Hull York Medical School PA Interview Questions

Ethical Dilemmas

• How would you react if you found that junior doctors on your ward were not dealing with their responsibilities, and instead leaving them to you?
• Should the NHS offer treatment for self-inflicted problems? As an example, should it treat smokers whose condition is due to their decision to smoke?
• Should recreational drugs be illegal, or would legalising them lead to less drug hospitalisations?
• Should physician assistants be allowed to refuse to treat certain patients due to their religious beliefs or cultural background?
• Should the NHS be privatised or altered in another way? Are its goals sensible in the 21st century?

Communication Stations​

• Please describe an experience that illustrated the importance of good communication skills to you.
• How should health professionals alter the way in which they communicate depending on who they are talking to?
• What attributes are essential to those that are good communicators?
• What is active listening?
• How does empathy help one communicate?

Teamwork Tasks

• Do you find that you learn well in teams in general?
• What can you tell me about the role of the multidisciplinary team in Medicine in the NHS?
• Please provide us with an example of a team that you have been in that failed in a task or objective. What did you learn from this experience, and how did the team evolve as a result of it?
• Please provide us with an example of your leadership ability.

General / Personal Statements

• Imagine we asked your friends to describe you in three words or phrases. What would they say?
• How do you deal with pressure?
• How can you show to us that you are organised enough to tackle the course here at Hull York?
• Tell us about yourself.
• What is your greatest ambition in life, outside of the professional realm?
• Tell us about your family and your upbringing.
• What is your greatest weakness?
• What one attribute that you have would you single out as being particularly important to PAs?