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What are your thoughts on stepping away from hands on medical procedures for a practice in psychiatry down the road?

Throughout your four years of medical school, you've spent countless hours perfecting many different hands-on medical procedures. You've likely practiced and mastered many of them to graduate and you've likely taken a liking to some of them. The reality is that training in psychiatry residency and a future practice in psychiatry will pull you away from hands-on procedures to move in a completely different direction. Your interviewers ask this question simply to ensure that you will have no regrets on matching into psychiatry down the road during your time training with them.

Come to your psychiatry residency interviewers prepared to talk about the fact that your decision to pursue a psychiatric residency weighed heavily on you and that you are prepared for what lies ahead. To show a well-rounded background, don't hesitate to talk about a procedure or two that you learned that you will miss, as long as you reiterate that this path is the right one for you.

"While I did enjoy learning how to deliver babies and perform lumbar punctures during medical school training, I've been focused on a career as a psychiatrist ever since starting medical school. I would come to your psychiatry residency program ready to dive into the field of mental health care in any ways possible."

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