Session 31 In this episode, Ryan focuses on the medical school interview process, an important topic to discuss considering that it's interview season and Ryan has a book coming up on Kindle. Find out more about it on www.medschoolinterviewbook.com and sign up to get notified when it releases. This book will also hit physical bookstores by the first part of next year. Ryan pulls a statement from the forums over at OldPreMeds.org and he discusses how critical preparing for an interview is. OldPreMeds Question of the Week: Poster got an interview feedback from one of the schools they applied to last year. The school quoted the committee stating that they felt the interviewee was extremely nervous, talking very rapidly, so rapidly that they often could not understand what was said. The committee felt as though the interviewee came across as closed-minded and lacking of self-awareness due to a combination of the choice of words and phrases used during the interview as well as the inability to fully answer some questions. Some comments were not received favorably by the committee and viewed as very disrespectful. Poster is at a loss as to how to correct this. Here are the insights from Ryan: This is what happens if you don't prepare properly for your interviews. Mock interviews are very, very important to understand how the words floating around your head come out of your mouth and land on the interviewer. It's your job to make sure the words you're saying land favorably on the interviewer. You can't control everybody listening to you to agree with you but if you're saying stuff that are very off-putting then you're obviously doing something wrong. As you prepare for your interviews, record yourself with a video camera or an audio recorder. Have somebody go through the interview process with you. If you need a list of questions, check out www.medschoolinterviewbook.com to sign up and get notified when the book is released. It contains almost 600 possible questions as well as questions you can throw at your interviewers. The book also has over 50 real answer from mock interviews Ryan has done with students including the feedback he gave to students. Links and Other Resources: OldPreMeds.org www.medschoolinterviewbook.com