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General Medical Interview questions: Medical Interview Questions Medical Interview UK
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Tell us about yourself?
Talk through your career so far?
What is your background?
What is the one achievement on your CV that you are most proud of?
Summarise your experience so far?
Do you have any changes to make to your CV?
How many jobs have you applied for previously?
Do you have any other job applications in at present?
Did you apply for this post last year?
Have you looked around the area?
Have you met any of these panel members?
What are your career plans?
Do you feel there any gaps in your CV?
How could you have improved your CV?
Why medicine?
What made you choose this speciality as a career?
Do you think it is important to gain experience of other specialities?
What sort of things did you gain from in your own experience outside the speciality?
What are your career goals?
Why should we give you this job?
Why do you want this job?
What makes you the best candidate for this job?
Where do you see yourself in 10 or 20 years’ time?
What is your special interest in this department?
Why do you want to work in this deanery?
What can you bring to this hospital?
How are you going to raise the profile of this Trust?
What are your strengths?
What’s your biggest weakness?
What makes you angry?
What do you think about this geographical area?
What do you do in your free time?
Tell us about a recent triumph?
Tell me about your biggest failure?
What are the qualities of a good doctor?
Have you ever been criticised?
How would your best friend describe you?
What three adjectives describe you best?
What sort of hospital would you rather work in and why?
How will your previous employer remember you?
Are you a professional? Why?
What feed back have you obtained from your patients about you?
What would you like your obituary to say?
How do you measure success?
Are you successful?
Would you like to get involved in management at some time?
What have you done that is different to other candidates here today?
What will be the biggest challenge in this post for you?
What are you hoping to gain from us?
How do you know you’re making the best career move for you?
Will you be happy being an average trainee?
What are the qualities of a successful consultant?
What skills do you need to develop the most?
Which job have you enjoyed the most and why?
Teaching and medical education: Medical Interview Questions by Medical Interview UK
Tell us about your teaching experience so far?
What methods of teaching do you use?
If you were asked to teach a group of six junior doctors on a particular subject how would you go about preparing for your teaching session?
How would you convince a colleague of the importance of teaching?
What is problem based learning?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of problem based learning?
Tell me about a case where you learn something new?
How do you assess competence in a trainee?
Should trainees be involved in teaching?
How could we improve your training?
How might we identify your training needs?
How do you keep your skills up to date?
How does your previous training make you suitable for this job?
Talk us through your training so far?
Why did you do a bachelor of science degree?
Are there any deficiencies in your training?
How do we know you’re a good teacher?
Have you any formal education and teaching methods?
Who is responsible for management training?
What management courses have you been on?
Did you find your management course useful?
How will you improve the training of junior doctors?
Who pays for training?
What is SIFT?
How do we attract the best junior doctors in the current competitive climate of MMC?
Should doctors teacher nurses?
What is the purpose of a college tutor?
How does this differ from an educational supervisors role?
How do you teach?
Tell us about any teaching that you have done recently and the methods you used. How did the students feel?
Discuss any new teaching methods that you are aware of?
What are the problems with assessing competency?
How do we currently assess competency?
What’s the worst or best case that you have managed?
What do you think of competency based training?
How do we as doctors improve our knowledge?
What is CPED?
What’s the most useful course that you been on?
What is e learning?
How do we assess behaviour?
What is appraisal?
Are there any changes currently planned for future appraisal methods?
Medical politics: Medical Interview Questions by Medical Interview UK
Is clinical governance a good thing?
What do you think of NICE?
Have you had the last Health Care commission report for this Trust?
What is the Healthcare Commission for?
Can you tell me about any recent NHS white papers?
What is the purpose of ‘Payment by Results’?
What is the tariff and how was the tariff going to change in the years to come?
What changes have affected the GMC recently?
What you know about the Bristol heart scandal?
Do you know about the Alder Hey scandal?
What has been the outcome of the Shipman scandal?
Do you think that increased spending in the NHS has been used well?
What is the purpose of the Foundation status hospital?
Is there rationing of Healthcare in the NHS?
What was the purpose of the reduction in junior doctors training hours and how has this affected patient care?
What do you think of the new consultant contract?
What you think about private practice?
What you think about independent treatment centres?
Clinical governance: Medical Interview Questions by Medical Interview UK
Can you tell me about clinical governance?
Has clinical governance improved patient safety?
How does clinical governance interact with your day to day patient care?
Is clinical governance justified?
Who is responsible for clinical governance in your Trust?
Can you tell me about clinical risk management?
How do you manage risk in your practice?
What happens to the different parts the critical incident form once they have been submitted?
Tell me about a NICE guideline in your speciality?
Please tell me about the national patient safety agency?
What is the hospital at night project?
What are your opinions on Modernizing Medical careers?
What is the purpose of PMETB?
What do you know about Foundation programmes?
When were you last appraised?
What is the purpose of the appraisal process?
Is the appraisal process a total waste of time?
How do you prepare for your appraisal?
What do you understand by revalidation of an assessment?
Why do you think the public has lost trust with doctors?
What you think of the nurse consultant?
Do you agree with nurse prescribing?
In risk management is it really a blame free culture?
Should we follow protocols?
Should we follow guidelines?
What’s the difference between a protocol and a guideline?
What you think of managers?
What’s wrong with having doctors as managers?
Why was NHS Direct formed?
How would you deliver a new service program?
How do you go about writing a business plan for a new service?
What problems are there with introducing change and how have you managed them previously?
Are you a leader?
What qualities are required in a leader?
What’s the difference between leadership and management?
What’s your leadership style?
What’s your management style?
Give me an example of where you showed leadership skills?
Give me an example of where you managed a clinical scenario well?
Can you be a good manager but not good leader?
Give me example of a leader who you admire and why?
How do we deliver locally nationally agreed standards of care and give an example?
What is practiced-based commissioning?
What is the private finance initiative?
What are the problems with a PFI project?
What is ‘monitor’ and what are they do?
What is the Award Star ratings for Trusts?
What is Agenda for Change and does it affect doctors?
What is the purpose of the Modernization Agency and give an example?
Have you read Good Medical Practice published by the GMC? What is it about?
What important points are there from this document?
What is the purpose of the National Clinical Assessment service?
What are GMC Affiliates
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