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Question regarding this upcoming residency interview process.
Research is a pretty significant part of my application with a number of publications over the last several years. Some projects are related, others are not at all.
I anticipate this question coming up a lot if applicants list any research activities.
My question is: How are people tackling this question? And what specifically would an interviewer be looking for when they ask this question?
Do I keep it nice and short and just say I worked in XYZ lab, and we sought to look for the role of X and its effect on Y? I.e. just giving the bare bones of of what the research topic was and let them ask any followup questions more specific to the project.
Or are interviewers looking for you to talk about your hypotheses, what specific results you found, where you published etc? For me, this would feel correct bc it would truly give them an idea of what my research entailed, but at the same time, talking about your research could go on forever (especially if yo have multiple projects ongoing) and I wouldn't want to bore them.
Research is a pretty significant part of my application with a number of publications over the last several years. Some projects are related, others are not at all.
I anticipate this question coming up a lot if applicants list any research activities.
My question is: How are people tackling this question? And what specifically would an interviewer be looking for when they ask this question?
Do I keep it nice and short and just say I worked in XYZ lab, and we sought to look for the role of X and its effect on Y? I.e. just giving the bare bones of of what the research topic was and let them ask any followup questions more specific to the project.
Or are interviewers looking for you to talk about your hypotheses, what specific results you found, where you published etc? For me, this would feel correct bc it would truly give them an idea of what my research entailed, but at the same time, talking about your research could go on forever (especially if yo have multiple projects ongoing) and I wouldn't want to bore them.