Interview course

Question 1

Why do you want to do this course?

Answer 1

• Want to work in emergency medicine
• Enjoy the broad range of acute medicine it involves
• Only course in emergency medicine
• Clinical placement based year
• QIP will allow me to influence the care delivered and get experience in this process which will be good for my future practice
• Integrate in ED team

Question 2

What is unique about this course?

Answer 2

• Only emergency medicine course
• QIP good oppourtunity to influence patient care
• Optional modules cover topics that wouldn’t be able to study elsewhere e.g. emergency paeds
• Community nature of the course, birmingham very impersonal, will be able to meet course leads, live together in big house

Question 3

What could you add to the group?

Answer 3

Academically
-Had good experience working in teams for the wilderness medicine and windsurfing commitee
-Approachable, people would be able to come to me with problems
-Good problem solver
Socially
-Good to live with around the house
-Happy to try new activities
-Could take everyone climbing and get involved with what other people were doing

Question 4

What do you want to get out of the course?

Answer 4

• Oppourtunity to publish QIP and improve patient care in the emergency department.
• Integrate in a team and improve my understanding of what it is like to work in emergency medicine
• Oppourtunity to present at conferences
• Learn to perform skills that I couldn’t do in medical school curriculum e.g. reducing shoulder dislocations
• Develop confidence dealing with acutely unwell patients for being a junior doctor

Question 5

What are your QIP ideas?

Answer 5

Time to analgesia in extremity fractures
-Better access for triage nurses to administer analgesia.
-Nurses educated that oral medications have low risk of aspiration if patients require sedation for reduction of the fracture.
-Doing a QI project on it should draw attention and hence improve care
Overcrowding in ED:
-Staff pointed it out that its harder to provide good care
-Either reduce overcrowding by identifying bottlenecks
-Or improve care when staff are short on time etc.

Question 6

What audit are you doing?

Answer 6

Looking at management of suspected scaphoid fractures
Patients that do not have signs of fracture on x ray should be followed up on MRI
Looking at number of people followed up