MTSA Interview

nesha2199 · Jan 25, 2015

I did mine already.

nesha2199 · Jan 25, 2015

I was told deposits were due by the 29th

crnahopeful2 · Jan 26, 2015

I mailed mine also

Neuro_Murse · Jan 29, 2015

Hi Everyone! Im just seeing this post and I also sent my money too. Cant wait to see everyone in May! What is everyone gonna do about housing? I would like to get a big house to rent and have people from our class live there so we can have study sessions and help out on cost. Male nurse if case anyone wanted to know.

fge8845 · Feb 2, 2015

Congrats to all of you who made it in! For the alternates, will they just send us a letter if we get in or will they call us? I got the initial letter stating that I'm an alternate and i signed the form accepting the alternate status, but I don't know what the next step will be if they try to contact me. Thanks!

crnahopeful2 · Feb 3, 2015

I do believe you'll get a phone call. I've heard it's been as late as late April in some cases.

RicRock, MSN, CRNA · May 15, 2015

I do believe you'll get a phone call. I've heard it's been as late as late April in some cases.

Or May :) Just got my call and will see everyone at Orientation on Monday!

TICUrn13 · Dec 2, 2015

Hello all! Hope school is going well so far! I have my interview coming up Jan 11th. I was wondering how each of you prepared and what I should focus in while preparing?! I am already dreading the interview.

crnahopeful2 · Dec 4, 2015

In the letter, it tells you to know all the drugs. On your application you put the drips you frequently work with and the letter says they expect you to know the action of these drugs down to the cellular level and gives a half-page 'example' response. COMPLETE waste of time. They didn't even bring them up in the interview (which was a blessing because I refused to spend hours memorizing pharmacology details for an interview for a program that should teach me that information). However, if you work cardiac or something where your patients are probably always on drips, your scenario might warrant them to ask about pharmacology.

You actually have 2 interviews. One with the dean and program director which is more of a conversational "get to know you, how'd you end up here, what is your understanding of our program" type interview. And then the 'big-guns' interview is with all the coordinators at the affiliate hospitals and some professors and I don't remember who else. In a separate room, you blindly choose a scenario from your specialty, you get 10 minutes to prepare, take notes, and figure out what they might possibly ask you in regards to your chosen scenario. If you know your stuff, this should be a piece of cake. They gave up on tricking me about 3 minutes into my interrogation interview and surprised me with a second scenario. Also a breeze. Then they excused me. All-in-all, I was in and out of the school in 30 minutes.

lady_stic · Dec 8, 2015

@crnahopeful Wow. I've heard that this junior class were abnormally arrogant. You must be the president of the club.

crnahopeful2 · Dec 10, 2015

@crnahopeful Wow. I've heard that this junior class were abnormally arrogant. You must be the president of the club.

Excuse me? I'm not even part of the "abnormally arrogant" junior class at MTSA, nor was I trying to come across as arrogant. I simply stated my own personal interview experience and suggestions, while implying that it's not as awful as it's made out to sound. Not sure how you are interpreting any part of "don't memorize the drugs, and be familiar with common diagnoses and problems that arise in your respective ICU and know how to fix them" as arrogant.

nesha2199 · Jan 4, 2016

TICUrn13, first off, CONGRATS on getting an interview!! The biggest piece of advice that I can offer in regards to the interview is to know your area of practice- wherever that might be. During my interview, I did not get the impression that the interview panel expected me to "know everything" (although you should have a good grasp on the drugs, patient population/disease processes of your particular ICU environment), and there is quite a bit that I DIDN'T know.... Admit this- don't try to talk your way around things, or worse, make them up. If you BS, fabricate, or exaggerate during your interview, then odds are that you will also do that in your practice, and that is bad juju. I wasn't asked a great deal of pharmacology, but that was all scenario dependent. Be confident, but not arrogant- and let your personality shine through. :)