There are too many here for me to post answers. I suggest writing down a concise answer and rehearsing as best as you can beforehand...these were REALLY asked!!!
o Tell me about a time where you initially disagreed with someone but heard their point and changed your mind
o Tell me about a time where you worked with someone from a different culture. How did you adapt your typical work habits to handle this?
o What was your most meaningful patient interaction
o Tell me about a time when you handled a patient complaint
o Have you ever had to give someone information that they werent satisfied with? How did you handle this?
o What was your involvement in your publication; what was the publication about?
o How did you decide to start X organization?
o How did you decide to do your practicum project (required of our school) on this topic?
o What was your role in the practicum project?
o If you were a drug what drug would you be and why?
o Give me a number from 1 to 10 of how involved you think a preceptor should be in resident rotation
o How did you choose our program?
o What do you look for in a residency program?
o Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
o One of your references said you XYZ in handling situations
.give me an example of this.
o Tell me about a time when you trained a new employee
o Tell me about a time when you were given feedback and how you implemented this into practice
o Tell me about a time when you worked with a group and things werent going your way
o Have you ever worked with people who werent pulling their weight? How did you handle this?
o How do you handle criticism
o Tell me about a big decision you came to and the steps you took to make that decision
How did you choose pharmacy as a career?
o Tell me 3 words a preceptor would use to describe you.
o Tell me 3 words a friend/family member would use to describe you.
o How do you ensure that you have time to relax during a rigorous rotation schedule?
o How would you make a new employee feel comfortable?
o Tell me about a time when you went above and beyond for a patient.
o What do you do to make yourself available to other employees?
o What have you had to alter about your way of doing things in order to adjust to working on a team?
o Tell me about a time when a fellow team member frustrated you. How did you handle this?
o Tell me about a time when your team provided quality care, and what your role was in this endeavor.
o Tell me about the best team experiences you have had.
o How have you shown commitment to your medical team?
o Tell me about an event during your APPEs that build character.
-Tell me about a time you had to learn something very complex and how you handled this
-tell me about a time you didn't meet a deadline, why you didn't...and what you learned or something along those lines...
2. tell me about a time something unexpected happened that interfered with your workflow
3. tell me about a time when you made an unpopular decision
4. tell me about a time you made a mistake and what you learned from it
5. tell me about a time you had a new idea and how you got everyone on board
6. strengths/weaknesses (this sounded like a question she just decided to throw out there that wasn't formally written in the "personality interview packet")
7. how do you manage your time
8. how are you under pressure (this sounded like a question she just decided to throw out there that wasn't formally written in the "personality interview packet")
9. what do you feel are the most important clinical skills a pharmacist should have and why
10. describe any leadership roles you've had, how you lead, what were the outcomes
11. with these leadership roles, would you say you were the planner or the enacter?
12. how do you prioritize projects, how do you make that decision
13. tell me about the most satisfying and dissatisfying preceptor experience you have had and why
14. what areas would you say are your clinical strengths/weaknesses
a. how will you prepare yourself for those areas of weakness before residency starts?
15. what resources have you used to solve problems (DI resource, person...etc)
16. please give an ex of when you used this resources and what was the outcome
17. tell us about a hardship you faced and how you overcame it
18. tell us about a time when you were dissatisfied about the amount of time you had to spend somewhere..at work...or at rotation...
o How do you practice time management?
o What do you do when you have your set schedule and something important thats not on your schedule comes up?
o A lot of people spend a lot of time on one thing and then dont leave themselves enough time to do anything else. How do you ensure this doesnt happen.
· If we were to remember one thing about you, what would you want that to be?
· If you could be any animal, what animal would you be and why?
· What do you consider your most significant rotation?
· What did you do on your internal medicine rotation?
· How involved do you think a preceptor should be?
· Asked how decided on practicum project, what part I took in it, and what results were
· Where do you like to travel? (f/u question to travel being a hobby)
· How did you get the opportunity to submit a publication?
· Tell me about how your participation in a certain extracurricular activity developed a certain skill set that can be utilized in a residency program.
· Tell me what your presentation X was about.
· How did you end up with so many X rotations if your interest isnt in X?
· Was the X program something you had to apply for?
· What was your favorite appe?
· What appe did you find most difficult?
· Sample Patient case:
o HP is a 62 yo woman admitted from a nursing home for pneumonia. Her PMH includes DM, hypothyroidism, COPD, chronic renal insufficiency (not on dialysis). CrCL is ~20 mL/min. A1c=9.5, weight=100kg
§ What labs would you assess in patient w/ pneumonia?
§ What s/sx would you look for?
§ What kind of pneumo would you suspect in terms of types of pneumonia and bugs?
§ What would you consider when determining tx for this patient?
§ What impact can an rph have on factors affecting this patients care?
§ What disease states are important to consider when treating this patient's pneumo
§ Patient started on moxi-what would you want to assess 3 days in in terms of labs, AE, potential DDI, etc?
§ Comment on HPs home meds
· Met 500 po BID
· Insulin 70/30 20 units BID
· Prednisone 10mg daily
· Albuterol inh 2 puffs q6 prn
· Synthroid 50 mcg qd
· Omeprazole 20mg po daily
· Naprosyn 500mg po BID
· Nitrofurantoin 100mg BID X 7 days
§ HP is ready to be discharged. While in the hospital she was on the following meds. would you discontinue or continue at home and why:
· Lantus 20 units sub q qhs
· Lispro flex 5 units subq with meals
· Combivent 2 puffs po prn q6
· Synthroid 50 mcg qd
· Esomeprazole 20mg qd
· Moxi (QT PROLONGATION!!!!!!!!!)
--another pt case:
-was asked to:
-calc CrCl
-list a1c and BP goals of pt
-discuss 9 medication-related problems: many of them needed to be renally adjusted or were inappropriate bc of pt renal impairment
-list adverse effects of drugs pt was on
-list the 4 s/sx of infection present in pt case
-i also realized if they give you a paper case or ask you to pre-submit a portfolio of specific items that you should put your all into it and really show your ability to analyze, critically think...sometimes you might not have the opportunity to verbalize what you know/your experiences. so when given the chance to write about it---write as much as you can.
-even with pt case--write whatever you know! even if you don't know how to calculate something or don't know exact # of something...can write down what you WOULD do or what is needed to answer the question or where you would look for the answer...ANYTHING that shows your ability to think things through and plan, execute...etc
Hope this was helpful!!!!
