Oklahoma State University Medicine Interview Questions

​Motivation and Insight into Medicine

• Describe a time you have shadowed a doctor or came in contact with patients.
• Would you practice medicine in a rural setting?
• Have you read “The Difference a DO Makes”?
• What drove you to study medicine?
• Why did you choose osteopathic medicine as opposed to an MD program?
• What do you know about OMT?
• Why did you choose OSU?
• What 3 characteristics do you think a physician should and should not have?
• What do you think the biggest problem of the healthcare system is, especially in Oklahoma?
• How would you handle a patient who does not follow your medical advice, especially when that leads to health complications?
• If you get accepted in all the osteopathic and allopathic schools you applied for, how will you decide between them?
• How would your X experience contribute to your medical studies?
• Would you be interested in pursuing research during medical school?
• Comparing the healthcare system in the US to other developing countries, how do you find it?
• What is another field you would be interested in if you did not pursue medicine?
• Which aspect of medical school do you have the most anxiety about?
• How would you handle a case of a morbidly obese patient who has knee pain?
• What are your views on the need for a support system while pursuing medicine?
• What volunteering and experience work contributed to your interest in medicine?
• How will you integrate research and clinical medicine in tour practice?
• How did you find about osteopathic medicine?
• Where do you see yourself in 15 years?
• In your personal statement, you mentioned X. Illustrate that more.
• Explain me the trends you have seen in medicine.
• If you get accepted, what will be the biggest change for you?
• How would you change a patient’s mindset whose lifestyle is the cause of the condition for which they seek medical attention?
• As a first-year medical student, how many hours do you expect you will study daily?
• How would you effectively provide health care to the poor rural Oklahoma?
• Do you think it is the physicians’ responsibility to attempt to change legislation that negatively impacts their patients?
• With an unlimited budget, how would you fix the healthcare system?
• How would moving to Tulsa change your lifestyle?
•  How will you fund your medical school costs?
• Where do you think you will establish your practice, in a rural community or the city?
• What do you want to specialize in?
• What research projects have you worked on?
• What do you think will be the hardest challenge to you in medical school?
• Was there a turning where you decided to be a doctor or was it a gradual process?
• How would you calm down an irate patient?
• In your opinion, how has medicine changed in the last 50 years?
• What do you think of drug companies spending a big budget on advertising?
• What do you think about hospice?
• How do you think a rural physician will be able to keep up with all the changes in the medicine world?
• How do you feel about pharmaceutical companies giving physicians free merchandize as a marketing tool?
• What do you think about the many cases of teen smokers, and what would you do differently to decrease that number?
• In your opinion, do you think nurse practitioners should be allowed to work without physician supervision?
• How do you think the recent X will affect the current and future education of physicians?
• How will you transition to medical school?

 
Ethical Dilemmas

• What would you do if you got two patients for heart transplant but one heart; one of them has a family with no insurance, and the other has no family but insurance?
• What would you do if an uninsured person needed an expensive prescription and asked you to write it in their spouse’s name to use that insurance?
• What would you do if you are a small-town physician prescribing the morning-after pill, but the pharmacist of the town refuses to fill it because of their beliefs?
• Imagine that you, a beloved one of yours, and a child are in a canoe and that the canoe sinks over where you can save only one person, who do you save?
• If a patient could not afford to pay for your services, how would you handle it?
• If you were not prepared for a test and you went to talk to your professor finding a copy of the test on his test while he was not there, what would you do?
• What would you say to a patient who wants a procedure that you are ethically and morally against?
• What would you do if you were required by law to administer the lethal injection to a death-row inmate but you did not believe in the death penalty?
• How would you reconcile your actions if you made a mistake that negatively affected a patient?

 
Scientific/Medical Topics

• Tell me about 5 drugs and their functions.
• What is the difference between osteopathic and allopathic medicine?
• What do you think of acupuncture?

 
Case/Article Reviews

• What is a piece of news or social issues you have recently encountered?

Communication Stations​

• How would you tell a patient that they are going to die in 6 months?
• How would you communicate with a poor, rural town about general health and hygiene education?
• How do you think you will interact on a personal level with diverse patients who differ from you in background, lifestyle, and values?
• How would you communicate with your manager if they made a mistake?
• Describe me Dr. X who wrote you the recommendation letter.
• How would you explain evolution to an extreme creationist?
• OSU is a teaching school where it is expected that aspiring doctors contribute to its learning environment. Would you tech me something non-medically?

 
Prioritisation Tasks

• How do you usually manage stress and stay balanced?
• What will you do if there is a conflict between a class time and a familial occasion?
• Rank these values a physician should have in terms of their importance: Availability, Affability, and Ability.
• While practicing medicine, which is more important: compassion or science?

 
Teamwork Tasks

• What is the most influential leadership role you had and what did you learn from it?
• What do you think a good leader should look like?
• When working in teams, what is the role that you usually like to take?
• How would you manage working in a group with someone you don’t agree with?

 
Role Play Scenarios

• Imagine I am your patient, and act out to convince me to be healthier.
• If you were to be a medical professor, how would you teach your students about dealing with disabled patients?

 
MMI Sales Pitch Station

• In 30 seconds, convince me why we should choose you.
• In one word, how would you describe yourself?
• What will you contribute to the school?
• What makes you different than the other candidates who have the same GPA and MCAT scores as you do?

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General / Personal Statements

• Tell me about yourself
• What is your definition of success?
• Who would you select for Time’s Person of the Year?
• Over the past four years, what is the most accomplished you are proud of?
• What was your favorite class in your undergrad and why?
• What did you learn from X in your application?
• What makes you get angry?
• Tell me about a movie you have watched recently.
• What do you do in your free time?
• What are your hobbies?
• What are your strength and weakness points?
• What is the biggest challenge you have had to work through?
• If you were a vegetable/ fruit, what would you be?
• What is your style of learning?
• Why did you attend X University for undergrad?
• What did you choose to major in X?
• How would your friends describe you?
• What is the origin of your name?
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