Walec1,
I understand your nervousness, especially since I just went through the process in January. I'm very fortunate that I only had to do one interview and I start school in July! The key to getting through the interview for me was to overprepare. Probably not what you wanted to here.
I talked to many people who had attended/was attending my school of choice (mtsa.edu). I learned about the type of interview that the school did and what they expected. Some of these people had interviewed at several schools and talked about the vast differences in style of interview. Some were basic meet and greets while they looked over your transcripts. The school I'm going to has you present a patient you have recently taken care of and they ask questions after that. My interview was 5 questions in 7 minutes. Yeah! A nerve-shattering time! Almost all of their interviews average less than ten minutes.
So after gleaning all of the info I could from former/current students of the program I made out a study plan covering the things they mentioned. I wrote out answers to possible questions and rehearsed them over and over again. Whats funny is the best practice I had was when my roommate and I would toss the football around and ask each other random questions and practice our answers. Ex: What is the difference between Epi and Primacor? Why would they be used together? What are the parameters for weaning off the vent? If you see these Swan numbers what type of shock do you think the patient has? Blah, blah, blah. I could go on and on. This constant repetition of answering aloud is what got me over the fear (well, the majority of it anyway) of interviewing. So when I got in the interview and they asked a question my answer just flowed out because I had already practiced it a thousand times.
So talk to people at the program your interested in and find out what the interview comittee expects. Mine was invasive hemodynamic monitoring, vent management, and vasoactive drugs. The drugs being the big deal. Had to know them to the cellular level. And I don't mean saying "Neo acts on alpha-1 receptors." That was just the beginning. It went way deeper than that. Try
www.cvphysiology.com and
www.cvpharmacology.com. Physiology book by Linda Costanzo also.
To sum it up (finally), get the inside scoop on what type of questions they ask and write out your anwers to different scenarios. Have a friend throw questions out there for you to practice saying those answers aloud. Then do it again. And again. And again. After all that remember this:
Repetition is the key to mastery.
Good luck. You can do it.
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I had thought u meant our midwestern stuff.
