Tell Your Story: Residency and Fellowship Interview Prep
A focused, individualized partnership for applicants who want support in communicating their experience, preparing for interviews, and approaching the process with greater confidence and clarity. • One 60-minute strategy and goal-setting session • Review and feedback on one personal statement or application narrative, with one revision round • Two 60-minute mock-interview sessions, tailored to your specialty and goals • Structured, actionable feedback on clarity, presence, storytelling, communication, and interview responses • Support with career narrative, interview preparation, professional confidence, and post-interview reflection • Limited email support for scheduling and questions during the package period Best for: Applicants who need a clear, efficient combination of narrative refinement and interview preparation.
What's included
My coaching style is warm, practical, and collaborative. I provide a confidential, nonjudgmental space for physicians to reflect honestly, clarify what matters most, and navigate career and life challenges with greater intention. You are resourceful and whole. I am empathetic and informed by experience and curiosity. Coaching is not the same as mentoring, consulting, advising, or therapy. Rather than prescribing answers, I use deep listening, thoughtful questions, and physician-specific insight to help you recognize your strengths, identify meaningful choices, and take realistic next steps. We address the whole person—career, health, relationships, family, identity, and purpose—while keeping the work grounded in your real-world circumstances.
- You will gain focus on how to tell your story - communicating your strengths, values, and intentions at your interviews.
- You will be able to practice these techniques at our mock interviews and reflect on performance.
Meet your expert
Lance W.
Physician Development Coach for Residency, Fellowship & Career Planning
For more than three decades, medicine has been central to my life. As an anesthesiologist, physician leader, department chair, and medical educator, I experienced both the privilege of caring for patients and the demanding realities physicians experience every day. Throughout my career, I have worked alongside and supported physicians at many stages—from trainees finding their footing to experienced clinicians considering what comes next. I have seen the pride, purpose, and deep commitment that bring people to medicine. I have also seen how chronic stress, changing systems, difficult transitions, illness, competing responsibilities, and isolation can gradually distance physicians from the work and lives they once envisioned. My commitment to physician well-being deepened after witnessing the serious consequences of stress and substance use among colleagues. Later, personal health challenges redirected my own path away from clinical practice. That experience strengthened my appreciation for the importance of reflection, support, and intentionally shaping a meaningful next chapter. Today, I bring my clinical and organizational experience to advocacy, organized medicine, physician well-being, and professional coaching. My work is grounded in respect for the complexity of physicians’ lives and in the belief that a fulfilling career is not merely about enduring medicine—it is about creating a professional life that is sustainable, purposeful, and aligned with what matters most. From residency through retirement, I help physicians reconnect with what matters and move forward with greater clarity, resilience, and intention.
