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Residency Interview Help: In Case of Interview Invitation, Break Glass
In Case of Interview Invitation, Break GlassI’ve been asked to speak at a few schools this spring on tips for succeeding in residency. Rather than give them a few tips in a PowerPoint or hand them one of the books I’d already written, I asked myself, at the moment a student gets the very first interview email, what is their next best step?
For one student, it was an impossible to know misstep and that misstep is why I wrote this book.
He applied to a residency site on time and because he dutifully didn’t check email during rotation, he missed not only an email, but an email that had a phone appointment set for that day.
He then immediately emailed back apologizing for the miss and asked to reschedule. As soon as that second email went out, his phone rang. On the other line was a three person panel starting the phone interview – now.
This Flash Interview was clearly meant to screen applicants posing tough questions that one could not look up quickly. While I will talk more about that type of interview in this book, what I realized was there is no “In case of interview invitation, break glass” where students know exactly where to start once they do get an invitation.
This book is that first step, a quick run-through of dos and don’ts so you don’t get blindsided. Hopefully, you’ll optimistically read it ahead of that first email.
For one student, it was an impossible to know misstep and that misstep is why I wrote this book.
He applied to a residency site on time and because he dutifully didn’t check email during rotation, he missed not only an email, but an email that had a phone appointment set for that day.
He then immediately emailed back apologizing for the miss and asked to reschedule. As soon as that second email went out, his phone rang. On the other line was a three person panel starting the phone interview – now.
This Flash Interview was clearly meant to screen applicants posing tough questions that one could not look up quickly. While I will talk more about that type of interview in this book, what I realized was there is no “In case of interview invitation, break glass” where students know exactly where to start once they do get an invitation.
This book is that first step, a quick run-through of dos and don’ts so you don’t get blindsided. Hopefully, you’ll optimistically read it ahead of that first email.
73 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 9, 2020
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Tony Guerra
49 books23 followersNon-Fiction Reviewer for audiobookreviewer.com Tony Guerra, Pharm.D, originally from the Baltimore-Washington corridor, has combined creative writing work from with his knowledge of pharmacology to author the Audiobooks Memorizing Pharmacology: A Relaxed Approach, a guide to help students more easily learn drug names and How to Pronounce Drug Names: A Visual Approach to Preventing Medication Errors. He currently teaches at Des Moines Area Community College. He lives in Ankeny, Iowa with his wife Mindy and triplet daughters Brielle, Rianne, and Teagan. He received his High School's reunion award for attending the most 2 and 4 year colleges, currently holding at 14.
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