Regardless, many of your co-workers are concerned. What suggestions would you bring to an upcoming meeting with your co-workers about finding a way to address this issue?
Beginner
Aside from the Medical Expert role, select another CanMED role and discuss why you think it is the most important one for a physician.
Intermediate
Describe a time when you doubted yourself.
Beginner
Tell me about the best day of your life.
Intermediate
Discuss your perspective on how social media is being used in the context of medicine.
Intermediate
Imagine you were a medical student and you observed a resident making rude remarks about a patient in the team room to the other residents. How would you act?
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?
Beginner
Tell me about the last time you were upset.
Intermediate
Choose a health care debate and discuss both sides. Which side do you agree with most?
Intermediate
What is something in your life that you are not proud of? Why?
Intermediate
Medical schools across Canada continue to switch between in-person and online delivery of medical education. Discuss the impact of online medical education.
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?
Beginner
How would you go about suggesting to a family member that they get vaccinated if they are anti-vaccine?
Intermediate
What do you think is the biggest "problem" with the Canadian medical system? How can we fix this?
Intermediate
What role should privacy play in telemedicine and electronic health records?
Intermediate
Systemic issues exist in the provincial health care system. Discuss one of them and how you would address it.
Beginner
Describe a time when you made sacrifices to excel at something (can be any activity).
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
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?
Beginner
When do laws deviate from ethics?
Intermediate
You are a medical student. Another medical student, Sam, invites you to a study group with three other students. At the study group, you find that the students are using real cases from their clinical rotations. When you ask Sam about this, they explain that the group removes always patient identifiers and that they feel that current cases are a great way to learn medicine.What considerations should be made in this situation? Would you say anything further to Sam? Are there any other actions you would take?
Intermediate
Describe a time when you asked for help.
Intermediate
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?
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
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?
Intermediate
Why is support for physician work life balance important for the care of patients?
Advanced
What is the Jordan principle? What are some long-term benefits of this principle to a child’s life?
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Public celebrity cases like the recent Depp vs. Heard case have shown how powerful and biased the ‘Court of Public Opinion’ can be. What kind of effects do you think public opinion can have on the legal process, if any? Do you think that certain court cases should be kept private and out of public view? Why or why not?
Intermediate
What are some pros and cons of a three-year family residency program?
Intermediate
Describe a time when you were scared.
Intermediate
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?
Intermediate
Why do you like our school over other schools?
Intermediate
Describe a time when you had to be a leader.
Intermediate
Is there a policy at an institution or organization you were a part of that you disagreed with? If so, why?
Intermediate
Describe a time when you had to say “no”.
Beginner
What is one currently feasible change you could make to improve the condition of indigenous and rural healthcare?
Intermediate
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?
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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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