Interview questions

[UCLanie4]

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Regarding the "psychoanalytic" style interview questions...does anyone know of any resources with a list of commonly asked questions for Psych interviewees? I'd like to prepare for these ahead of time so I don't end up blurting out something inappropriately personal! 🙄

 

[wolfvgang22]

That's an interesting question. I have no idea.

If you prepared for psychoanalytic type questions, then the answers would be fairly useless to the interviewer, wouldn't they? Not that there's anything wrong with that.

If somebody asks me a personal question, then I'll probably answer it truthfully - my true self is gonna come out eventually, better now than at 3am in December of intern year. I got nothing to hide anyway. If somebody asks me why I hate my mother, I'll laugh and say no, I hate my father...lol
That's just what I'm gonna do, to each his own.

 

[OldPsychDoc]

Questions I commonly ask:

When did you decide to enter psych?
What interests you in our program?
What interests you in our locale?
What are you proudest about accomplishing in your life so far?
How do imagine psychiatry might be different here than where you have lived/trained so far?
What have you experienced as far as challenges of delivering psychiatric care to patients in the community? (Trying to get at access, parity, funding issues, etc)
What kind of patients do you most enjoy working with?
Tell me more about your [research/hobby/travel/service] that you mentioned in your personal statement.

(And yes there are "right" answers to all of these questions, and no I will not tell you what they are! )

 

[Doc Samson]

On of my faves:

Have you parents gotten over your decision to go into psychiatry yet?

 

[shrinkknit]

Are there really "right" answers to those questions?😕

 

[billypilgrim37]

Are there really "right" answers to those questions?😕

There are clearly wrong ones.

 

[heyjack70]

Questions I commonly ask:

When did you decide to enter psych? After I got out of rehab
What interests you in our program? The hot residents
What interests you in our locale? The night life
What are you proudest about accomplishing in your life so far? Getting out of rehab
How do imagine psychiatry might be different here than where you have lived/trained so far? Your docs aren't as liberal with prescribing benzos
What have you experienced as far as challenges of delivering psychiatric care to patients in the community? (Trying to get at access, parity, funding issues, etc) this job is challenging because the crazy people are so unreasonable
What kind of patients do you most enjoy working with? crazy ones
Tell me more about your [research/hobby/travel/service] that you mentioned in your personal statement. I consider winning that drinking contest the highlight of the last 10 years

(And yes there are "right" answers to all of these questions, and no I will not tell you what they are! )

 

[OldPsychDoc]

Questions I commonly ask:

When did you decide to enter psych? After I got out of rehab
What interests you in our program? The hot residents
What interests you in our locale? The night life
What are you proudest about accomplishing in your life so far? Getting out of rehab
How do imagine psychiatry might be different here than where you have lived/trained so far? Your docs aren't as liberal with prescribing benzos
What have you experienced as far as challenges of delivering psychiatric care to patients in the community? (Trying to get at access, parity, funding issues, etc) this job is challenging because the crazy people are so unreasonable
What kind of patients do you most enjoy working with? crazy ones
Tell me more about your [research/hobby/travel/service] that you mentioned in your personal statement. I consider winning that drinking contest the highlight of the last 10 years

(And yes there are "right" answers to all of these questions, and no I will not tell you what they are! )

Follow-up: "Why did you bother to schedule this interview?"

Your answer: a) "my probation officer made me."
b) "I wanted a couple of free meals and some donuts."
c) "See my answer to question #2 above."
d) "I wanted to make the next interviewee look REALLY GOOD in comparison to me."

 

[shrinkknit]

All of those "wrong" answers were very cute.