Help! I have no clue

[YurkleTurkel]

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Hey all,

after several rejection letters 🙁 i finally got a few interview invitations (i want to be a radiologist - and damn is it tough). I went to my first interview last week and realized that i have no clue whati am doing. I usually dont prepare for "job interviews" i just go and just try to be me and figure that if they dont like it - then screw them. But, as i was rejected from most of the places i really wanted to go, it occurred to me that this is a really important time.

Many of the other residents at my last interview were obviously prepared - they had copies of papers they had written and were telling stories and seemed very confident. maybe i am just letting my own insecurities get the best of me.

It also didnt help me that i totally floundered on a couple of what in retrospect were "basic questions" - in an interview with the program director he asked me "What is your favorite disease?" - i totally blanked - i couldnt think of anything... . CHF? no too common and lame.. Syphilis? no.. he would think i was a wierdo...... PNH - yeah! i had a case of that my first week on medicine - unfortunately i couldnt remember a single thing about it. so i just kind of stuttered then he said - "well you know like.. . Amniotic Fluid embolism - what do you know about that?" ugh. OB/GYN was my least favorite rotation. . but i seemed to remember something about chemical pneumonitis-ish sort of reaction and mumbled something about it (i ceant really remember much of what i said).

After my experience at that first interview i was totally flustered the rest of the day.

Has anyone else felt a similar way? I have always been somewhat of a loner and there has never been anyone to tell me what to expect or how to prepare (i am the first in my family to even graduate college much less med school)

Help! I have no clue what i am doing...

YurkTurk

 

[beanbean]

Try posting in the Radiology forum here on SDN (if you haven't already). Getting some responses from those who have 'been there, done that' might be helpful. Interviewing is tough. It is important to be professional and prepared, yet be yourself, and at the same time you are trying to evaluate the residency program as well. If someone asks you a question that flusters you, just let it go and don't let it efect you the rest of the day. There often aren't right or wrong answers to the tough questions. It is more the manner and logic that you use in your answer that is important.

Good luck!

 

[YurkleTurkel]

Will do - thanks!

Try posting in the Radiology forum here on SDN (if you haven't already). Getting some responses from those who have 'been there, done that' might be helpful. Interviewing is tough. It is important to be professional and prepared, yet be yourself, and at the same time you are trying to evaluate the residency program as well. If someone asks you a question that flusters you, just let it go and don't let it efect you the rest of the day. There often aren't right or wrong answers to the tough questions. It is more the manner and logic that you use in your answer that is important.

Good luck!