Family Medicine Residency Mock Interview
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Question 19 of 38
Do you have any desire to engage in research as a Family Medicine Resident? How about as you get into practice post-residency training?
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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.
If asked this question during your interview, there's a strong chance that the Family Medicine Residency you are interviewing with strongly encourages its residents to engage in research as a resident. Your interviewers will want to hear that you are interested in some aspect of research as you pursue clinical training in family practice.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
You hopefully have a sense of the types of research that interest you. Whether that would be in clinical research, healthcare quality, or practice improvement research, come to your interview prepared to speak passionately about that research interest. If you have experience in medical research during medical school, be sure to bring up that experience in your answer.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"My passion for primary care goes beyond clinical care. I have a strong passion for healthcare improvement efforts and would love to engage in research related to improving hospital readmission rates and enhancing patient involvement. Can you talk a bit about the types of research your current classes of residents are engaging in right now?"
"Yes, specifically I am interested in research focused on quality improvement projects to improve patient care. I am especially interested in doing a quality improvement project to look at increasing the number of patients who follow up in the clinic after discharge from the hospital within 1 week of discharge."
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