Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Mock Interview
Master 30 fellowship interview questions covering trauma management, complex cases, and program fit.
Question 16 of 30
Do you have any concerns regarding the skills you would bring to our program?
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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.
Depending on the training path you took to match into surgical critical care fellowship training, your firsthand experience in the critical care setting may be limited. Your interviewers are fully aware that most candidates will need to be brought up to speed on a lot of processes in their setting, and they want to hear where you feel your shortcomings are. They'll also want to debunk any myths you may have heard about the training.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"In all honesty, I can't say that anything is keeping me up at night about matching into a surgical critical care fellowship. As an ENT resident, I've developed great clinical and procedural skills that will carry over well in caring for my patients in the ICU setting. I may have to brush up on skills like trach tube insertion."
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
Before your interview, be honest with yourself and consider any shortcomings you may have coming into a surgical critical care fellowship. As long as you have a plan to address it, your interviewers will respect your answer. Also, rather than focusing on a potential deficit in your ability to perform as a surgical critical care fellow, pick a common weakness or discuss a common misconception about training in the subspecialty. Then, explain how you have taken or will take steps to prepare for this hurdle. Conversely, if you don't have any worries, confidently express this to your interviewers.
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