Help! Medical Application Questions.....?

Question

I am applying for the most important psychiatry job, and they are asking the following questions in the application form:

Describe a situation when applying your clinical judgement had a significant impact on patient health. What did you do and how did your judgement contribute to the patient health?

What are they looking for? Should I answer the question specific to the specialty of psychiatry or a more broad answer???
PLEASE help, i have many more questions and am really stuck!!!

Answer 1

Sounds like they want a good or bad diagnosis. How did the patient react? How did you react?

Answer 2

The judgement they are looking for is that offered with your Clinical Psychology.

If your patient had a problem that you identified using your education, and you decided on a course of treatment that helped the patient, then that is what you should put.
Don't try to play with the truth as you may be asked questions concerning the case or even be required to produce evidence.
Unless you have degrees or better qualifications in a lot of medical fields, then I would stick to Psychiatry as this is relevant to the potential position!



Good Luck


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Answer 3

It is a direct question related to how you treated a specific patient. Cast your mind back to when you identified a mental problem in a person and dealt with it. You must have given counselling to patients so you could give an example of a disturbed patient with suicidal tendencies who was helped by you through a course of counselling. If you have done this then put it as an answer. I would not put as an answer that you prescribed medication. They want to see how you used your training ,education, empathy and fine judgement in identifying the problem for a patient and dealing with it competently. Good luck.

Answer 4

If you can't answer this question without any help how are your future patients supposed to have confidence in you,surely you can remember a one on one situation with a patient and the result your advice or intervention had on that patient.I would think that they want you to answer specifically.Look for the key words in the question...i.e 'SPECIFIC' read the question properly If you're unsure what a question means....always look for a key word,a word that jumps out at you from the page,then you'll have a good idea what they're after.

Answer 5

I personally would apply situations that are relevant to the job you want.
That said, these type of questions are looking for skills you have as a person, not just to a particular field, so I don't think it really matters too much if the situation you put is to do with medicine in general as opposed to psychiatry in particular

Answer 6

If you previous job included mental health (at any level), then be specific, if it didn't, then they would know that you are creating the scenario. So if it wasn't, make it broad, keep all your answers as close to the truth as you possibly can.

They are looking at how you handle a difficult situation, whether you are a leader or a follower, how you interact with others.
Best of luck

Answer 7

It seems like they are asking for a specific answer relating to your field of experience,(clinical judgment) yet I feel a combination of relative experience and something a little out of the realm would show experience and the ability to think outside the box when needed. Hope this helps.

Answer 8

I don't want to mess your chances up for you but if I were you I'd answer the question as specifically as possible, and answer honestly.