A consultant-led panel: the clinical scenario, patient safety, audit and why the NHS.
Start a session with Dr Hughes →“You're the only doctor on the ward at night and two patients deteriorate. Talk us through it.”
Every session ends with a written report scored on these three axes, with the transcript attached so you can see what earned each mark.
Answers with a beginning, middle and end — a situation, what you did and what you learned — and clinical scenarios talked through in order rather than as a list of everything you might do.
Assessing and prioritising sick patients safely (ABCDE, escalating to a senior early), handling errors with honesty and incident reporting, and knowing the limits of your competence.
Knowing how the NHS and GMC Good Medical Practice expect a doctor to work — audit and quality improvement, teaching, teamwork, raising concerns — and a credible plan for settling into the NHS.