​Motivation and Insight into Medicine
What makes a good osteopathic physician?
Have you ever worked with sick or dying people?
Why are you interested in studying DO rather than MD?
How can you relate your past work experiences to the moment when you will become a doctor?
Did you apply to both DO and MD schools?
How have your experiences prepared you for a career in medicine?
What class in college do you think most prepared you for medical school?
What do you see as the greatest challenge facing physicians today and in the future?
If you become a physician, what kind of impression do you want to leave your patients with?
What was your most meaningful patient encounter while shadowing/volunteering?
Why do you specifically want to be a physician, instead of another clinical application of medicine like nurse practitioner or physician assistant?
I see that your father is an allopathic physician, what does he think about you becoming a DO?
What are you most nervous about in medical school?
Are you capable of performing osteopathic manipulations on someone and having them performed on you?
What is the most challenging thing for a physician in US Medicine today?
What is one of the surprising complexities you’ve encountered in American medicine?
What did you do at your resident assistant job?
Why apply to Medicine now?
Tell me about your MCAT scores.
Why do you want to be a doctor, and why PCOM?
How are you going to choose which medical school you will go to, assuming you get multiple acceptances?
If you do not get into medical school this year, what will you do next year?
Describe osteopathic medicine without using any of the buzzwords that are commonly used to do so.