Consultant Interview Skills: Mental Health

Short course

In Birmingham and London

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£ 344 VAT inc.

Description

  • Duration

    1 Day

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.

Facilities

Location

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Birmingham (West Midlands)
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43 Temple Row, B2 5LS

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On request
London
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81-103 Euston Street, NW1 2EZ

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On request

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Course programme

Content

  • 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
  • Awareness of the healthcare agenda - key topics e.g. Darzi, Clinical Governance, EWTD, Tooke Report
  • How does the current healthcare agenda affect your specialty
  • What’s hot in your speciality
  • Specialty specific initiatives and frameworks
  • The answers you must have
  • 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

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.

The Medicology approach consists of the following:

  • Gold standard, low number, specialty-specific consultant interview course.
  • Online resource access 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.

Additional information

Comments: Accommodation Arrangements: Accommodation is not included. Included in Registration Fee: The cost of registration is comprehensive and includes all refreshment breaks including lunch, as well as course materials, binder and any assessments.

Consultant Interview Skills: Mental Health

£ 344 VAT inc.