What invasive procedure are you most excited to learn during Cardiology Fellowship training?
Coming out of Internal Medicine Residency and in hopes of landing a great Cardiology Fellowship position, you are well aware of all of the invasive procedures that you will be learning over the next three years. With this question, your interviewers are looking to hear what invasive procedure is most exciting to you and learn a bit about what you will be trying to accomplish during your time training with their program.
"During my residency training, I feel like I got very good exposure to stenting and performing angioplasty and I'm looking forward to expanding and mastering those minimally invasive procedures here. I'm most excited about performing catheterizations of the heart because this procedure is so vital in evaluating a patient's blood flow to and from the heart and determining the best course of action for them."
Come to your interview prepared to openly discuss the one or two invasive procedures that excite you the most. With no right or wrong answer to a question like this, your interviewers will be keying in on your passion and drive for the procedure you are most excited about and you'll want to display both passion and drive as you answer.
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Anonymous Answer
I'm very excited about the cath lab. As a med student, I shadowed an ablation for a patient with WPW in the cath lab and thought it was amazing how the electrophysiology doctors and the cardiac cath doctors worked together to figure out exactly where the aberrant pathway was located. It's amazing that a minimally invasive procedure can fix such a potentially serious problem.
Jaymie's Feedback
Excellent! The interviewer was looking for a specific and detailed answer and you provided just that.
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