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Dr. Mihir Shah

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87 total appearances

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BackTable Urology
Ep. 195 BackTable Resident Edition: Tips for Virtual and In-Person Urology Residency Interviews with Dr. Mihir Shah, Dr. Lindsay Hampson, Dr. Gina Badalato, and Yash Shah

And so you could still put that on there, you know, and just be comfortable speaking on it and what, you know, how you, how it helped you and ultimately how you got to your decision of being a urologist. And if you're in a situation where you don't have a home program or you don't have access to research and you don't think you have a strong CV when it comes to research or things of that nature,

BackTable Urology
Ep. 195 BackTable Resident Edition: Tips for Virtual and In-Person Urology Residency Interviews with Dr. Mihir Shah, Dr. Lindsay Hampson, Dr. Gina Badalato, and Yash Shah

And so you could still put that on there, you know, and just be comfortable speaking on it and what, you know, how you, how it helped you and ultimately how you got to your decision of being a urologist. And if you're in a situation where you don't have a home program or you don't have access to research and you don't think you have a strong CV when it comes to research or things of that nature,

BackTable Urology
Ep. 195 BackTable Resident Edition: Tips for Virtual and In-Person Urology Residency Interviews with Dr. Mihir Shah, Dr. Lindsay Hampson, Dr. Gina Badalato, and Yash Shah

Again, the goal is really to see if you can be dedicated to a topic. If you're passionate about community service and you spend a whole year working, you know, in Africa taking care of patients, that speaks for itself. You know, it doesn't have to necessarily be clinical research or basic science research. So all we're looking for is to see, hey, I started this project.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 195 BackTable Resident Edition: Tips for Virtual and In-Person Urology Residency Interviews with Dr. Mihir Shah, Dr. Lindsay Hampson, Dr. Gina Badalato, and Yash Shah

Again, the goal is really to see if you can be dedicated to a topic. If you're passionate about community service and you spend a whole year working, you know, in Africa taking care of patients, that speaks for itself. You know, it doesn't have to necessarily be clinical research or basic science research. So all we're looking for is to see, hey, I started this project.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 195 BackTable Resident Edition: Tips for Virtual and In-Person Urology Residency Interviews with Dr. Mihir Shah, Dr. Lindsay Hampson, Dr. Gina Badalato, and Yash Shah

Again, the goal is really to see if you can be dedicated to a topic. If you're passionate about community service and you spend a whole year working, you know, in Africa taking care of patients, that speaks for itself. You know, it doesn't have to necessarily be clinical research or basic science research. So all we're looking for is to see, hey, I started this project.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 195 BackTable Resident Edition: Tips for Virtual and In-Person Urology Residency Interviews with Dr. Mihir Shah, Dr. Lindsay Hampson, Dr. Gina Badalato, and Yash Shah

I took it all the way through. It's a pub now. It's peer reviewed. You know, that's great. It doesn't have to be 20 pubs necessarily. Not everybody gets that opportunity. But you should at least know what you did on the project, what your role was, and what you learned through it.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 195 BackTable Resident Edition: Tips for Virtual and In-Person Urology Residency Interviews with Dr. Mihir Shah, Dr. Lindsay Hampson, Dr. Gina Badalato, and Yash Shah

I took it all the way through. It's a pub now. It's peer reviewed. You know, that's great. It doesn't have to be 20 pubs necessarily. Not everybody gets that opportunity. But you should at least know what you did on the project, what your role was, and what you learned through it.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 195 BackTable Resident Edition: Tips for Virtual and In-Person Urology Residency Interviews with Dr. Mihir Shah, Dr. Lindsay Hampson, Dr. Gina Badalato, and Yash Shah

I took it all the way through. It's a pub now. It's peer reviewed. You know, that's great. It doesn't have to be 20 pubs necessarily. Not everybody gets that opportunity. But you should at least know what you did on the project, what your role was, and what you learned through it.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 195 BackTable Resident Edition: Tips for Virtual and In-Person Urology Residency Interviews with Dr. Mihir Shah, Dr. Lindsay Hampson, Dr. Gina Badalato, and Yash Shah

One last thing I'll say is just to add to it is the way I when I went through it and I prepared is I actually talked to my non-medical colleagues because when they interview, that's all they get is behavioral questions. So I was like, hey, can you run through these with me? Because, you know, I'm so focused on just medical stuff, but maybe you have a better insight. So that was helpful for me.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 195 BackTable Resident Edition: Tips for Virtual and In-Person Urology Residency Interviews with Dr. Mihir Shah, Dr. Lindsay Hampson, Dr. Gina Badalato, and Yash Shah

One last thing I'll say is just to add to it is the way I when I went through it and I prepared is I actually talked to my non-medical colleagues because when they interview, that's all they get is behavioral questions. So I was like, hey, can you run through these with me? Because, you know, I'm so focused on just medical stuff, but maybe you have a better insight. So that was helpful for me.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 195 BackTable Resident Edition: Tips for Virtual and In-Person Urology Residency Interviews with Dr. Mihir Shah, Dr. Lindsay Hampson, Dr. Gina Badalato, and Yash Shah

One last thing I'll say is just to add to it is the way I when I went through it and I prepared is I actually talked to my non-medical colleagues because when they interview, that's all they get is behavioral questions. So I was like, hey, can you run through these with me? Because, you know, I'm so focused on just medical stuff, but maybe you have a better insight. So that was helpful for me.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 195 BackTable Resident Edition: Tips for Virtual and In-Person Urology Residency Interviews with Dr. Mihir Shah, Dr. Lindsay Hampson, Dr. Gina Badalato, and Yash Shah

If you have friends outside of medicine, you know, ask them. They do this a lot more than we do. So that may help.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 195 BackTable Resident Edition: Tips for Virtual and In-Person Urology Residency Interviews with Dr. Mihir Shah, Dr. Lindsay Hampson, Dr. Gina Badalato, and Yash Shah

If you have friends outside of medicine, you know, ask them. They do this a lot more than we do. So that may help.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 195 BackTable Resident Edition: Tips for Virtual and In-Person Urology Residency Interviews with Dr. Mihir Shah, Dr. Lindsay Hampson, Dr. Gina Badalato, and Yash Shah

If you have friends outside of medicine, you know, ask them. They do this a lot more than we do. So that may help.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 195 BackTable Resident Edition: Tips for Virtual and In-Person Urology Residency Interviews with Dr. Mihir Shah, Dr. Lindsay Hampson, Dr. Gina Badalato, and Yash Shah

How would you recommend talking about that? So, you know, again, it kind of ties into the behavioral questions. And if you don't bring it up, you know, you're more likely than not potentially to get asked at least once throughout the interview day by somebody, right? And again, it's just an opportunity to show your perseverance, your resilience, your grit.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 195 BackTable Resident Edition: Tips for Virtual and In-Person Urology Residency Interviews with Dr. Mihir Shah, Dr. Lindsay Hampson, Dr. Gina Badalato, and Yash Shah

How would you recommend talking about that? So, you know, again, it kind of ties into the behavioral questions. And if you don't bring it up, you know, you're more likely than not potentially to get asked at least once throughout the interview day by somebody, right? And again, it's just an opportunity to show your perseverance, your resilience, your grit.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 195 BackTable Resident Edition: Tips for Virtual and In-Person Urology Residency Interviews with Dr. Mihir Shah, Dr. Lindsay Hampson, Dr. Gina Badalato, and Yash Shah

How would you recommend talking about that? So, you know, again, it kind of ties into the behavioral questions. And if you don't bring it up, you know, you're more likely than not potentially to get asked at least once throughout the interview day by somebody, right? And again, it's just an opportunity to show your perseverance, your resilience, your grit.

BackTable Urology
Ep. 195 BackTable Resident Edition: Tips for Virtual and In-Person Urology Residency Interviews with Dr. Mihir Shah, Dr. Lindsay Hampson, Dr. Gina Badalato, and Yash Shah

It could be any number of circumstances, loss of a loved one, a catastrophic event in your life that was really critical that you had to take a gap year. Or it could be a whole host of reasons. Some family member needed help, et cetera. So it's really just another opportunity to show what the challenge was. It's not so important what it was. It's just really what we want to see is

BackTable Urology
Ep. 195 BackTable Resident Edition: Tips for Virtual and In-Person Urology Residency Interviews with Dr. Mihir Shah, Dr. Lindsay Hampson, Dr. Gina Badalato, and Yash Shah

It could be any number of circumstances, loss of a loved one, a catastrophic event in your life that was really critical that you had to take a gap year. Or it could be a whole host of reasons. Some family member needed help, et cetera. So it's really just another opportunity to show what the challenge was. It's not so important what it was. It's just really what we want to see is

BackTable Urology
Ep. 195 BackTable Resident Edition: Tips for Virtual and In-Person Urology Residency Interviews with Dr. Mihir Shah, Dr. Lindsay Hampson, Dr. Gina Badalato, and Yash Shah

It could be any number of circumstances, loss of a loved one, a catastrophic event in your life that was really critical that you had to take a gap year. Or it could be a whole host of reasons. Some family member needed help, et cetera. So it's really just another opportunity to show what the challenge was. It's not so important what it was. It's just really what we want to see is