How to Answer: We believe in the continual development of our faculty, both professionally and personally. What is your self-development plan?
Advice and answer examples written specifically for an Anesthesiologist job interview.
25. We believe in the continual development of our faculty, both professionally and personally. What is your self-development plan?
How to Answer
A new associate should not act like he/she already has tenure and just 'punch in' and 'punch out' every day. Coming with the job is a vocational mandate to improve--yourself and, with it, the whole team. The interviewers do not necessarily want to know what your exact plan is, but that you in fact have plans. This means you're already thinking ahead and are 'all in' when it comes to your profession. If they are going to invest in you, they need to know that you have a plan in place for investing in yourself also, which will come back to the team as a whole.
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Entry Level Example
"The practice of medicine, once separated from the business side by a wide gulf of arrogance and self-appointed nobility, now sees this dividing line blurring. Besides continuing medical education, which is automatically built into my recertification schedule, I want to pursue an education in business. Business and medicine are no longer at odds with each other because of some attitude of elitism, and the truth is that a business sensibility can help medicine by improving efficiency and reducing expenses, which benefits everyone from the big institutions to each patient."
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Answer Example
"If I don't strive for improvement, I will be bored; I didn't train in anesthesiology to be bored. I want to practice state-of-the-art medicine while incorporating the newer ideas and advances that come from the rapidly increasing medical knowledge, and that means keeping a keen eye out for the literature of my specialty and interacting with it by incorporating what I learn into my practice."
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Experienced Example
"I intend to partner with new anesthesiologists to try to incorporate the newer protocols and techniques into my already-established way of doing things. The new anesthesilolgists have a lot to learn from me--and I intend to give that to them; but I also have a lot to learn from them. I can't know everything, and I rely on the range and depth of special interests that all of those with less experience will bring as they try to improve themselves--we should all ride that ride together. In other words, they can bring the variety and volume that accruing medical knowledge offers and I can bring a perspective of how such new things apply to the real world of practice. This is a win-win."
Written by Rachelle Enns