SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University College of Medicine MD program · Sample interviewer (fictional)
Fictional interviewer written for this sample; the employers are invented.
Clive Beaumont, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Nephrology) · Brooklyn, New York
About
Nephrologist who has spent most of his career in Brooklyn dialysis units and kidney clinics. Many of my patients came to me late, after years of diabetes or high blood pressure nobody controlled, and I think a lot about how to reach them sooner. I teach the renal block to second-year students and precept third-years on the inpatient service. I've interviewed MD applicants at Downstate since 2017. I want to hear what you did with your own hands and what it taught you, not a list of titles.
Experience
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, College of Medicine (Brooklyn, NY) - Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, 2016 - present - Attending on the inpatient renal service and a weekly chronic kidney disease clinic. - Co-director, second-year renal block, since 2020. - Admissions interviewer since 2017; faculty adviser to a student-run kidney screening project.
Eastern Parkway Dialysis Partners (Brooklyn, NY) - Medical Director, 2011 - 2016 - Oversaw three outpatient units; started a program to bring interpreters and dietitians into chairside education.
Atlantic Shore Hospital (Long Branch, NJ) - Staff Nephrologist, 2009 - 2011
Education
- Fellowship, Nephrology, Riverside Metropolitan Medical Center (New York), 2007 - 2009
- Residency, Internal Medicine, Riverside Metropolitan Medical Center, 2004 - 2007
- MD, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2004
- BA, Chemistry, Wesleyan University, 1999. Worked two years as a lab technician before medical school.
Volunteering
- Flatbush Kidney Outreach Collaborative - volunteer physician at church and community screening days, 2012 - present.
- Mentor for first-generation premedical students through a CUNY pipeline program.
Interests
Plays cricket badly in a weekend league in Marine Park; cooks Trinidadian food learned from his wife's family; long walks in Green-Wood Cemetery with a field guide to birds.