Interview questions and answers 2022
Gerontology ATI
Tell me about yourself - ANS-Thanks for the question
-Vanessa Wan
-Graduate from UNSW. a resident... [Show More] medical officer at Dubbo Base Hospital,
-brief background, talk about my clinical experience, academic achievements and some
other skills. And I'd also love to share my personal reasons for applying.
Clinical:
-Interested in critical care medicine: 2 terms of emergency, anaesthetics and ICU
-apart, several electives, coffs harbour anaesthetics
-Working in a rural hospital has provided me with numerous opportunities to learn and
become a better and independent clinician
-E.g. Taken on some registrar roles when the opportunities arose; anaesthetics,
conducted pain rounds, taken on consults for acute pain services, assessed patients in
preadmision clinic
-procedural skills: ultrasound guided cannulation, bag mask ventilation, direct
laryngoscopy among with other clinical skills listed on my resume
Academic:
-done several courses to improve my clinical skills
-courses in ALS-1, ALS-2, X-rays interpretation, and have signed up for BASIC,
intensive airway management, anaesthetic crisis management and use of ultrasound in
rural emergency medicine courses later in the year.
academic research, and have published two research articles on treatment of tumour
cells using hyperthermia and chemo and non-chemo therapeutic agents) and on
association between renal impairment and cerebral small vessel disease).
- first prize for presenting my research at the Alliance NSW Junior Doctors' Conference.
- a scholarship to attend the Rural Medical Australia Conference later this year.
-presented in hospital grand rounds
-conducted tutorials for medical students.
Manager:
-Quality and Safety Committee at my hospital.
-exchange insights on improve quality and safety in hospital
-achievements- formulation of difficult vascular access escalation pathway,
implemented by our hospital
-GCTC and HETI representative
-attend regular meetings, represent my colleagues to ensure their voices are heard at
appropriate levels
Personal:
-interested in pursuing a career in anaesthetics/ critical care
-plus reasons why I wanna work at your hospital
What are your strengths and weaknesses? - ANS-Strengths:
1. Efficient
Situation: efficient and organised- ability to stay on top of tasks
Task:
Learnt from numerous night shifts
ED- 2 members- resident and registrar
registrar busy with trauma calls, or exisiting patients
Deal with the rest
Action: prioritise patients, eyeball multiple patients, Initiate first line investigations and
management
Results: many complements from other members of the team (regs, nurses), highlighted
in appraisal forms by supervisor
2. Commitment to improve knowledge and skills
-mentioned before, several courses, ALS-1, ALS-2, online interpretation of xrays,
scheduled for basic, intensive airway management, rural anaesthetic crisis
management, use of ultrasound in emergency medicine
-self learning =g courses online, medmastery, ECGs interpretations, use of ventilator in
ICU etc.
-academic research, published 2 journal articles
Weakness:
1. Improve on public speaking
Situation: Not a native speaker, not as confident, need a lot of preparation before giving
a speech or talking in public
Actions:
Pushed myself to do it more
Signed up for HETI committee, during meetings need to present in front of a crowd
Teaching medical students, presenting at grand rounds, presented my research at
Alliance NSW Junior Doctor's conference- first prize
Results: A lot more confident than before, decided to take on more teaching
opportunities
2. Too planned
-Always planning ahead
-Anticipate problems, say post weekend take, go in really early and read about the
patients
-while it makes me more efficient, sometimes it used to stress me out and affected my
sleep quality
-made me realised needs to find a good work-life balance
-Patient safety
-strategies: doing meditation and yoga, regular exercises
-Learnt to keep a good balance
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