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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?
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Describe a time when you found that you had “too much on your plate”.
Intermediate
What are your thoughts on universal basic income?
Beginner
How would you go about suggesting to a family member that they get vaccinated if they are anti-vaccine?
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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?
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Most Canadians have been vaccinated against COVID-19. Why do you think some Canadians are choosing not to get the vaccine?
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Tell me about the last time you were upset.
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What is your greatest strength and greatest weakness? Which one is more important to you?
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Have you considered other careers besides being a physician?
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Resident physicians are employees but also still completing their training. What are challenges that resident physicians face?
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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
What responsibilities do physicians have in informing the general public about topics related to medicine?
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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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Systemic issues exist in the provincial health care system. Discuss one of them and how you would address it.
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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?
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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?
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Tell me about a time you handled interpersonal conflict.
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What would you consider before moving your practice to a rural setting?
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In Ontario, pharmacists are able to prescribe certain medications to patients now. What are some pros and cons of this change?
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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?
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What about our school appeals to you in terms of your medical education?
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Compare and contrast between public and private health care.
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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?
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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?
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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?
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What role should privacy play in telemedicine and electronic health records?
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Have you ever doubted whether medicine is right for you?
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Describe a time when you many have lost your temper.
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Describe a time when you doubted yourself.
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Describe a time when you had to be a leader.
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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?
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Tell me about the best day of your life.
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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?
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During COVID-19, the Maritimes created an "Atlantic Bubble". What do you think about this decision by public health?
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Is there a policy at an institution or organization you were a part of that you disagreed with? If so, why?
Beginner
What are your thoughts and feelings on reflecting your life during the COVID pandemic?
Beginner
What characteristics do you think are important for a physician to possess as members within a team and why?
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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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?
Beginner
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?
Intermediate
Describe a time when you stood up to an authority figure.
Beginner
Pick a health topic that is relevant to today’s society and discuss your thoughts on it.
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?
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What do you think is the biggest "problem" with the Canadian medical system? How can we fix this?
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When do laws deviate from ethics?
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Medical students are involved with many extracurricular activities. Choose one and talk about it.
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Choose a health care debate and discuss both sides. Which side do you agree with most?
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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?
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Describe a time when you felt excited. What happened?
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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?
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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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