商品簡介
Varian, a final year medical student in the UK, and Cartwright, a careers consultant at Warwick Medical School, UK, help students in the UK prepare for the Situational Judgement Test and its assessment of their attitudes and ethical values when judging a situation in the workplace. They draw on the nine domains as outlined by the Improving Selection to Foundation Programme, which detail the behaviors needed to be a competent Foundation Doctor, and discuss how to prepare for the test, ways to handle scenarios, what to look out for in the wards, and the importance of self-awareness and insight with respect to clinical practice, then the domains of professionalism, including confidentiality; common pressures and prioritization, including probity, ward rounds, discharges, prescribing, and consenting, as well as learning and professional development, career progression, and beeper etiquette; communication, record keeping, and documentation; patient advocacy, capacity, end-of-life care, and problem-solving with difficult patients; and teamwork, conflict, handovers, and the roles of other staff and educational supervisors and foundation directors. They end by explaining a method of approaching test questions, with 50 practice questions. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Frances Varian is a Final Year Medical Student at Warwick University and was seconded by Warwick Medical School to help develop SJT educational material and practice questions designed to enhance students’ non-technical skills.
Lara Cartwright is Senior Careers Consultant at Warwick Medical School and a member of the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) and the Medical Careers Adviser’s Network (MCAN).
