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
Tue, 22 Oct 2024
Are you a 2025 Urology Match applicant or a residency program faculty member? In this week’s episode of the BackTable Urology podcast, guests Dr. Mihir Shah, Dr. Gina Badalato, and Dr. Lindsay Hampson provide guidance on navigating urology residency interviews. Their discussion offers insights from a residency leadership, department faculty, and medical student’s point of view with host Yash Shah. --- SYNPOSIS The episode covers tips for both virtual and in-person interviews, strategies for conversational engagement, and advice for how applicants should evaluate programs. They further detail aligning personal values with program culture, describing past challenges, and lowering interview anxiety through effective practice. The conversation offers applicants invaluable preparation tips to approach the interview process with confidence and a positive attitude. --- TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Introduction 02:32 - Virtual vs. In-Person Interviews 07:02 - Preparing for Residency Interviews: Tips and Strategies 17:29 - The Role of Research 20:43 - Pivoting to Leadership and Advocacy 22:01 - Behavioral Questions: Tips and Examples 26:22 - Discussing Difficult Subjects 28:26 - Choosing the Right Residency Program 33:10 - Post-Interview Communication 36:24 - Final Advice
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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.
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