Behavioral questions

Question 1

What is resident duty hours, and why?

What is competency based training?

Answer 1

RDH - fatigue and safety
Competency based training
- evidence that not just hours are good
- personalized, tailors to individual needs
- not optimal for whole career
- more flexible

Question 2

define environmental scan, and how you would do one

Answer 2

a broad review of current state and external environmental factors that affect you
- context, like politics, demographical env, economic
- includes grey literature
- current policy, promising practices
How:
- look at literature
- look at grey literature (reports, conference publications, news articles, survey people if needed)

Question 3

define lit review and how you would do one

Answer 3

a systematic review of a specific question or area based on published literature

• ID the question or specific topic
• ID scope
• look for papers
• filter out stuff
• read, compile, write

Question 4

project development - example and how

Answer 4

RA advocacy work
in particular visual identity
- set milestones
- communicate
- track progress and timelines
- documentation!
- proactive post-debrief

Question 5

what do you know about medical education?

Answer 5

from website / white papers
hours based
move towards competency based
generalism
anecdotal

Question 6

writing / communication - what makes it good and give ex

Answer 6

Example: AHS BN

• clear
• objective
• comprehensive but concise
• made for your audience

Question 7

dealing with conflict - how and example

Answer 7

AHS boss, difficult personality

• empathy, understand they have a reason
• find out why
• listen, and don’t make it a conflict, but one of understanding
• shared goal, commonalities
• set outcomes and expectations

Question 8

example of research, quant and qualitative

Answer 8

CHEO EMR benefits realization- and masters thesis

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Question 9

describe your work style

Answer 9

short bursts of energy on multiple, sometimes alone, sometimes with people, need mix of both

learner / disect

Question 10

example of time management skills and multiple priorities

Answer 10

AHS different contracts

• prioritize properly
• work as a team
• use the tools
• put in time
• align to strategy

Question 11

strenghts / weaknesses

Answer 11

+ - analytical, good communicator / read people well / diplomatic, good understanding of health
- little french, don’t look old, think a lot

Question 12

last remarks - why

Answer 12

learn quick, good understanding of health and policy, interdisciplinary

not in it for the money, moved from alberta, truly interested in policy and i like being good at my job - record of achievement

Question 13

why are you interested in this job

Answer 13

health and policy, health guy, like the policy side of the health system

Question 14

a time you were critized

Answer 14

time that was critisized publically during a presentation -

kept calm, would talk about it offline, and tried to understand their point of view

Question 15

time you thought critically

Answer 15

anti vaccination research and study

Question 16

decision

Answer 16

priority
the one with the most data, so you could make the best informed decision and better able to troubleshoot
ex. school vs job

Question 17

influenced someone / sold someone on an idea

Answer 17

IOL

- change the way they do things - coordination of projects were through me, but that was inefficient and risky

Question 18

why work here? what specific projects interest you?

Answer 18

health policy, like strategy, interdisciplinary
FIRE, resident duty hours, intraprofesionalism, the e-portfolio part of competency based training
- quality improvement