How would you keep a person motivated and prevent them from feeling discouraged?
Was there a time when your priorities shifted?
Tell me about the time when you had to use evidence-based medicine to treat a patient
Have you worked with a high-functioning team or a poor-functioning team before? Can you tell me about the experience? What made them a high/poor functioning team?
What do you think is the weakness of IM?
What resources did you use during IM rotation?
Tell me about the time when you had to multi-task.
Can you give me an example of when IM team had to collaborate with a team from a different specialty?
9. What challenges do you anticipate as an intern?
10. Tell me about a time when you took on too many responsibilities and weren’t able to fulfill them all.
11. If I were to ask your closest friends about one strength and one weakness what would they say?
12. Tell me about a time when you had a difficult team member.
13. Tell me about a time when you had a disagreement with an attending/resident.
14. Tell me about a time when you faced a challenge in medical school.
15. What hobbies have you picked up during COVID?
16. Tell me about a time you were disappointed with your performance during medical school.
17. Tell me about a pet peeve of yours.
18. Tell me about a positive experience and if it occurred with the help of other people.
19. What does diversity mean to you?
20. Tell me about a time when you made a mistake.
21. Tell me about an interesting patient encounter.
22. How do you go about getting feedback?
23. How would you want to be remembered by your medical school?
24. What are two words that encompass your core values?
25. Tell me about a time when you were on a team and the resident or attending didn’t like you.
26. Tell me about a time when you had to treat a patient with different cultural values.
27. Tell me about a difficult patient.
28. Tell me about a time when your authority was challenged.
29. Tell me what was the best feedback you have gotten.
30. Tell me about a time you were sure about something and you were wrong.
31. Favorite thing to do during quarantine. Favorite thing to do in Phoenix.
32. Tell me something that is not on your application.
33. Tell me about a mistake you made and how you fixed it.
34. Tell me about a time when you observed something and it contributed to caring for a patient.
35. Tell me about a time in medical school when a partner was not pulling his/her weight and what you did and if you talked to anyone about it.
36. Tell me about a time when you had to collaborate with a team to find a solution.
37. Tell me something unique about you.
38. What motivates you to be the best medical student/physician you can be?
39. Tell me about an obstacle in your life that you had to overcome.
40. Tell me about a time when you turned a failure into a success.
41. What would you say you are the top 2% in?
42. How do others describe you?
43. What are some misconceptions other people have about you? If necessary, how did you correct them?
44. You are a resident on the GI consult service. Your co-resident on the internal medicine service calls you for a consult but it’s the end of the day. Your attending and fellow say “nah let’s just see the patient tomorrow”. What do you do?
45. What ideas do you have to prevent physician burnout?
46. Define social determinants of health.
47. Describe the color yellow to a blind person.
48. You are the intern working in the ICU with a resident. The resident was called away. You are now feeling sick. You called the resident and he/she is not picking up. You called the on-call attending but the attending is at a cocktail party and has had 3 drinks so he/she does not feel safe coming in. Who do you call next? Answer: Program Director.
49. What is the difference between a professional and professionalism?
50. Tell me about your worst day in medical school.
51. If you have to assemble a team for a scholarly activity, what are 3 characteristics you are looking for in a team member?
52. Tell me about a problem you had with yourself and how you had to change.
53. How do you respond if a patient calls you by your first name? Is it a problem for you?
54. You are on your ER elective and you call the IM team about a person you want to admit. The IM resident berates you for calling because the resident is very busy. What do you do/say?
55. Tell me about a time when you turned a failure into a success.
56. You and another resident are working on wards and although you are done for the day the other resident has a few hours of work. However, the resident has to leave for the day. What do you do?
57. What do you bring to the program?
58. How do you talk to colleagues who have different cultural backgrounds?
59. Tell me about a difficult decision you had to make.
60. Tell me one thing you are passionate about.
61. Tell me about a time when you experienced discrimination or have watched someone else be discriminated against.
62. What is one thing you learned about yourself during the pandemic?
What's an accomplishment you are most proud of?
Tell me about a time you struggled with something and/or a time you failed at something? How did you handle it?
What's something you are most nervous about for intern year?
Tell me about conflict you faced, how did you handle it?