Interview Questions and Answers for Residency
By Edward Lin, Matthew Gill, and Michael Sheflo
- Why do you want to go into this specialty?
- What are you looking for in a residency program?
- What have you learned about yourself during medical school?
- Do you have any teaching experience?
- How do you make clinical decisions?
- How did you deal with a difficult time in your life?
- What do you do to cope with stress and disappointment?
- What kinds of patients are most difficult for you to relate to and how do you overcome this?
- What are your strengths?
- What are your weaknesses?
- How do you establish rapport with patients?
- How do you establish relationships with colleagues and hospital staff?
- What motivates you in medicine?
- What is something that you have learned outside of medicine that has been beneficial to know within medicine?
- What are your interests in research?
- How do you compare to the rest of your medical school class?
- What are your long-term goals?
- How do you deal with disagreement?
- What are you most proud of?
- Who is your role model?
- What other specialties did you consider applying to?
- We have many strong applicants, why should we choose you?
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