Psychiatry Residency Mock Interview
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Question 15 of 35
Following your psychiatry residency training, do you foresee yourself practicing in an urban or rural setting?
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Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
As a medical student pursuing training in a psychiatry residency and a future as a practicing psychiatrist, you have perhaps the widest range of options for an ideal practice compared to other medical specialties. This is given the recent focus on mental health across the country and the national shortage of psychiatrists. Your interviewers will want to know your preferred practice location and patient base so they can get a better idea of your ideal training path if you were to match into their program.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
There is no right or wrong answer to this question. The faculty at the program you are interviewing with has trained residents who have gone on to practice in every setting possible. As long as you answer honestly, they'll hear your passion for psychiatric medicine and be able to help shape your training for what you want to achieve down the road.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"In looking to give back to a small community like the one I grew up in, my ideal practice post-residency training is in a rural setting where psychiatric care is most desperately needed. I hope to have a general practice where I can care for patients both in an outpatient and inpatient setting."
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