MATCH準備-Interview questions

我把interview question 整理起來給也在準備 match 2011的人
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Beginning
-Tell me about yourself?
-How are you ?(watch for this one)
-Why are you here?

CV
-Can you explain what you have been doing since 2009-2010 (based on your CV)?
-Do you have any research experience?
-Tell me about your clinical experience in US
-Tell me about your experience in this specialty
-What might give me a better picture of you than I can get from your resume?

Clinical medicine background
-Present an interesting case that you had.
-Tell me about the patient from who you learned the most?
-What errors have you made in patient care?
-Greatest fear about practicing medicine?
-With which patients do you have trouble dealing?
-Describe the best/worst attending with whom you have ever worked?
-With what subject/rotation did you have the most difficulty?
-Which types of people do you have problems working with?

Medical education background
-When did you decide you wanted to be a physician=Why choose to be a doctor?
-How did you select the medical school?
-What were the major deficiencies in your medical school training? How would you plan to remedy this?
-Have you ever dropped a class, why?
-What was your favorite course in medical school?

Speciality
-Why are you interested in this specialty?
-What do you see as the negative and positive features of this specialty?
-What problems do you think the specialty faces?
-What are the biggest problems in medicine and in your chosen specialty?
-If your chosen specialty did not exist, what would you do?
-What would you be willing to sacrifice to become a physician in this specialty?
-What will be the toughest aspect of this specialty for you?
-How much did lifestyle considerations fit into your choice of specialty?
-What qualities are most important in this specialty?
-What are some challenges that will face this specialty?
-How do you show your commitment to medicine?

Program
-Why are you interested in our program?
-What have you heard about our program that you don’t like?
-Describe your ideal residency program?
-Are you applying here because it is a familiar environment/big city?
-What qualities are you looking for in a program?
-what feature about the program you like?
-What are you looking for in a program?
-Why this city?   

Hobby/Interests/Lifestyle
-What is your favorite movie, book?
-Teach me something non-medical in 5 minutes?
-What computer experience do you have?
-What do you do for fun=What do you do in your spare time?
-How did you choose these outside activities?
-Favorite games/sports? Why?
-if you have a specific skill who would you like to use it in the residency if you were a selected candidate?      
-Tell me a joke.
-If you had a completely free day, what would you do?
-Describe for me your typical day?
-How many hours of sleep do you require each night?
-Which organizations do you belong to?

Past experience
-What is the worst thing that has ever happened to you?
-Have you done any volunteer work?
-What is your most important lesson learned from childhood?
-How have you changed since high school?
-Most memorable experience in medical school/college?
-If you could begin your schooling again, what would you change?
-Describe something that was very difficult in your life, how you dealt with it, and what you learned from it?
-What leadership roles have you held?
-What is the most bizarre thing you have ever done (in college, high school, etc)?
-What is the most unusual occurrence in your life in the past (x amount of time)?
-What was your most difficult challenge in life?
-Have you ever quit or been fired from a job?

Acheivement
What is the greatest achievement you have so far
=Of which accomplishments are you most proud?
-What is the greatest sacrifice you have already made to get to where you are?
-List three accomplishments of which you are most proud of and what each accomplishment indicates about you?
-What is the most rewarding thing you have ever done?
-Are there any hidden achievements or qualities that you are secretly proud of?

Family/Friend/Personal Relationship
-Is(Are) your husband/wife/children willing to relocate with you?
-Who in your family are you closest to?
-What kinds of people are your friends?
-Describe your best friend?
-How are you similar and dissimilar to your best friend?
-people you would invite to dinner and why?
-What are your plans for a family?
-Describe important relationships you have had with people?

Personal quailty
-Why should I hire you?=What make you unique?
-What are your strengths and weaknesses? (show a true weakness and how you try to overcome)
-Are you a risk taker or safety minded?
-If you could change one thing about your personality what would it be?
-Do you see yourself as more relaxed/casual/ informal or more serious/dedicated/committed?
-What is your energy level like? 
-What’s your pet peeve?
-What three adjectives best describe you?=-If you were going to die in 5 minutes, what would you tell someone about yourself?
-What can you add to our program?
-Tell me a story about yourself that best describes you?
-Anything else you want to tell me about yourself?
-What qualities drive you crazy in colleagues?
-Are you a team player?(have to give a behaviour example)
-Tell me about your “secret identity” – The part of your personality that you don’t share with strangers=Any skeletons in your closet you want to tell me about?
-How do your friends describe you?
-What kind of qualities does a person need to be an effective physician?

Belief system
-Who are your heroes?
-Who are you, what are your ideas about life?
-How do you make important decisions?   
-What made you become who you are?
-Which is more important, knowledge or imagination?
-What do you value in your own life?
-What motivates you?
-If you could be any cell in the human body, which would you be and why?
-If you had unlimited money and (x amount of time) what would you do?
-Who is the most influential in your life?
-What do success and failure mean to you?
-Which is more important, the ability to organize, structure, and prioritize or to be flexible, modify, change and make do as needed?
-Have you always done the best work of which you are capable?

Emotion
-Are you emotional person?
-What is your greatest fear?
-What makes you happy?
-What makes you sad?
-What makes you angry?

Stress/Conflict/Failure
-Can you handle stress without the resources you are accustomed to relying on?
-How do you handle conflicts?=Do you have any conflict with your boss/co-worker?
-How well do you take criticism?
-Can you work under pressure?
-How do you deal/cope with failure, give example?
-Tell me some of your failures?

Residency Training
-Do you prefer to work under supervision or on your own?
-What do you do if someone senior tells you to do something you know is wrong?
-How will you handle the least interesting or least pleasant parts of this specialty’s practice?
-Do you know how hard residency is?
-Are you interested in academic or in clinical medicine?
-How can you do your job more effectively?
-Do you want research to be a part of your career?
-What do you expect out of your residency?
-Are you prepared for the difficulties of residency?

Future/Career plan
-Where do you see yourself in 3, 5, 10  years?
-What do you expect will be the hardest part of residency for you?
-What if you don’t match?
-Do you want to work for somebody or are
you going to start your own practice?      
-Where do you see yourself in years?   
-If could not be a physician, what career would you choose?
-Do you plan to do a fellowship?
-What would you do if the house staff had a strike?
-Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
-What do you want, where are you going. ?

Health system/Politics
-How do you see the delivery of health care evolving in the 21st century?
-Is health care a right or a privilege?
-What do you think about the health reform?
-What do you know about the US health system?
-What do you think about managed care and the role of insurance companies in healthcare delivery?
-What do you think of what’s happening in mid east? Congress? Economy?
-What do you think about the current and future state of healthcare/specialty/type of treatment, etc.?
-What differences do you see between the healthcare system in the U.S. and your country?
-What do you think of socialized medicine?
-What problems will our specialty face in the next 5-10 years?
-What is the most pressing problem in medicine today?
-What needs to be changed in our health care system?