HIV Consultant Question:

☛ Tell us how your training has helped you to apply for this job (other than Pain)?
☛ What is your opinion about the decreasing time for training nowadays?
☛ What are the recent NICE guidelines on pain management? Will you follow those guidelines?
☛ Why do you want to take this job and why in this region?
☛ Do you think the NICE committee is fairly representing all stakeholders?
☛ Epidural steroids are not licensed for use. If you were taken to court on this matter, how would you defend yourself?
☛ Why do you want to do the Irish Fellowship in Pain when you already have the British Fellowship?
☛ You are interviewed by the media about the role of the anaesthetist. How will you explain it to the public?
☛ Tell me about the WHO checklist.
☛ Give me examples of your previous encounter with management officials.
☛ Have you done anything to improve services in any of the hospitals you have worked in before?
☛ Have you ever filled a critical incident form?
☛ Can you talk about root-cause analysis?
☛ Discuss one thing which impressed you most and one which depressed you most about the NHS in the past 10 years.
☛ Tell us about communication.
☛ How do you reduce the anxiety of patients and relatives pre-surgery?