What my Ross University School of Medicine interview was like

My Ross University interview was conducted by Zoom and was probably the most traditional of the three interviews that I have had. I met with Mr. Tom Hueller, via Zoom, for about 40-45 minutes and he asked the standard medical school interview questions:

Why do you want to be a physician?

What would your family say about you studying in Barbados?

Can you tell me about a time when you failed and what you learned from it?

What would you do if you had a young, 15-year-old patient who wanted an abortion and did not want her parents to know?

This isn’t an all-inclusive list but give you a sense of what you should be prepared for should you interview at Ross. After the interview, I had the chance to ask three or four questions:

What does Ross’ timeline look like for a return to Barbados given the COVID crisis?

How do you think that the Step 1 exam going pass/fail is going to impact match opportunities for Ross graduates?

What curricular changes are expected now that the Step is pass/fail?

We ended up getting into a conversation about COVID and the COVID vaccine; this took another 20 minutes so altogether, I interviewed with Mr. Hueller for about an hour. It was very conversational.

At the end of the interview, he told me that I would hear from the admissions committee within a couple of weeks and I thanked him for his time. To prepare for the interview, I reviewed interview feedback on Student Doctor Network, reviewed a Princeton Review site that had a list of 50 commonly asked medical school interview questions, and I reviewed the Ross University School of Medicine website. Easy peazy. Next up, I’ll describe my interview at RVUCOM.