NICU Fellowship Interview Questions
Go Back1. What are your pet peeves?
2. How do you react in high stress clinical situations?
3. When you suffer a setback, how does it affect you and your work?
4. What do you see as your biggest area for improvement as an aspiring fellow?
5. What aspects of your personality make you well-suited for a NICU fellowship?
6. How do you cope with stress?
7. How would you deal with XYZ clinical presentation?
8. As a fellow in our program, how would you change your communication style if a patient's family had trouble understanding what you were trying to tell them?
9. Talk about a time you successfully educated a patient on a complex topic during residency. How did you ensure the information was understood?
10. How would you describe your communication skills?
11. What's your approach to teaching residents and medical students?
12. Have you had effective mentors in your training thus far?
13. What special skills or unique experiences would you bring to our program?
14. Tell me about yourself.
15. Outside of medicine, what are your interests and hobbies?
16. Why did you choose to pursue fellowship training in newborn intensive care?
17. What skills do you hope to gain through training in our fellowship program?
18. Why did you choose a career in medicine?
19. What are your career plans and goals after completing your fellowship training?
20. Why did you decide to apply to our fellowship program in particular?
21. What is the most important lesson you learned during residency training that will help you be a successful and accomplished fellow?
22. How have you contributed to the field of medicine so far?
23. Choose one item from your CV and elaborate on it.
24. What are your plans if you do not secure a fellowship position?
25. What are your research interests?
26. Did you consider any other sub-specialties besides this one?
27. What do you know about our institution?
28. Do you have any questions for me?
29. What do you know about our faculty?
30. What or who has been one of your biggest inspirations in life?