Episode 35 - Residency Interviewing Skills Series - Part 6: "Behavioral Interview Questions"

<div dir="ltr">Dr. Osorio & Dr. Rodriguez are back to touch upon Behavioral interview questions that were designed to uncover or reveal personality flaws or potential ethical issues that an applicant could bring into the program and are trying to elicit "red flags."</div> <div dir="ltr"> </div> <div dir="ltr">They are there to try to unveil personality flaws or behavioral traits before starting the training program, and that could potentially avoid, in the future, to deal with a disruptive resident. These screening questions are targeted at filtering the possible "bad apples" from the large cohort of applicants across the residency application program. </div> <div dir="ltr"> </div> <div dir="ltr">A good summary of things to consider has been created and made available by UCLA's medical school at: </div> <div dir="ltr"> </div> <div dir="ltr"><a href= "https://medschool.ucla.edu/workfiles/siteCurrent/Resources/Residency/ProcessesandSampleQuestions10.17.12.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl= "https://www.google.com/url?q=https://medschool.ucla.edu/workfiles/siteCurrent/Resources/Residency/ProcessesandSampleQuestions10.17.12.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1593812913704000&usg=AFQjCNHyVOZ66jZBnrl4L71OUVqHcaGGFA"> https://medschool.ucla.edu/<wbr />workfiles/siteCurrent/<wbr />Resources/Residency/<wbr />ProcessesandSampleQuestions10.<wbr />17.12.pdf</a></div> <div dir="ltr"> </div> <div dir="ltr">In general, the Interviewing Process is an expensive and long one for which you must be fully prepared and be ready to endure long days of mental concentration and resilience. Some of the most useful links that I have found on the internet provided by the AAMC (American Association of Medical Colleges) website and the link for some reliable information is here: <a href= "https://students-residents.aamc.org/video/cost-interviewing-residency/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-saferedirecturl= "https://www.google.com/url?q=https://students-residents.aamc.org/video/cost-interviewing-residency/&source=gmail&u