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发信人: Aplusplus (Hakuna Matata), 信区: Medicalpractice
标 题: How to write your hobbies in the CV?
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Aug 22 22:33:19 2015, 美东)
Found it is very interesting to discuss. Here I copied some physician's
comments:
1. To shine own self be true. Make your life interesting on an application,
but don't fabricate.
2. If we had two smart applicants,
one of whom was interesting,
we ranked "interesting" higher.
Who wants an uninteresting resident around for 5 years?
3. I want a well rounded person. I want someone who has an interesting story
, someone who has risked and learned. I want someone with life experience
and perspective.
4. Someone with many hobbies may be interesting but I might prefer having a
resident who was purely focused on getting to where he or she is today
rather than someone who has a lot of extracurricular interests who possible
might not have their heart completely 100% in their training.
5. My own residency program director was unconventional - the program had
never taken an IMG before, for one thing, and I had other attributes which
might be considered a little different (and mediocre scores), but he told me
at interview "nobody is going to tell me who I can hire". The
administration pushed him out while I was still there.
6.These application essays are pure garbage but make entertaining reading!
The nobility, munificence, charity, empathy of each of the candidates is
always superlative. Their travels on mission trips to remote Indian villages
, African or Amazonian jungles is always an incredible story of poignant
transformation from partying city jocks to humanized ultra-missionaries.
Their life experiences would put David Livingstone, captain Cook or even
Bill and Melinda Gates to shame.
I can imagine those on the selection committees sitting around, chuckling
and improving their own literary skills by reading these masterpiece essays
and remembering their own pleasure trips to Africa with mum and dad or those
brawny, spring breaks in Brazil that lead to flowery Ivy league essays. In
the recent years, Kaavya Viswanathan and Alexi Vayner stand out as
masterpiece candidates.
I am ashamed to admit I have helped spin many an essay for very successful
candidates...based on their travels and stated accomplishments!
7.I remember struggling with the "personal statement" that went with the
application to medical school. By the time I was ready to apply, imagine my
dismay when I learned that I had to do it all over again with the
application for residency!! It's a huge challenge to describe yourself like
Schweizer and Mother Theresa twice in one lifetime!!
The declining incidence of leprosy in common tourist destinations does not
help either..
8.Soulless Machiavellian Automatons is how I describe many of the recent
graduates.....I should also add the sobriquet : financially gifted. A shout
out to recent grads, tell us why this does NOT apply to you ! And no...
expensive "service " trips to Peru or Ghana to build schools and
soccerfields that will collapse/cave in during a minor temblor do not count.
9.I hate this because I would sound phony even to myself... if if I listed
just a few of my true interests and skills like fine carpentry, forest
preservation, ecologically sound cultivation, architecture, designing
buildings around sunlight, designing steel framed buildings, workflow design
, software development, programming, teaching, hiking mountain trails,
photography, chess... etc
10.You could mix them in with some of my boring interests (cooking, baking,
quilting, gardening, chickens, goats - I guess I wouldn't get into med
school now). Or what about the interests that we see in some of our
colleagues and neighbors (shopping, fancy cars, following the latest
clothing fashions, Facebook). Then redistribute among us.
11.any time I see an application where work experience involves a funeral
home and their hobby is taxidermy, I always tend to want some clarification.
.....
12.I said fishing and cosmetology. Got a couple of comments abt that being
an interesting combo. I think it describes most girls from Texas perfectly.
We're down to earth, but there's no reason to look ugly while cleaning fish. |
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