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Fellowship interview questions

A fellowship interview assumes you can practice medicine and asks where you are going with it: what residency taught you, what you have done about your interest, and the career the training leads to.

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  1. Why do you want to do a fellowship in this field?

    What they're listening for
    Whether residency confirmed the interest, and what you will do with the training.
    How to answer
    A moment in residency that turned interest into a decision, what you have done about it since (electives, research, a mentor), and the career it leads to.
    Where it goes wrong
    An answer that would work for any fellowship, or one that is only about lifestyle or income.

  2. Tell me about your research.

    What they're listening for
    Whether you understand your own work and can explain it simply.
    How to answer
    The question, what you did, what you found, its limits, and what you would do next, in plain words and under two minutes.
    Where it goes wrong
    Jargon, or not knowing the weaknesses of your own study.

  3. Do you see yourself in academic medicine or in clinical practice?

    What they're listening for
    Whether your plans fit what the program is built to produce.
    How to answer
    Your leaning and why, what you would want from the fellowship for it, and openness to where training takes you.
    Where it goes wrong
    Telling a research-heavy program you never want to do research, or the reverse.

  4. Tell me about a case from residency that you still think about.

    What they're listening for
    Clinical reasoning, reflection and what moves you.
    How to answer
    The case briefly, the decision that mattered, what you learned, and how it shaped your interest in the field.
    Where it goes wrong
    A case told for its rarity with nothing about you in it.

  5. How do you like to teach residents and students?

    What they're listening for
    Whether you will lift the residents you work with.
    How to answer
    Your approach, one example of teaching that worked, and how you adjust to the learner.
    Where it goes wrong
    Saying you have not had much chance to teach.

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