Medical Interview Technique Courses.

Providing doctors with the skills and knowledge to succeed during their medical interviews ( ST, CT, FY, GP Trainees | Consultants | Non Training Post )

ST, CT, FY, GP Trainees Interview Questions

Example Interview Questions:

Take me through your clinical posts and career progression since qualification?

Take me through your academic achievements since arriving at medical school?

Are there any gaps in your training to date?

If you were to start your career again what would you change?

What specific skills have you learnt which make you a good teacher?

What one technique has had the biggest impact on your teaching methods?

What is your experience of teaching?

What do you understand by the term clinical governance?

How do you implement Clinical Governance?

Are there any problems with the implementation of clinical governance?

Tell me about an audit project you’ve carried out?

What problems are there in the way senior house officer audit projects are carried out?

What do you understand by the term clinical risk management?

What is a near miss situation?

What is the role of the National Patient Safety Agency?

What complications of procedure X should you be aware of?

Tell me about the evidence base for the treatment of condition X?

Tell me about the most recent paper you’ve read which will change your day to day clinical practice?

Tell me about an interesting paper you’ve read in the past three months?

Tell me about a memorable case where you’ve learnt something new?

What is the worse case you have managed?

What is the most interesting case you’ve managed?

What invasive procedures have you performed and what complications have you encountered?

What measures do you use to obtain informed consent for the procedures you do?

Tell me about a clinical situation where you’ve needed to seek advice; what lessons did you learn from it?

When was the last time you rang your consultant?

Tell me about a situation where your communication skills did not help in getting something done?

If one could improve the specialty training scheme in one way, what would you do?

You’ve done a locum appointment in training post—what was the most important step up you had to deal with compared with being a senior house officer?

What could you do to improve the organisation and running of your current workplace environment?

Would you be happy being an average consultant?

What characteristics make a good consultant?

Why do you want to train in this specialty?

What are your aims for your time on the training scheme?

Why do you want to train in this region?

What do you understand by the term "research governance"?

Should research be carried out at tertiary centres or do district general hospitals have a role?

Should every trainee in this specialty undertake research?

Summarise your research as briefly as possible?

Tell me about your research—assume you are talking to a group of charity workers from your funding organisation?

How much of your research is your own design and how much is guided by your supervisor?

How did you organise your research project; did your supervisor write your grant application?

How have you kept your clinical skills and knowledge up to date during your research?

Give an example of where you’ve had to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team?

Is the expanding role of nurses a benefit or a danger to the medical profession?

How has the recent national service framework affected your hospital’s practice; how is its implementation being measured?

What are your ultimate career intentions?

Where do you see yourself in five years time?

What information technology skills do you possess?

How would you deal with a problem doctor—for example, if you suspected your consultant had a drink problem?

How would you cope with criticism and a complaint against you?

Describe yourself in as few sentences as possible?

Why should you be given the job over another candidate?

What are your interests outside of medicine; do they have any impact on how you practise medicine?

What are your weaknesses?

What are your views on NHS recruitment drives in the developing world?

Would you rather work in a shift pattern or a traditional 24 hour on-call pattern?

If you were able to do one thing that could improve the wellbeing of the world/mankind, what would you do?

Give an example of where you’ve prioritised clinical need?

What was the most important event in your life?

Do you ever lose your temper?

How do you see the NHS in 5 years time?