Panel 1
Presentation
For 5 minutes.
15 minutes for preparation
Is it appropriate to deny the elective treatment for patients with self-inflicted co-morbidity?
Related questions on presentation- Insurance, privatisation, finances ect.
CV
Tell your greatest achievement.
Tell why people would remember you in your last job.
Where would you prefer to work as a consultant? (A small DGH/ big teaching hospital)
What are you going to do during your SpR training? (Anything specific?)
Looking back at your career, what would you do differently than this CV?
Little bit about sub-speciality interests.
Panel 2
Actor scenario-
Explain the mum of a child who needs to go to ITU for suxamethonium apnoea after appendicectomy.
Related theoretical questions on suxamethonium apnoea.
Clinical management question-
Paediatric transfer-
Will you do it?
What should be the competencies?
What preparation would you make?
NHS and management question-
What do you think of the idea of resident on-call consultant?
Panel 3
Research paper critical appraisal-
What is the gold standard method?
Why a particular method has been used as a gold standard in this study?
What is Alfa, Beta error?
What is study power?
What is Null hypothesis?
Why Bland-Altman analysis is used in this study?
Tell about this research study?
What would you do this if you were the journal editor?
Audit, teaching, training-
What is audit?
Which national audit has made difference to quality of care?
Which local audit in your hospital has made difference to quality of care?
What do you need to get results from audit project?
Why audits fail?
Panel 4
Dummy scenario-
Ventilation
Intubation
Clinical judgement
Clinical decision making-
Adult for TKR on elective basis, what preparation, what anaesthetic options, details of regional and GA with emphasis on decision making.
For more advice on SHO/SpR interview material- please email-
drsangy@hotmail.com
(Voluntary help).
Dr Sangram Patil.
www.samyaktrust.blogspot.com