{"id":45221,"date":"2014-09-15T14:12:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T18:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=voices&#038;p=45221"},"modified":"2014-09-15T14:12:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T18:12:31","slug":"fellowship-interview-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2014\/09\/15\/fellowship-interview-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Ace Your Fellowship Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The following compilation of fellowship interview tips was originally published on Twitter between August 15th and 18th by\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ethanjweiss\">Ethan Weiss<\/a><\/strong>, a cardiologist with 13 years of experience interviewing fellowship applicants. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MJP_MD\">Matthew Pirotte<\/a><\/strong> also supplied <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/0j0DWx3Xj1\">this helpful graph<\/a> categorizing potential applicants.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1. Prepare like you are interviewing for a job. You are. Know who you are meeting and who you want to meet with.<\/p>\n<p>2. Learn the strengths and weaknesses of the institution you are visiting and use the information to help you.<\/p>\n<p>3. Your choice of a research mentor is the most important decision you will make. Be ready to discuss who and why.<\/p>\n<p>4. Do not overvalue opinions of first-year fellows in the first 3 months of training. Seek senior fellows or junior faculty.<\/p>\n<p>5. Address any issues, problems, and obvious questions in your application head-on.<\/p>\n<p>6. You do not need to know what you will do for your career, but you need to explain how you will figure it out.<\/p>\n<p>7. You can be bold and dream, but be realistic about what you are likely to accomplish in fellowship.<\/p>\n<p>8. Be prepared to discuss the things you think are important in healthcare, cardiovascular medicine, and science.<\/p>\n<p>9. Even though it is a \u201cseller&#8217;s market\u201d, you are the consumer and should think about which program is best for you.<\/p>\n<p>10. If you are interested in a program, demonstrate that meaningfully.<\/p>\n<p>11. Do not tell multiple programs they are your first choice.<\/p>\n<p>12. Be nice to other applicants and to program administrators. Programs pay attention to these things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following compilation of fellowship interview tips was originally published on Twitter between August 15th and 18th by\u00a0Ethan Weiss, a cardiologist with 13 years of experience interviewing fellowship applicants. Matthew Pirotte also supplied this helpful graph categorizing potential applicants. 1. Prepare like you are interviewing for a job. You are. Know who you are meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1227,195],"class_list":["post-45221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fellowship","tag-fellowship-training-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}