Urology Residency Interview Questions
Go Back1. Talk about a difficult patient experience during your medical school rotations. How did you handle the situation professionally and respectfully?
2. Tell us about a time you received constructive criticism from a faculty member or preceptor during your medical school training. How did you handle that situation?
3. Tell us about a time you had to work with new technology during medical school training. What did you do to ensure proficiency as quickly as possible?
4. Do you have any ideas about what you want your future practice to look like?
5. Following urology residency training, do you have any plans to pursue additional fellowship training?
6. As a resident in training, how will you explain a complex urologic diagnosis, procedure, or other medical term to a patient?
7. At our institution, you will work with Advanced Practice Providers as a urology resident. Would you have any issues doing so?
8. Is there a personality type that you find difficult to work effectively with?
9. Would you have any concerns about relocating to join our urology residency program and living in this city for the next five years?
10. What aspects of our urology residency program interest you most?
11. Have you put any thought into where you would like to focus your research efforts as a urology resident?
12. How would you deal with a disagreement among another urology resident or senior resident as a trainee with our program?
13. What are your thoughts on the relationship between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry?
14. Do you believe telehealth is an effective form of healthcare delivery, specifically as it relates to urology care?
15. Are you aware of some of the challenges that the field of urology is currently facing?
16. What is your plan for staying on top of trends, research, and news in the field as a new urology resident?
17. If you were to match into our urology residency program, you will be required to pass a criminal record check and education verification. Would you be comfortable with this?
18. How would you describe your personality using just three words?
19. What procedure are you most excited to learn during urology residency training?
20. What do you like to do for fun outside your medical training?
21. Do you have any initial worries or fears about joining a reputable urology residency program like ours?
22. Competition for our urology residency program can be intense. What makes you a stand-out medical student for our program?
23. If becoming a physician was not an option, what career path would you have chosen?
24. What is motivating you to pursue urology residency training versus other specialties?
25. What was your favorite course during medical school?
26. What type of charting and dictation experience did you gain during your medical school rotations?
27. Talk about a time you showed initiative by taking the lead in a situation during medical school. Why did you take action as the leader, and what was the outcome?
28. Let's say a recent patient survey comes back, and you find out that you did not meet a patient's expectations as their urologist. What are the next steps you would take to improve?
29. As a new trainee in our urology residency, how will you respond when asked to do a procedure or task that you were unfamiliar with and uncomfortable handling?
30. How do you think you will perform under pressure as a urology resident?