1. Interview Questions Royal Devon and Exeter
05/02/2010
Presentation
• What could and should a consultant physician and endocrinologist
bring to the modern NHS?
Questions
• College Rep
1. What parts of your training make you suitable for this job
• University Rep
1. What do you think of the training in the peninsula medical school
2. What makes a good teacher
3. Tell me about the research paper you are most proud of
• Consultant Diabetes / Clinical Director
1. You have been asked to mark 2 member of staffs’ written
assignment for a course they are doing. You notice that the 2
pieces of work are the same, almost work for word. What do you do
• Medical Director
1. You are the consultant on call when a patient has been admitted
from a community hospital septic with HONK. They have been in
the community hospital for a week, gradually deteriorating. After the
initial acute care of the patient what would you do?
2. I think he was also going to ask about NPSA and Rapid Response
Report into insulin, but I had covered this in my presentation
• Consultant
1. If you were appointed what area of diabetes would you lead in
service development (I talked about working with and across the
community)
2. How would you encourage the PCT to be interested in you
proposals
3. You have been asked to start running evening clinics. How would
you go about setting them up
• Operations Manager (standing in for Chief Exec)
1. Do you think other teams are reluctant to refer their patients with
diabetes to the specialist team
2. How have you or could you go about increasing patient involvement
3. How would you go about managing patients with diabetes admitted
for elective surgery
4. What makes you angry