ROCK-STAR Residency Interview Prep

*Course Fee includes grammar/syntax review of PowerPoint/Presentation Materials, so if you've got lingering residency interview questions I can answer try to answer them at [email protected]

Do You Prepare for a Residency Interview?

Often, when faced with a problem, applicants ask the obvious question, but sometimes not the best question. The better question to ask is: What can I do between now and my interview so the site will rank me as high as possible? Once you look at the interview as an event where you can score points for certain actions (and lose them) then you recognize where you can improve. Yes, it's true, you have to "fit" with the site, but the site, in most cases, has only chosen those applicants who they believe already fit. This course is about understanding the points system that sites use to evaluate their candidates. Sure, you want to be memorable, but when they go back to committee after those interviews, the first thing the committee does is add up the points.

You especially need a great interview if you have some factors stacked against you like a poor college interview match rate or a specific geographic area you need to apply in.

Welcome to the ROCK-STAR Interview Prep Course

While you may have heard of the STAR method for answering behavioral interview questions by answering with the situation, task, action, and result, there is another type of question that you need to answer fully, the ROCK questions. ROCK questions are those that are foundational, just as setting a house's foundation on a rock like What are your Strengths? What are your Weaknesses? and so forth. However, to best articulate those answers, you have to answer the question in such a way that best organizes it so the interviewer can write down the high points and remember it. When answering questions fully, a great ROCK answer will set the stage and adding great STAR questions will demonstrate you are truly a star candidate. Yes, I get it's a little cliché or glib, but you'll hear all the time, they were a solid candidate but . . . they just didn't have that star quality. After this course, you'll learn how to articulate that you are a solid candidate AND have those star behavioral question answers that will allow them to rank you at the top of their list. The penalty for not matching in your graduation year is severe - a 50 percent decrease in your odds, so you want to do your very best in your graduating year.

… let's get to work.

Here are some testimonials from my LOI course, but also include the advice I passed on in our emails back and forth to help once they entered the interview stage.