RONC Interview

Can you please tell us about yourself and your progression so far?

What is your five year plan? 10 year plan?

How will you manage the challenges of this role?

What is your view on teaching?

Tell us about your community involvement

Describe yourself in five words.

How would people describe your strengths?

How would people describe your weaknesses?

Can you give us an example of a goal you have reached?

What clinical skills can you bring to this role?

What are you research interests?

What is your teaching experience and style?

What are your attributes/ limitations?

What is your personal learning style?

Why should we give you this job?

What will you bring to this job

Why do you want this job?

What attracts you to work at ICON?

Why do you want to do radiation oncology?

What is the role of a radiation oncologist?

What will you contribute to the radiation oncology faculty

What do you know about the training program?

Is there a special population you will care for?

What will you do if you don’t get this job?

How do you feel about rural rotations?

Why should we not take someone more senior?

What are some challenges of a being a registrar?

How have you prepared to be a RO reg?

Was there an event that made you want to do RO?

What are the responsibilities of the physician to the wider community?

How do you keep abreast with current knowledge?

What is a leadership role and why you committed your time to this?

What are your priorities in the job?

Can you give an example of a time when you work in a team that worked well?

Can you give an example of a time when you worked in a team that didn’t work well?

Can you tell us about how you would manage this conflict: disagreement with senior

How would you manage an unreasonable family request?

How do you deal with dependents and substitute decision makers that you are concerned of coercion?

When do you have to break bad news and how did you do it?

A situation arises who you’ve given incorrect Rx to a patient, how to you manage this?

JMO prescribes the wrong medication – what would you do?

What are techniques to improve patient compliance?

what would you do if a patient that has just started their radiotherapy wants to stop his/her treatment?

What has been the most challenging or difficult situation for you?

Tell us about a time when you initiated a new initiative

Tell us about a time when you delved to the bottom of a complex problem

Tell us about a time when you had a conflict with a supervisor and what did you do?

What was the most rewarding patient interaction you remember?

Tell us about a time when you were really stressed and what did you do?

Tell us about a time when you took a calculated risk?

Tell us a time when you were angry or upset in the workplace and how did people around you react?

Tell us about a time when you were assigned a difficult project with unclear tasks?

A situation where someone didn’t like you? What did you do?

What is a mistake you learnt from?

What types of patients do you find most frustrating to deal with?

Tell us about a time when you were involved in a conflict?

When was a valuable clinical opportunity and how did you use this?

When have you gone above and beyond?

What have you done to improve your communication skills?

When have you supervised someone? What was challenging?

A senior colleague approves a plan that isn’t correct and a patient has already started RT

Worse thing you have done?

What is the best course you’ve attended and why?

Two RMOs, one not pulling their weight. One is getting stressed, how will you manage?

What is your understanding of ethical medical practice?

What is your understanding of professionalism?

What is your understanding of Quality of Life and how can a rad onc improve this?

What is your understanding of clinical governance?

What is your understanding of Quality control in Radiation Oncology

Difference between palliative radiotherapy and other

Patient arrives to clinic with CTB confirming brain mets, what do you do?

How would you receive feedback?

What is a negative feedback you received, and what did you do with it?

How do you guage performance?

What are clinical indicators?

What has been the biggest technological advancement in RO in the last 10 years?

What is the future for Rad Onc?

Do you think RO should prescribe chemo?

What is your understanding of the rad onc MDT? Who makes up the team

Tell us about a time when you displayed excellent clinical skills

How do you manage your time?

Tell us about your experience with rural patients?

What are contentious issues in RO?

Tell us about a research article you have read that has changed your practice?

Tell us about your research work?

How would you explain EBM and meta-analysis to a patient?

Is research important during training?

Unlimited money to throw into research, what would you do?

When have you used EBM to make a decision?

What qualities do you bring to the training program?

Have you ever had a conflict with a consultant and how did you handle it?

A patient undergoing breast treatment wishes to stop treatment as she’s worried about Covid. What do you do?

What is your approach when you disagree with a treatment plan proposed by a senior?

How to manage a deteriorating chemo Rad patient?

Tell us about a recent paper you read & what you learnt from it?

When have you been involved in an innovative idea?

What quality improvement activities have you been involved in?

Describe an adverse outcome you’ve been involved with?

What issues do you see facing radiation oncology in the next 10 years?

How would nurses describe you? What about you frustrates them?