Emergency medicine MO interview tips

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Clinical questions, approach to common emergency conditions, e.g.,

  • Chest pain.

  • DKA.

  • Common poisons.

  • Psychotic patient (including aggressive patient, can become a conflict question).

  • Depending on the EC, they might include some common paeds emergency med cases or trauma cases.

  • Questions about yourself come up quite a bit, probably because it is usually a pretty high-stress environment, so prepare some good answers before-hand:

  • Managing workplace conflict.

  • Hierarchy/structure of a resus team - who does what, why is that important.

  • Strengths and weaknesses, how you cope with stress.

And then some of the general questions:

  • Cost saving
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