Jordan's Medical School Interview

So Jordan was invited for an Interview to the "Pacific North West University Medical School" or also referred to as PNWU. It was SOOOO exciting! The school is in Yakima Washington, which for those who dont know is in the middle of the state of WA, is very agricultural and kinda boonie land. Its about the size of Idaho Falls. So not too small like Rexburg, but by no means a city of any consequence. It is about 3hours from everywhere else, including seattle, portland, spokane, CorDeLAne ID, and an hour from the Tri cities.

His interview was Monday the 12th of April, he flew into portland and took mister Kyren with him. Which means Loni had a great girls only weekend with Katie and Kristen (college roomates)and no babies! It was a lot of fun. Jordan stayed with my parents in Salkum WA which is 2 hours from Yakima. He left Mister Kyren with the ol grandparents while he was in Yakima. THey were so excited to see the blob. He flew out sunday and returned tuesday night.

The school so far is only one building, like a large 2 story stake center. on the one sid of the building on the 1st floor is the classrooms, large with microphones hanging from the ceiling. the professor also wears a mic, and when he talks the other hanging mics turn off and he can be heard by the whole class, when he stops talking the overhead mics turn on and that way the whole class can hear when another student has a question or comment. the class size is 75 students and you take every class together as a big group. in the middle section on the 1st floor is a library and a conference room. the other side is administration offices. on the upstairs one side is the cadaver labs, the middle is hands on labs with tables, this is where you learn and practice the hands on side of Osteopathic medicine. the other side of the 2nd floor is study rooms, on the bookends of the building is a large foyer, and the other side is a simulated doctors office, everything looks legit they even have someone role play the receptionist. they have volunteers from the community come in and role play different illnesses. each room has a hidden camera or two to watch how you handle each pt. afterwards you review the films and see ways to improve.

When I arrived and entered there was a receptionist who gave me a name badge and told me to sit in the foyer and wait. there were 18 of us interviewees. and we all looked the same, black suits and dresses. there was one kid from west point so he had on his officers uniform. ofter only a few minutes a woman asked us to follow her to the conference room. we there had a two hour presentation on the school, including admissions info, history, future plans of the school, introduced a few faculty members, and went over financial aid and curriculum. after that for lunch they brought in whole whear hoagies and chips, we had lunch with some of the students and it was cool to see that they were very happy, honest, friendly, and down to earth. we were then given a tour of the building and the students giving the tour were very informative.

after the tour we were brought back to the foyer to wait for our interviews. They went alphabetically so I was one of the first. the interviewers game and got you from the group in the foyer. i was happy to find that the person who came to get me was the same that had given the presentation that morning, she was very friendly and easy to talk to. during lunch I had got to talk to her for 10 to 15 minutes just talking about the school and her presentation. so I was glad it was her.

The layout of the interview is 21 generic question that everyone gets asked, and you are allowed to answer them in any way that you like. there are two interviewers, one has read your application and essays, the other knows nothing about you. The questions were fair and balanced and asked to know your interest in medicine, the northwest, pnwu, people. there were questions about yourself, the healthcare system, there were scenario questions to see if you are a sympathetic person. i feel that I was able to answer them as i would have hoped, and that I accurately represented myself. Something that made me feel positive about the interview was the other interviewer. as the lady brought me into the room he was already sitting there at the table. he tried to look scary and tough. It was great to see that as the interview progressed he loosened up and by the end he was jovial and laughing with me. So anyways I feel good about it, and feel that it went as well as it could have and I did as well as I could have. Now its just to see if it was good enough.