Fellowship Mock Interview
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What would you say is the most important lesson you learned during your residency training that will help you be a successful and accomplished fellow?
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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.
Over the last three to five years, you have learned and grown more towards your future medical practice than you ever have in your life while training in your residency program. Your interviewers want to hear you talk about the most important lesson you learned during your time in residency and why this lesson is so important to your future success as a fellow.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
Before your fellowship interview process, sit down and think about the important lessons you learned during your residency training that you will carry with you for the rest of your career. Giving an unconventional example of something you learned outside of clinical competency will make you stand out from other candidates.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"The most important lesson I learned was to not let my work become routine. By the time I got to my PGY-2, there were conditions that presented daily, and I could have easily written up assessments on these patients before I even saw them. One of my attending physicians warned me against being too routine with patients because the little things that could be missed could be potentially devastating for a patient. He taught me that no symptom should go uninvestigated, and I've worked every day to be thorough in my work. As a new fellow now focusing my career in this subspecialty, I know that not being routine will be extremely important."
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We learn how to gather a medical history and physical exam in medical school, but residency really showed me how to get down to the patients’ level and discover what drives them to seek care. Many of the services we provide as otolaryngologists are directed to the quality of life, so residency helped me understand some patient nuances for determining one route of therapy compared to another.
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