Urology Residency Mock Interview
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Question 28 of 30
If becoming a physician was not an option, what career path would you have chosen?
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Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
While they will have confidence in your academic prowess and clinical skills from your transcripts and references, your interviewers want to get to know each candidate better during their interviews. Cultural fit can often be the tiebreaker among great candidates, and this hypothetical question will give the interviewers some insight into topics that interest you outside the medical field.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
There is no right or wrong answer here. Consider questions like this before your urology residency interviews. As you answer, talk openly and honestly with your interviewers about where your career path would have taken you if becoming a physician wasn't an option. If possible, try to make your answer memorable and give some insight into who you are as a person as you answer.
"This is a great question; I don't often think about it because I know that becoming a physician was my destiny. But if becoming a physician simply wasn't an option, I would have to say that I would have pursued a career in social work. I'm passionate about helping the lives of those less fortunate, specifically children who aren't given a chance to succeed because of the environment they are born into."
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