Yash Shah
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the Backtable podcast, your source for all things urology. You can find all previous episodes of our podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and at backtable.com. My name is Yash Shah, and I'm a fourth-year medical student at Jefferson in Philadelphia, and I'm here with our team today to continue our trainee-based series at Backtable Urology.
I'll start out by introducing Dr. Mahir Shah, who's a faculty member at Jefferson.
And I'll also have Dr. Gina Badalato introduce herself.
Alright, thanks everyone. I was personally very excited for this conversation today. I think it's something that's going to be very relevant and hopefully I'll learn something and I'm sure that all the other student listeners will also gain a lot from this conversation.
So, I wanted to start out just by talking about some of the recent changes that happened to the plan for the urology match this year. So, some background for our listeners who probably are already aware. The SAU recently announced that programs have a choice for virtual, hybrid, or in-person interviews for really the first time since the pandemic.
And I think I can speak from personal experience and from conversations with some of my peers that this was a little bit unexpected and is something that maybe people want to learn a lot more about. I think that there's a lot of benefits to obviously slowly shifting back to the in-person interviewing, but there's also a lot of unanswered questions.
So one thing I wanted to talk to you guys about today was kind of how students can prepare for both virtual and in-person interviews. I think, you know, a lot of my peers did their even medical school interviews online. So it's going to be a new experience for a lot of us. I guess we could start with me here for some virtual specific advice on how to do well in a virtual interview.
And then we can dive into some of the newer options as well.
And Gina, do you have any advice that might be different for in-person interviews? For example, anything a student should be aware of that might be some key differences on how those interviews might go or things that they need to think about?
Great. And that was actually my follow-up question. So I think that's really insightful to hear because I've heard from a lot of students that, you know, when you're offered a hybrid option, they're concerned about, you know, what a program might feel for choosing one option versus the other. So I think maybe bouncing off of that, we can start with Gina.
But my next question was regarding the role of the interview and the residency match and the ultimate rank list process. How does the interview complement the rest of the application there?
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. So as we move through sub I season, I think what me and a lot of my peers are thinking about is now shifting towards the preparation for interviews. So I kind of had a two part question. And I guess we can start with Lindsay, just talking about the general preparation.
So before interview season even starts, what are some good ways to just get in the right frame of mind and some things to start thinking about generally?
Great. And I think the second part to that question was more so preparing for specific program interviews. So I'll turn this one to Gina. How would you recommend looking into specific programs kind of, you know, the night before or the week before and preparing for those specific interviews?
Yeah, I think that's very insightful. I think one of the pieces of advice that I've heard from multiple mentors is you can try to have a few stories ready in terms of, you know, patients that you interacted with that really stood out to you or personal stories.
And that way you are able to kind of talk about them in a concise but meaningful manner and apply them to, you know, various questions or scenarios that you need to talk about. One thing that Gina mentioned that I think leads nicely into my next question is about research.
So obviously research has become a bigger and bigger emphasis for better or worse for the residency match across subspecialties. And so I'm sure it's likely to come up in the interview. What's your advice for tackling questions about research?
And I think we can just start out by talking about with, I'll ask them here first, kind of how to prepare for those types of questions and how to familiarize yourself with the research that you've done in the past.
Okay, great. And I think the next set of questions I had were a little bit of a pivot, but I've heard that there's a lot of behavioral questions that oftentimes faculty will use to evaluate students on their ability to think on their feet or just kind of demonstrate their personality.
And I think those are very exciting, but also something that a lot of students may not have a lot of experience with. So I was wondering if you had any tips on preparing for and tackling those types of questions. And if you could maybe give us some examples and then talk about kind of how to approach them.
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