Oct 9, 2026 · 7 min · 5 segments
\*PODCAST EXCLUSIVE* - 10.9.26 \- An audio elaboration of this Threads/X quote, thought, or idea I just posted: "You gotta be able to hold a conversation in your interviews. It's not a multiple…
Brendan GallagherHostAnd one of my problems when-- especially for, mostly for dental school interviews, not for residency, not for oral surgery residency, I wasn't doing it.
But for dental school interviews, I was, I was, like, doing flashcards of things that I thought I should know, thought the things that I thought they were gonna ask in interviews, like giving me dental questions and stuff.
I didn't get one dental question on dental school interviews, all right? In residency interviews, some programs apparently ask you oral surgery, something to do with oral surgery and residency.
I didn't get one, like, oral surgery specific technique or what's the-- I didn't get any pimping questions, is what they call it.
No, it was all like, "What's your biggest life regret? What would you consider to be your biggest life regret?" Uh, like, "So tell me a little something about yourself.
It's the first time we're meeting." Or, like, "You know, I didn't get to meet you on our externship, so, so tell me a little something.
What do you do in your spare time? You know, what's, what's a hobby that you do?" I got eight interviews for oral surgery residency asking me about playing the violin.
Eight of them asked me about playing the violin while only two asked me about the research I did in dental school.
I also applied mostly to four, four-year oral surgery residencies, and the six years are a, a lot of times asked more about, like, research, more of like an academic training of mind, I guess.
You know, spending an extra two years to get your MD on, on the six-year track.
But coming back to that, that's a lot of, like, content, you know what I mean? It's not a multiple-choice exam.
They might look through your resume, your application, and identify some lower scores and see if you, if you could explain why you, you got the lower scores, if you could explain why you got lower test scores.
Um, so you should know those like the back of your hand and kind of have a something to talk about to explain them, you know.
And one of my problems when-- especially for, mostly for dental school interviews, not for residency, not for oral surgery residency, I wasn't doing it.
But for dental school interviews, I was, I was, like, doing flashcards of things that I thought I should know, thought the things that I thought they were gonna ask in interviews, like giving me dental questions and stuff.
I didn't get one dental question on dental school interviews, all right? In residency interviews, some programs apparently ask you oral surgery, something to do with oral surgery and residency.
I didn't get one, like, oral surgery specific technique or what's the-- I didn't get any pimping questions, is what they call it.
No, it was all like, "What's your biggest life regret? What would you consider to be your biggest life regret?" Uh, like, "So tell me a little something about yourself.
It's the first time we're meeting." Or, like, "You know, I didn't get to meet you on our externship, so, so tell me a little something.
What do you do in your spare time? You know, what's, what's a hobby that you do?" I got eight interviews for oral surgery residency asking me about playing the violin.
Eight of them asked me about playing the violin while only two asked me about the research I did in dental school.
I also applied mostly to four, four-year oral surgery residencies, and the six years are a, a lot of times asked more about, like, research, more of like an academic training of mind, I guess.
You know, spending an extra two years to get your MD on, on the six-year track.
But coming back to that, that's a lot of, like, content, you know what I mean? It's not a multiple-choice exam.
They might look through your resume, your application, and identify some lower scores and see if you, if you could explain why you, you got the lower scores, if you could explain why you got lower test scores.
Um, so you should know those like the back of your hand and kind of have a something to talk about to explain them, you know.
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