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Medical interviews have changed. Gone are the days when the preferred candidates (normally in house) turned up for a medical interviews and was given the job.
Today's medical interviews involve subjective scoring systems, external assessors and a larger involvement of human resources within the trust's medical interviews process.
With the old deanery based medical interviews process going to a National Medical interviews system in 2007 in the form of MMC, the overall assessment during your medical interviews had has changed for ever.
With the decentralisation back to the deanery level, all medical interviews have inherited the formal subjective and fair style given to them during the 2007 MMC medical interviews system.
To the jobbing doctor who has many medical interviews to overcome this is not a bad change. For example did you know that you will be submit subjectively be assessed on the following by the medical interviews panel.
Assessment category. What is required for success?
Subject content medical interviews preparation
Subjected delivery medical interviews skills
Opinion medical interview skills
Insight medical interviews training
Personality knowing and selling yourself
Skills clinical and non clinical self appraisal
Knowledge medical interviews preparation
Attributes medical interviews skills
Management and leadership skills self reflection and medical interviews training
Ability to teach and train knowledge of medical education techniques
Ability to perform as a clinician being a professional, knowing your limitations
By understanding the subjective assessment process a doctor can be taught and trained to perform. In fact it is possible to train an average doctor (as scored on their CV) so that their overall assessment during their medical interview is up there with the best performance. It is possible to therefore massage performance.
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