Sitting on an interview panel is a privilege

I had an opportunity to be on the panel for interviewing prospective medical students. I have always thought it would be interesting to see how it might be from the other side and how different things would be if I were doing the questioning. I remember quite vividly the interviews I had to endure before being accepted by a medical school several years ago, and how daunting the whole event was to a relatively inexperienced student. Now that I am in the fourth year, I felt I had some opinions about what would make a good doctor.

The …