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1. List three accomplishments of which you are most proud of and what each accomplishment indicates about you?
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1. List three accomplishments of which you are most proud of and what each accomplishment indicates about you?
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2. List three abilities you have that will make you valuable as a resident in this specialty?
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2. List three abilities you have that will make you valuable as a resident in this specialty?
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3. What clinical experience have you had in this specialty?
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3. What clinical experience have you had in this specialty?
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4. Do you have any questions?
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4. Do you have any questions?
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5. Tell me about yourself?
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5. Tell me about yourself?
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6. What three adjectives best describe you?
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6. What three adjectives best describe you?
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7. What might give me a better picture of you than I can get from your resume?
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7. What might give me a better picture of you than I can get from your resume?
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8. Tell me a story about yourself that best describes you?
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8. Tell me a story about yourself that best describes you?
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9. If you were going to die in 5 minutes, what would you tell someone about yourself?
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9. If you were going to die in 5 minutes, what would you tell someone about yourself?
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10. Of which accomplishments are you most proud?
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10. Of which accomplishments are you most proud?
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11. Are there any hidden achievements or qualities that you are secretly proud of?
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11. Are there any hidden achievements or qualities that you are secretly proud of?
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12. How have you changed since high school?
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12. How have you changed since high school?
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13. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
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13. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
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14. Tell me about your “secret identity” – The part of your personality that you don’t share with strangers?
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14. Tell me about your “secret identity” – The part of your personality that you don’t share with strangers?
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15. Any skeletons in your closet you want to tell me about?
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15. Any skeletons in your closet you want to tell me about?
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16. How well do you take criticism?
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16. How well do you take criticism?
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17. What’s your pet peeve?
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17. What’s your pet peeve?
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18. If you could change one thing about your personality what would it be?
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18. If you could change one thing about your personality what would it be?
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19. If you could be any cell in the human body, which would you be and why?
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19. If you could be any cell in the human body, which would you be and why?
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20. Do you see yourself as more relaxed/casual/informal or more serious/dedicated/committed?
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20. Do you see yourself as more relaxed/casual/informal or more serious/dedicated/committed?
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21. Which is more important, the ability to organize, structure, and prioritize or to be flexible, modify, change and make do as needed?
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21. Which is more important, the ability to organize, structure, and prioritize or to be flexible, modify, change and make do as needed?
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22. Which is more important, knowledge or imagination?
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22. Which is more important, knowledge or imagination?
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23. Strangest Halloween costume you ever wore?
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23. Strangest Halloween costume you ever wore?
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24. What do you value in your own life?
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24. What do you value in your own life?
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25. If you had unlimited money and (x amount of time) what would you do?
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25. If you had unlimited money and (x amount of time) what would you do?
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26. 3 wishes, what would they be?
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26. 3 wishes, what would they be?
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27. What kinds of people are your friends?
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27. What kinds of people are your friends?
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28. Describe your best friend?
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28. Describe your best friend?
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29. How are you similar and dissimilar to your best friend?
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29. How are you similar and dissimilar to your best friend?
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30. How would your friends or co-workers describe you?
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30. How would your friends or co-workers describe you?
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31. Who are your heroes?
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31. Who are your heroes?
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32. What is your favorite movie, book?
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32. What is your favorite movie, book?
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33. What is the last book you read?
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33. What is the last book you read?
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34. What do success and failure mean to you?
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34. What do success and failure mean to you?
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35. What do you do in your spare time?
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35. What do you do in your spare time?
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36. Favorite games/sports? Why?
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36. Favorite games/sports? Why?
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37. Have you done any volunteer work?
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37. Have you done any volunteer work?
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38. How did you choose these outside activities?
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38. How did you choose these outside activities?
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39. If you had a completely free day, what would you do?
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39. If you had a completely free day, what would you do?
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40. Describe for me your typical day?
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40. Describe for me your typical day?
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41. What is the most bizarre thing you have ever done (in college, high school, etc)?
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41. What is the most bizarre thing you have ever done (in college, high school, etc)?
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42. What is the most unusual occurrence in your life in the past (x amount of time)?
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42. What is the most unusual occurrence in your life in the past (x amount of time)?
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43. Which organizations do you belong to?
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43. Which organizations do you belong to?
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44. What are your plans for a family?
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44. What are your plans for a family?
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45. If could not be a physician, what career would you choose?
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45. If could not be a physician, what career would you choose?
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46. Why choose to be a doctor?
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46. Why choose to be a doctor?
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47. How do you make important decisions?
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47. How do you make important decisions?
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48. Are you a risk taker or safety minded?
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48. Are you a risk taker or safety minded?
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49. What made you choose your undergraduate major?
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49. What made you choose your undergraduate major?
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50. How did you select undergraduate college and medical school?
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50. How did you select undergraduate college and medical school?
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51. What were the major deficiencies in your medical school training? How would you plan to remedy this?
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51. What were the major deficiencies in your medical school training? How would you plan to remedy this?
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52. If you could begin your schooling again, what would you change?
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52. If you could begin your schooling again, what would you change?
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53. Have you ever dropped a class, why?
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53. Have you ever dropped a class, why?
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54. Have you ever quit or been fired from a job?
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54. Have you ever quit or been fired from a job?
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55. Biggest failures in life and what have you done to ensure that they won’t happen again?
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55. Biggest failures in life and what have you done to ensure that they won’t happen again?
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56. Have you always done the best work of which you are capable?
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56. Have you always done the best work of which you are capable?
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57. Which types of people do you have problems working with?
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57. Which types of people do you have problems working with?
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58. What qualities drive you crazy in colleagues?
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58. What qualities drive you crazy in colleagues?
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59. Describe the best/worst attending with whom you have ever worked?
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59. Describe the best/worst attending with whom you have ever worked?
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60. Do you prefer to work under supervision or on your own?
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60. Do you prefer to work under supervision or on your own?
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61. With which patients do you have trouble dealing?
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61. With which patients do you have trouble dealing?
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62. How do you normally handle conflict?
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62. How do you normally handle conflict?
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63. How do you respond when you have problems with someone?
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63. How do you respond when you have problems with someone?
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64. What do you do if someone senior tells you to do something you know is wrong?
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64. What do you do if someone senior tells you to do something you know is wrong?
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65. With what subject/rotation did you have the most difficulty?
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65. With what subject/rotation did you have the most difficulty?
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66. Why do you want to go into this specialty?
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66. Why do you want to go into this specialty?
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67. What would you be willing to sacrifice to become a physician in this specialty?
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67. What would you be willing to sacrifice to become a physician in this specialty?
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68. What is the greatest sacrifice you have already made to get to where you are?
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68. What is the greatest sacrifice you have already made to get to where you are?
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69. If your chosen specialty did not exist, what would you do?
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69. If your chosen specialty did not exist, what would you do?
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70. How much did lifestyle considerations fit into your choice of specialty?
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70. How much did lifestyle considerations fit into your choice of specialty?
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71. Why did you apply to this program?
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71. Why did you apply to this program?
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72. What qualities are you looking for in a program?
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72. What qualities are you looking for in a program?
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73. What interests you most about this program?
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73. What interests you most about this program?
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74. What have you heard about our program that you don’t like?
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74. What have you heard about our program that you don’t like?
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75. Are you applying here because it is a familiar environment?
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75. Are you applying here because it is a familiar environment?
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76. What will be the toughest aspect of this specialty for you?
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76. What will be the toughest aspect of this specialty for you?
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77. How will you handle the least interesting or least pleasant parts of this specialty’s practice?78. What qualities are most important in this specialty?
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77. How will you handle the least interesting or least pleasant parts of this specialty’s practice?78. What qualities are most important in this specialty?
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79. What kind of qualities does a person need to be an effective physician?
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79. What kind of qualities does a person need to be an effective physician?
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80. Why should we take you over other applicants?
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80. Why should we take you over other applicants?
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81. What can you add to our program?
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81. What can you add to our program?
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82. What computer experience do you have?
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82. What computer experience do you have?
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83. Describe your ideal residency program?
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83. Describe your ideal residency program?
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84. What is your energy level like?
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84. What is your energy level like?
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85. How many hours of sleep do you require each night?
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85. How many hours of sleep do you require each night?
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86. How well do you function under pressure?
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86. How well do you function under pressure?
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87. How do you handle stress?
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87. How do you handle stress?
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88. Can you handle stress without the resources you are accustomed to relying on?
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88. Can you handle stress without the resources you are accustomed to relying on?
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89. Tell me about the patient from who you learned the most?
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89. Tell me about the patient from who you learned the most?
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90. Most memorable experience in medical school/college?
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90. Most memorable experience in medical school/college?
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91. What errors have you made in patient care?
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91. What errors have you made in patient care?
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92. Greatest fear about practicing medicine?
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92. Greatest fear about practicing medicine?
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93. Where do you see yourself in 5-10 years?
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93. Where do you see yourself in 5-10 years?
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94. How do you see the delivery of health care evolving in the 21st century?
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94. How do you see the delivery of health care evolving in the 21st century?
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95. Is health care a right or a privilege?
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95. Is health care a right or a privilege?
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96. What problems will our specialty face in the next 5-10 years?
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96. What problems will our specialty face in the next 5-10 years?
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97. What would you do if the house staff had a strike?
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97. What would you do if the house staff had a strike?
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98. What do you think of what’s happening in mid east? Congress? Economy?
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98. What do you think of what’s happening in mid east? Congress? Economy?
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99. Teach me something non-medical in 5 minutes?
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99. Teach me something non-medical in 5 minutes?
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100. Where else have you interviewed?
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100. Where else have you interviewed?
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101. What if you don’t match?
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101. What if you don’t match?
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102. Can you think of anything else you would like to add?
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102. Can you think of anything else you would like to add?
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103. How do you deal/cope with failure, give example?
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103. How do you deal/cope with failure, give example?
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104. What was your favorite course in medical school?
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104. What was your favorite course in medical school?
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105. Describe a conflict you had with someone and how it was resolved?
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105. Describe a conflict you had with someone and how it was resolved?
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106. Describe something that was very difficult in your life, how you dealt with it, and what you learned from it?
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106. Describe something that was very difficult in your life, how you dealt with it, and what you learned from it?
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107. What needs to be changed in our health care system?
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107. What needs to be changed in our health care system?
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108. How can you do your job more effectively?
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108. How can you do your job more effectively?
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109. What is the most pressing problem in medicine today?
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109. What is the most pressing problem in medicine today?
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110. What is the most rewarding thing you have ever done?
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110. What is the most rewarding thing you have ever done?
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111. Tell me some of your successes?
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111. Tell me some of your successes?
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112. Tell me some of your failures?
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112. Tell me some of your failures?
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113. How do you show your commitment to medicine?
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113. How do you show your commitment to medicine?
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114. Who is the most influential in your life?
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114. Who is the most influential in your life?
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115. What is the worst thing that has ever happened to you?
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115. What is the worst thing that has ever happened to you?
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116. What do you do for fun?
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116. What do you do for fun?
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117. When did you decide you wanted to be a physician?
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117. When did you decide you wanted to be a physician?
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118. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
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118. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
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119. What leadership roles have you held?
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119. What leadership roles have you held?
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120. What are the biggest problems in medicine and in your chosen specialty?
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120. What are the biggest problems in medicine and in your chosen specialty?
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121. What do you think of socialized medicine?
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121. What do you think of socialized medicine?
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122. Do you know how hard residency is?
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122. Do you know how hard residency is?
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123. Do you want research to be a part of your career?
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123. Do you want research to be a part of your career?
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124. What is your most important accomplishment?
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124. What is your most important accomplishment?
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125. What makes you different from everyone else?
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125. What makes you different from everyone else?
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126. What do you expect out of your residency?
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126. What do you expect out of your residency?
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127. What is your most important lesson learned from childhood?
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127. What is your most important lesson learned from childhood?
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128. What do you expect will be the hardest part of residency for you?
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128. What do you expect will be the hardest part of residency for you?
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129. Who in your family are you closest to?
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129. Who in your family are you closest to?
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130. What makes you happy?
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130. What makes you happy?
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131. What makes you sad?
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131. What makes you sad?
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132. What makes you unique?
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132. What makes you unique?
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133. Is there anything else not in application that you want to tell me?
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133. Is there anything else not in application that you want to tell me?
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134. How do your friends describe you?
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134. How do your friends describe you?
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135. 3 people you would invite to dinner and why?
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135. 3 people you would invite to dinner and why?
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136. Describe important relationships you have had with people?
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136. Describe important relationships you have had with people?
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137. Anything else you want to tell me about yourself?
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137. Anything else you want to tell me about yourself?
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138. What was your most difficult challenge in life?
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138. What was your most difficult challenge in life?
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139. Why do you want to come here?
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139. Why do you want to come here?
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140. What are some challenges that will face this specialty?
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140. What are some challenges that will face this specialty?
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141. What motivates you?
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141. What motivates you?
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142. Why are you here?
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142. Why are you here?
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143 - 1. What types of non-clinical responsibilities are there? (Research, projects, writing, administrative)
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143 - 1. What types of non-clinical responsibilities are there? (Research, projects, writing, administrative)
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143 - 2. What research projects are the faculty and residents currently working on? How is funding obtained? Who gets first authorship?
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143 - 2. What research projects are the faculty and residents currently working on? How is funding obtained? Who gets first authorship?
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143 - 3. Is there time to do research? If you need to present at a national conference, will the department pay for your way there?
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143 - 3. Is there time to do research? If you need to present at a national conference, will the department pay for your way there?
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143 - 4. Is there training in administrative and legal aspects? Is there hands-on experience dealing with insurance, billing, contracts, hiring?
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143 - 4. Is there training in administrative and legal aspects? Is there hands-on experience dealing with insurance, billing, contracts, hiring?
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143 - 5. What are the population demographics? (Indigent, insured, etc)
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143 - 5. What are the population demographics? (Indigent, insured, etc)
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143 - 6. Who does specific procedures? How is that delegated?
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143 - 6. Who does specific procedures? How is that delegated?
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143 - 7. Is there conference time? Is it protected time?
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143 - 7. Is there conference time? Is it protected time?
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143a 8. What is the amount of exposure and experience in other specialties?
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143a 8. What is the amount of exposure and experience in other specialties?
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143a 9. What is the underlying philosophy of the program? What is the mission statement for the program?
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143a 9. What is the underlying philosophy of the program? What is the mission statement for the program?
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143a 10. Are there any required/provided certifications? (ACLS, ATLS, PALS/APLS)
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143a 10. Are there any required/provided certifications? (ACLS, ATLS, PALS/APLS)
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143a 11. Are there any skills labs?
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143a 11. Are there any skills labs?
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143a 12. How are procedures recorded and credentialed?
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143a 12. How are procedures recorded and credentialed?
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144a 1. Where are your graduates? Geographic areas? Academic vs. community?
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144a 1. Where are your graduates? Geographic areas? Academic vs. community?
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144a 2. How have your graduates done on the board exam? Did all pass on the first time? How did they do on oral exams?
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144a 2. How have your graduates done on the board exam? Did all pass on the first time? How did they do on oral exams?
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144a 3. How have residents done on in-service exams?
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144a 3. How have residents done on in-service exams?
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144a 4. Any new faculty coming on? Any leaving?
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144a 4. Any new faculty coming on? Any leaving?
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144a 5. Type of resident evaluations? How often? How is feedback supplied to residents?
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144a 5. Type of resident evaluations? How often? How is feedback supplied to residents?
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144a 6. What changes if any do you anticipate in the program’s curriculum? Why?
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144a 6. What changes if any do you anticipate in the program’s curriculum? Why?
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144a 7. Have any residents left the program? Did they enter the same field elsewhere? Why did they leave?
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144a 7. Have any residents left the program? Did they enter the same field elsewhere? Why did they leave?
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144a 8. Do you help graduates find jobs? How do you accomplish this – counseling sessions, faculty contacts? Will faculty review job offers with residents?
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144a 8. Do you help graduates find jobs? How do you accomplish this – counseling sessions, faculty contacts? Will faculty review job offers with residents?
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144a 9. What are the weaknesses of this program and how are they being improved?
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144a 9. What are the weaknesses of this program and how are they being improved?
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144a 10. What are the strengths of this program?
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144a 10. What are the strengths of this program?
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144a 11. I am very interested in your program, what else can I do as an applicant?
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144a 11. I am very interested in your program, what else can I do as an applicant?
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144a 12. What can I expect from you as a resident in your program?
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144a 12. What can I expect from you as a resident in your program?
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144a 13. What do you expect from me as a resident in your program?
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144a 13. What do you expect from me as a resident in your program?
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144a 14. What are your future plans and how long do you intend to stay here?
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144a 14. What are your future plans and how long do you intend to stay here?
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144a 15. How are faculty chosen? What are their strengths, weaknesses, interests?
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144a 15. How are faculty chosen? What are their strengths, weaknesses, interests?
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144a 16. What is your accreditation status?
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144a 16. What is your accreditation status?
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144a 17. Has the program ever been on probation? If so, why?
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144a 17. Has the program ever been on probation? If so, why?
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144a 18. How often are you reviewed by the RRC and when is the next review?
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144a 18. How often are you reviewed by the RRC and when is the next review?
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144a 19. Do you support resident involvement in national associations?
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144a 19. Do you support resident involvement in national associations?
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144a 20. How many national conferences do residents get to attend and when?
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144a 20. How many national conferences do residents get to attend and when?
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144a 21. Does the program pay dues to specialty academic societies (e.g. AMA)
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144a 21. Does the program pay dues to specialty academic societies (e.g. AMA)
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144a 22. What processes are in place to deal with issues for residents?
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144a 22. What processes are in place to deal with issues for residents?
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144a 23. What is their policy on maternity/paternity leave?
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144a 23. What is their policy on maternity/paternity leave?
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144a 24. How are the residents treated by the ancillary staff?
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144a 24. How are the residents treated by the ancillary staff?
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145a 1. What contact will I have with faculty and how often?
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145a 1. What contact will I have with faculty and how often?
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145a 2. How is the faculty coverage?
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145a 2. How is the faculty coverage?
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145a 3. How involved are faculty on their cases?
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145a 3. How involved are faculty on their cases?
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145a 4. How often do you want faculty input but find it’s unavailable?
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145a 4. How often do you want faculty input but find it’s unavailable?
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145a 5. Who teaches – senior resident, attending, both? Do you feel you have the opportunity to teach as a senior resident?
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145a 5. Who teaches – senior resident, attending, both? Do you feel you have the opportunity to teach as a senior resident?
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145a 6. How much didactic time is there? How much time is spent in lectures, seminars, journal clubs?
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145a 6. How much didactic time is there? How much time is spent in lectures, seminars, journal clubs?
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145a 7. What has higher priority: Attending conference or clinical duties?
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145a 7. What has higher priority: Attending conference or clinical duties?
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145a 8. What are the types of clinical experiences I can expect?
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145a 8. What are the types of clinical experiences I can expect?
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145a 9. Are there struggles between services for procedures?
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145a 9. Are there struggles between services for procedures?
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145a 10. Is it difficult to obtain consults from other services?11.What is a typical patient census?
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145a 10. Is it difficult to obtain consults from other services?11.What is a typical patient census?
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145a 12. Have graduates felt comfortable performing all necessary procedures by the time they graduate?
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145a 12. Have graduates felt comfortable performing all necessary procedures by the time they graduate?
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145a 13. What type of procedural experience is there?
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145a 13. What type of procedural experience is there?
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145a 14. Will I have time to read?
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145a 14. Will I have time to read?
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145a 15. What type of support staff is available? Who starts IV, blood draws, clerical work, takes patient tox-ray? How often do you wheel patients to X-Ray?
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145a 15. What type of support staff is available? Who starts IV, blood draws, clerical work, takes patient tox-ray? How often do you wheel patients to X-Ray?
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145a 16. What is the call schedule? Is it home call or hospital call?
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145a 16. What is the call schedule? Is it home call or hospital call?
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145a 17. What is the patient population like? (Indigent, insured, HIV, penetrating/blunt trauma?)
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145a 17. What is the patient population like? (Indigent, insured, HIV, penetrating/blunt trauma?)
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145a 18. Do the residents go out as a group? Are the events for all residents or just those in the program?
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145a 18. Do the residents go out as a group? Are the events for all residents or just those in the program?
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145a 19. How often do social events occur? Any activities of special interest to residents?
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145a 19. How often do social events occur? Any activities of special interest to residents?
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145a 20. Are the majority of residents here married or single, any with kids?
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145a 20. Are the majority of residents here married or single, any with kids?
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145a 21. Where do people live?
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145a 21. Where do people live?
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145a 22. Is parking a problem?
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145a 22. Is parking a problem?
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145a 23. What if there is a problem, will the program stand up for the resident?
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145a 23. What if there is a problem, will the program stand up for the resident?
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145a 24. How are shifts done? What is their length? Advance from days to evenings to nights? Night float?
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145a 24. How are shifts done? What is their length? Advance from days to evenings to nights? Night float?
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145a 25. Are there any away electives? Where?
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145a 25. Are there any away electives? Where?
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145a 26. Is there research time? How much and what is required?
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145a 26. Is there research time? How much and what is required?
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145a 27. What are the weaknesses of the program and how are they being improved?
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145a 27. What are the weaknesses of the program and how are they being improved?
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145a 28. What is the one thing you would improve at this program if you could?
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145a 28. What is the one thing you would improve at this program if you could?
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145a 29. Are you happy here?
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145a 29. Are you happy here?
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