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

Same here

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

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!

We hear back in 1-2 weeks?

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

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

Do any of you not have a BSN?

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... ????

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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