Speed-Date Your Way Into Medical School? Not So Fast!

In his editorial, “Speed-Date Your Way Into Medical School” (November, 2011), Editor-in-Chief James V. Felicetta, MD, praises an experimental method of interviewing medical school applications: 8 to 10 “speed-date” interviews, each lasting about 7 minutes. The candidate has 2 minutes to read an “ethical dilemma” scenario posted outside each interviewer’s room. The interviewer then asks the candidate to opine on the issue.