Pharmacy Fellowship Mock Interview
Master 34 Pharmacy Fellowship interview questions covering clinical expertise, research goals, and program fit.
Question 11 of 34
Tell us about a time you had too many things to do and you needed to prioritize your tasks. How did you go about prioritizing your tasks and ensuring everything was complete?
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Heather Douglass has over 20 years of experience as a Career Coach, Recruiter, and HR Specialist. Much of her experience is as a Technical Recruiter in the healthcare industry.
A pharmacy fellowship program typically involves what some would consider years of learning materials into a much shorter one to two year span. This puts the fellows in training in some very difficult situations balancing workloads and competing priorities. Your interviewers need to be assured that you have the ability to prioritize your work effective if you were to match into their program.
Heather Douglass has over 20 years of experience as a Career Coach, Recruiter, and HR Specialist. Much of her experience is as a Technical Recruiter in the healthcare industry.
"Last year during my pharmacy residency training, I was managing a busy clinical workload between rotations and was at the heart of my required research project. Over a period of two to three weeks, I had to dedicate between 70-80 hours per week to ensure my research stayed on track. The first priority each day was my shift work and luckily I knew my schedule two weeks ahead of time. This allowed me to plan time off at the library and work around the family activities I had scheduled in my home life."
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
When answering this question, go ahead and walk the interviewer through your process of prioritizing and why it works for you. In the example you use, describe the situation and tasks involved. Explain the different levels of importance of each task and how you worked based on the priority level of each task. Don't hesitate to talk about how you manage time frames and explain why your system of prioritization works.
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