今更留学記 Family medicine

家庭医療の実践と、指導者としての修行も兼ねて、ミシガン大学へ臨床留学中。家庭医とその周辺概念について考察する。

インタビューで話題にされることリスト残り(聞かれなかったけど答えを用意した質問)

2008-03-19 00:52:24 | 臨床留学
面接で聞かれるだろうと答えを用意したけど、聞かれなかった質問のリストです(順番があまり整理されていませんが、よろしければコピペなどで御活用下さい)

詳しい解説は、「インタビューで話題にされること」で紹介した本に載っています

  • What do you see as the positive feature of this specialty?
  • What do you see as the negative feature of this specialty?
  • How will you handle the least interesting or least pleasant parts of this specialty's practice?
  • What problems do you think he family medicine faces?
  • Will new technological developments change our specialty? For better or worse?
  • What interests you most about this program?
  • What are your life goals? What have you done to accomplish them?
  • Do you have plans to pursue fellowship training?
  • What are your team-player/leadership qualities?
  • What are your strength and weaknesses?
  • What are some of the qualities a good physician should possess?
  • If you were on our residency committee, what would you look for in an appliant?
  • If we had one spot left in the residency class, what one of your attributes qualifies you more than any other candidate?
  • What makes you unique?
  • Tell me about your 'secret identity', the part of your personality that you donユt share with strangers.
  • How well do you take criticism?
  • What is your pet peeve (in your job)?
  • If you could change one thing about your personality, what would it be?
  • What are your two worst qualities?
  • Tell me about yourself./ What qualifications do you have that set you apart from other applicants?
  • Of which accomplishments are you most proud?
  • What are your team-player/leadership qualities?
  • What might give me a better picture of you than I can get from your resume?
  • How have you changed since high school?
  • What was the most important event in your life?
  • If you could be on the cover of any magazine next month, which one would it be? What would the caption say?
  • What do you like to cook?
  • How would your best-friend describe you?
  • What do you recall about your day before you go to sleep at night?
  • What one thing do you want conveyed to the residency committee?
  • Have you always done the best work which you are capable of?
  • What have been your biggest failure in life?
  • What have you done to ensure that these failures wonユt happen again?
  • In what situation are you most efficient and effective?
  • How do you handle interruptions when you are busy?
  • When are you most creative?
  • What makes you procrastinate?
  • Do you see time as your ally or your enemy?
  • How do you respond when you are having problems with a nurse, patient, another medical student, resident, or attending physician?
  • Have you ever challenged a teacher in class or a supervisor, resident, or attending physician at work? What were the circumstances?
  • How do you handle criticism, whether itユs fair or unfair, from a superior, a subordinate, a peer, or a family member?
  • What frustrates you the most?
  • How do you handle stress?
  • What kind of people are your friends?
  • How would your friends or coworkers describe you?
  • Has someone ever come to you for help with a major personal crisis? What have you done to alleviate their emotional pain?
  • Who are your heroes?
  • What is your favorite movie?
  • What is the last book you read?
  • What do 'success' and 'failure' mean to you?
  • If you could accomplish only one thing the rest of your life, what would that be?
  • What do you believe?
  • What physician characteristics do you admire most? Least?
  • If you could dine with anyone from the past, present, or future, who would it be?
  • Among the people at you school, whose work or life do you admire? Why?
  • What is your energy level like?
  • What kinds of people are your friends?
  • What are your favorite games and sports? Why?
  • If you had a completely free day, what would you do?
  • What is the most bizarre thing you have ever done?
  • What was the most unusual occurrence in your life in the past month?
  • Would you work if you didn't have to? Why?
  • Besides your future medical accomplishments, what do you wish to be known for by your peers, friends, and family?
  • Where have you traveled? Why?
  • What non-medical magazines do you regularly read?
  • What have you contributed to groups and activities in which you participated?
  • What have you learned from your volunteer work?
  • How do you make important decisions?
  • What was the most difficult decision you had to make in your life? How did you make it?
  • What was your most difficult or challenging experience and how did you deal with it?
  • What was the most useful criticism you ever received?
  • With what type of people do you have trouble working with?
  • With what type of people do you have trouble dealing?
  • With what subject or rotation did you have the most difficulty?
  • What were the major deficiencies in your medical school training?
  • Why did you choose your medical school?
  • What preclinical medical school courses interested you the most?
  • Did enjoy your medical school classes? Why?
  • How have you done in medical school?
  • How do you explain our low grades in medical school?
  • Do you like to study? What motivates you to keep studying?
  • What is the best experience you had in medical school?
  • What is the best experience you had during your practice in Japan?
  • What is the worst experience you had in medical school?
  • What is the worst experience you had during your practice in Japan?
  • What error have you made in patient care?
  • What is your greatest fear about practicing medicine?
  • Tell me about the non-physician health care provider who most influenced you.
  • Describe a clinical situation you handled well.
  • Describe a clinical situation which didn't go as well as you would have liked.
  • What do you do if your senior or attending tells you to do something you know is absolutely wrong?
  • What rotation gave you the most difficulty and why?
  • Are you OK with starting again as a resident after your academic career?
  • What if you don't match?
  • Do you have research interests?
  • You see really interested in research. How will you incorporate that interest into your residency and career?
  • What do you think of what is happening with the economy?
  • Discuss the politics of health care.
  • If your house were burning, what three objects would you save?
  • If you had unlimited money and two free hours, what would you do?
  • If you had three wishes, what would they be?
  • What in your life is most important to you?
  • If you could bring any three things with you for a 6-month stay on a deserted tropical island that has a basic vegetable supply and potable water, what would they be?
  • If a patient just stabbed your best friend, what do you do?
  • What would you do if the house staff had a ヤjob actionユ?
  • Should applicants who say they donユt want to treat patients with AIDS be admitted to our specialty?
  • Is health care rationing ethical?
  • Would you treat a colleague and a patient, each coming to you with an unwanted pregnancy, differently?
  • How would you respond if a resident or a colleague wanted to keep a therapeutic error a secret from a patient and the patient's family?
  • What do you think of hospitals that refuse admission to patients without insurance?
  • What do you think about using animal in medical research and teaching?
  • Have you ever faced death? How did you handle it?
  • What do you think of euthanasia?
  • If you could no longer be a physician, what career would you choose?
  • Why did you choose to be a physician?
  • If your brain was the only part of your body that worked, what would you do with your life?
  • What will happen if you develop debilitating disease while in residency?
  • If you could be any cell in the human body, which would you choose to be, and why?
  • Which is more important, the ability to organize, structure, and prioritize, or the ability to be flexible, modify, and make do as needed?
  • Which is more important, knowledge or imagination?
  • If you could be any kitchen objects, what would you be?
  • If you could sing any one song beautifully, which one would you choose?
  • What is the strangest Halloween costume you ever wore?
  • What do you think is greatest challenge facing physicians today?
  • Teach me something non-medical in five minutes.
  • Without using your hands, tell me how to tie a shoelace.
  • How are art and medicine similar?
  • What is 'beauty'?
  • Why are manhole covers round?
  • If you could remove any one of the 50 states, which would it be?
  • Give an example of a problem you solved and describe how you went about solving it.
  • Please have DNR explanation to the patient on call night.
  • Tell me about Japanese health care system.
  • What are the major deficiencies in your medical school training?
  • How do you see the delivery of health care evolving the twenty-first century?
  • What is managed care? HMOs? PPOs? Capitation?
  • What does 'a cross-cultural-approach to healing' mean?
  • What is your least healthy personal habit?
  • What is the solution to the health care crisis?
  • What is the last non-medical book you read?
  • Are physicians doing enough for womenユs issue?
  • What do you think is the largest problem facing American society on a statewide or a national basis?

インタビューで話題にされること

2008-03-19 00:49:44 | 臨床留学
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各プログラムでのインタビューの経験を振り返ることで、どのように備えたら良いかまとめてみました

私は、最終的に下記の4冊を全て買いました

正直、内容はかなりかぶっています

それぞれ好みがありますし、渡米する出費を考えたら1、2冊買うのを惜しむのはナンセンスです

とりあえず全部買って、自分で軸とする本を決めれば良いと思います

以下に4冊に対する私の感想を載せます

The Residency Match: 101 Biggest Mistakes And How To Avoid Them

  • ブログ:米国臨床留学:田舎のERからで紹介されていたため、後から買いました。ご紹介ありがとうございました
  • 短くて読みやすいです
  • ちょっとしたコツが羅列してありますので、買ってよかったです

Iserson's Getting Into A Residency: A Guide for Medical Students

  • 一番詳しいです
  • ピッツバーグのレジデントの先生に教えていただきました
  • 隅から隅まで精読する本ではありませんが、面接の質問など関連する部分を読むのは参考になります

First Aid for the Match: Insider Advice from Students and Residency Directors (First Aid)

  • あえて買わないとするとこれでしょうか?
  • 他の本とかぶりまくりです
  • 好みの問題もあるので、買うなとは言いません

アメリカ臨床留学大作戦―USMLE,英語面接を乗り越えた在米研修医による合格体験記と留学に役立つ情報

  • 何と言っても日本語なので、一番先に皆さん買われるのでは?
  • 「ここまでやらなくても」と思うくらい、事前の用意を完璧にこなすように書かれていますが、当日自分が安心する為には、やり過ぎにこしたことが無いのは確かです

どの本でも、模擬面接をするよう強調していますが、私は面倒なのでしませんでした

ただし、4冊の本で触れていた「想定されるであろう質問」を全て書き出し、自分なりの回答を用意はしておきました

次に実際にインタビューで聞かれた質問を書きます

私の場合は、インタビューの8割以上の時間が、CVやPSに書いたことに関する内容であったように思います

そしておそらく、全インタビュー時間の7、8割がこちらから振った話題でした

つまり、一般的な質問で医学的知識を聞いてくるようなケースは、ほぼありませんでした

卒後10年を超え、内科から転向していることや、学会活動がたくさんあるため、一般的なことを聞くより経歴に関しての話題が多い為だと思います

卒後すぐの日本の医学生だと、ボランティア活動等も少ないので、医学的レベルなどを聞くための基本的質問を多くされるかもしれません

実際に聞かれた質問(聞かれたプログラム数/全5プログラム)

Why have you chosen this field? (Compared  to Internal Medicine)(3/5)
  • なぜ内科でなく家庭医なのか?」これはfamily medicineをする人に取っては大きなテーマのようです

What will be the toughest aspect of this specialty for you?(1/5)
  • この質問の意図はよく分かりませんでした

Why are you applying to this program?(2/5)
  • 当然聞かれるであろう質問ですが、自分から説明していたのであえて聞かれたプログラムは少なかったです

What do you consider to be important in a training program? (2/5)
  • どのような基準でプログラムを選んでいるのか?
  • 上の質問と趣旨がかぶると思います

Where else did you apply?(5/5)
  • 全てのプログラムがさらりと聞いてきました
  • 隠すことも無いと思い普通に答えましたが
  • どのような基準でプログラムを選んでいるのかを知るため、競合の傾向を知る為と思われます

Why residency again(Why not just fellowship?)(4/5)
  • 10年以上の臨床経験の後、何故に今更レジデントをするのか?当然の疑問だと思います

What are your future plans?(5/5)
  • 多かれ少なかれ、聞かれました
  • 特に研修後、アメリカに残りたいのかどうか?永住を目指すIMGより、「修行して帰国し母国を盛り上げるんだ」という話の方が好かれます

What do you do in your spare time?(2/5)
  • 意外と聞かれました

Tell me about your father/ mother.(1/5)
  • 新興のプログラムで一度聞かれました

Describe an interesting case with bio-psycho-social problems(1/5)
  • これは特殊な例でしょう

What are your plans for a family?(5/5)
  • 一応これはプログラムがしてはいけない禁忌質問に類するものです(特に候補者が女性の場合)
  • いい年をして、今更渡米するIMGにとって家族のサポートは必須ですから、気になるのでしょう

What is your recent working experience like?(4/5)
  • これもよく聞かれました
  • 最近病棟をやっているのか?当直は大丈夫なのか?

How is the Japanese medical school?(2/5)
  • 意外と聞かれました

Tell me about physical health examination in Japan.(2/5)
  • CVにあったので聞かれました