What tools or techniques will you use to remember difficult information or instructions given verbally only to you by our faculty when you are directly caring for patients?

"Heading into residency, I'm so excited to put all that I learned and mastered over the last four years into clinical practice. I'd come to your program knowing that I'd be learning so much more on the clinical side and that I have a true lifetime of learning ahead of me as a physician. Similar to what I did during medical school, keeping notes in a journal certainly helps me learn and master concepts. But, putting them into hands-on practice is what truly helps me retain the information and that has me so excited about joining a world-class residency training program like yours."

Prior to your interview, put some thought into how you plan to retain what you learn from the faculty you will be working side by side with during your residency training. Your interviewers will be looking to hear that you have the techniques and tools in place to do this, so be sure to talk about the things you use to help you learn and retain information for later use. If it helps your answer, talk about how you successfully navigated your way through the rigors of medical school using the same tools and/or techniques.