Interviews Flashcards
What are your interests outside of medicine?
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If you didn’t get fellow job, what job would you do next year?
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Have you been offered job opportunity in a particular hospital?
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Tell us about research that you have initiated and completed
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Can good quality care be achieved with low costs?
Some interventions, like good communication, cost nothing except time
Costs in care can be reduced by standardisation of procedures, efficient use of resources to eliminate waste, enhanced recovery programs and MIS to expedite recovery and use of evidence based practice to use efficacious treatments and avoid less efficacious ones
If you have unlimited resources and you could do a Australia-wide trial, then what would you do?
Combination of Hydrocort and external stents for high risk joins
Radiation preop to reduce panc ca - maybe in context of crt vs ct for NAC
Procalcitonin to detect infected panc necrosis
What’s involved as an AANZHPBA fellow?
Typically at least two 12-month placements
Quarterly journal club
Exam (2 papers, 4 vivas) at end
Annual meeting
Tell us about yourself and why we should select you?
Myself
Clinically - enthusiatic, keen hard working team member. Motivated to improve both myself and the dept in which I am working - evidenced by my involvement in collaborative activities- trauma mdt, teaching nurses, junior docs, as well as dedicated study, practice
Academic - keen to develop simulation, active in research locally
Education - passionate teacher of juniors as evidenced by teaching program
Personal - good team member, active socially outside of work
What are your future career plans? Where do you want to work? What sort of work do you envisage making up your usual practice
Resectional hpb and renal transplant, participation in trauma roster, fte for education and simulation training, time out for army surgical work
Have spoken to Christchurch and Hamilton both of whom would be keen to have me back
Really keen to develop MIS HPB wherever I end up
What do you know about the AANZHPBA program/ what are the requirements during training
Two 12 month jobs
Exam (2 papers, 4 vivas)
Quarterly journal club
Annual meeting
Research expectation
Are you willing to move around/ be flexible with placements?
What issues face AANZHPBA in the next 10-20yr?
Specialty challenges and broader issues
Specialty challenges
- Role of MIS
- Role of multimodality therapy
- Availability of organs as demand increases
- Managing obesity as a comorbidity
- Trainee experience
Broader issues
- Healthcare funding
- Appropriateness of treatments and treatment futility
Tell us about a problem you faced and wished you could turn back the clock, and how you addressed this
Pilonidal sinus complaint
Trying to help out with busy short staffed clinic whilst running acute theatre. Saw patient in a rush with med student - slow to heal pilonidal wound. Still smoking and not looking after himself but not happy that wound not yet healed. Told him it would be fine, takes time, needs to stop smoking, then rushed off back to OT. Pt not happy and complained. I was trying to be helpful but actually made things worse. Learnt that you have limits, can only do so much, better to do one thing well than split yourself too many ways. Also patients deserve better, even if their expectations are not totally realistic.
Tell us about a problem you have personally solved that had a positive outcome (either clinical or non clinical
Trauma MDT
Naomi MDT
Wanganui chest drains
Your Registrar tells you that one of your consultants was intoxicated when he came in to help the Registrar with an Emergency case. You also notice that same consultant has had adverse outcomes in the last few months, much more than others. How would you deal with the situation?
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Any questions for us?
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