Main description:

Smashing Core Surgical Training Interviews is a crucial roadmap through the highly competitive world of surgery, written by previous Core Surgical Training National Recruitment panel members. It provides a realistic understanding of what is expected on the interview day and how best to prepare for it.

This book provides advice on how to maximise your time as a medical student and foundation year doctor in preparing for the Core Surgical Training interview process. It covers all aspects of the interview, including how to prepare the portfolio, virtual interview etiquette, and post-interview considerations.

This book contains:

More than 30 clinical scenarios and more than 15 management scenarios with model answers.

Model frameworks for structuring answers.

Information covering real-life struggles, including how to maximise opportunities as a medical student, how to publish, and how to decide whether to take an F3 year.

Insights into the diverse world of modern surgery, including women in surgery, LGBTQ issues, dyslexia and neurodiversity, and challenges faced by ethnic minorities.

A framework for international medical graduates planning surgical careers.

This is the perfect preparation guide for any medical student or junior doctor with a serious desire to launch a career in surgery in the United Kingdom by smashing the Core Surgical Training interviews.

Contents:

1.) Application Process for Core Surgical Training

2.) Multi-specialty recruitment assessment (MSRA)

3.) Preparing your Surgical Portfolio

4.) How to Publish

5.) Mastering the Presentation

6.) How to Structure Your Answers: Clinical

7.) How to Structure your Answers: Management

8.) Virtual Interview Etiquette

9.) Clinical Scenarios

10.) Management Scenarios

11.) Post-Interview Job Preferencing

12.) Life as a Core Surgical Trainee

13.) The Challenges of Life as a Core Surgical Trainee

14.) To F3 or Not To F3

15.) Medical Students - Planning a Career in Surgery

16.) Women in Surgery

17.) International Medical Graduates - Planning to a Move to the UK

18.) International Medical Graduates - Planning a Career in Surgery

19.) Dyslexia and Neurodiversity

20.) Out in Surgery - LGBTQ Issues

21.) Getting into Core Surgical Training as an Ethnic Minority