Pharmacist Mock Interview

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Question 31 of 35

Can you tell me about a time when you were faced with an ethical dilemma and how did you handle it?

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Stephanie Baumhover
Stephanie Baumhover

Stephanie Baumhover, PharmD, BCPS is a board certified clinical pharmacist with over 20 years experience interviewing and hiring pharmacists in several practice settings.

This is a behavioral type of interviewing question. The interviewer wants to see how you have behaved in the past as the best indicator of how you will behave in the future. You want to identify a specific scenario and briefly describe it. Ethical dilemmas can be complex and the key is to answer this question within 2-3 minutes. You want to describe how you became aware of this situation, how you determined the correct course of action, and how you resolved this dilemma. You do not need to get into deep detail or share information that would compromise anyone else by name.

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