How to Answer: What do you identify as weaknesses in your podiatry school education?
Advice and answer examples written specifically for a Podiatrist job interview.
1. What do you identify as weaknesses in your podiatry school education?
How to Answer
This question is a bit of a trick question. Whereas a previous question implies the best answer is to praise your education, lest you only seem as good as the program you criticize, this one actually nags you to do just that. So be careful and walk that fine line between touting your excellent education and how you would improve it. (Stating where you would improve it is very different from criticizing it.)
Written by D. Leo on May 9th, 2021
Entry Level
"My program at [Named Podiatry College] only offered a 2-year residency after, and I had to move away to take the 3-year program I wanted at [Named Program] so that I could be certified in primary care and orthopedics or in rear foot and ankle surgery."
Written by D. Leo on May 9th, 2021
Answer Example
"I feel a weakness in my podiatry education may be that the program wasn't inclusive enough for me. I would have liked to have seen an equal gender distribution and inclusion of more minority group students."
Written by D. Leo on May 9th, 2021
Experienced Level
"In looking back at what I considered an excellent podiatry education, I would have loved to have had a basic business course included in the curriculum. I've had to learn on my own and it would have been helpful to have had an introductory curriculum in general business."
Written by D. Leo on May 9th, 2021