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Christine Pasqueretta is a human resource and recruitment professional with experience creating, developing, implementing, leading, and measuring HR impact initiatives.
Most residency training programs require at least one scholarly project during your time with their program. What direction you take that project will ultimately depend on your desired career path and can include clinical research, healthcare quality and educational type projects. Your interviewers want you to demonstrate your ability to take on projects that require a great deal of commitment.

Christine Pasqueretta is a human resource and recruitment professional with experience creating, developing, implementing, leading, and measuring HR impact initiatives.
"I have a very deep clinical interest in genetics and focused my research project in medical school on genetics in cancer diagnoses. On top of a full plate of classwork, this project was extremely time consuming. But, the long hours reading, researching, pulling data and interviewing key experts in the field was so fun and eye opening and really helped my passion grow for genetics in the medical field. The project timeline was six months from creation to turning in my final project. My diligence in setting key milestones for the project and working around deadlines really gave me a good start on further research studies that I'd love to work on as part of your residency program."

Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
Answer this question by discussing a specific time you took the lead on a demanding initiative or project. Be sure to include details of your project timeline, which portion of the project you led, or what you had to teach yourself for the project to be successful. You ideally want to show the interviewers that you are a motivated individual who is ready to take on the demanding scholarly project necessary for your success in their residency program.
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