How to Ace Your Infectious Disease Interview — Transcript

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1. 0:00so tell me why infectious disease well i
2. 0:03was diagnosed with mrsa when i was eight
3. 0:05years old oh my what did they put you on
4. 0:07bactrim doxycycline no
5. 0:10penicillin
6. 0:13oh my god i knew it was wrong at the
7. 0:15time so i went home and checked my
8. 0:17antibiogram you read an antibiogram at
9. 0:20age eight
10. 0:21read it
11. 0:23i wrote it
12. 0:24impressive how did that experience
13. 0:26change you i vowed that day to spend my
14. 0:28life making as many doctors as possible
15. 0:30feel personally responsible for
16. 0:32antibiotic resistance ah very good
17. 0:34shaming doctors for their antibiotic
18. 0:36choices is one of the core competencies
19. 0:38of our fellowship program which is
20. 0:40exactly why i want to be here what's
21. 0:42your favorite culture medium mcconkey's
22. 0:44agar
23. 0:45lactose fermenting in terrex that's
24. 0:47right a man of class
25. 0:49i like that you know i was looking over
26. 0:52your personal statement
27. 0:54fascinating
28. 0:56thank you
29. 0:57chapter three when you crawl down into
30. 0:59that contaminated well to retrieve a
31. 1:01sample
32. 1:02that is exactly the type of
33. 1:03determination we're looking for here i
34. 1:05was down there for three days
35. 1:07worth every second and my last question
36. 1:10what is your greatest fear
37. 1:14pain resistant pseudomonas
38. 1:18you're not alone
39. 1:20it keeps me up at night and we'd have no
40. 1:23one to blame but ourselves prescribing
41. 1:25antibiotics inappropriately
42. 1:27not listening to the infectious disease
43. 1:29doctors bacteria may be the ones who are
44. 1:31pain resistant to antibiotics
45. 1:34but we are the ones who are pain
46. 1:35resistant to change
47. 1:37that's so true
48. 1:39well we can move on to the practical
49. 1:40part of the interview now bill
50. 1:42yeah boss what's up
51. 1:44bill here has an infectious disease
52. 1:47diagnose him what
53. 1:49i do
54. 1:50well based on his disheveled appearance
55. 1:52i'd assume that bill is post call
56. 1:55he appears emaciated and pale with poor
57. 1:57skin turgor which means he probably
58. 1:58hasn't had anything to eat or drink over
59. 2:00the last 36 hours i don't like this yet
60. 2:03the mustard stain in his shirt tells us
61. 2:05that food somehow found its way into his
62. 2:07mouth
63. 2:08there's no way bill had time to leave
64. 2:10the floor to go to the cafeteria so that
65. 2:12means one thing
66. 2:14what
67. 2:15overcome with hunger bill ate a
68. 2:16half-eaten chicken salad sandwich off a
69. 2:18patient's lunch tray
70. 2:20it was just sitting right there which
71. 2:22means that in roughly two hours bill
72. 2:24will be overcome with e coli induced
73. 2:27explosive diarrhea
74. 2:29well done
75. 2:31i need a new job