Surgical Critical Care Fellowship Interview Questions
Go Back1. What questions do you have about our surgical critical care fellowship program?
2. How did you handle constructive criticism during your residency training?
3. What career goals do you hope to achieve by pursing a surgical critical care fellowship?
4. Our surgical critical care fellowship program offers many options for elective rotations. Have you put any thought into the elective rotations you'd like to pursue?
5. As a fellow with our program, how will you explain a complex procedure or diagnosis to the family of a patient?
6. If we spoke to your current resident colleagues and attendings, how would they describe your communication skills?
7. What are you looking for in a Critical Care fellowship program?
8. During your residency training, did you find that there was a personality type that was difficult to work effectively with?
9. What would you do if there was a disagreement among colleagues or fellows as a trainee with our program?
10. This institution requires a full criminal background check and education verification. Would you be willing to comply if you joined our program?
11. Are you mentally and physically prepared to handle the required shift work in our surgical critical care fellowship program?
12. If you don't match into a surgical critical care program this year, what is your plan?
13. Do you have any concerns regarding the skills you would bring to our program?
14. What other career path might you have chosen if medicine simply wasn't an option?
15. Coming out of residency training, what would you say is your greatest weakness as a physician?
16. What would you say is your top non-medical strength that makes you an excellent fit for our program?
17. What initially motivated you to pursue a career in medicine?
18. What is something unique about yourself that we can't find on your CV?
19. Talk about some things that make you excited about this relocation.
20. What three words would you use to describe your personality?
21. What was your favorite didactic training you received during your residency training?
22. Talk about the abstracts, presentations, and publications you were responsible for during your residency training. Do you have any specific research interests as a surgical critical care fellow?
23. Have you had to cope with losing a patient during your residency training?
24. Talk about your charting and dictation experience during your prior training. What EHR programs did you gain experience in?
25. Talk about any critical care rotations you've had during your residency and medical school training. What did you enjoy about the experiences?
26. How did you demonstrate your ability to take the lead during your residency? Why do you feel this natural ability is important during surgical critical care fellowship training?
27. How would you describe your bedside manner?
28. As a new surgical critical care fellow, how will you respond when asked to do a procedure or task that you are unfamiliar with and uncomfortable handling?
29. Situations can get tense in the critical care setting. How has your training prepared you for the stress and intensity of a surgical critical care fellowship?
30. Do you consider yourself a team player?