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Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
You can take your future career as a Family Medicine physician in any direction you'd like. Your interviewers want to know the procedures you want to learn in their program.

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
Come to your Family Medicine Residency interviewers prepared to describe what your ideal future practice will look like. Be prepared to talk about the procedures you are looking forward to mastering during your Family Medicine Residency training. These procedures can include maternity-related procedures, pregnancy management, endoscopies/colonoscopies, skin biopsies, vasectomies, and suturing.

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"As of right now, I'm focused on becoming a well-rounded Family Physician, and I'm looking forward to learning a lot of different procedures. I don't foresee myself working with obstetrics down the road, but I look forward to learning and mastering IUD placements, skin biopsies, and exploring colonoscopies/endoscopies during my time in training. I've heard marvelous things about your program concerning these procedures."
"Yes, my goal is to come out of residency prepared to work as an attending physician in a primary care setting. I would like to learn how to give immunizations, do basic I&Ds, and gynecologic examinations."

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