Pathology Assistant Interview Questions
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Pathology Assistant interview questions shared by candidates
How would you handle conflicts with the patients parents?
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I would refer them to my SLP if they had questions about their child's services.
Why should we choose you?
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I have a strong relevant background to serve as a good pathologist. Right from my childhood, I was motivated to see and accomplish post-morteim of animals like rabbits, poultry and sacrifice animals. During graduation, I also attained specific expertise in haematology and slaughter house assignments. I continued working in haematology during my master program and used this expertise to earn my PhD degree as well. I published 4 articles related to my haematology work. During my PhD, I also gained experience in histo-pathology by working as research fellow and histo-pathology photo-micro-graphs appeared in the two of my publications. After my PhD, I served as a pathologist in Sargodha Medical College University of Sargodha as Assistant Professor of Pathology. I gained one year experience in teaching and interpretation of pathology specimens, which further boost my love for pathology. I am highly motivated for the role as a pathologist and all the skills in various sub-specialties of pathology sound challenging and interesting to me. I am sure that someone like me (with experience in haematology and histo-pathology) will contribute nicely to fulfill the requirements of your department and achieve the settled objectives. The most important thing in this regard is that I really like the role your department offers to play. Less
you have a sample to log and the phone rings and the senior biomedical scientist calls you as they need help what are you doing?
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remember you are working in a team and can delegate roles
Do have experience working with larger animals such as primates, dogs, and cats?
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I have worked with dogs and cats but not primates.
Do you have any mice, guinea pigs, etc. as pets? These are not allowed as they risk a spread of disease.
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No.
Why did you choose veterinary pathology as profession?
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A number of reasons or factors can be counted towards choosing veterinary pathology as my specialty. Firstly, I am a microscope lover by birth and I was fond of a variety of animals during my middle and high school life. Once upon a time, my mother daunted me for withdrawing blood from a rabbit with syringe. I was used to slaughter diseased and normal rabbits, poultry, quails etc and compare their organs with pictures in my science books during those days. I was also fond of observing slaughter of sacrifice animals (cows, bulls, buffaloes, sheep and goats) as well as those of diseased animals in my village. Secondly, although I was curious to know various abnormalities in pet animals, but never tried to treat them myself. During my pre-medical studies, I remained mostly in laboratories and performed a number of experiments on animals, repeatedly. I vaguely remember my motivation to know about disease in animals. Thirdly, during my graduation I paid more attention to laboratory work than to clinical wards. I swiftly performed all assignments in haematology, slaughter house and postmortem and obtained high A grades. Although, I was also frank with microbiologists, I was relatively less inclined towards microbes. Lastly, the pathologist's diagnosis was an astonishing subject for me. Naturally, during my graduation, I assisted with interpretation and assessment of specimens and problems handled by pathology consultants. So after completion of my house job, senior veterinarians in various departments suggested me to choose pathology as my specialty. Less