An underlying requirement of practice interviews themselves is that they require another person to be engaged with you at that moment and a level of trust that this person will give you honest and constructive feedback. While doing practice interviews with family and friends and watching videos of public speakers were both helpful, they were inconsistent in their effectiveness and minimally increased my confidence in my ability to interview after several iterations. However, regardless of this fear, I needed to find an only semi-painful way to help me improve in this area.
Still, I had the audacity to use all three of these seemingly redundant words to describe myself to emphasize how nervous I was to speak to medical students and healthcare professionals about why I want to pursue medicine, what my strengths are, and what my background is. All three of those words are similar enough to each other in meaning that when you google search any of them, the other two words will be listed as synonyms. And for those of you that are well-versed in the English language, read a thesaurus for fun like me, or are that good at spotting trends, you will have just wondered are those three qualities not inherently the same thing. At the start of the medical school application cycle, I came face to face with a question that I had been persistently asking myself during my junior and senior year: how am I going to make it through an interview?įor some context, I am an introverted, reserved, and shy individual.
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