This is the final test. After years of portfolio preparation and logbook building, this is the last hurdle!

Virtual interview

General advice:

• There is no scoring for appearance, but dressing appropriately and grooming yourself for an interview​ gives interviewers a good impression of you and can make the difference in subjective components of the interview

• Prepare well in advance, both physically and mentally

• Time yourself when practising, overestimate the amount of time you need slightly

• Rest well the day before - eat well, do something relaxing, sleep early the night before your interview

• Book the interview as soon as they are announced - favourable slots get taken VERY QUICKLY!

After portfolio validation and scoring, highest scoring candidates will be shortlisted for interview

• Total 30 minutes interview on Microsoft Teams

  • 10 minutes clinical

  • 10 minutes communication (consent/ phone the boss)

  • 10 minutes structured interview (audit/ QI/ teaching/ management/ research)

Scoring​

• Structured interview - 20%​

• Clinical scenario - 25%

• OSCE consent - 15%

• OSCE communication - 15%

• Portfolio - 25%

2-3 questions about but not limited to:

• Audit​

• Research

• Management and leadership

• Teaching

• Ethics

• Risk management

As an opener, interviewers may ask you "Why do you want train in Plastic Surgery?"​

• This question is not scored, so save time with having a quick succinct answer​

Overall, this station ​only permits approximately 3 minutes per question on average

Therefore, try to fit your answer comfortably within 2.5 minutes during practice

Viva-style discussion of management of 2-3 clinical cases relevant to plastic surgery

Tested at the level of a day 1 registrar

Common topics can include, but are not limited to:

• Skin cancer and reconstruction​

• Burn injuries

• Hand trauma

• Plastic surgery emergencies - necrotising fasciitis or threatened flap

Consent station

• Aim to complete this in 3-3.5 minutes

• One of the interviewers will be a simulated patient

• Do it as if you would in normal clinical practice

• Remember to discuss procedure, benefits, risks and leave time for questions 

Call the boss station

• You are given the question at the start of the station - the more time you take  to understand the scenario​​​​​​​, the less time you have to call the boss

• It is likely a scenario in the middle of the night where you are calling the consultant as a registrar to ask him to come in or to make him aware of a case

• Communicate the salient points in a structured manner