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Beginner
How has technology improved healthcare?
Intermediate
You are a judge for a student competition on public health. Student competitors had to present on a current health topic, describing the health issue, current solutions, and possible other health solutions. You and the rest of the judging panel have narrowed down the submission pool to two presentations; one on lung cancer and the other on geographical inequalities in population access to primary care. You and the other judges believe that both projects are extremely well done, but they vary significantly in their subject matter. The competition rules are clear that there can only be one winner. How would you go about choosing a winner?
Intermediate
What is the biopsychosocial model of medicine and what role does it play in the field of medicine?
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
You are on clinical rotation with Dr. A and admire how highly professional and compassionate they are with patients. However, you notice that after patient interactions, Dr. A makes jokes about their patients with other physicians and residents. Dr. A notices your shock at this and mentions that "everyone does this” and “as long as you are good with the patients in person, it’s just private fun". Do you see any issues with this behaviour? Would you say anything to Dr. X? What would you do if Dr. A refused to change their behaviour?
Intermediate
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)?
Intermediate
Mistakes can occasionally go unnoticed, with parties involved remaining unaware that anything wrong ever occurred. Do you think it is ever appropriate to keep a mistake private? If so, when and why?
Intermediate
It sounds really bad. You are on an airplane and after you have taken off for a 4-hour flight, a baby sitting right behind your seat starts to cry. As time goes on, even while you have earphones, the screams don’t stop. The parent accompanying the child keeps trying to quiet the baby down but to no avail. For every passing minute, the screams get louder and louder. What do you do?
Intermediate
Have you ever almost quit something but then changed your mind? Why? What did you learn?
Intermediate
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?
Beginner
What is one major healthcare issue that you believe needs to be addressed in the Canadian healthcare system?
Beginner
What is your opinion on medicine and research?
Beginner
Have you considered other careers besides being a physician?
Intermediate
Experimental medicine can introduce hugely effective new methods of treatment for pathologies that previously could not be treated. Do you think experimental medicine research should be done with children? Why or why not?
Intermediate
Describe a time when you stood up for someone.
Intermediate
What is something in your life that you are not proud of? Why?
Intermediate
Certain hospital services like deliveries in obgyn after midnight get paid more compared to other times of the day. What are the implications for these types of payment policies?
Intermediate
Describe a time when you helped someone in need.
Intermediate
Resident physicians are employees but also still completing their training. What are challenges that resident physicians face?
Intermediate
Describe a time when you felt you were treated unfairly. What did you do about it?
Intermediate
Describe a time when you had to deliver bad news.
Intermediate
Describe a time when you felt excited. What happened?
Beginner
What are the three qualities you believe would make you a great physician?
Intermediate
Imagine you are a resident and you had a patient that came in with a medical reason that was causing them lots of pain. You have properly given them narcotics according to the guidelines, however, the next day they still are complaining of pain. How would you handle this situation?
Intermediate
What are some difficulties faced by physicians during the pandemic?
Intermediate
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?
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
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?
Advanced
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?
Beginner
What are the difficult parts of being a physician?
Intermediate
Describe a time when you improved on a weakness.
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?
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?
Intermediate
What are your thoughts on universal basic income?
Beginner
Tell me about the last time you were upset.
Intermediate
You are a doctor working ER intake during a particularly busy shift. What do you do?
Beginner
Tell me about the best day of your life.
Beginner
What are your thoughts and feelings on reflecting your life during the COVID pandemic?
Intermediate
You say you enjoy helping others. There are many other careers other than medicine where you can do that. Why medicine?
Beginner
What is one currently feasible change you could make to improve the condition of indigenous and rural healthcare?
Intermediate
In Ontario, pharmacists are able to prescribe certain medications to patients now. What are some pros and cons of this change?
Beginner
When do laws deviate from ethics?
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.
Advanced
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?
Beginner
What is your favourite quote and why?
Beginner
Why do you want to be a doctor?
Intermediate
During your shift, you notice your preceptor is intoxicated. What do you do?
Intermediate
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.
Intermediate
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?
Intermediate
If you were a med student and you are working with a resident who has been nothing but nice to you. But you saw them yelling at another resident, how would you react?
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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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