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By Dr. Jessica Freedman
Author of The Residency Interview: How to Make the Best Possible Impression
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Read about the residency and departmental leadership before your interview
Inevitably, the residency leadership (program director and associate program
director) will play a large role in
each interview day. Probably other departmental leadership, such as the
chairperson, research director, or
section director, will also interview. While you cannot anticipate people’s
personalities, interview styles, or
general approach to the interview day, you want to be able to recognize
these individuals when you meet
them and (hopefully) make a good impression since their opinions count the
most in evaluating your
application. Attendings in positions of leadership will likely give the
preinterview program overview, a good
opportunity for you to try to assess their overall approach and disposition
. You should also know something
about their academic interests and areas of focus in the department, which
will give you an idea of what they
value in applicants.
Assume your interviewer has not read your application
Even though I always intended to review every applicant’s file before I met
him or her, with so much packed
into my day, this sometimes didn’t happen. This was why I often started my
interview with an open-ended
question like “tell me about yourself.” In this way, I put the interview
in the interviewee’s court, hoping to
hear something interesting that I could then ask about. In any case, I
encourage all applicants to approach
interviews with the assumption that the interviewer has not read their file.
Why? This encourages applicants
to give complete answers and to convey the information they know is
important about their candidacy. This
also makes your interviewer’s job simpler since they can sit back and
listen once they realize that everything
you are saying is relevant and important.
Try to quickly assess the interviewer’s style
Every seasoned interviewer has a unique approach to interviewing and, if you
pay attention, you can get a
handle on this approach within the first few minutes of the interview. Is
your interviewer chatty or does he
prefer to listen? Does she have a structured and well-organized list of
questions? If you can get a sense of
your interviewer’s approach early in your interview, you can tailor your
responses to “fit” that style. If your
interviewer prefers a question and answer format and clearly has a well-
defined list of questions, for
example, don’t go off on tangents while you are speaking; answer her
questions completely and allow her to
go through her entire list. On the other hand, if you sense that your
interviewer is more of a
conversationalist, try to make segues and dialogue to promote discussion. I
was definitely a conversational
interviewer and found it painful when an applicant responded to my prompts
with concise and nicely
packaged answers that forced me to ask a series of direct questions, which
contradicted my preferred style.
Smile, be personable, and make the exchange pleasant
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