Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine MD program · Sample interviewer (fictional)
Fictional interviewer written for this sample; the employers are invented.
Samuel Adeyinka, MD, MPH (he/him)
Associate Professor of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine · Admissions Committee member · Boston, Massachusetts
About
I'm a general internist who splits my week between a primary care clinic and the inpatient medicine wards. Many of my patients are recently housed or newly insured, and a few are both. I teach first-year students how to take a history that includes rent, work and who drives them to appointments. I've sat on the MD admissions committee since 2020 and read every application in full before I interview. I'm most interested in what you learned from something that didn't go the way you planned.
Experience
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine (Boston, MA) - Associate Professor of Medicine, 2019 - present - Attending physician in general internal medicine clinic and on inpatient wards (about 10 weeks a year) - Co-director, first-year clinical skills course, since 2022 - MD admissions committee member and interviewer, since 2020
Dorchester Bay Community Health Center (Boston, MA) - Staff Physician, 2014 - 2019 - Ran a diabetes group-visit program for Haitian Creole- and Cape Verdean Creole-speaking patients with community health workers
Harbor Point Recovery Clinic (Quincy, MA) - Volunteer physician, 2017 - present - Monthly evening sessions prescribing buprenorphine and managing hepatitis C
Education
- MPH, Health Policy, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2014
- Residency, Internal Medicine, Hudson Valley Teaching Hospital (New York), 2010 - 2013
- MD, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2010
- BS, Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, 2005. Worked two years as a pharmacy technician before medical school.
Research
- Co-author of 9 papers on primary care continuity after hospital discharge and the costs of medical devices for older adults
Volunteering
- Mentor for first-generation pre-medical students through a Boston-area pipeline program
Interests
Plays pickup soccer on Sunday mornings, cooks jollof rice for his daughter's school events, and is slowly reading every Toni Morrison novel in order.