General Surgery Residency Mock Interview
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Do you have any overseas clinical experience?
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Krista Wenz has been on thousands of interview panels hiring EMS professionals and firefighters for public and private agencies.
In most medical schools, it is possible to arrange an overseas clinical elective, especially during your fourth year. There are many benefits to studying overseas as a medical student, which the interviewers know. They ask this question to see if you chose an overseas clinical elective to understand what interests and inspires you. Some residency programs will also require overseas clinical experience to match their program. Describe your experience, if any. If you did not go overseas as an elective, explain why you chose not to.
Krista Wenz has been on thousands of interview panels hiring EMS professionals and firefighters for public and private agencies.
"Unfortunately, I do not have overseas clinical experience. I was interested in choosing that as an elective but could not find a sponsoring institution, and the costs prohibited me from doing so. Even though that did not work out for me as a medical student, my goal is to work overseas later in my career either with the Lancet Fellowship or Doctors Without Borders."
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