LECOM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
why do you want to be a doctor? - Correct Answers -- Early interest
- Took interest in teaching myself about skin conditions
- Want to know how the body workds
- Neighbor with cancer
- Always hated the feeling of powerlessness, medicine is a career that allows me to do
the hard work to truly make an impact in the lives of others
med students have less empathy after med school than when they enter. Do you
agree? How do we stop this? - Correct Answers -- There was a time when medicine
was taught like this
- Switch to look at the patient as a whole, not just sx
- Reason I like DO
- Med schools need to be careful not to train the empathy out of students
- Getting out into the community and doing service might help make sure we remember
to humanize our patients
- We need to rememeber to humanize medicine
tell us a time you had a long lasting impact on someone's life. - Correct Answers -- I
maybe have not had a long term mentorship
- I have strived to make changes at a structural level to make differences in the lives of
others
- Habitat for humanity, La soupe, AMP
- Building homes and showing people they matter and there are people out there rooting
for them that care
you find your roommate's notebook with questions for an upcoming exam in it. What do
you do? - Correct Answers -- Once a cheater, always a cheater
- There needs to a high level of ethics upheld in the field of medicine (cant be cutting
corners)
- Might be indicator of future unethical practices
- Give them the chance to turn themselves in first, then take it to the school
- Self reporting might result in lesser punishment
- Maybe help them seek resources for whatever issues might have led to my roommate
feeling like they had to resort to this
Why osteopathic medicine? - Correct Answers -o
ANSWERS
why do you want to be a doctor? - Correct Answers -- Early interest
- Took interest in teaching myself about skin conditions
- Want to know how the body workds
- Neighbor with cancer
- Always hated the feeling of powerlessness, medicine is a career that allows me to do
the hard work to truly make an impact in the lives of others
med students have less empathy after med school than when they enter. Do you
agree? How do we stop this? - Correct Answers -- There was a time when medicine
was taught like this
- Switch to look at the patient as a whole, not just sx
- Reason I like DO
- Med schools need to be careful not to train the empathy out of students
- Getting out into the community and doing service might help make sure we remember
to humanize our patients
- We need to rememeber to humanize medicine
tell us a time you had a long lasting impact on someone's life. - Correct Answers -- I
maybe have not had a long term mentorship
- I have strived to make changes at a structural level to make differences in the lives of
others
- Habitat for humanity, La soupe, AMP
- Building homes and showing people they matter and there are people out there rooting
for them that care
you find your roommate's notebook with questions for an upcoming exam in it. What do
you do? - Correct Answers -- Once a cheater, always a cheater
- There needs to a high level of ethics upheld in the field of medicine (cant be cutting
corners)
- Might be indicator of future unethical practices
- Give them the chance to turn themselves in first, then take it to the school
- Self reporting might result in lesser punishment
- Maybe help them seek resources for whatever issues might have led to my roommate
feeling like they had to resort to this
Why osteopathic medicine? - Correct Answers -o
