Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University MD program · Sample interviewer (fictional)
Fictional interviewer written for this sample; the employers are invented.
Yolanda Whitfield, MD (she/her)
Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine · Admissions Committee member · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
About
Family physician in North Philadelphia for seventeen years. Half my week I see patients at a community health center where most adults I care for have diabetes, hypertension, or opioid use disorder, and usually more than one. I prescribe buprenorphine in primary care and teach residents to do the same without a separate referral. I have sat on the medical school's Admissions Committee since 2018 and read every file before I meet someone. I care less about what you led than about what you noticed.
Experience
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University (Philadelphia, PA) - Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, 2016 - present - Admissions Committee member and interviewer since 2018. - Co-leads a first-year course session on social determinants of health and neighborhood life expectancy. - Preceptor for third-year family medicine clerkship students.
Allegheny Avenue Family Health Center (Philadelphia, PA) - Staff Physician, then Medical Director of Addiction Services, 2009 - present - Built an office-based addiction treatment program that now follows more than 300 patients. - Runs weekly case conferences with nurses, case managers and peer recovery specialists.
Riverward Community Hospital (Philadelphia, PA) - Hospitalist, 2008 - 2009
Education
- Residency, Family Medicine, Philadelphia, 2005 - 2008
- MD, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 2005
- BS, Biology, Howard University, 2000. Worked two years as a pharmacy technician in Baltimore before medical school.
Volunteering
- Board member, a North Philadelphia neighborhood food cooperative (2019 - present).
- Monthly Saturday blood pressure screenings at her church in Germantown.
- Mentor for first-generation premedical students at a local community college.
Interests
Gardening in a community plot off Lehigh Avenue; walks the Wissahickon trails on Sunday mornings; reads mystery novels, preferably several at once; still learning to play the piano she bought in 2020.