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
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This week on The Backtable Podcast.
Check yourself. If you're ever answering a question for more than two or three minutes, you should probably find a way to wrap it up because you really want to give an opportunity to talk about many different aspects. And it may feel comfortable to talk about something you know for a long time, but I can tell you as the person sitting on the other end of that interview that you're feeling like well i already read the application i kind of already knew some of the basics and now i'm being talked at instead of in a conversation and interviews are way more fun when you're in a conversation with people so have a mind have an eye on the clock and if you realize that you're kind of droning on about something wrap it up so that you can continue on with other parts of the interview and make it more fun
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.
Thanks for having me. It's good seeing everybody. I am a urologist at Jefferson. I serve as the vice chair of clinical research and my clinical focus is urologic oncology and additionally reconstructive benign disease such as BPH and upper tract reconstruction.
And I'll also have Dr. Gina Badalato introduce herself.
Hi, my name is Gina Bottolato. I am a urologist at Columbia University in New York, normally the host of this podcast with Lindsay, but happy to surrender the reins to Yash today. Great to see everybody.
Yeah, and I'm Lindsay Hampson. I'm at UCSF and Gina and I are excited not to pose the questions this time, but to actually receive them. So very excited to have this topic that's really more oriented towards medical students. And I think this is a real opportunity as we approach interview season to really feel like we're giving medical students some confidence going into interviews and setting them up for success.
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.
Sure. So I would prepare for a virtual interview like you would for an in-person or vice versa in this case, since you guys are more familiar with the virtual setting. But you want a bright environment, adequate light, make sure your internet's working well, have tested your equipment, have a working headset or computer, if you will, and then dress appropriately. It's still an interview.
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