Consultant

► Tell us how your training has helped you to apply for this job (other than Pain)?

► What is your opinion about the decreasing time for training nowadays?

► What are the recent NICE guidelines on pain management? Will you follow those guidelines?

► Why do you want to take this job and why in this region?

► Do you think the NICE committee is fairly representing all stakeholders?

► Epidural steroids are not licensed for use. If you were taken to court on this matter, how would you defend yourself?

► Why do you want to do the Irish Fellowship in Pain when you already have the British Fellowship?

► You are interviewed by the media about the role of the anaesthetist. How will you explain it to the public?

► Tell me about the WHO checklist.

► Give me examples of your previous encounter with management officials.

► Have you done anything to improve services in any of the hospitals you have worked in before?

► Have you ever filled a critical incident form?

► Can you talk about root-cause analysis?

► Discuss one thing which impressed you most and one which depressed you most about the NHS in the past 10 years.

► Tell us about communication.

► How do you reduce the anxiety of patients and relatives pre-surgery?

► Tell me about your CV

► Tell me about your orthopaedic anaesthesia experience

► Tell me about the GIC course you attended; did you find it useful?

► How do you evaluate your teaching sessions?

► How would you advise me to collect my CPD points in line with the new GMC revalidation process/RCOA matrix?

► What is the best intervention that affected anaesthesia in your lifetime?

► The hospital covers a huge geographical area - how would you most effectively staff a pre-op assessment clinic attached to an outreach orthopaedic OPD clinic?

► Why are anaesthetists involved in pre-op assessment?

► In which ways would you improve productivity without spending more money ?

► Tell me about an audit youve done, relevant to this hospital, that has led to improvements.

► Why are you competitive?

► Patient in recovery in fast AF. How would you manage it?

► Patient in pre-op for elective hip replacement, 9 months after insertion of drug eluting stent - what would you advise?

► How would you introduce a new idea when you start as a consultant?

► We are a small department and have to work together. Tell me about teamwork

► How much blood loss per hour is there from a revision hip replacement?

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☛ Talk us through your training.

☛ As you know this job covers two sites. How will you ensure a high quality breast service across two sites?

☛ This is a breast job. How do you feel about undertaking non-breast work?

☛ Tell us about your experience abroad.

☛ This is your first night on call as a consultant. How will you manage / interact with the registrar on call?

☛ Your Registrar has called you in for a difficult case but it is more complicated that you thought. You are not sure how to manage it; how will deal with this?

☛ How many flaps have you done? How long does it take you to do a DIEP flap? How will you manage your first bilateral DIEP flap?

☛ I see you have done a higher degree. Do you think research is important for surgeons?

☛ Do you think you are a good teacher and what evidence do you have to show this?

☛ What can bring to this hospital?

☛ Where do you see yourself in 2 and 6 years' time?

☛ How will foundation status affect you and the service you provide?

☛ How do you think you will work with your line manager in terms of your service?

☛ If I were your patient, how would you build a relationship with me?

☛ How would a physician's assistant help you in your practice?

☛ What makes a good leader?

☛ How would your colleagues describe you?

☛ Why do you want to work in this hospital?

☛ Talk me through your career to date.

☛ What added value do you have to offer to this department and what is your 5-year career plan?

☛ A surgeon whom you work with regularly always arrives late for the afternon list, meaning that staff and you regulalry stay late to finish. What do you do?

☛ I want to set up a trauma fellowship. How can you help me and how woud go about it?

☛ I am the Clinical Director. I have a problem with 2 consultants. I have received a number of complaints from colleagues about Consultant A and the same number of complaints from patients about Consultant B. Which ones should I take more seriously and why? What should I do about both as their manager?

☛ How can you demonstrate quality in your practice?

☛ How can you save 3% of your costs in Anaesthesia?

► Tell us about your Research Fellowship in Canada.

► How does the Canadian system compare to the UK system?

► What are the pros and cons of MDTs?

► MDTs may involve sharing patient images and scans. What are your views regarding potential problems with this sharing?

► How should we implement new radiotherapy technologies?

► What model should we employ in setting up satellite RT centres? Resident doctors or visiting doctors with extended roles for other professionals?

► If you extend roles, where would you draw the line? Should radiographers prescrive RT?

► Does palliative RT lend itself to delivery of a satellite centre?

► How would you set up an acute oncology service?

► What are your general thoughts on audits?

► How would you prioritise what needs auditing?

► What is your experience of patient reported outcome measures? Would the results of these influence your practice?

► You only had 3 publications in peer reviewed journals before going to Canada. Do you think that is acceptable?

► Seeing as clinical oncologists need to know everything a medical oncologist does and then more, do we need to increase the length of clinical oncology training?

► Should we split into radiation oncology and medical oncology in the UK?

► Are there any things that our centre could learn from yours?

► How is the critical care in your hospital run?

► What are the problems you envisage for stand alone cancer centres in the future?

► You will need to train SpRs. How will you deal with an SpR who is underperforming?

► This post involves working closely in a team with two other consultants. What are your perceived advantages and disadvantages of this approach?

► An article in the NEJM indicates the Cancer Plan wasn't working despite a massive investment of money. What is you opinion?

► Presentation on "How would you use the opportunity to make the services in this hospital first class?"

► Tell us about yourself.

► How do your friends describe you?

► You have not done any research or publication, has this been a conscious decision...not to be involved in research?

► Would you like to continue your masters in medical education? Is it a part-time or distance learning course.

► What do you think of GMC revalidation?

► How will you provide leadership to such a big unit?

► Is there anything you learned in other units that you would like to bring to our unit?

► You said you want to set up combined obstetrics and cardiac medicine clinic in the unit....will that improve outcome for patients?

► A midwife comes to you and complains that the SHO on call for labour ward is seen to use opiates on duty and seen to walk around with hypodermic needles and syringe in his pockets. How will you handle this situation?

► How will you develop the education programme or the post-graduate trainees in the unit?

► Where do you see yourself 10 years from now?

► Do you feel you are ready to become a consultant?

► Tell us about a recent NICE guideline which you tried to implement in your department. What problems did you face in implementation?

► What experience have you had as a registrar which would help you meet the challenges of the role of a consultant?

► Do you feel you had enough time for your training...did EWTD affect it in anyway?

► Tell us about a recent AIRS form that you filled in.

► If we employ you, what will you do for the first 6 months?

► Chief Executive: If you get the job, what will you ask me?

► What is the risk in employing you? How can we help mitigate the risk?

► Do you have any questions for us?

► Take us through your CV and your histopathology training.

► Who should run the MDT meetings? (Question asked by a surgeon).

► One of the consultants in the department complains their workload is excessive. What do you do?

► How would you describe yourself in relation to the way you work in a team?

► How would you improve efficiency in the lab?

► You are reporting a metastatic malignant melanoma. Looking at the previous histology, which is a skin biopsy, this was reported as a benigh naevs but is clearly a melanoma that has been missed. You were the reporting pathologist. What do you do next?

► How would you ensure that your department is working well and demonstrates excellence?

► What is the Trust's future direction and how can you contribute towards it?

► You talked so passionately about teaching that I am now wondering why you applied for a post which does not have a big teaching component. Why?

☛ What service would you develop in your department and how?

☛ How would you reduce the costs of the department by 20%?

☛ How do you know that your teaching methods work?

☛ Are there any published studies on the outcomes of teaching?

☛ To produce a good undergraduate teaching, we will need to run less clinics or see less patients in clinics. How can you defend/argue this?

☛ Our hospital has poor feedback on patient experience. What one thing do you think we could change to improve this?

☛ In the current times when there is demand to see more patients, how can you defend spending time in research?

☛ What is the most interesting paper you have read this year and why?

☛ There is pressure to move some specialities into the community. What arguments would you use to keep your speciality hospital-based?

► Take me through your non-obstetric and obstetric experience as a registrar.

► How will you improve teaching in this hospital?

► How do you deal with complaints?

► What new things can you bring to obstetrics?

► How do you make others know that you have seen a patient in the high risk pregnancy assessment unit?

► How could you improve our low labour epidural rate? What are the implications on training?

► What are the alternate ways to improve training?

► Can you tell me of recent advances in epidurals?

► What are your plans for for the future development of this unit?

► There are two hospitals under this trust. We will soon merge onto a single site. Can you tell me what this means in terms of clinical governance?

► Can you tell me of any clinical governance issue in your hospital, in which you got involved?

► Give me an example of a situation where you got involved in risk management.

► What is lacking in your training?

► What is your main strength?

► Why do you want to work for this Trust?

► You were one of the first SpRs to be based in a DGH for your training. How was it? Is there any situation you feel you couldn't handle?

► Have you written up any of your oral or poster presentations?

► Have you come across the ethics committee form?

► What interests would you like to develop?

► What are your views on flexible working?

► Do you have any ideas about how we could reduce waiting time?

► It has been recommended that every consultant should spend one SPA on risk management issues. How would you spend this time?

► Your CV mentions various examples of leadership and management. Tell us about one that is particularly interesting or that you are particularly proud of.

► What could you you do to improve the patients' experience in your department?

► Tell us about your training experience. What did you feel were the advantages and drawbacks?

► How many cases have you reported?

► The post needs research interests. How do you think you can develop this?

► What is you subspecialist interest and how can it fit within the current job plan?

► What is your experience in GI pathology?

► Not everyone can be a leader. What do you understand by 'Clinical Leadership'? How would you develop this within your department?

► What leadership role would you like to take in future?

► What are the changes propsed by the current white paper?

► Which of these do you think is the most important change and why?

► What is the major threat to our Trust as a result of the proposed changes?

► What are the criteria for patient satisfaction during the period of their treatment in a hospital?

► Tell us 3 skills you have acquired in your training which make you different.

► Is the role of psychology important in pain?

► What are the new requirements in the curriculum by the Faculty of Pain Medicine for training?

► What is the difference between a consultant and a trainee?

► Tell us about your research experience?

► Tell us about your MSc?

► Do you read any subspeciality journals?

► What have you read which changed your practice?

► What is the future of pain services in 5 to 10 years?

► Tell me about a memorable patient encounter?

► How do you measure quality in chronic pain?

► How do you now chronic pain services are value for money?

► What is the point of integrating King's, Guy's and St Thomas and KCL?

► What initiatives do you know for infection control in the wards?

► Should we ask GPs how we are doing?

► How will GP consortia change pain management?

► How do you increase patient satisfaction on the wards with regards to pain?

► How do you get nurses to improve pain scoring and assessment of pain on ward?

► What are King's values and which one of them do you identify with?

► Describe your postgraduate training - especially in your subspecialty.

► Describe your practical experience during you fellowship.

► What are your thoughts on cross specialty working within spinal surgery?

► Do you see any areas of commonality / difference between orthopaedic and neurosurgical spinal surgery?

► How would you organise MDTs?

► Where do you see the areas of expanding demand within spinal surgery?

► Can you expand on your comments regarding joint operating?

► How do you view research?

► You talked about postgraduate teaching - do you have any undergraduate teaching experience?

► Ho would you organise the spinal service?

► How would you organise the trauma service?

► How can you support the work of the trauma specialists?

► Ho do you think we are performing in the management of fragility fractures (osteoporosis)? How would you improve it?

► Describe a weakness?

► Describe another weakness?

► How would you demonstrate to me that you a good doctor?

► What action would you take if you discovered shortcomings in a colleagues practice?

► What two issues keep me, the CEO, awake at night re this Trust?

► In your experience what is the main limiting factor for efficient throughput in theatre? How would you improve it?

► How would you respond to complaints from nursing staff regarding changes in their working arrangement? (In the context of improvements in theatre practice)

► Did you realise that you have spelt orthopaedics incorrectly in your application form? How does that speak in favour of your attention to detail?

► What has been the biggest change and development for you moving from trainee to locum consultant?

► You discussed team working - how have you managed this during your time as a locum consultant?

☛ Talk us through your CV.

☛ What are your strengths and weaknesses?

☛ What would you like to look back on when you retire and feel proud of?

☛ What relation issues could arise between 2 consultants on an inpatient unit and how would you manage that?

☛ What isyour experience of developing services and how do you succeed when there is resistance to change?

☛ What outcome measures would you collect?

☛ Why should the Trust take the risk of giving such a high profile post to a new trainee?

☛ Other candidates are more experienced than you. What do you have to say about this?

☛ What will your contribution to research be?

☛ How would you help enhance this trust's reputation?

☛ How would you evaluate this service?

☛ What is unique about you?

☛ Talk me through your training.

☛ You've published a bit, most seems to be from earlier placements in your country of origin. Is research easier there?

☛ What did the General Instructor Course equip you with for teaching? Does it really help?

☛ You've mentioned simulation in your presentation. Who do you use it for, and how do you keep it realistic?

☛ You've mentioned patient safety in your presentation. Which single thing would you do to increase patient safety?

☛ What is the first thing you would change on the ICU if you're given the job?

☛ How do you know that you're a good team playe?

☛ You said you've got communication skills. Can you expand on that?

☛ How would you deal with a situation where you find that the surgeon you're working with is below par?

☛ How would your friends describe you?

☛ How do you think you can help move UHL forward in the climate of the Comprehensive Spending Review? Follow-up question: Do you think some of your older colleagues might struggle with going out selling our services to buyers (GPs)?

☛ Why do you want to work here?