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Beginner
How has technology improved healthcare?
Intermediate
Discuss your perspective on shifting the COVID-19 crisis from a pandemic to an endemic. What are the positives and negatives? Who stands to benefit and face harm as a result of such a decision? What do you think is the best course of action going forward?
Beginner
If you were the manager of a seniors home how would you address an employee coming to work with symptoms? What would you do if this was during an active outbreak?
Intermediate
Discuss your perspective on how social media is being used in the context of medicine.
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
In Ontario, patients will soon be able to read the medical notes their physicians write about them. What are the implications of this change?
Intermediate
The Cannabis Act 2018 came into action across Canada. What are your thoughts on how this Act has affected Canadians?
Intermediate
Most Canadians have been vaccinated against COVID-19. Why do you think some Canadians are choosing not to get the vaccine?
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?
Intermediate
Describe a time when you asked for help.
Intermediate
What role should privacy play in telemedicine and electronic health records?
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
Compare and contrast between public and private health care.
Intermediate
Describe a time when you found that you had “too much on your plate”.
Intermediate
During COVID-19, the Maritimes created an "Atlantic Bubble". What do you think about this decision by public health?
Advanced
What do you think are the long-term benefits of the Jordan principle, for the indigenous community on a population level?
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
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?
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
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?
Beginner
During your final exams week, your grandmother calls and tells you she feels lonely. What would you do?
Intermediate
During your shift, you notice your preceptor is intoxicated. What do you do?
Intermediate
Describe a time when you stood up for someone.
Intermediate
Social media platforms have been restricting content that is deemed discriminatory and offensive. What do you think about these practices?
Beginner
What would you hope to achieve as a physician?
Intermediate
What is your opinion on doctors being suspended or facing consequences based on their social media posts?
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?
Intermediate
Describe a time when you helped someone in need.
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
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
Physicians are expected to be leaders. In today’s health care system, do you think leadership is important – if so, why?
Intermediate
What about our school appeals to you in terms of your medical education?
Intermediate
What problems lie at the intersection of indigenous people's relationship with government operated healthcare in Canada and rural communities?
Intermediate
Who is your mentor?
Beginner
Tell me about a time you handled interpersonal conflict.
Beginner
How would you go about suggesting to a family member that they get vaccinated if they are anti-vaccine?
Beginner
Tell me about the best day of your life.
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
Describe a time when you doubted yourself.
Intermediate
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?
Intermediate
Systemic issues exist in the provincial health care system. Discuss one of them and how you would address it.
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
What is the biopsychosocial model of medicine and what role does it play in the field of medicine?
Intermediate
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
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?
Beginner
When do laws deviate from ethics?
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
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
Explain our Canadian health care system at a level appropriate for a high school student to understand.
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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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