Preparation for Consultant Interviews
Consultant interview questions
- Contributed by Simon Ashwell
Lay person/ Chair
1. What attracts you to this post?
2. How have you prepared for this interview? Who have you spoken to/ met?
3. What motivates you to be a Dr
4. What kind of Dr are you?
5. What links do you have to this area?
6. What opinions do your patients have of you?
7. Strengths and weaknesses?
8. What would your patients say are your strengths and weaknesses?
9. What mistakes have you made and what you have learnt from them?
10. What do you think about the effects of diabetes on the partner/ carer?
11. What do you think of diabetes group education, and education for the partner/ carer?
Chief exec
12. How would you increase the efficiency in the unit?
13. What is the role of the consultant in the unit?
14. What do you understand by revalidation and appraisal & what is the difference?
15. How do you know you are cost effective?
16. What are your views on the consultant contract? Good and bad points? Why rejected?
17. What are the main findings of the Kennedy report?
18. What are the main findings of the Wanless report?
19. Did any good come from the Alder Hey report? What are your hospitals guidelines for performing PM's?
20. Does the complaints procedure work?
21. Good points of NHS plan/ tell me about NSH plan?
22. What do you understand by the cancer services collaborative?
23. Opinion on foundation trusts
Medical Director
24. What is a caldicott guardian?
25. What do you understand by NICE?
26. What do you understand by The healthcare commission?
27. What do you understand by NCAS (National Clinical Assessment Service)?
28. What is PMETB?
29. What do you understand by NSPA (National Patient Safety Agency)?
30. What would be your approach if you received data showing your outcome rates were worse that the UK average?
31. What would you do with a consultant colleague planning to work drunk?
32. Approach to underperforming colleague?
33. What did you learn on management course?
34. What do you know about the National Clinical Audit programme (benefits and problems)?
35. What do you understand by ‘Clinical Governance’?
36. How does ‘Clinical Governance’ apply to your practice
37. What do you think of nurse consultants/ outreach clinics/ nurse endoscopists?
38. What do you know of 'Connecting for health' and what are it's benefits and problems?
Uni rep
39. Sumarise your research (and its clinical relevance)?
40. What did you learn from doing research
41. What do you think about ‘current hot topic’ in diabetes?
42. Tell me about a paper you wrote and how it can be applied to the job?
43. Difference between research and audit?
44. What is you view on research for trainees?
45. Which papers have had a significant impact on your diabetes, G(I)M and endocrine practice in the last 18 months?
46. What article impressed you lately?
47. Most contraversial paper recently?
48. What journal do you read?
49. What is your feeling about interprofessional learning?
50. Should juniors train other juniors or is it the role of the consultant?
51. What is your best paper and why?
External college examiner
52. Tell me about your cv/ training so far.
53. Which parts of your training have you enjoyed most?
54. Any gaps in your training & will this hinder you as a consultant?
55. Tell me about screening
56. Does doing 3 medical obstetric clinics equip you to be the lead for this subject in the hospital?
Colleague
57. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the department?
58. What technical skills will you bring?
59. What leadership qualities do you possess?
60. How would you organise funding for the research project you plan to do?
61. How will EWTD impinge on workload in unit?
62. Tell us about the audit you have carried out?
63. Implementation of this audit?
64. How do you define Clinical Audit?
65. What would you do if your colleagues didn't think audit suggestions were a good idea?
66. Relationship and difficulties between acute G(I)M and speciality now and future
67. Challenges for Diabetes (or G(I)M) in future
68. How would you develop this post?
69. MMC and its effect on junior doctors training
Misc
70. Why did you choose Diabetes as a specialty?
71. What is Clinical Effectiveness?
72. What is Risk Management?
73. How do you set and monitor standards?
74. Is a higher degree essential for an academic job?
75. How would you prepare your dept for a visit from CHI?
76. Tell me about performance indicators?
77. Role of managers in NHS
78. As a consultant who are you accountable to?
79. If you were health secretary what three things would you do as a priority?
80. Views on patient choice?
81. Do you think targets are a good idea?
82. How would you tackle a conflict with a secretary?
83. How would you organise a clinical governance meeting?
84. How would you enthuse your colleagues with clinical governance?
85. How would you introduce clinical governance to an in and out-patient setting?
86. Summarise the GMC's good medical practice guide?
87. Present a balanced view of diabetes NSF
88. Summarise diabetes information strategy
89. What do you know about UKDIABS and QUIDS?
90. What do you understand by the term 'core clinical skills'
91. What do you know about the document 'Unfinished business'?
92. What are your thoughts on educations programmes for people with diabetes?
93. Can endocrinology be delivered primarily in the community? If so how would you aid this?
94. What is the role of a community diabetologist?
95. What is the role of the National Clinical director for diabetes (NSF)?
96. How would you approach the Trust board with an idea for service development?
97. Using an example, describe a business case?
98. How do you see GIM moving forward, and how would you deal with the ever increasing GIM work-load?
99. How do you see the interface between A&E and GIM?
100. How would you handle a complaint made against you personally and practically?
101. How would you handle an under performing HO, SHO or SpR?
102. Do you ration health care?
103. How do you see the GMC developing from it’s current role?
104. What do you know about Health action Zones?
105. What do you know about NHS beacon sites?
106. Define Management?
107. How has your research benefited you?
108. How would you appraise an SHO?
109. What skills are needed when dealing with patients or relatives who are complaining?
110. Have you completed a critical incident form?
111. What is the purpose of a critical incident form?
112. How do feel about Nurse prescribing?
113. What are you thoughts on Foundation Hospitals?
114. Inhaled insulin
115. Current NHS financial crisis
116. Practice-based commissioning and effect of diabetes services
117. Payment by results
To read
118. NHS Plan
119. Clinicians in Management notes
120. NSF standards
121. NSF strategy
122. Consultant contract
123. Kennedy report (Bristol)
124. Caldicott info
125. Duties of a Dr (GMC)
126. Wanless report
127. MMC website
and more!!
- Contributed by Simon Ashwell
Lay person/ Chair
1. What attracts you to this post?
2. How have you prepared for this interview? Who have you spoken to/ met?
3. What motivates you to be a Dr
4. What kind of Dr are you?
5. What links do you have to this area?
6. What opinions do your patients have of you?
7. Strengths and weaknesses?
8. What would your patients say are your strengths and weaknesses?
9. What mistakes have you made and what you have learnt from them?
10. What do you think about the effects of diabetes on the partner/ carer?
11. What do you think of diabetes group education, and education for the partner/ carer?
Chief exec
12. How would you increase the efficiency in the unit?
13. What is the role of the consultant in the unit?
14. What do you understand by revalidation and appraisal & what is the difference?
15. How do you know you are cost effective?
16. What are your views on the consultant contract? Good and bad points? Why rejected?
17. What are the main findings of the Kennedy report?
18. What are the main findings of the Wanless report?
19. Did any good come from the Alder Hey report? What are your hospitals guidelines for performing PM's?
20. Does the complaints procedure work?
21. Good points of NHS plan/ tell me about NSH plan?
22. What do you understand by the cancer services collaborative?
23. Opinion on foundation trusts
Medical Director
24. What is a caldicott guardian?
25. What do you understand by NICE?
26. What do you understand by The healthcare commission?
27. What do you understand by NCAS (National Clinical Assessment Service)?
28. What is PMETB?
29. What do you understand by NSPA (National Patient Safety Agency)?
30. What would be your approach if you received data showing your outcome rates were worse that the UK average?
31. What would you do with a consultant colleague planning to work drunk?
32. Approach to underperforming colleague?
33. What did you learn on management course?
34. What do you know about the National Clinical Audit programme (benefits and problems)?
35. What do you understand by ‘Clinical Governance’?
36. How does ‘Clinical Governance’ apply to your practice
37. What do you think of nurse consultants/ outreach clinics/ nurse endoscopists?
38. What do you know of 'Connecting for health' and what are it's benefits and problems?
Uni rep
39. Sumarise your research (and its clinical relevance)?
40. What did you learn from doing research
41. What do you think about ‘current hot topic’ in diabetes?
42. Tell me about a paper you wrote and how it can be applied to the job?
43. Difference between research and audit?
44. What is you view on research for trainees?
45. Which papers have had a significant impact on your diabetes, G(I)M and endocrine practice in the last 18 months?
46. What article impressed you lately?
47. Most contraversial paper recently?
48. What journal do you read?
49. What is your feeling about interprofessional learning?
50. Should juniors train other juniors or is it the role of the consultant?
51. What is your best paper and why?
External college examiner
52. Tell me about your cv/ training so far.
53. Which parts of your training have you enjoyed most?
54. Any gaps in your training & will this hinder you as a consultant?
55. Tell me about screening
56. Does doing 3 medical obstetric clinics equip you to be the lead for this subject in the hospital?
Colleague
57. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the department?
58. What technical skills will you bring?
59. What leadership qualities do you possess?
60. How would you organise funding for the research project you plan to do?
61. How will EWTD impinge on workload in unit?
62. Tell us about the audit you have carried out?
63. Implementation of this audit?
64. How do you define Clinical Audit?
65. What would you do if your colleagues didn't think audit suggestions were a good idea?
66. Relationship and difficulties between acute G(I)M and speciality now and future
67. Challenges for Diabetes (or G(I)M) in future
68. How would you develop this post?
69. MMC and its effect on junior doctors training
Misc
70. Why did you choose Diabetes as a specialty?
71. What is Clinical Effectiveness?
72. What is Risk Management?
73. How do you set and monitor standards?
74. Is a higher degree essential for an academic job?
75. How would you prepare your dept for a visit from CHI?
76. Tell me about performance indicators?
77. Role of managers in NHS
78. As a consultant who are you accountable to?
79. If you were health secretary what three things would you do as a priority?
80. Views on patient choice?
81. Do you think targets are a good idea?
82. How would you tackle a conflict with a secretary?
83. How would you organise a clinical governance meeting?
84. How would you enthuse your colleagues with clinical governance?
85. How would you introduce clinical governance to an in and out-patient setting?
86. Summarise the GMC's good medical practice guide?
87. Present a balanced view of diabetes NSF
88. Summarise diabetes information strategy
89. What do you know about UKDIABS and QUIDS?
90. What do you understand by the term 'core clinical skills'
91. What do you know about the document 'Unfinished business'?
92. What are your thoughts on educations programmes for people with diabetes?
93. Can endocrinology be delivered primarily in the community? If so how would you aid this?
94. What is the role of a community diabetologist?
95. What is the role of the National Clinical director for diabetes (NSF)?
96. How would you approach the Trust board with an idea for service development?
97. Using an example, describe a business case?
98. How do you see GIM moving forward, and how would you deal with the ever increasing GIM work-load?
99. How do you see the interface between A&E and GIM?
100. How would you handle a complaint made against you personally and practically?
101. How would you handle an under performing HO, SHO or SpR?
102. Do you ration health care?
103. How do you see the GMC developing from it’s current role?
104. What do you know about Health action Zones?
105. What do you know about NHS beacon sites?
106. Define Management?
107. How has your research benefited you?
108. How would you appraise an SHO?
109. What skills are needed when dealing with patients or relatives who are complaining?
110. Have you completed a critical incident form?
111. What is the purpose of a critical incident form?
112. How do feel about Nurse prescribing?
113. What are you thoughts on Foundation Hospitals?
114. Inhaled insulin
115. Current NHS financial crisis
116. Practice-based commissioning and effect of diabetes services
117. Payment by results
To read
118. NHS Plan
119. Clinicians in Management notes
120. NSF standards
121. NSF strategy
122. Consultant contract
123. Kennedy report (Bristol)
124. Caldicott info
125. Duties of a Dr (GMC)
126. Wanless report
127. MMC website
and more!!
posted by Arutchelvam at 10:42 AM
1 Comments:
Thanks a lot Simon.I find this extremely useful.Motivated me to start preparing now itself rather than waiting for the time of application.
Akheel,keep the good work going,this blog is developing to be very effective.
Arutchelvam
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