Type of questions asked in Hospital interview?

[H_M_1]

Hi everyone. I came across this site by a quick Google search. I am a 3rd year Pharmacy student, at Manchester. I was really interested in doing a Pre-reg place at hospital. I really don't care about the pay, just seeing patients happy would make my day. What sort of interview questions would be asked in a typical hospital interview, for a summer placement and Pre-reg interview? Thanks a lot.

[Nik]

Summer interview is the basics - why hospital, why this hospital, what do you like/dislike at uni, hobbies, maybe a basic clinical question, where do you see yourself in 5 years etc.
Pre-reg is inevitably a bit trickier - there will be more clinical questions, you may get a drug chart to go through just before the interview, they will ask why hosp and specifically why this hosp, they could ask about agenda for change, recent news relating to hospital pharmacy, role of NICE, NPSA etc. One other common group of questions include scenario type questions, where they would ask about what you would do in certain situations. There are a number of threads on the forum about summer placements and pre-reg placements in hospital. Money in pre-reg is very good - typically around 20k. I also presume you have heard of Pharmalife ? Later in the 3rd year you will receive a booklet detailing each hosp which takes on pre-regs, according to region.

[Asterix]

Not many places perform summer placement interviews as such these days but Nik has covered the potential questions.

As for pre-reg, some places will stick to questions such as, what will you bring to the team, a clinical question, your previous experience, why hospital, what can you add to the team etc

As NIK said pharmalife has a lot information, but they have a website you might want to browse.

[H_M_1]

Thanks guys, I just can't wait to finish uni and work. At first, I hated hospital pharmacy, but we've started clinical tutorials, and hospital pharmacy seems very interesting to me.

[EroThraX]

I don't know where you are based or thinking of basing yourself but I thought I would post how the South East Region interviews were this year.

The interview panels were made up of 3 interviewers possibly from hospitals you have applied to, possibly not and each interviewer had 3 Questions each for a total of 9 questions.

The questions as best as I can remember which they asked were:

Why Hospital Pharmacy?
What will you as a person bring to the hospital?
Talk about a recent pharmacy news items with the potential of harming the public. (Nurofen plus in the news at the time)
A patient has been prescribed metronidazole, what are the questions you would ask or what things would you check before it is given to the patient?
Do you know the role of the hospital pharmacy technician in the pre-registration year and what is it?
Talk about a common medicine you may encounter and have to counsel patients on and why.
Why did you choose these particular hospitals?
What position in a team would you be least comfortable in?
Describe a situation where you recognised you were wrong or made a mistake and what you did to rectify this and to help prevent yourself from doing it again.

Following this there was a 20 minute calculation test consisting of 5 multiple choice questions, basic stuff such as number of tablets to give for a months supply of alternating dose and time taken for a particular dose of medicine to be eliminated from a person of a certain weight.

I hope this helps you in some way or another.

[H_M_1]

I don't know where you are based or thinking of basing yourself but I thought I would post how the South East Region interviews were this year.

The interview panels were made up of 3 interviewers possibly from hospitals you have applied to, possibly not and each interviewer had 3 Questions each for a total of 9 questions.

The questions as best as I can remember which they asked were:

Why Hospital Pharmacy?
What will you as a person bring to the hospital?
Talk about a recent pharmacy news items with the potential of harming the public. (Nurofen plus in the news at the time)
A patient has been prescribed metronidazole, what are the questions you would ask or what things would you check before it is given to the patient?
Do you know the role of the hospital pharmacy technician in the pre-registration year and what is it?
Talk about a common medicine you may encounter and have to counsel patients on and why.
Why did you choose these particular hospitals?
What position in a team would you be least comfortable in?
Describe a situation where you recognised you were wrong or made a mistake and what you did to rectify this and to help prevent yourself from doing it again.

Following this there was a 20 minute calculation test consisting of 5 multiple choice questions, basic stuff such as number of tablets to give for a months supply of alternating dose and time taken for a particular dose of medicine to be eliminated from a person of a certain weight.

I hope this helps you in some way or another.

Awesome, thanks, should hopefully be similar to North West.

[aisha]

Hi all,

Has any one had experience with pre reg interview in the South Central region. I have an interview in milton keynes next week. Their interview consists of 20 minutes written short answer questions and 20 minute interview by a panel of three. Does any one know what the short questions might be, I am assuming there might be calculations. I really appreciate your thoughts and suggestions.

By the way, I did search the net and this site for information. But i could not find any

Thanks in advance.