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The Situational Judgement Test at a Glance
About This Book
The Situational Judgement Test at a Glance
The at a Glance series is popular among medical students and junior doctors for its concise and simple approach and excellent illustrations.
Each bite-sized chapter features colour diagrams and tip boxes, accompanied by explanatory text. Covering a wide range of topics, books in the at a Glance series are ideal as introductory subject texts or for revision purposes, and are useful throughout medical school and beyond.
Everything you need to know about The Situational Judgement Test⌠at a Glance!
The Situational Judgement Test at a Glance provides a sound introduction to the SJT and details ways you can prepare before the assessment. It includes worked case examples based on real-life scenarios which have been reviewed by experienced clinicians and examiners. The book draws out key aspects of professional practice relevant to the role of a junior doctor. This is based on the nine domains as outlined by the ISFP (Improving Selection to Foundation Programme), who detailed the behaviours necessary to be a competent Foundation Doctor.
The overall aim of The Situational Judgement Test at a Glance is not to spoon feed hundreds of practice questions or reams of guidelines, but to steer you towards a logical way of approaching best medical practice â and therefore the SJT â with many examples of doctors' personal experiences along the way.
Challenging scenarios are analysed using guidelines from the General Medical Council and research interviews with patients, lab staff and healthcare professionals. All examples in the book are worked in a test-style apparatus, with questions on one side and detailed answers over the page so you can understand the reasoning behind the material.
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Introduction
Mike, GP âRecognise where your personality is and try to understand what you are like and how you get job satisfaction; in the end work in that area ⌠youâll feel like youâre under far less pressure if you do thatâ
- Work with colleagues who might behave differently to you.
- Communicate effectively with team members, patients and their families.
- Evaluate your response to working under pressure.
- Work out how to best define your priorities.
- Interpret feedback in relation to your performance.
- Monitor your well-being at work.
- Perform your best in selection processes: from the SJT through to specialty training.
Personality
Professionalism
- If you are high on the extraversion scale, you might find it more difficult to rein yourself in on social networking sites and resist talking in an unguarded way.
- Conversely, if you are low on this scale, you might find it harder to challenge the actions of others and speak out when you see bad practice.
- If you are highly conscientious, you might find it easier to maintain punctuality.
- If you are highly neurotic, you might find it particularly hard to switch off from stressful days.
Pressures and Prioritisation
- Being highly conscientious and only mildly neurotic will make it easier to work under pressure and remain calm and in control.
- If you are highly open to new experiences, you will have an advantage when it comes to managing rapidly changing situations.
- Conversely, when following protocols, being low on openness may stand you in good stead.
- If you are high in agreeableness you may tend to seek help from others naturally; a key factor in some of the SJT questions.
Effective Communication and Patient Focus
- Introverts may find relating to patientsâ concerns a more difficult aspect of the FY1 role.
- If you are highly neurotic you must remember not to relay your anxieties to the patient; having confidence in your skills as a doctor is an important aspect of the doctorâpatient relationship.
- Being highly agreeable lends itself to good communication with relatives; if you are at the other end of the scale, you may have to work harder to empathise with others.
Teamwork
- If you tend to âthink outside the boxâ when problems occur, your openness to experience may puzzle or even frustrate your more cautious colleagues.
- If you are high in agreeableness, you may find your priority is to promote harmony within your team. This may also mean that you find it more difficult to challenge colleagues who do not pull their weight.
- Being high in conscientiousness will be appreciated by your colleagues
How Is This Relevant?
Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Professionalism
- 3 Pressures and prioritising
- 4 Effective communication
- 5 Patient focus
- 6 Effective teamwork
- 7 SJT practice material
- 8 Answers
- 9 References
- Index
- End User License Agreement