Interview Trail Flashcards
(35 cards)
Tell me about yourself?
- Born and raised in Loveland, CO.
- Small town in NC in the foothills of the Rockies.
- Grew up playing in the outdoors
- Went to College at Wake Forest
- 2 years of research NIH
- Medical School
- Married in September –> Rescue Murphy
Why IM?
- Enjoyed many areas of medicine, but…
1. ) Critical thinking/problem solving
2. ) Team based care
3. ) Patient variability
4. ) Building relationships
5. ) Health Promotion
Career plans?
- 2 roads: Either cardiology or PC
1. ) Research in cardiology and my mentor cardiology; the physiology of the CV system
2. ) PC – Mentor in PC; the relationships formed and the variety
5 years? 10 years?
- A teaching element (tutoring/DAWN/foundations/coach)
- A research element: Community outcomes research (NIH research)
- Service Element: Similar to DAWN clinic
Why do you want to come to this program?
- ) Diversity and breadth of training
- ) Leaders in academics
- ) Cultural diversity
- ) Location
- ) Service element
What will you/can you bring to our program?
Not necessarily unique to myself, but I am a good team player and enjoy collaborating with others to help improve patient care
- Humor
Tell me something about you that is not on you CV?
- Recently married/ new dog owner
- Rubik’s Cube
- HS HOF
Strengths?
Diligent/Hard-working Dedicated Sense of humor Adaptable Compassionate
Weaknesses?
Balance efficiency w/ thoroughness
- Prepping patients the night before/ chart stalk
Seek approval from those around me too strongly
- Multitasking
- Over commit
NEED Sleep
Future Research Choice?
- Community/clinical outcomes
Hometown?
College?
Med School?
- Great place to grow up as it was close to the mountains
- Attended team aspect for running. Great education. Small class sizes 4k students. Great basketball.
- Great education with a lot of clinical ties and close to home
What do you want from this program?
Wide breadth and variety of training from top notch clinicians.
Opportunities for career exploration (research and clinical)
Service
Mentorship
Briefly describe your student research project.?
- ) 30d readmission/ mortality after PCI
- 1.7 billion over budget - ) Case report A. Meyeri
Describe the best/worst incident that you encountered in your medical school career.
Best: Patient that we had came in difficulty breathing → COPD exacerbation = PE
Worst: Patient with pancreatic cancer → SBO → bowel perforation
Animal?
Penguin; great parents/ hopeless romantics / always black tie ready / great swimmers and can live in nearly any environment
Teach?
Ultimate PBJ
Joke?
Q: Why do elephants paint their toenails red? A: So they can hide in cherry trees. Q: Have you ever seen an elephant in a cherry tree?
Why do you want to be a physician?
- Critical thinking/problem solving
- Team based care
- Patient variability
- Health promotion
- Long term relationships
Who is your role model? Why?
Fortunate to have many while in medical school, but one in particular that sticks out to me is a family care doc that I worked with on our rural rotation
- Professional and personal level
- Excited about who he would see
- A lot of time with the patients
- Served
Book?
Mystery/ Thriller:
- ) Woman in White: Wilkie Colllins
- First mystery novel
- Written from multiple first person perspectives - ) Michael Connelly: Murder → Written of as a suicide that this crumudgen old-school detective thinks is a homicide → unorthodox methods rub his colleagues the wrong way → IAD → Solves it → Actually someone else
Hobbies?
- Reading
- Team sports
- Cooking with my wife
- Running, hiking, backpacking
Medicine Today?
- Things medicine does well:
- Dedication to EBM; provide quality care
- Things I’ve heard could be improved:
- Sometimes comes at a price of controlling cost.
Fear in medicine?
- Quality standards
- Patient satisfaction
- Limited clinical time
Like about med school? Dislike?
- Great clinical training; mentorship; communication
- LIC
