Interview tips

[coralis]

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If you guys out there have any interview tips, any helpful hints about how you prepared for the interview. Did you use any books? If yes which ones? Did you go to workshops? Mock interviews? How did you go about answering the hard questions (i.e. strength and weaknesses) Etc!

So far, how I am preparing is through the following:

- SDN
- ValueMed
- Mock interview (have one scheduled)
- University websites
- The Medical School Interview: Secrets and a System for Success by Jeremiah Fleenor (I ordered it just now...so I will rate it later)
- Doing Right: A Practical Guide to Ethics for Medical Trainees and Physicians by Philip C. Hebert (supposedly an absolutely amazing book, my schools library has 8 copies...ALL out!!!! )

Cheers!!!

 

[leorl]

interview tips for med school? or residency? i guess it's similar. Basically what I did for residency interviews was try to anticipate questions that could be asked, thought up answers to them, and actually practiced out loud those answers so that when asked, I couldn't be thrown off guard and my answers would sound polished and smooth. Sounds dorky, but it worked.

 

[coralis]

interview tips for med school? or residency? i guess it's similar. Basically what I did for residency interviews was try to anticipate questions that could be asked, thought up answers to them, and actually practiced out loud those answers so that when asked, I couldn't be thrown off guard and my answers would sound polished and smooth. Sounds dorky, but it worked.

hey leorl, that's how I prepared as well. However, it seems all my preparation went out the window and nerves took over me!!!

 

[leorl]

hmm, did you practice with friends? selling yourself to your friends is actually very difficult to do, so if you can overcome that, then you can do it to a stranger. i helped one of my friends do it, I asked him some really difficult questions and when he got stuck, we came up with preformed answers that way.

 

[coralis]

hmm, did you practice with friends? selling yourself to your friends is actually very difficult to do, so if you can overcome that, then you can do it to a stranger. i helped one of my friends do it, I asked him some really difficult questions and when he got stuck, we came up with preformed answers that way.

Oh...I didn't choke....is just that in retrospect, and with a clear head, I would have answered some questions, not differently, but maybe with more information.

 

[leorl]

oh, right. the other thing I did was research each place I interviewed with a Lot. I knew the ins and outs of their practices and hospitals, and the research interests of some of the docs there. And picked out several things that interested me about each one.