University of Ottawa Medicine Interview Questions

​Motivation and Insight into Medicine

• Why do you want to persuade the medical field?
• Why did you choose Ottawa?
• Why do you want to be specifically a doctor and not a nurse, a vet, or social worker?
• In your opinion, what are the most important qualities a doctor should have?
• What type of doctor do you want to be?
• In your opinion, what is the most urgent problem in our healthcare system? As a health minister, how would you fix it?
• What steps have you done to prepare for medical school?
• What have you exactly been working on with Dr. X from your application?
• As a physician, you will encounter a lot of hard experience such as terrible diseases, addictions, and deaths. How would you handle that emotionally?
• What are your strong points related to medicine?
• In your opinion, where does the majority of our healthcare spending go to?
• If you don’t get accepted in medicine this year, what would you do?
• Do you think that refusing smokers cancer treatment could effectively deter people from smoking? 
• Should homeless people be provided with alcohol in a clinic-type setting?

 
Ethical Dilemmas

• If you are a family doctor for a patient who just got diagnosed with brain cancer, but the oncologist didn’t tell him and his family does not want you to inform him, what would you do?
• If a 3-year old needed a blood transfusion to live, but the parents wouldn’t consent, what would you do?
• What are your thoughts on human cloning?
• What are your thoughts on euthanasia especially to the elderly?

 
Case/Article Reviews

• What recent news have you been following?
• Which newspaper do you think is the most biased?

 
Communication Stations​

• How would you explain your research to a high school student?
• If one of your patient was a heavy smoker that the outcome would be inevitably bad, how would you communicate the issue with them?
• What is a time you were in a conflict with someone? And how did you resolve it?
• How would you tell a patient that there is a two-year wait for an MRI?

 
Prioritisation Tasks

• How do you manage stress?

Teamwork Tasks

• What role do you usually play in a group?
• Will you find it difficult to be a participant or will you always want to lead the group?

 
MMI Sales Pitch Station

• What is unique about you to contribute to our program?
• Why should we choose you?

General / Personal Statements

• Who has inspired you the most in your life?
• Other than academics, tell us about yourself.
• What has been the most challenging thing you have done in your life?
• What do you do for fun?
• Who is your favorite author?
• What is one strength and one weakness would your best friend comment upon you?
• Would you describe yourself in one word?
• How do you keep up with current events?
• What would you ban?
• What book has influenced you the most?
• What did you mean by X from your sketch?
• When was the last time you got rejected? and how did you handle that?
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