Most people would not even consider taking an exam without acquiring the relevant knowledge, skills and insight in preparation for it and therefore why would you approach perhaps one of the most important events in your life, getting the right consultant job, with any greater uncertainty than there needs to be? You wouldn’t. In fact, we know that you’d want to absolutely ensure you stood the best possible chance of success and that is why we have developed the Medicology approach to consultant interview success. It’s your future and so we don’t believe you should take any more chances than necessary.

The Medicology approach consists of the following:

  • Gold standard, low number, specialty-specific consultant interview course
  • Access to consultantinterviews.co.uk, allowing you to see example questions, hot topics, key strategies, CV guidance and more
  • Psychological profiling to understand your likely strengths and weaknesses, as well as their match to your specialty
  • Back up coaching – fail to get appointed on 4 occasions and we’ll examine the reasons why, as well as coach you to success

CONSULTANT INTERVIEW SKILLS OPEN PROGRAMME

      Pre-Interview visits – creating personal presence & deriving benefit
      Understanding your consultant interview panel
      Building rapport with interviewers
      Effective communication skills within interviews
      Advanced interview techniques
      Psychological techniques for increased rapport, impact & clarity
      Understanding the reasoning behind the question
      Answering questions within the context of who’s asking – understanding the interviewer
      Recognising the effects of your internal wiring on your approach to answering questions
      Effectively structuring your answers
      Talking about yourself & showing the real you – do & don’t guidance
      The answers you must have – knowing what to research
      Handling difficult or unexpected questions
      Dealing with ethical questions
      Dealing with political questions
      Developing business or commercial healthcare knowledge
      Effective presentation skills
      Demonstrating initiative, personality, leadership and political awareness
      Understanding your body language
      Question practice with a 1:6 instructor-participant ratio

Benefits and objectives

  • Get the best jobs by adopting the right strategies for your specific specialty
  • Develop appropriate confidence in all interview situations
  • Communicate in the right language and with the appropriate degree of confidence for your specialty
  • Utilise the full range of interview strategies to influence the result
  • Increase awareness of the necessary key topics
  • Gain valuable practice and personal feedback

Course type and teaching methods

The course consists of an engaging mixture of delivery styles including lectures, discussions and exercises all designed to ensure you the highest possible success in your future consultant interview. A substantial component of the afternoon is dedicated to interview practice in groups of 6 people with each person having individual mock interview questions in front of the small group. This structure is extremely successful in recreating the pressures of a real interview whilst giving each person the opportunity to rehearse in a safe environment whilst receiving valuable feed back from a trained facilitator and the small group of fellow attendees. All candidates learn from listening to others answers, reflection and tutor feedback. Topics covered include the political agenda, clinical governance, ethical decisions, clinical leadership, dealing with difficult colleagues, conflict, supporting junior doctors and teaching. These sessions are facilitated by senior Medicology coaches and by experienced, trained consultants with direct experience of interviewing for consultant colleagues.

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