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interview question you’ve
been asked?
Well, when I was applying to
medical school at a certain wellknown university in the Northeast, I had a strange interview
experience – not just one particular question.
My morning interview that
day was with a leading authority
in the field in which I had done
my undergraduate research project. The man absolutely grilled
me on my project. He knew the
literature much better than I did,
and, when I couldn’t keep up with
him, he berated me for it.
Then, after that was finished,
he gave me – a 19-year-old who
had never been to that city before
– a map to find the location of
my afternoon interview. Being a
New Yorker who had spent years
navigating the New York subways,
I had no fear of getting lost forever on the MTA, so I managed to
find my way to the next interview,
which turned out to be the physician’s house in the suburbs.
There were two little kids running around the house screaming
and this very exasperated doctor
greets me to start the interview.
The very first question she asked
me was, “If you married a female
physician, what would you do
to allow her to have a career?” I
gave an honest answer – “We’d
work things out and find a way”
– but at that point, I realized that
perhaps I was going to attend a
medical school that started with
the letter “H,” but it sure wasn’t
going to be that one.
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