Sample Question
ST3 Respiratory Medicine Interview
Why do you want to be a respiratory physician?
Passion for the speciality
• Displays motivation
• Able to describe what attracted them to the speciality
• Describes an inspiring teacher
• Enthusiasm for new procedures/technologies
Knowledge of specialty
• Describe skills and experience gained to date
• Displays portfolio and continuing professional development
• Audit experience
Clear understanding of the role
• Able to describe the role
• Anticipates difficulties that may present and ways that they may be overcome
• Understands changes in work patterns and how it will affect them e.g. European working time directive, consultant delivered service
• Consider work/life balance
Clear picture of how they would contribute
• Areas of practice they would like to develop
• New services that they could set up
• Research interests
• New ways of working e.g more community based care with dissolution of the interface between primary and secondary care