Oral Surgery Residency Mock Interview
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Question 15 of 30
How do you typically respond to feedback and criticism on your work?
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Nisha Yadav is a Talent Advisor & People Specialist with a focus on global talent attraction. Her earlier career experience includes HR and recruitment roles where she specialized in contract and permanent IT recruitment opportunities.
During your four years of dental school, your classwork and clinical rotations were likely highly scrutinized. As an oral surgery resident diving into advanced procedures, this will continue to be the case. The faculty and mentors in this program won't hesitate to give you constructive criticism of your work. Your interviewers need to know that you can take this feedback constructively and productively.
Nisha Yadav is a Talent Advisor & People Specialist with a focus on global talent attraction. Her earlier career experience includes HR and recruitment roles where she specialized in contract and permanent IT recruitment opportunities.
"Last year during my nitrous oxide lab course, I didn't properly fit the mask on patients, and our instructor was very blunt in their feedback. Even though we had learned proper placement many times during shadowing and classroom learning, I misplaced it on my first few tries. I didn't let the feedback get me down or take it personally, but rather used it as a learning opportunity and asked if they could guide me one more time through it on a real patient."
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
Not all feedback will be delivered in a friendly, easy-to-absorb manner to you as an oral surgery resident. Think of a time you received feedback or criticism that was a bit hurtful or surprising. Discuss how you reacted productively. Stress that you took the criticism and learned from it moving forward. Talk about how you successfully implemented change.
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