💡💡🔥✅✅Interview Questions (general) Flashcards
Why do you want to do medicine?
1- profession that’s combined intellectual abilities and communication
2- variety of work involved, from prevention to treatment to teaching to research
3- enjoy constant learning
4- environment where there’s a strong element of teamwork
What are the points to consider when answering the question “why medicine?”
1) Include personal reflection for each point e.g if you say medicine is challenging explain why (dealing with the unexpected)
2)Use work and personal experiences
-emily’s condition
-work experience
(Primary and secondary care)
How good are your organisational skills (PTC)
- multitask
- anticipate needs/scenarios
- identify the right resources
- plan effectively to defines
- prioritise with regards to urgency
- delegate/use team effectively
- reprioritise to unfolding events (velindre)
- stay focussed on the task at hand
How do you cope with stress? Causes of stress?
- work overload + lack of resources
- making mistakes
- unexpected Events
- dealing with difficult patients
- breaking bad news
- balance
It’s omnipresent can’t resolve all situations by hobbies
How do you deal with stress (how to cope)
1) Recognise -become aware of stress
2) Recruit Info- step back to analyse
3) Resolve
- organise better
- delegate tasks to others
- breaks/turn off
- anticipate further problems
- seek advice from friends/colleagues
- healthy lifestyle, hobbies and activities
4) Reflect -get perspective
What are your main strengths?
- good communication (peer mentoring)
- team player (Monday Club)
- good leader (H&W week)
- organised (H&W week)
- conscientious, hardworking, dynamic, honest
- caring/approachable
Give 3 adjectives that’s suit you best
1) caring
2) hardworking
3) amiable
What are the attributes of a good doctor?
- knowledgable
- keen to learn
- communicator/teacher
- team player
- organised potential leader
- caring, sensitive and amiable
- hardworking, enthusiastic, motivated and disciplined
- trustworthy, honest with integrity
What are your weaknesses
- High expectations of yourself and others
2. Can be over empathetic
What makes you think that you can cope with the long and stressful process of studying for medicine?
- motivation for medicine and hard working nature
- ability to handle stress and work well under pressure
- organisation skills and ability to multitask
- ability to seek help when necessary
- ability to work in teams and sociability
- work life balance
What are the issues affecting the NHS currently? (4)
1- funding issues (distributive justice etc)
2- waiting lists (GPS)
3- postcode lottery
4- bed shortages
Define the term informed consent
The patient has consented to a procedure or treatment, having been given and considered all the facts that were necessary for them to make a decision in their own best interest
What must the doctor explain so that the patient has informed consent?
- options for treatment or management of the condition
- the aim of the procedure including consequences and side effects
- details of procedure, it’s benefits, chances of success, common/serious risks, side effects and management of such
- consequences of providing treatment vs not providing treatment
- details of secondary interventions (if at all needed in an emergency e.g blood transplant) and consent for those
- details of who’s performing the procedure/if training is involved
- patient can change their mind
- appropriate written information e.g leaflet
- time for patient to reflect so their not pressured
- only competent patients can give consent
What is competency?
Those who understand the information and are capable of making a rational decision by themselves, it’s a legal judgement.
What is the current rules on children 16/17 giving concent
Are presumed to be able to give consent if competent
What is the current rules on children giving consent if they are under 16
The Gillick Fraser competency states that a child under 16 can be deemed competent to give consent providing they are mature enough to understand information given to them about the procedure and it’s consequences
What happens if a child refuses to involve the parents in their treatment?
The doctor will have to respect their decision as this would breach confidentiality
When can a doctor breach confidentiality and tell a parent about their child’s medical state?
1- if the child is deemed to not be competent
2- of the child is in danger (involve social services/police)
What is important to note about children in England and Wales
A child can give consent for a procedure if competent but can’t refuse consent for a procedure deemed in their best interest.
If not refuses decision would be made by the parents who accept, or if they refuse you would get a court order to impose the treatment (if possible)
If time is of the essence impose the treatment and justify it later in court if needed.
In Scotland children are allowed to refuse consent
Give 3 scenarios when you can breach confidentiality
1)implied consent had been given by the patient
2)information required by a court/judge
3) in the public interest and to protect the patient or others
(E.g informing DVLA that a patient with epilepsy is unfit to drive)
(Notifying authorities of disease outbreak e.g measles/mumps but not HIV/aids)
(Suspected child abused emotional/physical)!