ezrider00 Registered User Posts: 1 (3/19/01 8:26:01 pm) Reply Manual dexterity testing Is anyone familiar with the manual dexterity exams that are an interview component of programs like HSS? Is it necessary/possible to prepare for them? dbonz Registered User Posts: 2 (3/19/01 9:02:49 pm) Reply manual dexterity The "exam" at the HSS interview is more a test of how well you do two things at once, i.e. bend a K-wire and answer inane questions about your application. They could really care less what the wire looks like when you are done; rather, they would like to know what you would do differently if your wire looks like crap when you are done. Everyone who gets an interview at HSS should know this particular activity is coming, and it is really not that stressful. The Cleveland Clinic gave a writter visuospatial exam, where you had to fit 3-D shapes together (i.e if you matched A-A on one shape and B-B on another, what would the resulting shape look like?) This was not difficult for the most part, and was billed as,"not having any bearing on the matching process." OrthoDoc ezOP Posts: 41 (3/19/01 10:06:24 pm) Reply Re: manual dexterity When I interviewed, some program had you stick your hand in a bag of change and count out the total without looking. I think it was University of Chicago