Cedars-Sinai October 2019 New Graduate Residency

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Hi, guys. I figure staring a thread for those who applied for the October cohort for Cedar Sinai New Grad Program. As for now, I believe the posting is closed.

6 minutes ago, Mss said:

Hey! I’ve answered all questions they asked(3ppl). But it was quick compare to a person they interviewed prior me . How about you?

I felt like they didn’t ask me very many questions as I’d expected or prepared for? Kinda weird

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Same here

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Same here. It was more the interviewee explaining their unit. She only asked me like 3 questions

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i got asked like 6-8 questions from this sheet so it felt like rapid fire

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Hey! I’m not sure. I feel like I did well on most of the questions, but they asked one question about dealing with peer pressure in the work place that threw me off.

I’m not sure I nailed it, but I also don’t think I did terrible? So hard to know!

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We hear back in 1-2 weeks?

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Yes that what they said to me. 1-2 weeks

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do we know how many people they're planning to hire for this cohort?

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Do any of you not have a BSN?

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For future people reading this thread to prep, basically what the process is like is that they sit everyone in a big room. Multiple tables with different units interview applicants all in the same room. Extremely stress inducing environment.

I ended up arriving 45 minutes early. They still called me a little over an hour after my scheduled interview time. My technique had been to say med/surg general was my top choice, since I knew tele was competitive. It ended up being that a lot of people picked general med surg; I was interviewed by urology/plastic surgery, which was the third choice I wrote down, but tbh is actually more interesting to me than regular med surg.

I was interviewed by three people. I was asked maybe 10 or so questions. There was the obvious tell me about yourself question. The rest were sort of situational stuff. Stuff like “ you walk in and a patient can’t breath, what do you do?” Asked me about a few common meds as well as labs to monitor.

I felt I did well on most of the questions, but as I said earlier, they asked sort of a random one about standing up to peer pressure, and I felt like I sort of stumbled through my answers. I also tried to be really friendly and enthusiastic, but the people who interviewed me were more reserved so hopefully I didn’t come off fake. They also could definitely tell I was really nervous.

Well, that’s my experience. I walked out feeling bad because I wanted to nail it and didn’t feel I did. Now that I’ve reflected a bit I feel I did okay, but there’s definitely some questions I wish I’d handled differently.

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Now I feel even more nervous since they asked me about one med, couple of behavioral questions, and few things I am proud of in my resume ... that’s it. Even though I feel like I did well, the interview last about 15-20 min... ????

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I think the different units all had different interview styles! Cause mine didn’t even really look at my resume or ask me any questions about it.

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