For my interview, I spoke with Dr. Katie Buck, an emergency physician at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Below are the questions I asked her and a summary of the responses to these questions. All of her answers were very helpful to me in my undergraduate career and preparing for my future medical career.
- Where did you for go for your undergrad?
- University of North Carolina
- Where did you go for medical school?
- University of Virginia
- What should I do to prepare myself for going to medical school?
- Prepare a ton for your MCAT
- Take the in-person class for your MCAT so they can tell you tips and tricks
- Take part in some research
- Make sure you have good letters of rec and shadowing hours
- Obviously do your best in your classes and get good grades
- Make sure you are taking part in service
- Get leadership experience through extracurriculars
- Go to practice interviews
- Studying abroad will be a good talking point in interviews
- I used all these methods and I was successful
- Did you always want to be an emergency physician?
- Yes
- Got involved in emergency medicine research in undergraduate career as a bio-statistician major and loved it
- Continued this type of research in medical school
- However, it is okay if you change your mind; only about 10% of people coming into medical school stick with their previous wanted area of study.