w8kg6 Posted November 21, 2009 Report Share Posted November 21, 2009 Congrats all, I hope they went well . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick83 Posted November 21, 2009 Report Share Posted November 21, 2009 Congrats all! How'd they go? For those that interviewed in the past- were they fairly similar to last year? Hope everyone is out celebrating before they settle into the long waiting game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w8kg6 Posted November 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2009 They were similar to last year. Without commenting in depth because of the confidentiality agreement, I'll say that I hate the SP ones. I find that those ones put you in a position of authority, when you're in the mindset of being subordinate to your interviewer. I just don't feel like I'm acting like I would be as a doc, because I'm trying to be a 'good interviewee' (subordinate to interviewer) and a 'good doc' (authoritative figure) at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HBP Posted November 21, 2009 Report Share Posted November 21, 2009 Why do you have to be subordinate to your interviewer to be a good interviewee? What's SP btw? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w8kg6 Posted November 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2009 Subordinate might not be the right term, but I don't feel like I should be leading the interview as the interviewee. In an SP station (simulated patient), the opposite is true. It's just a quick change of mentality/change of pace from one station to the next, and that's why I'm not a big fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-Stark Posted November 21, 2009 Report Share Posted November 21, 2009 I think you're overthinking this. Each station is just a conversation, not a situation where one person is "subordinate" to another, even if you are the one being evaluated. The SP station is, of course, a different situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w8kg6 Posted November 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2009 I think you're overthinking this. Each station is just a conversation, not a situation where one person is "subordinate" to another, even if you are the one being evaluated. The SP station is, of course, a different situation. Yeah, you've summed it up better than I could. The SP is just a change of pace, and I'd go into it more, but like, I said, confidentiality, lol. How did others find it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkkyyy Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 The SP station was a little awkward. It's hard to play your role when you know you're being evaluated by someone whose less than 2 feet away. side note/ embarassing story: I went into one of the discussion ones thinking that it was an SP, and got into the role right away. The lady gave me a funny look, which I thought was part of her role, and then 30 seconds later, she tells me I was doing something wrong. Had a good laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopeforthebest Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 side note/ embarassing story: I went into one of the discussion ones thinking that it was an SP, and got into the role right away. The lady gave me a funny look, which I thought was part of her role, and then 30 seconds later, she tells me I was doing something wrong. Had a good laugh. I did the exact same thing! It was moderately awkward but the session went well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanG8 Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 It's been a month and a half and I'm still thinking of things I should have said or done! This MMI format is very hard to get a read on how you did, even if most interviewers smiled and seemed interested, you never know how they ranked you. But I guess that's all part of this interview process, learning from the experience, being confident in how you did, and becoming a nervous wreck until mid March. haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w8kg6 Posted February 15, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2010 I'm surprised to see that no one has mentioned anything about the later interviewing experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canoe999 Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 It was a great ol' time. Thanks again to all the Med 1's and 2's that helped out. As well good luck to my fellow applicants. As for the interviews I personally felt it like it a well organized weekend and I felt personally that the interviews went very well except one particular interview was quite hard to read. I'm a second time interviewer and found this round far easier than the previous, it's nice to have a semi-idea what your walking into. Best of luck everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astudentis Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 from my perspective, everything seem to flow smoothly for the applicants hopefully everyone had a good time at the potluck and at speed dating heh only a couple more weeks till the letters go out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drsunny Posted February 17, 2010 Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 It was a great ol' time. Thanks again to all the Med 1's and 2's that helped out. As well good luck to my fellow applicants. As for the interviews I personally felt it like it a well organized weekend and I felt personally that the interviews went very well except one particular interview was quite hard to read. I'm a second time interviewer and found this round far easier than the previous, it's nice to have a semi-idea what your walking into. Best of luck everyone. I too interviewed last year, and thought this year was far easier. Was it just being familiar with the format? I don't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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