Preventive Medicine Residency Mock Interview
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What is your greatest weakness?
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Krista Wenz has been on thousands of interview panels hiring EMS professionals and firefighters for public and private agencies.
The interviewers want to hear about your greatest weakness as a physician to see that you are self-aware and can identify an area that needs improvement. When you admit you have a deficiency in a particular aspect of your profession and take steps to improve, it shows the interviewer that you are motivated and inspired to grow professionally.
Krista Wenz has been on thousands of interview panels hiring EMS professionals and firefighters for public and private agencies.
"My greatest weakness is my typing speed. I can type 40 words per minute, which is average. However, my goal is to get to 60 words per minute. I want to improve my typing speed because it will help me when taking notes and charting. I signed up for an online typing course and started one week ago. The course outline says I can go from amateur to pro in thirty days, spending thirty minutes a day practicing. I aim to be at 60 words per minute in the next thirty days. I am confident my typing speed will improve greatly during my residency as I have already seen an improvement."
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