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Tell us about yourself
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Talk us through your CV/Application form
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What is exceptional about your CV?
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What part of your CV are you most proud of?
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If
you had to do your training again, what would you change?
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What do you enjoy most and least about your specialty?
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Where do you see yourself in 10 years' time?
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How
do you see your career develop?
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Why
do you want to join this Trust?
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Why
did you choose this specialty? (Attention: do not assume
that this question is not being asked at consultant
interviews! In an era where consultants are increasingly
involved in motivating and enthusing juniors to join their
specialty, this question plays a key role in determining
whether you are best placed to help recruit into your
specialty, as well as assessing your own motivation).
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Having trained under the Calman system, do you feel
prepared?
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What have you done to prepare yourself for a career in your
speciality?
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What job have you particularly liked/disliked?
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Having completed your CCT/CCST, do you feel ready to be a
consultant?
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What do you like the most and the least about your
specialty?
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Looking back at your training, what went well and what could
be improved
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What do you have to offer us?
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Give us three adjectives that describe you best.
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What would your colleagues say about you?
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What kind of feedback would I obtain from your patients if I
asked them?
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What would you like written in your obituary?
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What are your main strengths?
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What is your main weakness?
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What skills have you gained that will make you a good Consultant?
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What are the qualities of a good Consultant?
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What do you see as the main differences between a Senior
Registrar and a Junior Consultant?
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Would you be happy being an average Consultant?
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Would you like to become a
Clinical Director
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What should we recruit you rather than any other candidate?
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What have you done that is different to anyone else?
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What makes you a good candidate for the job?
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How
would your seniors motivate you?
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What concerns you about this job?
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What do you think will be your biggest challenge in this
post?
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What are you hoping to gain from this post?
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Tell us about your best consultant/colleague.
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Tell us about your worst consultant/colleague.
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What are your hobbies? How do they influence your medical
practice?
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What
experiences outside medicine have you found useful in your
medical career
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What
sort of hospital would you rather work in and why?
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How
would you balance extra-curricular activities with being a
Consultant?
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How
would you rate your communication skills?
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Give us an example of a situation where your communication
skills made a difference to the care of a patient.
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Give us an example of a situation where you failed to
communicate appropriately.
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What skills have you acquired that make you a good
communicator?
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What are the attributes of a good team player?
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Do
you work better as part of a team or on your own?
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What makes
you a good leader?
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What does leading by example mean to you?
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What makes a good team?
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What leadership skills have you acquired during your
training?
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How
can you improve your communication skills as a leader?
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Tell us about your experience of managing a team of people.
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What is the difference between people management and
leadership?
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Are
you a leader or a follower?
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How
do you motivate others?
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Describe a situation where you had to give negative feedback
to somebody.
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Tell us about a situation where you had to bring a difficult
person on board.
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Tell us about a situation where you showed leadership.
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Tell us about a situation where you showed initiative.
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How
would you ensure that your team is up to scratch?
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What do
you think about management issues? Do you think it's
something we should he getting involved in as clinicians?
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What makes you angry?
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Do
you ever lose your temper?
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Have you ever been in a situation where you have had a
conflict with a colleague?
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Give an example of a situation where your work was
criticised.
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How
would you cope with criticism or a complaint being made
against you?
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What is your approach to resolving conflict?
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How
would you handle a non-performing junior colleague?
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One
of your SHOs says he is getting bored in his job. How do you
respond?
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How
would you handle a situation where you had a disagreement
with a nurse over the management of a patient?
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What would you do if a patient disagreed with your treatment
approach?
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How
do you handle stress?
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How
do you normally cope with pressure?
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How
do you recognise when you are stressed?
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What difficult decisions have you made in a clinical
setting?
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Tell me about your research experience.
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Tell me about your research. Assume that you are talking to
a group of charity workers from your funding organisation.
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How
much of your research is your own design and how much was
guided by your supervisor?
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How
did you organise your research project? Did you supervisor
write your grant application?
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Why
is Research important?
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How
do you go about setting up a Research project?
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What did you gain from your Research?
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When doing Research, what is the one most important factor
to get right?
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Do
you think all SpRs should do Research?
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Would you like to participate in Research if you were
appointed?
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Should all Research be carried in tertiary centres or do
DGHs have a role?
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What is Evidence Based Medicine?
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What are the pros and cons of Evidence Based Practice?
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What is your understanding of the term "Research Governance"
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What are the different levels of Evidence available?
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Do
you think Evidence Based Medicine is applicable to all
specialities?
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What is an audit?
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Tell me about your Audit experience.
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What is the difference between Audit & Research?
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Tell me about the Audit cycle.
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What problems are there with the way SHO
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Tell us about your teaching experience.
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What methods of teaching do you know. Which do you prefer
and why?
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You
are given a group of six SHOs to teach in a week's time on a
subject to be chosen by you. How do you go about preparing
for it?
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What would you teach a group of junior SHOs in 30 minutes?
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How
would you convince a junior colleague of the importance of
teaching?
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Give me an example of a situation where you recognised that
a member of your team had a deficiency/difficulty.
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What is Problem Based Learning? What are its pros and cons?
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How
do you know what you don't know?
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Tell me about a memorable case where you have learnt
something new
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How
do you assess surgical competence in a trainee?
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Do
Registrars have a role in teaching SHOs?
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What measures do you take to improve your training?
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How
do you identify your training needs?
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What do you get out of teaching others?
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What is the most interesting case you have managed?
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When did you last call your consultant?
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What is the biggest mistake that you have made in a clinical
setting?
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How
do you keep your skills up to date?
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What do you think about consultants referring to other
consultants?
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When you
make a patient information leaflet using patient groups, do
you think they self-select and are therefore not necessarily
unbiased? What level do you pitch your information at? Which
side do you lean towards: explaining in very simple terms or
more detailed? How do you stop yourself from using medical
parlance?
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How
would you handle a problem doctor - for example if you
suspected that a consultant colleague had a drink problem?
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One
of your SHOs has been arriving late by 20 minutes for the
past four says. What do you do?
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A
patient mentions to you that on two occasions they have
smelt alcohol on your SpR's breath during clinic in
the past few weeks. What do you do?
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How
would you react if one of your female junior colleagues
refused to treat a patient who is a known rapist?
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How
would you react if a patient refused to be treated by one of
your junior doctors because he is foreign?
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You
see a patient verbally abuse a nurse. What is your response?
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One
of you peers arrives constantly late for work in the
morning. What do you do?
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One
of your junior colleagues is placing patients at risk. How
do you react?
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Your consultant does something that goes against protocol.
How you do you tackle it? How would you approach the
consultant?
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Your consultant does not provide adequate training and
adopts a condescending attitude towards you because of your
apparent lack of knowledge. How do you react?
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Your SHO mentions that another SHO is complaining about the
fact that their consultant does not provide adequate
teaching. How do you respond?
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A
patient mentions that, during an examination, one of your
colleagues examined her breasts. Although the patient is not
aware that such behaviour was inappropriate in that context,
you are. How do you respond?
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You
observe your consultant making inappropriate sexual remarks
to one of your patients. There are no other witnesses and
the consultant is not aware that you were there. How do you
react?
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Your consultant mentions something to a patient, that you
believe to be wrong. How do you react?
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You
have heard rumours that one of your colleagues is taking
drugs. You also know that some drugs have disappeared from
the cabinet. How do you react?
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One
of your colleague seems to be suffering from stress. What do
you do?
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You
have suspicions that one of your peers has been stealing an
important amount of hospital property (including stationary
and needles). What do you do?
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What do you know about Clinical Governance?
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How
does Clinical Governance affect patient safety?
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How
does Clinical Governance impact on your daily work?
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Do
you think Clinical Governance is useful or is it just
another layer of bureaucracy?
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Are
there any problems with the way Clinical Governance is
implemented?
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Who, in your Hospital, is responsible for Clinical
Governance?
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What is Clinical Risk Management?
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What happens to Critical Incidents Forms once they have
been submitted?
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You
are working as a consultant and you are recommending that
one of your patient should be given a particular treatment
based on the best evidence available. Hospital managers
inform you that this treatment cannot be given as it is too
costly. What do you do then? How would you inform the
patient? What if the course of action you recommended was
actually contained in a NICE guideline?
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What is NICE? What do they do?
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Tell us about a NICE guideline relating to your speciality.
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What is the National Patient Safety Agency?
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What do you know about the European Working Time Directive?
What are its effects on the medical profession in the UK?
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What is "Hospital at Night"?
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How
is the role of the consultant changing?
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Do
you feel appraisals are a useful process?
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Some people think that appraisals are a waste of time and
just a paperwork/box-ticking exercise. What do you think?
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How
do you prepare for your own appraisal?
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How
would you prepare yourself to appraise one of your junior
colleagues?
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Do
you feel Revalidation & Assessment will resolve the issues
they are meant to address?
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How
can we persuade the public that doctors can be trusted?
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Is
the expanding role of nurses a benefit or a danger to the
medical profession?
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How do
you think a blame-free culture can be brought about in the
NHS?
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How will Payment By Results
impact on your specialty?
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What is your opinion of
Practice Based Commissioning?
