Interview Samuel Merritt Questions and Verified Answers, 100% Guarantee Pass (Latest 2025) Tell me a little bit about yourself - Correct Answers ✅born and raised in the bay area, 5th generation raised by a buddhist mother
- compassion, empathy, providing for others
- taught me lessons in leadership, teamwork, and
- biopsychology
- time management
- wanted to be working with people
- tied together science, working with people, and providing
- collaboration with physician
- supporting role + independence
- moved to bay area
- closer to family
- oral surgery for 3 years
- work with patients from start to finish
- initial consult, pre-op, 1st assist in sx, post-op 1 / 3
viola since I was 10
collaboration College
working at restaurant through college
started working in medicine
for others worked with a PA
Interview Samuel Merritt Questions and Verified Answers, 100% Guarantee Pass (Latest 2025)
- excited to take the next step to also be involved in their
diagnosis and treatment planning
Why do you want to be a PA? - Correct Answers ✅Intro:
first interaction with a PA, saw how closely he worked with the physician but had autonomy to treat and diagnose.Teamwork
- Me: always part of a close knit team
- orchestras, restaurants, clinics
- always integral within the team viola vs violin, PA vs
physician
- PA: allow me to be integral part of a healthcare team
- SMU: Jocelyn talking about how she couldn't have gotten
through school without her classmates. With the simulation lab really work on collaborative problem solving and collaborative treatment.Lifelong learner
- Me:
- constantly learning things whether it's teaching myself to
- Buddhist mind 2 / 3
cross stitch during the pandemic or always asking the surgeon questions when I see new things in surgery
Interview Samuel Merritt Questions and Verified Answers, 100% Guarantee Pass (Latest 2025)
- PA:
- Being able to switch specialties will allow me to ensure that
I am constantly learning and will never fully be a master because I can always go deeper in my own specialty, or start learning more about another specialty Helping those in need
- Me:
- Buddhist upbringing, always a part of my life and ideals
- PA:
- As a PA, I like that if I want to devote myself to primary care
I can, but I also know that I can pursue it on a volunteer basis at underserved clinics should my specialty be something else.PAs fill gaps in healthcare that traditional medical system does not reach. As a PA you can go where you're most needed, like in the pandemic.
- SMU: SMU focuses on community outreach both globally
and locally. Saw disparities on SA and India, admire SMU ability to help people on a global level - medical service trips to Panama and Mexican border. Also SMU makes a difference locally providing healthcare to local underserved as well as doing outreach to underserved high schools to introduce high schoolers to career in healthcare.Medical service educates students on global health and empo
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