Interview Questions for Internal Medicine Board Introduce yourself/Tell us about yourself?Why Internal Medicine?From where/what… your strength and/or weakness?What are your hobbies? Life after/outside hospitalDo you remember/Any interesting case you saw? … How would you advise the junior doctors?Where do you see yourself in the next 5*, 7 or 10 years?Any interest in sub-specialty?Have you taken ACLS/BLS courses?How do you define leadership?Remember the time when you were criticized, under pressure, …?How do you (what motivate you?) stay motivated?What will you do if the nurse called you regarding a patient in the ward complaining of sudden seizure, chest pain or shortness of breath, or low blood sodium, …, or two patients at the same time one with seizure / chest pain and the other vomiting/arrested, …/…, or difficult/angry patient/family members, or many patients in the ward and only you and one junior doctor will do the round, …?Colleague questions (rotation/hospital issues, frequent absence, wrong treatment, needle stick injury, alcohol, …), what will you do? Example …. Your senior insist on you to give beta blocker for case of pulmonary edema , what will you do ?Questions regarding your CV or clinical skills questions (like ABG or lumbar puncture, …)Have you applied for this program previously?Why do we have to accept you into this program?Do you know about this program?What will you do if we did not accept you?Program questions, examples do you know that this program includes a research program?, do you know which year(R3 for the Kuwait board), anything you want to know about the program? …Any research?Why you are wearing medical scrub for the interview? (say am post call, …)what types of leaves do you know?what are the sources of reference you use for your presentation?/from where do you read?hmm.. ok so if you won the prize, like … millions of Kuwaiti Dinars, what will you do?if you are not a doctor what would you be?How do you socialize?(🇨🇦 residency)what challenges you would expect? (🇨🇦 residency)Do you have any questions?Because of shortage, you are in Alamiri hospital but if we asked you to go to Adan hospital, is it okay?From where you look for research articlesFrom where you look for guidelinesWhy not Kuwaiti board ( 🇨🇦 residency )Is Kuwait board accredited ? ( 🇨🇦 residency )Colleague questions … conflict ? What will you do ? And if not worked ? What will you do ? Or Alcoholic colleague , what will you do ? ( 🇨🇦 residency )Tell us about interests ( or any things ) that you did not mention in your cv ? ( 🇨🇦 residency)Do you have EPA in Kuwait ? ( 🇨🇦 residency )In your cv there are many activities other than internal medicine .., did you apply to internal medicine by default ? ( 🇨🇦 residency)*5 years resident vision, pending/requires KIMS (invite and encourage) for automatic , optional, for all residents to join fellowship program between R4 to R5 period.