Why are you choosing to pursue fellowship training in this particular subspecialty?
While you have focused on a specific area of medicine in your residency training, there are still more options to pursue in your fellowship training. In asking this question, your team of interviewers simply wants to know that you have some direction and clarity for your path in the medical field.
"The end-of-life experience for terminally ill patients and their families is something that hits home for me. I am pursuing additional training in hospice and palliative medicine because I had such a great experience with some close family members, and my skills lend well to palliative care."
Talk about your reason for choosing to pursue training in your subspecialty. Feel free to add a personal touch to your answer. This will help the interviewers relate to you as an individual and make for a memorable conversation down the road as the interviewers decide which applicants to match into their fellowship program.
Community answers are written by other candidates practicing this set. Reading how others frame the same question is one of the fastest ways to sharpen your own.
Anonymous Answer
-I am drawn to the way that facial reconstruction influences patient quality of life. I appreciate the technical skills of FPRS, including precision, art, and meticulous suturing. I enjoy the clinical challenge and process of using my creativity to craft a reconstructive plan and share that plan with the patient. Finally, I love that in FPRS the learning never just stops – the field is defined by new ideas or revamps of established techniques, with a significant role for technology.
Jaymie's Feedback
Your answer is not a cookie-cutter, vague answer, but rather very specific and genuine. This will certainly have a lasting impression on the interviewer.
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