If you have an upcoming medical interview, then you need to understand a few things very quickly to help you prepare well and create clear water between you and your competition.

You have to out think your rivals. If you can prepare your knowledge about the post and around your top skills and be prepared to sell your skills better, then you will be the better interviewee.

Be ready at your interview to deliver your arguments robustly. Good communication in a business setting follows certain rules. These communication rules are well known and have been evidenced over time, but what hasn’t always been thought through is how to adapt those rules to a given situation. You ought to use those rules to help you in which ever communication task you have - breaking bad news, a multidisciplinary meeting or your ST interview.

Signpost your statement by introducing the concepts you want to talk about in your initial blurb. It is really helpful to have some sort of structure to your answer. Your answer should then take about 2 minutes to deliver and should be finished with a summary statement which just reminds your interview panel of the main points and helps to tell them that it is their turn to do some talking.

Your ST interview should be just like a normal chat with a consultant with a few, unspoken rules. It should have the natural ebb and flow of a normal conversation, where the subject matter is something on which you are well versed.