Premed: Journey to Medical School Inside the Interview Room — Navigating Medical School Admissions

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Hi everybody. So, um we're here with Dr. Devorah Segal, who is a pediatric neurologist at NYU Langone, and with Dr. Ronald Waldman, who's an associate dean for admissions at Zucker School of Medicine, Hofstra Northwell. Um Professor of Radiology, you can see it on the screen. And you know, if we could um start our presentation. All right, Ashley, what would you like me to start? Yes, please. Okay, great. All right, so I'm going to provide a little bit of a backdrop to discussion. Just some overall interview concepts, and then please feel free. I know there's ability to put questions in the chat, and hopefully we'll have a significant amount of time for discussion. Okay, so a little bit of a backdrop here, and this is who I am. Okay, now we just have to get this going forward, and we're good. Everybody can see the screen, right? Yeah. Correct? Somebody say yes. Yes. All right, so we have learning objectives. At Zucker, we're all about the learning objectives, so we're going to discuss the importance of the interview in the medical school application process. As many of you know, law schools, business schools, no interview, but med school, we have the interview, and it is important, obviously, when you're patient-facing, your ability to communicate effectively is extraordinarily important. We're going to look a little bit at the different types of interviews that are available, that you will see at the different schools. We're going to discuss the MMI, which we use the multiple mini interview, in a little bit more of a detailed explanation of that, and we're going to discuss a little bit about how COVID-19

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1. 0:00Hi everybody. So, um we're here with Dr. Devorah Segal, who is a pediatric neurologist at…
2. 6:27interviews, those um basically give you certain um types of questions that will essentially predict how…
3. 12:45So, again, this is just an ability to sort of see how there is a a…
4. 19:24curricular uh video to those who we invite. We send out student affairs info. We send…
5. 25:45Uh TMI, I have empty empty shelves because we are packing up to move. So, half…
6. 31:55to just two traditional interviews, which a lot of schools do. So, don't be afraid. That's…
7. 38:13responses. That's the first thing. You know, you know, they tend to be or ours can…
8. 44:38thing. You got to be a little careful there. I think you have to, you know,…
9. 50:58and we tell you that you're important, you're kind of dispensable. I I hate to say…
10. 57:19well. And we've recognized that in order to really succeed as a physician and as a…

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