Pediatrics Residency Interview Questions and Answers

In any residency interview you go to there will be social questions and medical questions. The social questions are common in almost all specialties and are posted on our website (find the link at the bottom of this book), however the medical questions are very specific to the specialty you are applying to.

In this book we collected all the medical questions asked to pediatrics residency applicants during the interviews in the past few years. These questions are the basic knowledge you must have to be accepted to this specialty and usually you learn them from your medical school pediatrics rotations and curriculum.


This book is about the medical questions you will be likely asked by the interviewers in pediatrics residency interviews which are usually the program director, assistant program director, some faculty and the chief residents.


We strongly encourage you to study these questions and answers because answering them correctly will:

1-Give the program director and faculty a positive impression about you.

2-The more correct answers you have, the higher will be your rank in the match algorithm.

3-It will give the faculty a good impression about your medical knowledge background and hence will minimize the unnecessary further meticulous search in your profile.

4-The chief residents in turn will also recommend you to be ranked high when they do the ranking session with the faculty.

5-You will earn confidence in yourself especially when going to further residency interviews.

Before starting with the pediatrics residency medical interview questions and answers let us shed some light on the pediatrics match statistics:


The average scores for AMGs who matched in Pediatrics in USMLE step 1 and 2 CK are 221 and 234 respectively.


For IMGs who matched in Pediatrics the average scores in USMLE step 1 and 2 CK are 217 and 221 respectively.


About 68% of positions offered in the match go to AMGs and about 32% of positions go to IMGs. About 96% of AMGs who apply do match and about 51% of IMGs who apply do successfully match.