MCPHS University Pharmacy School Mock Interview

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What’s the greatest impact you hope to have once you become a pharmacist?

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Rachelle Enns

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The interviewers are curious if you have any altruist motivators in pursuing a career in medicine. MCPHS places significant value on community and embracing diversity and emphasizes its focus on integrative medicine. Consider your personal story, the inception of when you decided to pursue a career in medicine, and how you plan to make a positive and lasting impact on your community once you start your career. Above all, display your passion and enthusiasm when describing how you hope to make an impact for the greater good on either a micro or macro scale.

Rachelle Enns

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"I have chosen to become a pharmacist because of the broad impact I can make on my patients, their families, and my community. Being a pharmacist is much more than dispensing medication. It's a career where I can get to know many of my patients on a closer level since they will visit me regularly for prescription refills. I can educate my patients on proper dosing, which impacts side-effect management, appetite levels, sleep quality, and mental clarity. As a pharmacist, I will improve the profession by bringing this whole-health knowledge and mindset to my patients. When my patients feel motivated and empowered to take their entire health into their hands, it will create a trickle-down effect in other aspects of their lives, including their family members' well-being. This ripple will create greater respect for proper medicating, improve how the public views our profession, and highlight how a patient can rely on a pharmacist to help them manage their health."

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40MCPHS University Interview Questions & Answers

Behavioral

1.What drives your passion to pursue a career in the field of pharmacy?

Diligence

2.What is your plan if you're not accepted into Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Services (MDPHS) this year?

Experience

3.What would you consider the most pressing concern facing pharmacists today?

Problem Solving

4.Do you have a plan in place for navigating all the financial challenges you’ll face while attending pharmacy school?

Experience

5.Tell us about your academic performance so far. Where have you excelled, and where could you improve?

Behavioral

6.Why should we accept you into our college over another equally qualified student?

Behavioral

7.What quality do you feel a pharmacist should possess above all others?

Career Goals

8.How will you match Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Services’ contributions to your personal and professional development?

Experience

9.Tell us about your GPA. How do you feel about it, and what are you aiming for next?

Behavioral

10.What area of pharmacology do you enjoy most and which is your least favorite?

Behavioral

11.If you could meet anyone in the history of medicine you could meet, who would it be and why?

Communication

12.Do you have any questions I can answer about Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Services?

Communication

13.What can you tell me about MCPHS?

Behavioral

14.What weakness do you feel attending MCPHS University can help you overcome?

Behavioral

15.What kind of research did you conduct that led you to apply to our university of pharmacy?

Behavioral

16.What would you like us to know about you that isn’t on your CV?

Accomplishment

17.What scholastic achievements are you most proud of on your pharmacist career journey?

Behavioral

18.What are you reading right now?

Compatibility

19.What other pharmacy programs have you applied to, in order of preference?

Behavioral

20.How do you stay current on pharmaceutical breakthroughs, innovations, discoveries, and developments?

Honesty

21.If you witnessed a classmate cheating, how would you react?

Behavioral

22.Does your family support your pursuit of a career in pharmacy?

Behavioral

23.When you receive feedback or criticism of your work, how does that impact you?

Behavioral

24.Who in your life mentors or inspires you?

Stress

25.How do you feel about your performance in this interview so far?

26.When you suffer a setback, how does that emotionally impact your work?

Behavioral

27.What do you consider the drawbacks and benefits of alternative medicine?

Experience

28.How would you describe a day on the job of a pharmacist?

Problem Solving

29.If you have 25 horses and no timer, how many races would you have to run to figure out the top five fastest horses?

Compatibility

30.How does your learning style fit with the teaching methods at MCPHS University?

Experience

31.How skilled are you in recognizing and responding to the signs of prescription drug abuse?

Career Goals

32.Do you have aspirations to own a pharmacy in the future? If so, what appeals to you about business ownership?

Competency

33.Share your scope of cases of pharmacy malpractice or pharmacist negligence, and how’d you'd prevent this from happening to you.

Stress

34.What’s your plan for coping with the pressures associated with our pharmacy program?

Experience

35.Walk us through your approach to studying for exams.

Problem Solving

36.How do you react when you encounter a roadblock in your studies?

Problem Solving

37.You are given you 50 black marbles, 50 white marbles, and two bowls. Divide the 100 marbles between the two bowls. Blindfolded, you must choose one bowl and remove one BLACK marble. How do you divide them to ensure you draw a BLACK marble?

Behavioral

38.What’s the greatest impact you hope to have once you become a pharmacist?

Communication

39.Talk about the last pharma-related article you read. What did you learn?

Communication

MCPHS University Pharmacy School Mock Interview

What’s the greatest impact you hope to have once you become a pharmacist?

40MCPHS University Interview Questions & Answers

1.What drives your passion to pursue a career in the field of pharmacy?

2.What is your plan if you're not accepted into Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Services (MDPHS) this year?

3.What would you consider the most pressing concern facing pharmacists today?

4.Do you have a plan in place for navigating all the financial challenges you’ll face while attending pharmacy school?

5.Tell us about your academic performance so far. Where have you excelled, and where could you improve?

6.Why should we accept you into our college over another equally qualified student?

7.What quality do you feel a pharmacist should possess above all others?

8.How will you match Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Services’ contributions to your personal and professional development?

9.Tell us about your GPA. How do you feel about it, and what are you aiming for next?

10.What area of pharmacology do you enjoy most and which is your least favorite?

11.If you could meet anyone in the history of medicine you could meet, who would it be and why?

12.Do you have any questions I can answer about Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Services?

13.What can you tell me about MCPHS?

14.What weakness do you feel attending MCPHS University can help you overcome?

15.What kind of research did you conduct that led you to apply to our university of pharmacy?

16.What would you like us to know about you that isn’t on your CV?

17.What scholastic achievements are you most proud of on your pharmacist career journey?

18.What are you reading right now?

19.What other pharmacy programs have you applied to, in order of preference?

20.How do you stay current on pharmaceutical breakthroughs, innovations, discoveries, and developments?

21.If you witnessed a classmate cheating, how would you react?

22.Does your family support your pursuit of a career in pharmacy?

23.When you receive feedback or criticism of your work, how does that impact you?

24.Who in your life mentors or inspires you?

25.How do you feel about your performance in this interview so far?

26.When you suffer a setback, how does that emotionally impact your work?

27.What do you consider the drawbacks and benefits of alternative medicine?

28.How would you describe a day on the job of a pharmacist?

29.If you have 25 horses and no timer, how many races would you have to run to figure out the top five fastest horses?

30.How does your learning style fit with the teaching methods at MCPHS University?

31.How skilled are you in recognizing and responding to the signs of prescription drug abuse?

32.Do you have aspirations to own a pharmacy in the future? If so, what appeals to you about business ownership?

33.Share your scope of cases of pharmacy malpractice or pharmacist negligence, and how’d you'd prevent this from happening to you.

34.What’s your plan for coping with the pressures associated with our pharmacy program?

35.Walk us through your approach to studying for exams.

36.How do you react when you encounter a roadblock in your studies?

37.You are given you 50 black marbles, 50 white marbles, and two bowls. Divide the 100 marbles between the two bowls. Blindfolded, you must choose one bowl and remove one BLACK marble. How do you divide them to ensure you draw a BLACK marble?

38.What’s the greatest impact you hope to have once you become a pharmacist?

39.Talk about the last pharma-related article you read. What did you learn?

40.How has COVID-19 and other pandemics of the past impacted the profession of a pharmacist?