1st Edition
Get Through Postgraduate Medical Interviews
152 Pages
by
CRC Press
152 Pages
by
CRC Press
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Get Through Postgraduate Medical Interviews aims to forearm candidates with practical advice on how to maximise their chances of success in the postgraduate medical interview. Following short-listing, the interview is the final and often the toughest hurdle standing between a candidate and their career path of choice. For many candidates there will only be 'one shot' and competition is likely to... Read more
Preface
1. INTRODUCTION
The purpose of the interview
What is MMC?
The application process
Recruitment in 2008
Run-through training and the transition
Closed versus open interviews National selection
What are speciality schools?
What is the National Recruitment Office for general practice training?
Assessing the competition
Overseas graduates
Academic clinical fellowships
Deferred entry
Flexible training
2. BEFORE THE INTERVIEW
Deciding level of entry into speciality training
Your application form
The process of selection
Getting ahead
3. YOUR PORTFOLIO
What is a portfolio?
Your curriculum vitae
Logbooks
Exam certificates
Presentations and posters presented at learned meetings
Abstracts, papers and audit projects
Your personal development plan or educational contract
A statement of personal values and aims
Records of in-training assessment
Work place based assessments
Reflective logs of activities and experience
4. THE INTERVIEW
What to take
What to expect and interview styles
General interview tips for on the day
Common interview myths
5. HOT INTERVIEW TOPICS
Academic research, publications and teaching
Clinical governance, audit and management
Clinical experience, motivation and personality
6. Difficult interview questions
7. OTHER TYPES OF INTERVIEW
Portfolio-based interviews
Assessment of communication skills at interview
Assessment of practical skills at interview
Assessing presentation skills at interview
8. AFTER THE INTERVIEW
So you got the job …
So you didn’t get the job …
Index
1. INTRODUCTION
The purpose of the interview
What is MMC?
The application process
Recruitment in 2008
Run-through training and the transition
Closed versus open interviews National selection
What are speciality schools?
What is the National Recruitment Office for general practice training?
Assessing the competition
Overseas graduates
Academic clinical fellowships
Deferred entry
Flexible training
2. BEFORE THE INTERVIEW
Deciding level of entry into speciality training
Your application form
The process of selection
Getting ahead
3. YOUR PORTFOLIO
What is a portfolio?
Your curriculum vitae
Logbooks
Exam certificates
Presentations and posters presented at learned meetings
Abstracts, papers and audit projects
Your personal development plan or educational contract
A statement of personal values and aims
Records of in-training assessment
Work place based assessments
Reflective logs of activities and experience
4. THE INTERVIEW
What to take
What to expect and interview styles
General interview tips for on the day
Common interview myths
5. HOT INTERVIEW TOPICS
Academic research, publications and teaching
Clinical governance, audit and management
Clinical experience, motivation and personality
6. Difficult interview questions
7. OTHER TYPES OF INTERVIEW
Portfolio-based interviews
Assessment of communication skills at interview
Assessment of practical skills at interview
Assessing presentation skills at interview
8. AFTER THE INTERVIEW
So you got the job …
So you didn’t get the job …
Index
Biography
Kaji Sritharan MBBS BSc MRCS (Eng)
Specialist Registrar in General Surgery,
Head of the
