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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.
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What characteristics do you think are important for a physician to possess as members within a team and why?
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What are some ways to reduce healthcare inequalities in Canada?
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Describe a time when you disappointed your parents/grandparents.
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What is your greatest weakness?
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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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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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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)?
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Medical school applicants come from a variety of different backgrounds, with volunteer and leadership experience ranging from small local initiatives to worldwide advocacy trips. Do you think medical schools can fairly compare volunteer and leadership experiences that are dissimilar? If you were in charge of medical school admissions, how would you evaluate applicants’ co-curricular experiences?
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What responsibilities do physicians have in informing the general public about topics related to medicine?
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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?
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Tell me about the best day of your life.
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Describe a time when you had to be a follower.
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What are some pros and cons to health system family medicine models that pay based on how many patients the family doctor sees?
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What is something in your life that you are not proud of? Why?
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During your shift, you notice your preceptor is intoxicated. What do you do?
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Describe a time when you had to be a leader.
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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?
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What role has the internet played in the aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic?
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Have you considered other careers besides being a physician?
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Can you tell me why a physician must also be a good collaborator, and provide examples?
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Why do you wish to attend our medical school?
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A proposed bill would require all individuals to vote in federal elections or face a $100 fine. What do you think about this bill?
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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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What is your favourite quote and why?
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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).
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Why do you like our school over other schools?
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If you were on the admissions committee, what would be the most important thing you look for in a candidate?
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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?
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It is not uncommon for medications to have various adverse side effects. As a physician, how would you help your patients navigate those side effects? How would you determine whether a treatment option is worth any adverse effects or risks?
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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?
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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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How would you go about suggesting to a family member that they get vaccinated if they are anti-vaccine?
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What about our school appeals to you in terms of your medical education?
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Explain our Canadian health care system at a level appropriate for a high school student to understand.
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Describe a time when you doubted yourself.
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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?
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You say you enjoy helping others. There are many other careers other than medicine where you can do that. Why 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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During your final exams week, your grandmother calls and tells you she feels lonely. What would you do?
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You are a student in an advocacy group. You feel like another student in that group routinely dismisses the ideas of others and is often stuck in their own perspective of what is best. Do you say anything? If so, what do you say? What would you do if they left the advocacy group as a result of your discussion?
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Describe a time when you found that you had “too much on your plate”.
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The Cannabis Act 2018 came into action across Canada. What are your thoughts on how this Act has affected Canadians?
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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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What is the most important issue facing health care today?
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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?
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Pick a health topic that is relevant to today’s society and discuss your thoughts on 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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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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Describe a time when you felt excited. What happened?
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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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