Behavioral Questions Preparation Classes

Objective:
Our interview preparation classes are like a deep dive into essential skills, and session lasts five hours. You'll get the inside scoop on what's crucial for interview success, learning how to read your audience, mastering frameworks for answering tough questions, and figuring out how to stand out from the crowd. We'll also teach you effective communication and behavior techniques. After these enlightening sessions, you'll get to practice what you've learned, making sure you're well-prepared for the real deal.​

Class Curriculum

Topics covered in this "Behavioral" classes includes​
About you questions
  • ​Tell me about yourself 
  • What do you do in your free time? 
  • Tell me about your family
  • What would your professors say about you?

Career Questions
  • Why did you want to be a doctor? 
  • Why internal medicine/Peds….
  • Your goals immediately after residency
  • Fellowship? PCP? Hospitalist? Academic? 
  • Which fellowship? Why? 
  • Your goals in 10 years : where do you see yourself in 10 years. 
  • Are you going back to your home country after residency?

Clinical Experiences Questions
  • Tell us about how your internship in home country is, how medicine in your home country is 
  • What did you learn from US rotations? 
  • The differences between US and home country experiences. 
  • What are the challenges that you think you will face in residency?
  • YOUR GAP: what have you been doing all this time?

Red Flags Questions
  • MS transcript: why is there a gap? Why is there a failure/supplemental exam?
  • USMLE scores: why less than average scores? why CS attempt? 
  • Research: why no research? 
  • Step 3: when is your step 3? 
  • YOG: what have you been doing all this time? 
  • USCE : why there is no USCE, why there is no hands-on?  

Research Questions
  • What was your understanding of the research project
  • What was your role in it? 
  • What is the outcome of the research project? 
  • What did you learn from the experience?

Covid Questions
  • What did you do with the free time during the pandemic? 
  • How did it affect you? Did it help you grow as a physician? 
  • How did your home country handle the pandemic and how bad was it there? 
  • How comfortable are you in taking care of COVID-19 patients?​
Volunteering Questions
  • Tell me about what you did in this volunteer role?
  • Why did you volunteer? (rare)
  • How do you take time out to volunteer?

Program Specific Questions
  • Why do you think you are a good fit into our program/Why should we take you? 
  • Our program is in a cold weather, bad location, no in-house fellowship that you are looking for, no fellowship support, no research support, no academic support, we don't think we are a good fit for your high credentials. What do you think?
  • How did you hear about our program?
  • Do you know anyone in the program?
  • Do you have family around the program?
  • Why our program out of so many others? 
  • What are the things that you look for in a program?

Other Questions
  • Give me an example of 
  • How you handled a conflict with co-worker/attending/senior 
  • A difficult situation in your life
  • A failure/ sit-back in your life
  • How you handle stress 
  • A mistake in patient care
  • A person you admire 
  • Your strengths. (give 3 or 4) 
  • Your weakness (give 1 with example) 
  •  Teach me something non-medical in 1 min

Unusual Questions
  • What are the kind of people that you absolutely cannot work with? 
  • If you were a color pen/an animal among other color pens/animals, what would you be? 
  • Teach me something non-medical in 1-2 mins
  • If you are an interviewer, and you are interviewing residency candidates, what will be the 3 qualifications that you will look for in a candidate? Why? 
  • If I want your native food, where do I go in town? 
  • I have never heard of your medical school. Do they make good graduates? 
  • I think you are here applying only for financial gain. You don't care about the patients. Do you?

Scenario Based Medical Questions

Class Trailer

What Our Students Say About Classes

"The videos going over what possible questions could be asked and how to prepare for them helped so much in building my confidence for the interviews.."
"...The interview classes have been amazing, not missing any point and making us, the students just ready to ace the interviews.."