Student-Faculty Mock Interviews

Student-faculty mock interviews are professionally videotaped by the  UCSD School of Medicine Media Production Group.   We recruit UCSD medical school faculty and community physicians to to conduct the interviews. The format for interviews consists of  informal and unstructured questions that focus on students' demographic and educational backgrounds, motivation for medicine, employment history, clinical volunteerism, and community outreach service.

Students are asked pertinent questions about minority health issues and queried on their visions for their future work in medicine. The mock interviews are thirty minutes in duration, with the last five minutes being reserved for on-camera feedback.   At a later date, students  receive constructive feedback from the Program Director and are provided a  copy of their interview DVD for review and practice. 

We invite you to review excerpts of the mock interviews of four successful students who were admitted to  the 2007 entering class of California medical schools.

• Brian Kurose — briankurose.mov - [1:17 min]
  MS-I, UC Davis School of Medicine
  Faculty Interviewer: Dr. Ruth Heifetz, Senior Lecturer, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine


• Redeat Mesfin — redeatfull.mpg - [3:49 min]
  MS-I, UCSD School of Medicine
  Faculty Interviewer: Dr. Maria Luisa Zùñiga, Division of International Health and Cross-Cultural Medicine


• Tanya Alcala — tanyat.mpg - [3:18 min]
  MS-I, UCSD School of Medicine
  Faculty Interviewer: Dr. Denise von Mühlen, Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine