After your pre-interview visit you’ve reconfirmed your desire for this job, and the day of the interview approaches. The interview process is fairly standardised around the UK, since the NHS has very strict standards about how to appoint consultants. (1, 2, 3) This will obviously differ across the world, but the basic principles should be […]
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Join in with @ADC_JC and become a better doctor
It is a rarely challenged dogma in clinical medicine that the more experienced you are, the better care you provide. The government is pushing for consultants to be in hospital on a more consistent basis over seven days and the RCPCH have a target that all children admitted acutely should be reviewed by a paediatric […]
Getting through the interview. Before.
Congrats! You got shortlisted for the interview! Now all you have to do is get through the process so that if, on the day, you are the best person, you are able to appear at your best, and you stand a good chance of getting appointed. This begins with the pre-interview visits … you need […]
ADCE – Another innovation
It might be a chemotherapy regimen (Actinomycin, Dox, Carboplatin & Etoposide). It might be a bad attempt at the alphabet by a melissophobic. But no. It’s our constant striving to innovate and excite, occasionally with positive results. Ethically. […]
Filling in the application – understanding the person specification
We realise that you’ve had to wait five years until this post made sense, but thanks to the amazing system of curation we have in the ADC blog posts and the way it burned into your memory we’re delighted you’re back. It’s time to fill in the application form. The submission of a good application […]
Child Well-being
We, the child health community, are proud to focus on ‘well-being’ much more than numerical things, like fractional shortening, GFR or HbA1c*. In a recent discussion, it was identified that there has been a sociological academic discussion on looking at how interventions in childhood are more about well-becoming rather than well-being. Which intrigued me … […]
What you should have done 5 years ago
You read the trailer, you discussed it with your pals over coffee, animated a snapchat story about it .. and now’s episode 1, AKA: “Regrets” Frankly, and we need to be honest with you, if you’re a month or two from applying for a senior post, and if this is the first time you’ve thought […]
>n: Card sorting
Sometimes in interview work there will be a desire to find out about how and why people make decisions. This can be done in lots of ways – for example, using discrete choice experiments, scenarios/vignettes, multiple choice questions, or card sorting exercises. […]
Trailer: Getting your Consultant Job
You may be aware that for ages superheros lived in comics, or graphic novels, with faint nostalgic hints at TV shows from long ago. They emerged into film, then series of films, and then spilled into flooding the TV market with 13-episode long story arcs and much brooding. Following this media sensation, and after the […]
Of Vets and Paediatricians
I’ve heard it said, by those ignorant the joys of working in paediatrics, that our chosen speciality is “a bit like veterinary medicine”. Presumably this is a dig at both parties – at paediatricians because our patients couldn’t possible give us a history, could they? And also at vets because, well, their patients really can’t give […]