Big List of All Med School Interview Questions- Part 1: Panel/Traditional Interview

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Hello all- here is the ultimate compilation of traditional/panel interview questions, which is arguably the largest collection of medical school interview questions in a single document.

Link: Big List of All Med School Interview Questions- Part 1: Panel/Traditional Interview

Why this collection is useful:

1. Panel/traditional interviews can only cover so many topics of discussion and from a limited number of standard questions.
2. Medical schools tend to organize their interview questions based on certain categories- which I've tried to emulate in this guide.
3. The sheer number of questions & comprehensiveness of areas covered allows for a thorough understanding of the interview process, while at the same time acting as a large reservoir of practice questions for applicants.

That being said, the collection is currently organized into the following categories:

• 1. Personal Questions
• 1.1 Personal History
• 1.2 Personal Details
• 1.3 Relationships/Interactions with others
• 1.4 Personality & Character
• 1.5 Behavioral/Situational
• 1.6 Personal Experiences: collaboration/teamwork/leadership
• 1.7 Personal Experiences: character
• 1.8 Goals & Plans
• 2. Application Related
• 2.1 Knowledge of Program/Specific motivations
• 2.2 Motivation/Commitment for Medicine
• 3. Experiences: education/medicine/healthcare
• 3.1 Academics
• 3.2 Healthcare, Volunteer, Extracurricular Experiences
• 3.3 Knowledge of field/realistic view of profession
• 3.4 Knowledge of Healthcare System/Issues (Canada)
• 4. Ethical questions
• 5. Other
• 5.1 Current events/World/History
• 5.2 Weird/out-of-the-blue/creative questions
• 31 Questions I Wish I Had Asked: from Organization of Student Representatives Association of American Medical Colleges, January 1992

Things to note:

• There are sometimes comments or "sample answers" at the end of questions- these are sample response and/or advice from people with more insight and knowledge than myself (successful applicants, current medical students, admission committee members).
• Please note that this is only the first release of the guide. The questions have been through a "brief" first pass (which still took  long). There will still need to be some changes, including (but not limited to):
• There are sometimes questions that are only relevant to US medical school applicants (this guide was originally meant to assist with both Canada and US interviews).
• Redundancies, badly worded/bad/unnecessary questions which need to be filtered out in a more thorough review.
• Better/more efficient categorization of questions.
• The "Ethical questions" section is not as expansive since I will be releasing an additional collection of MMI questions which will have a large number of ethical scenarios/questions.

Release info:

Version 1.0 (April 5th, 2013): Initial release

Acknowledgements: this collection was based on more than a dozen sources, anywhere from premed101, SDN, various medical school admissions websites, etc. My goal was to at least attempt to put together a much more complete and organized collection of interview questions based on every available source.

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Again, please feel free to share your opinions/concerns/comments/criticism/etc. I always welcome feedback (which I really don't get a lot of). 

Part 2 will be a collection of MMI questions, and an accompanying guide for answering interview questions (both panel and MMI)... which may take a lot longer to put together.

Matt