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Yale Medicine Interview Questions

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General Interview Information
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​​Interview Format
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Yale School of medicine holds two traditional open file, formal interviews. Each interview is conducted with a different member of the Admissions Committee, which includes senior medical students and faculty staff members.
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The interview itself is a “two-way conversation” between the candidate and the interviewer, lasting approximately 60 minutes, with interviewers assessing candidates on the following domains:
  • Depth of knowledge,
  • Communications skills,
  • Personal qualities, and
  • Commitment to medicine


Key Dates
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Interviews generally take place between September and February.


Recent Interview Questions

General/Personal Statement – Interviewers may use a line-by-line questioning technique to clarify the anecdotes and phrases in a candidate’s personal statement.  Alternatively, they may simply ask the candidate to provide a synopsis of their background, from which the interviewer then selects discussion points. Recent questions have included the following:
  • Tell about yourself
  • Tell me about your family life.
  • What do your parents do for a living?
  • Tell me about ____________ experience on your application.
  • What volunteer experience do you find most significant?
  • What have you learned by being having ______________ role?
  • Tell me about the best/worst situation you experienced with a patient.
  • What is the ONE important lesson you have learned from all your clinical experiences?
  • Describe your most challenging experience
  • Have you ever experienced a situation where your integrity was compromised?
  • What was your proudest moment?
  • What is your weakness?
  • What were your happiest and saddest moments?
  • What did you do in your undergraduate degree?
  • Why did you study what you did at college?
  • What classes have most affected you?
  • What was your favourite class in college?             
  • What was your most influential experience in college?
  • What is your greatest failure since being in college?
  • Tell me about your basic science research. / Describe the significance of your research using layman's terms.
  • Tell me about your clinical research.
  • Tell me, in layman's terms about your research.
  • Who has been the fundamental figure in your life that has made everything click for you?
  • What do you do to relax?
  • What do you do when you feel overwhelmed?
  • If you were on an admissions committee, what would you look for in an applicant?
  • Where do you see yourself in 15 years?
  • What are your short term and long-term goals following your completion of medical school?
  • Anything else you want to tell me?"
  • What are the three most important things to know about you? They don’t have to be on your application.
  • What do you do for entertainment?
  • If there were one reason for us to not accept you, what would it be?
  • What do you think about the curriculum at other med schools?
  • What qualities about you make you good/bad for the Yale system?
  • What are some challenges you'll face as a physician?
  • What problem in the medical field would you want to fix/make your impact?
  • What activities did you do in high school?
  • When you said “_________________” on your essay, what did you mean?
  • When you look in the mirror, what do you like and not like about yourself?
  • One of your recommenders said “_________________”  about you - why do you think s/he said that?
  • What would you write on your epitaph?
  • What's your unique factor that means we should take you over other applicants?
  • Additional example questions with model answers can be found in the MMI Question Bank.
 
Motivation and Insight into Medicine - These questions examine both your desire to study medicine as well as your general interest in the issues facing the medical community. While an in-depth knowledge is not expected, an awareness of topical issues, particularly those in the media is highly recommended. Questions may include:
  • How do you know you want to do medicine, apart from those few clinical volunteering experiences?
  • Pin-point the exact time in which you knew you wanted to be a doctor?
  • Why is medical school right for you?
  • Give me a selfish reason why you want to pursue medicine.
  • If, for some reason, you could not be a doctor, what would you be?
  • Where do your future interests lie?
  • What do you think will be your biggest challenge in becoming a doctor?
  • Have you had enough clinical experience to be certain that you can handle being a doctor?
  • What fields of medicine do you think you are interested in?
  • What does a doctor do?
  • What are the three skills/traits that all doctors should possess?
  • What does it mean to be a doctor?
  • How does your research fit in with your medical vision?
  • Why study at Yale? / What about the Yale system appeals to you?
  • Why should Yale choose you?/ What can YOU contribute to Yale?
  • What extracurricular activity/ volunteer work would you engage in if you go to Yale medical school?
  • List some ways that you will not fit into the Yale System.
  • Why shouldn't we accept you?
  • What challenges do you think you will face as a physician?
  • How does your research apply to medicine or how would you translate it?
  • What is the point of medical research?
  • What are you going to do to change the world?
  • What is the greatest impact you plan on having in the medical field? How would you go about doing this?
  • Tell me how you would fix the health care system.
  • Technology has made it possible to perform a wide array of medical procedures. Would you be willing to go to all lengths for your patients? (Specifically, would you help a pregnant patient change the sex of her child?)
  • What something that prevents US Health Care from delivering optimally for underserved communities?
  • Predict how medicine will change in 30 years.
  • What challenges do we face over the next 30 years in terms of health care policy?
  • What are several medical discoveries that you believe have revolutionized medicine today? What are their limits?
  • As an international student, how would you compare the level of training of a medical student in the best medical school in Ethiopia with that of a mid-tier medical school here in the US? Are there any successful lessons in medicine in Ethiopia that can be brought back and introduced to the US?
  • What are some important issues in health care?
  • Additional example questions with model answers can be found in the MMI Question Bank.
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