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RxPG_Team · Credits: 19655971 My Scrapbook My Reading List 5 Books

What questions did you get asked in your NHS jobs interview?

Were they what you expected - harder or easier?

Please post them in this thread.

Thanks

RxPG_Team · Credits: 19655971 My Scrapbook My Reading List 5 Books

Our team is putting here a set of questions contributed by various rxpg visitors and members. You can add to the list
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·What have you accomplished

·What do you regard as your major non-academic achievement

·Why do you need a challenging career

·Have you always wanted to be a doctor

·What are your limitations

·Describe yourself (6 good and 6 bad)

·Why should we give you a place

·What do you think you could contribute to this NHS trust

·Sell yourself to us in 2 minutes

·Why are you suited to medicine

· What qualities would you regard as essential for a doc

·What qualities in a doc are missing in you & do you think you can improve them

·What makes a good team member & what have you noticed about working in a team

·Have you ever been a leader, what does it involve

·Give examples where you have used teamwork and leadership skills

·Do you prefer being a team leader or a team worker

·Give example of having to use communication skills in a tough situation

·What experiences has your previous placement given you that will be useful in your medical career

·Tell me about a patient you saw on work experience

·How do you cope with stress

·Do you read, what kind of books/newspapers

·Limitations of PBL/self directed learning

·Have you got any questions for us

·Can you think of an example where doctors are faced with a difficult decision

·What will you do if a person turns aggressive towards you

·What would you do if a consultant shouted at you if you made a mistake

·If you were attacked by a person while performing surgery what would you do

·If there was an 80 year old woman in a critical condition and a 16year old boy in a fairly stable but still critical condition who would you operate on first and why

·What possible problems might you face as a consultant in 20 years

·Pressures of being a doc

·How can being a GP be frustrating

·Where do you see yourself in 10 years

·What do you want to specialise in

·What do GMC and RCS mean

·What problems do the elderly encounter

·How would you act around an elderly person you know if they found out they were terminally ill

·What diseases should be resourced more

·Talk about a medical/ethical issue that you’ve seen in the media that’s caught your attention
(euthanasia, designer babies, cloning, religious issues e.g. jehova’s witnesses & transfusion)

·What recent medical breakthroughs have risen

·Which medical documentaries have you seen recently

·What do you know about MMR

·Advances in medicine in the last 5/20/50/100 years

·What was the most significant breakthrough in the last century

·What do you think will be at the cutting edge of medicine in the next 20 years

·Comment on the role of hospital management

·Computer use in health care

·Comment on teamwork and communication skills

·What do you understand by the term good health

·Comment on health care in developing countries

·What do you think the NHS will be like in the future

·If I gave you 10 million pounds for the NHS what would you do

·Why is research important

· Do you think doctors make a difference to national health

·What about the criticism of doctors nowadays

· What do you consider the main problems that confront doctors in training

RxPG_Team · Credits: 19655971 My Scrapbook My Reading List 5 Books

Few more here
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*What role does everyone have in a team there?

*How important is teamwork?

*You've encountered doctors during work experience; did they say anything about the bad aspects of medicine?

*What have you noticed about working in a team?

*Tell me about your work experience

*What do you do to relax?

*What good qualities do you have that you can bring to medicine?

*How would you approach the uncertainties in medicine?

*You say you can speak other languages, how would that be useful in studying or practising medicine?

*Can you tell us of any recent medical stories you've seen or read about?

*What do you do in your spare time?

*Do you think it’s important for a doctor to have outside interests?

*Why do you want to do medicine?

*What's the downside of being a doctor? And how would you cope with it?

*What qualities do you look for in a doctor?

*What recent stories have been in the press about medicine?

*How would you cope with the stress of being a doctor?

*What would you do if you were in the ICU and had an elderly patient and the nurse told you that you are doing more damage by keeping them alive?

*Why not a nurse?

*What qualities of a Dr are missing in you?

*Can u think of an example were Dr’s faced with difficult decision? How would you go about it?

*What do you know about self-directed learning?

*What qualities should a doctor have?

*Do you think patients view doctors as arrogant?

*Is the NHS a good thing?

*Where do you see yourself in 10 years time?

*One person got asked 'who is the most important person in a hospital'.

*Somebody else got asked about screening (for breast cancer etc) and why you need screening and how you carry it out.

*Why did you decide to do voluntary work? How did you come about it? What do you do there? What have you learnt?

*Is there anything in the news that has interested you?

*What possible problems might you face as a doctor in 20 years time?

*What would you do if a consultant shouted at you for making a mistake?

*How can medicine be implemented into social awareness?

*How would you deal with learning along side people alot younger than you, or being taught by people younger than you

t · Credits: 77491 My Scrapbook My Reading List 262569 Books

[/b] 1. wat do you plan to do after training . do you plan to go back to ypour home country.

2.
what is diiferent in the nhs from your home medical sytstem .

3.
how can you handle stress of the job.

4.
wat is ur impression on the usefullness of audit

IndianDoctorinUK · Credits: 111 My Scrapbook

Also

Clinical governance
Evidence based medicine
NICe guidelines
NHS Plan

(dont say you support any football team etc., as I know one guy who said he supported Man U and it didnt go well with the chairman who was a die hard everton fan!)

wiseman · Credits: 500 My Scrapbook

See

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T_A · Credits: 141 My Scrapbook

1-NHS framework for Cardiovascular Diseases
2- NHS framework for elderly

bangalorean · Credits: 204 My Scrapbook

could anyone suggest what is the best possible answer for ques like what can u contribute to NHS AND sell yourself etc

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