Yash Shah
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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
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.
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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 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.
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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
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?
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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 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.
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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
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.
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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 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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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
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.
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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
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.
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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
Yeah, that's a great idea. I'll have to use that one. But I think that's really helpful here. And just thinking about your thought process almost seems like killing two birds with one stone where you're answering the question and showing your own logic, but also kind of helping yourself by reasoning out to kind of the right answer for you.
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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 think the next topic I had, I'll pitch this one to Mihir, was about talking about a difficult subject. So there might be some students who have so-called red flags, whether it's academic issues that they've had, any gaps in their education, or other things that they might find difficult to discuss during the interview, but they might feel is something that they have to bring up.
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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
All right. Thanks so much, Dr. Shah. And my final question is something that I'll open up to the floor just because all of you guys have done residency at some point. And I love to hear kind of your reflections on that process. What should students try to learn about a program during the interview and ultimately when they're deciding where they want to go?
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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 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.
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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
What have you found was most important to you? And kind of looking back, what do you feel like you wish you thought about back then?
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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
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.
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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
Awesome. That's all really good advice and something that I'll definitely take to heart. As we wrap up, I was going to ask Gina about post-interview communication. So, obviously, there are some things that are allowed, some things that are not. Just want to get an idea of
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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
what you recommend in terms of whether it's sending a thank you letter, anything beyond that, talking about maybe programs that you're more interested in and whether it's having questions or just expressing your interest further, how do you recommend handling that?
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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 then we can dive into some of the newer options as well.
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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
So as we near the end here, is there anything else that you guys wanted to mention or any other advice that you commonly give to your students that we haven't covered today?
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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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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 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?
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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
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.
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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
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?
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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
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.
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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
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.
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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
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?
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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'll start out by introducing Dr. Mahir Shah, who's a faculty member at Jefferson.
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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
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?
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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 I'll also have Dr. Gina Badalato introduce herself.