Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Mock Interview
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Question 22 of 30
As a new Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellow, would you be comfortable handling direct patient care with little supervision?
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Your Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship will put you in new patient care situations. If you trained in pediatrics as a resident, a new emergency focus is coming your way. If your residency training was in the emergency setting, the sole focus on pediatric patients will be new. Your interviewing team asks this question to ensure that you have the ability and desire to work independently as a fellow with their program.
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Prove your ability to work confidently with little supervision by discussing your final years in residency and the responsibilities you were given without projecting overconfidence. As a Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellow, your work with patients will be scrutinized and used as a learning opportunity, so let your interviewers know that you are aware of that. Speak with modest confidence in your ability to work with patients with little to no supervision.
"I would come to your Pediatric EM program with the highest degree of confidence and would be comfortable in any patient care situation. My pediatric residency gave me great experience in the emergency, ICU, and general inpatient settings, and these experiences have prepared me well for this. If I wasn't comfortable with a situation, I wouldn't hesitate to ask for help or thoughts from others."
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