Surgical Oncology Fellowship Mock Interview
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Following Surgical Oncology fellowship training, what are your ultimate career goals in practice?
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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.
Surgical Oncologists can take their careers in practice in many different directions, and where each fellow wants to go can ultimately determine the path they take during their two years of fellowship training. To get a feel for how you want to customize your fellowship training, your team of interviewers poses this question to you.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
With no right or wrong answer in the eyes of your interviewers, speak openly and honestly about what your ideal practice will look like for you once you have completed your Surgical Oncology fellowship. If you have a few areas you are still waiting to explore further to find your niche, that is okay; you can be forthright with your interviewing team. No matter how you answer, maintain excitement as you answer.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"Knowing that I want to be in an academic practice conducting research and being an educator, my ideal clinical practice will focus on GI, pancreatic, and liver malignancies. These surgeries are very challenging and complex, and I know I will be challenged and succeed throughout my career. I hope to conduct research in the realm of pancreatic cancer as well and work closely with world-renowned oncologists in this area."
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I would like to return to ______ in my residency department and coordinate the residency program alongside my professor, to bring there my knowledge and to improve things: we have no journal club, and no mortality and morbidity meetings, In my residency program we learn a lot doing these things and we reduce our study, I would like to bring more theory in our everyday practice.
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My ultimate career goals include returning to my home province of Newfoundland to practice as a surgical oncologist. Throughout my training, I have worked closely with my now mentor _________ who is currently our only surgical oncologist. I have come to appreciate the generalized approach to his practice given that our center allows for a broader, less subspecialized approach.
As you know, NL has some of the highest rates of malignancy, as well as a significant genetic predisposition to malignancy (HNPCC and CHD1 populations). Our population has a lot to offer and I hope to be able to expand my research experience to one day become a clinical research
Currently, I am involved in a project focused on demonstrating.
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These are great goals to share!
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