"In five years, I hope to be in the middle of a great cardiology fellowship in an academic hospital, ideally not too far from here as I would like to settle down. I am pursuing Internal Medicine Residency training with the hope of practicing cardiology with a focus on severe congestive heart failure and heart transplants. I would like to work with a largely underserved population, having seen my parents struggle to get affordable healthcare. I would also like to have medical students and residents in my clinic so I can teach the next generation of doctors about complex cardiac care."

Your answer should include an advanced fellowship or working in a setting as a hospitalist or primary care provider and on the path to achieving your long-term goals. As you talk about your ultimate career goals in medicine, go into detail about what your ideal practice will look like to give your interviewers the sense of your ultimate training goals during your time with their Internal Medicine Residency program.

"In 5 years I could see myself working as an attending Internal Medicine physician in an academic medical center. An ideal role would be spending part of my time seeing patients and the other part of my time teaching residents and medical students. Ideally, I would like to stay in this area to practice following residency."