How to Answer the What is Your Greatest Strength or Weakness Medical School Interview Question
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ค. 2024
- The "What is your greatest strength?" and "What is your greatest weakness?" medical school interview questions are two of the most anxiety-inducing.
It's common to worry about sounding too braggy when asked about your biggest strength or saying something that might scare off adcoms when asked what your biggest weakness is.
In this video, we'll discuss how to ace these two tough questions, along with sample answers for each, plus an example of answer that tackles both your greatest strength and weakness.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Introduction
2:23 - Why do adcoms need to know?
4:16 - Strategy #1 Be honest and genuine
4:55 - Strategy #2 Frame a (short) story
7:23 - Strategy #3 Preparing ahead of time
7:43 - Brainstorming exercise
10:01 - Common mistakes (and answer samples)
14:31 - Final thoughts
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What will you highlight as your greatest strength or weakness during med school interviews?
Thank you so much,this was really helpful
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How is the example given at the beginning different from the not using perfectionism as a weakness common error near the end of the video? Second, don't all schools value collaboration so using the difficulty delegating would be harmful? Thanks for any additional guidance/clarity you can provide here!
Great video, my strength would be determination and weakness dyslexia. but my strength evolved from this weakness.
Awesome video. I'm a slow reader/listener so I need extra time but I make up for it by internalizing more than I need to.
You can do it!
I love this video! super helpful!
Glad you liked it!!
This is amazingggggg !!!!!
Glad you found. it valuable!
Great stuff. Fully applicable to interviewing for ANY position, inside or outside of medicine. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for your kind words, Jim! Glad you found it valuable.
Can I say my weakness is procrastinating?
My greatest weakness is procrastinate. Whenever I assigned to some work. I start when I'm close to due date. But when I procrastinate those things, I always think about it in creative way... Actually I can come up with creative work even I'm near due date. Sometimes it makes me streesed that I may not able to submit. So I decided to not get stressed and now working on it. During pandemic, I helped myself by assigning work last night and doing next day and reward myself. Actually I motivated me . yet , I'm working on it.
Is this appropriate answer? My original weakness is this. I can't think of any other.
I don't think that it comes over the way you intend it to be
Could you explain how self thought is a weakness
wow
This was a really helpful video. Thanks for sharing! I have an interview for a research position and my biggest weakness is doing any sort of mathematical calculations. Although this is not the job's prime requirement, everyone considers that if someone has applied for a professional position, such things will be obviously known by the applicant. Do you think this is something that can be mentioned as a weakness and if yes don't you think mentioning this can make me appear less in front of other candidates?
Glad it was helpful!
We would advise you to not mention difficulties with math as a weakness.
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Hi there, I at times have difficulties in understanding things at one go but I always read up, ask questions and practice to improve. Would saying that difficulty in understanding at first go would be a negative thing to write about or say? Thank you!
We would not recommend communicating that to an interviewer. Perhaps you could instead focus on how committed you are to learning things you are passionate about. That would be a good reframe!
Can your strength be your weakness?
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How long would you say you should spend talking about your strengths and weaknesses?
Enough to make your point. Nothing more, nothing less. Typically, answers should not exceed 2 minutes, but focus on delivering the right info, not the time.
Did you have tourettes?
By the way the video is awesome