HIV Consultant

☛ How would you describe your communication skills?

☛ What makes you a good communicator?

☛ What is more important: good communication or good clinical skills?

☛ Give an example of a situation where you failed to communicate appropriately.

☛ Give an example of a non-clinical situation where your communication skills made a difference to the outcome of a project.

☛ How can you show empathy through an interpreter?

☛ What makes you a good team player?

☛ Give an example of a situation where you made a difference to a team.

☛ Give an example of a dysfunctional team in which you worked. How did you deal with it and what did you learn from that experience?

☛ Tell us about your management experience.

☛ What is the difference between management & leadership?

☛ Can you learn management by going to management courses?

☛ Do doctors need management skills?

☛ What does leadership mean to you and when do you exercise it?

☛ What makes you a good leader?

☛ Give an example of a situation where you showed leadership.

☛ Are leaders born leaders or can you learn to become a leader?

☛ What type of leader are you?

☛ Are you a leader or a follower?

☛ What makes a good team?

☛ How do you deal with stress?

☛ Give an example of a situation where you showed initiative.

☛ If you get this post, what ideas would you like to develop?

☛ How do you implement change in a unit?

☛ How do you go about fighting resistance from others when you want to change something? Give an example.

☛ As a consultant, how will you make sure that your team is up to scratch?

☛ In what circumstances have you had to influence others and how did you achieve your objectives?

☛ How possible is it to motivate and develop junior doctors in the current climate?

☛ How will you make sure that your team is up to scratch?

☛ How do you motivate others?

☛ How would your boss motivate you?

☛ How do you go about resolving a conflict?

☛ When is the last time you argued with a colleague?

☛ Tell us about a conflict which you had with a colleague?

☛ Tell us about a time when you had to deal with a conflict within your team or an MDT?

☛ What skills have you got which make you a good consultant?

☛ Would you be happy being an average consultant?

☛ What skills do you feel you need to improve the most?

☛ What are your strengths?

☛ What is your main weakness?

☛ How would your colleagues describe you?

☛ How would your patients describe you?

☛ How do you know that your colleagues trust you?

☛ How do you respond to criticism?

☛ Give an example of a situation when you enhanced the efficiency of your department.

☛ How would you develop better links with other departments? or Primary Care?

☛ How will this specialty be affected by current NHS changes?

☛ How do you feel that the Trust should react to current changes in the NHS?

☛ Should we be worried about polyclinics?

☛ How can we make this specialty more community centred?

☛ What do you think about giving patients the choice?

☛ Do you think it is fair to link the PBR tariff to quality of service? How do you think that quality should be measured?

☛ How do you think that the Darzi report influences the future of this specialty?

☛ How can we best present data on quality to patients?

☛ Darzi's proposed approach is to link quality payments to patient feedback. What are the pros and cons of this?

☛ What would be the effect of having a clinical dashboard in the waiting room?

☛ How can patient feedback be measured in a meaningful way?

☛ Do you think that encouraging competition through patient choice is the best way to achieve good quality of care?

☛ How can we optimise the efficiency of our department?

☛ If the tariff for procedure X is £1000 and, after full optimisation, the best we can do is an actual cost of £1,050, what should we do about it?

☛ What is your opinion on the new revalidation proposal of relicensing + recertification?

☛ What do you think would be the best way to assess if a doctor is safe?

☛ How do you assess surgical competence in a trainee?

☛ Do you think that appraisals are useful or just a paperwork exercise?

☛ What do you think are the issues caused by the introduction of revalidation as proposed?

☛ How possible is it to maintain good teaching and training in the context of the EWTD?

☛ Do you think the increasing role of nurses / the introduction of physicians' assistants is a solution to the NHS's problems?

☛ The Tooke report talks about destigmatising staff grade. What did he mean by that and what role can you play in achieving this?

☛ Both Tooke and Darzi talk about doctors needing more management and leadership skills. What is wrong with the status quo? What role can you play in helping juniors gain more experience in both?

☛ What is the best way to assess if someone is fit to enter this specialty at ST1/ST3 level?

☛ Our aim is to develop a new service on xxx. How do you think we can about doing this? What hurdles do you foresee?

☛ When you visited me (Chief Exec), I told you about the direction the Trust was taking. What can you tell me about it and how can you contribute?

☛ Do we have anything to fear from ISTCs?

☛ 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?

☛ 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?

☛ 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?

☛ 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?

☛ 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?

☛ Talk me through your training milestones.

☛ Are you trained and competent for this job?

☛ The trust has recently merged and there are two people on the panel from the different sides of the city. Where does your allegiance lie?

☛ In your application form you said you were passionate about teaching; that's an unusually strong word. Explain.

☛ Tell me a bit about interviewing medical students. Why do we need to interview (some medical schools don't)? How is it best to approach the interviewing process?

☛ Would you like to become a mentor?

☛ Tell me about patient safety, giving radiology-based examples.

☛ How do you intend to improve the service. Be specific.

☛ The job description includes specialist sarcoma imaging. How much have you done?

☛ Are you happy and competent to do on call intervention work?

☛ The job includes padiatric intervention. What are you willing to take on?

☛ How would you deal with a problem colleague and can you give an example of one?

☛ How would you put together a business case to stop performing barium enemas?

☛ What do you think of CT colonography? Where is it going in the future?

☛ What research have you done? What are your future plans?

☛ What do you think about revalidation?

☛ How can we reduce healthcare associated infections?

☛ How can we improve the day-to-day safety of the department?

☛ What is your understanding and experience of clinical audit?

☛ Explain your understanding fo becoming a foundation trust. How should we go about it and what difference will it make?

☛ What do you understand by plurality and what effect does it have on radiology?

☛ What 3 words would you use to describr how you felt when you walked in here today?

☛ How do you think patients feel when they are about to see you? How do you feel when you are about to see a patient?

☛ Where do you see yourself in 5 years' time?

☛ You have a lot on your CV. How do you manage your time?

☛ What can you do to improve the provision of children's services in the hospital?

☛ Do you have enough experience to cope with a young child's airway e.g. have you got experience of performing neonatal / paediatric tracheostomy?

☛ How would you improve our relationship with GPs?

☛ How would you improve our relationship with the PCT?

☛ The demand for outpatients has gone up by 50% in one month, but the conversion rate to inpatient admission has not changed. What do you think about this?

☛ How do you deal with criticism?

☛ Have you ever caused harm to a patient? How do you know you are safe?

☛ How does serving the individual conflict with serving the population?

☛ Tell me about your best publication?

☛ Tell me what your role would be in teaching?

☛ What is your best professional achievement?

☛ What are your plans for the department? Where do you see yourself in 5 years' time?

☛ What do you think the challenges will be as a new consultant?

☛ How would you convince a patient you have never met that you are safe?

☛ How do you deal with a difficult patient?

☛ Tell me abou the feedback you have had from patients?

☛ 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 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?

☛ 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?

☛ One of your consultant colleagues is underperforming or his quality of care is unsatisfactory. What do you do?

☛ One of your juniors complains to you that they are being bullied by another consultant. How do you handle the situation?

☛ One of your junior colleagues comes in late by over 20 minutes repeatedly. What do you do?

☛ Your registrar reports to you that his SHO has been coming late for 20 minutes each day over the past 4 days. What do you do?

☛ One of your juniors keeps contradicting you in front of patients. What do you do?

☛ A senior consultant turns up drunk for work one morning. How do you handle the situation?

☛ You overhear two nurses talk about the fact that one of your registrars was taking cocaine last Friday when he went clubbing. How do you address the situation?

☛ Assuming that you report a colleague's bad performance to your clinical director. What would you expect him to do about it?

☛ What difference do you make between lack of fitness to practice and underperformance?

☛ What role does NCAS play in dealing with underperformance?

☛ Presentation (Topic given 30 minutes beforehand): How will you contribute to the development of new and existing gastroenterology services in this Trust?

☛ Could you take us through your experience as a junior doctor?

☛ Tell us more about your speciality training.

☛ Describe your experience of therapeutic endoscopy.

☛ Do SpRs take place in a bleeding rota in the North-West?

☛ How do you know you are competent in managing emergency GI bleeding?

☛ The service need for Hepatitis C is increasing. Would you be prepared to treat Hepatitis C if appointed?

☛ Are you familiar with Kieran Moriarty's alcohol service and recent guidelines?

☛ Would you be willing to develop an alcohol service within the Trust? How would you develop it?

☛ Let's say you estimated that £50,000 was required to fund an alcohol specialist nurse. How would you achieve this funding within the current financial climate?

☛ Describe a recent study or guideline that has changed your clinical practice.

☛ Are you an advocate of top down biological therapy in Crohns?

☛ Give two examples of basic scientific research that have changed clinical practice.

☛ You receive an email from me (clinical director) when you arrive at work one morning informing you that the hospital is on red alert. What would you do?

☛ It is 2013 and the GP commissioning consortium decides to reduce the tariff on open access gastroscopy to that equivalent to an outpatient appointment. How would you manage this? What is the current tariff for an open access gastroscopy?

☛ How do you anticipate that planned changes in NHS configuration will affect gastroenterology services?

☛ If you were successful and were offered this consultant post, you will come at a cost of £4.5m to this trust over your career. How will you prove to be a worthwhile investment for the Trust?

☛ What is your opinion on the recently published white paper?

☛ 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?

☛ 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?