{"id":492,"date":"2022-04-18T14:09:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T18:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/im-student-education\/?page_id=492"},"modified":"2022-06-02T13:19:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T17:19:56","slug":"sample-interview-questions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/im-student-education\/applying-in-internal-medicine\/sample-interview-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sample Residency Interview Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><strong> Patient Care <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Tell me how you approach diagnosing a complicated patient?<\/li>\n<li>Tell me about a time when you went \u201cover and above\u201d in caring for a patient.<\/li>\n<li>Tell me what \u201ccaring for patients\u201d means to you personally.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong> Teamwork\/Accountability <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Describe your contribution to your team?<\/li>\n<li>How would you describe your documentation as it relates to timeliness and content?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><strong> Communication <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Tell me about how you develop rapport with your patients. Provide an example of your effectiveness in developing rapport.<\/li>\n<li>Tell me about your approach to patient education.<\/li>\n<li>Tell me about your communication with members of the healthcare team. Provide an example of your effectiveness working within interdisciplinary teams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><strong> Commitment to personal growth <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Are you comfortable taking feedback?<\/li>\n<li>Please highlight a time when you received corrective feedback and responded in a positive fashion making the necessary changes\/improvements to your performance<\/li>\n<li>Describe when you analyzed your own performance and created a personal improvement plan.<\/li>\n<li>Describe what you will contribute to your future program using the lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li><strong> Miscellaneous <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>How would you describe yourself as a prospective residency candidate?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Provide me insight as to what separates you from the other candidates as it relates to residency applications. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>recognition of limits, conscientiousness, etc.<\/li>\n<li>What kind of <strong>learning environment <\/strong>will allow you to thrive?<\/li>\n<li>What kind of program are you interested in?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com\/IM\/fecab58a-0e31-416b-8e56-46fc9eda5c37\/UploadedImages\/Documents\/resources\/AAIM_Interview_Prep_Guidance_for_Medical_Student_Advisors.pdf\">Additional Interview Day Prep<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patient Care Tell me how you approach diagnosing a complicated patient? Tell me about a time when you went \u201cover and above\u201d in caring for a patient. Tell me what \u201ccaring for patients\u201d means to you personally. Teamwork\/Accountability Describe your contribution to your team? How would you describe your documentation as it relates to timeliness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16093,"featured_media":0,"parent":390,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/im-student-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/im-student-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/im-student-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/im-student-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16093"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/im-student-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/im-student-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/im-student-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/492\/revisions\/511"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/im-student-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/im-student-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}