Oxford Medical's Consultant Medical Interview Guide Contains:

• 100's of previously asked medical interview questions
• Written by NHS Consultants with experience in the medical selection process
• Detailed sections on evidence based medicine and medical education
• Interview skills and techniques to use during your interview.
• A summary of the consultant interview process including pre interview visits
• 169 pages of high quality training material
• A-Z of medical hot topics. Single page A4 summaries of all the latest hot topics.
• Demo answers to sepcific questions
• Hot topics which are summarised in this guide are mentioned below
• Version 3.6 (2011) recently updated
  

Index to Oxford Medical Consultant Medical Interview Guide:

Chapter 1: The Consultant Interview Process       p7

• The application process overview
• The pre-shortlisting visit
• The pre-interview visit

Chapter 2:The Advisory Appointments Committee p10

• The AAC panel
• The Chairman’s role
• The Royal College representative’s role
• The University representative’s role
• The rest of the panel: Chief Executive, Medical Director and Clinical Director

Chapter 3: Medical Interview Preparation Tips p15

• Interview preparation overview
• Knowing about the job
• The consultant job plan
• The person specification
• A simple principle for structuring your answers – the fact, opinion approach
• The medical interview: a structured process

Chapter 4: Giving a Medical Presentation p24

• Giving a medical presentation
• Pitfalls of giving a PowerPoint presentation

Chapter 5: Some Common Opening Questions and Answers  p25

• What does the interview panel want to know about me as an individual?
• Why have you applied for this job?
• What are your main strengths?
• What are your main weaknesses?
• Typical questions that could be asked when looking at your personal qualities
• What makes a good doctor?
• Teamworking

Chapter 6: How to Answer Interview Questions Effectively  p30

• What should I think about in my answer?
• How do I answer a question about a clinical case?
• The event, action, evaluation approach

Chapter 7: Consultant Medical Interview Skills p35

• What are the interviewers’ objectives?
• Categories of assessment by the panel
• What types of questions can they ask me during my interview?
• Different types of interviewing techniques
Interview preparation
Knowing the institution/deanery
• Knowing yourself
Your personality
Your state of mind
• First impressions last
• Appearance
• Body language and non-verbal communication

Chapter 8: Evidence-based Medicine, Research and your Medical Interview  p48

• How do you grade medical research?
• Grading evidence
• How do you determine the quality of evidence?

Study quality
Consistency
Directness
Recommendations
Criticisms of evidence-based medicine
What examples of successful evidence-based medicine do you know?

Chapter 9: Medical Education Overview p53

• What types of teaching methods are there in medical education?
• Advantages and disadvantages of each teaching method
• Can you tell me about 1-to-1 teaching?
• What is problem-based learning (PBL)?
• Can you tell me about educational theory?
• What is andragogy?
• What is self-directed learning?
• Can you tell me about web-based learning or e-learning?
• Can you describe a typical learning cycle?
• Factors influencing learning
• How do you go about teaching small groups?
• How do you go about teaching large groups?
• Evidence-based educational teaching
• Clinical teaching
• Creating teaching materials
• What is assessment?
• How do you measure competence in a trainee?
• Skill-based assessment

Chapter 10: A-Z of Medical Interview Knowledge p65

• Academic Health Science Centres
• Appraisal
• Audit
• Bearing Good Witness
• Bristol Enquiry
• British Medical Association
• Business Planning
• Care Quality Commission
• Choose and Book
• Clinical Effectiveness
• Clinical Governance
• CNST: Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts
• Communication
• Consent
• CPED: Continued Professional Education and Development
• Critical Incident Reporting
• Darzi Report
• Department of Health
• Donaldson Report
• Eighteen Week (18 week) Target
• EWTD: European Working Time Directive
• Foundation Trusts
• General Medical Council
• Good Medical Practice
• Hospital at Night Project
• Leadership and Management in the NHS
• Managing Stress
• Medicines Health Regulatory Agency
• Mental Capacity Act
• Mid Staffordshire NHS Enquiry
• Modernising Medical Careers
• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
• National Programme for Information Technology
• National Service Frameworks
• NHS Direct
• NHS Modernisation Agency
• NHS Plan
• NHS White Paper: “Equity and Excellence-Liberating the NHS” 2010
• Nurse Practitioners and Nurse Consultants
• Patient Advice and Liaison Service
• PBC: Practice Based Commissioning
• Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board
• Primary Care Trusts
• Private Finance Initiative
• Research
• Research Governance
• Risk Management
• Risk Register
• Shipman Enquiry
• Strategic Health Authorities
• Tooke Report
• Wanless Report

Chapter 11: Consultant Interview Questions p159

• General questions
• Teaching and medical education
• Medical politics
• Clinical governance
• Research and audit
• Ethics and difficult scenarios
• Management and leadership

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