100+ Physician Associate Interview Questions

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Insight and Motivation

What is the role of a Physician Associate?
How does a PA differ from a Nurse Practitioner?
How long has the role of PA been established?
Why are you interested in becoming a PA rather than an NP?
Why are you interested in becoming a PA rather than a doctor?
Can a PA work alone (independent of a physician)?
What do you think a typical day looks like?
What can you tell us about the history of the NHS?
How is the NHS run today?
What are the 6Cs? (Originally used in Nursing, they have since been adopted by the NHS as a whole.)
Talk us through your personal statement.
What area of care are you interested in working in as a PA?
Tell us about some current healthcare issues in the news.
What does the term consent mean?
What does the term capacity mean?
What are some of the most pressing challenges currently facing the NHS?
Tell us about COVID-19.
What are some of the biggest challenges to global healthcare at the moment?
Has technology changed healthcare?
What do you think healthcare will look like in 50 years?
What body is responsible for regulating physician associates?
What do you know about the GMC?

Work Experience

Talk to me about your work experience.
Do you think that your work experience has been a fair reflection of what it is like being a PA?
Were you impressed by the healthcare professionals that you shadowed?
Tell me about something that surprised you during your work experience.
Tell me about something that impressed you during your work experience?
What challenging situations have you seen during your work experience?
Tell me about a charity role that you took on.
Tell me about the importance of volunteering.
Tell me how you found a wide range of work experience.
Why do you think that an experience of caring roles is crucial to working as a PA?

Empathy

Define the term empathy.
Explain the difference between empathy and sympathy.
Tell me about a time when you showed empathy.
What mentoring roles have you had?
Why is empathy important?
How would you deal with an aggressive and verbally abusive patient?

Teamwork & Communication

Tell us about a team that you played for.
Do you work well in a team?
Why is teamwork so important to working as a PA?
What kind of team do physician associates work in?
Tell us about your leadership ability.
Tell us about a team or group activity that you organised.
Tell me about a time that you failed as a team.
Tell me about a time that you succeeded as a team.
What patients might be the toughest to communicate with?
Tell me how you would discuss a challenging topic with a patient.

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Resilience

Tell me about a time you overcame adversity.
How will you adapt to the pressure of working here?
How will you adapt to the pressure of working as a PA?
How do you relax?

Ethics

Is it right for healthcare workers to strike?
What is more important, quality of life or length of life?
Should the NHS offer treatment for self-inflicted problems?
Is it right for parents to smoke in front of their children?
Is the government’s drug policy working?
What is your stance on euthanasia?
Imagine you discover your supervisor drunk at work. What do you do?
Imagine another student encouraged you to cheat. What would you do?
What would you do if one of the doctors in your team shirked their responsibilities repeatedly, leaving them to you instead?
What would you say to a sexist patient?
What would you do if a doctor was repeatedly rude and condescending to you?
Should the NHS be privatised or otherwise altered?
What would you do if you caught a friend looking at confidential patient’s notes?
What would you do if you found two colleagues arguing over the correct treatment plan for a patient in front of them?

The Course

What do you think is unique about this course?
Why are you interested in studying at this university?
What do you think you will bring to our university?
Do you think that our course fits your learning style?
What do you think of this city?
How does your choice of A Level subjects suit our course?
How will you deal with the amount of independent studying on the course?
What attracts you about the range of placements and hospitals?
What differentiated our course from others that you were looking at?
How will you handle the stress of having both faraway placements and a heavy workload?

Your Personality

Tell me your five greatest strengths.
What would you like your impact to be in this field?
How would your friends describe you?
How do you manage your time?
How do you organise yourself?
Tell me your greatest ambition.
Tell me your five greatest weaknesses.
How would you like to be remembered in this field?

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100+ Physician Associate Interview Questions

Insight and Motivation

Work Experience

Empathy

Teamwork & Communication

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Resilience

Ethics

The Course

Your Personality

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100+ Physician Associate Interview Questions

Insight and Motivation

​Work Experience

Empathy

​Teamwork & Communication

Optimise Your Interview Performance

Resilience

Ethics

The Course

Your Personality

Further Reading....

100+ Physician Associate Interview Questions

Need help? Email: info@blackstonetutors.co.uk

Preparation

Useful Links

Contact Us / Opening Hours

Intensive BMAT Course

BMAT Timetable

The BMAT Course

Sample Questions

Please select your exam:

Work Experience

Teamwork & Communication