Behavioral Residency Mock Interview
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Question 21 of 30
What was the most difficult decision you have had to make up to this point in your career path?
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Christine Pasqueretta is a human resource and recruitment professional with experience creating, developing, implementing, leading, and measuring HR impact initiatives.
Throughout your medical education leading up to your medical degree, you have learned and mastered an enormous amount of knowledge and your interviewing team will be confident in this. In asking this question, your interviewer wants to ensure that you would come to their training program with essential decision-making skills on top of your knowledge base. Your journey into residency may be the first time you will be calling the shots with patients and your interviewing team needs to be confident in your ability to do so.
Christine Pasqueretta is a human resource and recruitment professional with experience creating, developing, implementing, leading, and measuring HR impact initiatives.
"I would have to say that the most difficult decision that I have had to make was changing my major from education to biology and turning my career path around to be a physician. I was a second-year student and knew that the decision would set me back as far as graduation went. On top of that, becoming an educator was almost a given in my family with my mom, dad and older brother all being etchers. However, after weighing the pros and cons, I knew that this added time was well worth the overall reward. I am so happy that I chose this path because I have built some great relationships and I'm on a path to make some very positive differences in the lives of my patients."
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Use an example relevant to your work or education and be sure to highlight how you approached the decision by taking the interviewer through your critical thinking and decision-making process. You should also include details of how your decision worked out for the best. At the end of your response, remember to connect your critical thinking skills and how they will benefit you in the coming years as a medical resident in training.
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