Consultant Question:

☛ What service would you develop in your department and how?
☛ How would you reduce the costs of the department by 20%?
☛ How do you know that your teaching methods work?
☛ Are there any published studies on the outcomes of teaching?
☛ To produce a good undergraduate teaching, we will need to run less clinics or see less patients in clinics. How can you defend/argue this?
☛ Our hospital has poor feedback on patient experience. What one thing do you think we could change to improve this?
☛ In the current times when there is demand to see more patients, how can you defend spending time in research?
☛ What is the most interesting paper you have read this year and why?
☛ There is pressure to move some specialities into the community. What arguments would you use to keep your speciality hospital-based?