Transcript Recruitment: Application

Rachel Bentley & Anthony Higgins
Contents
About Us
 Recruitment
 STP Structure
 MSc
 Rotations
 Competencies & Assessments
 Specialism
 Elective

About Us

Rachel
 MA Maths (Aberd)
 MSc Medical Physics Computing (Aberd)
 Started September 2013
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Anthony
 MPhys Physics (Ebor)
 MSc Medical Physics (Leeds)
 Started September 2012
Recruitment

Application

Interviews

Location Selection
Recruitment: Application
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Application
 Form
 Psychometric test
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Confirmation of interview
 <2 weeks before first interview date
 Location: Birmingham
 => Expense
Recruitment: Interviews & Locations
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“Speed Dating”
○ Fresh start at each
table
○ Difficult to put
yourself across
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Location
 First Choice??
Station Area Covered
General aptitude for science
1
and understanding of scientific
services in society
Specialism specific questions
2
to assess scientific knowledge
and skill
Specialism specific questions
3
to assess scientific knowledge
and skill
Suitability for the training,
4
professionalism and
leadership potential
STP Structure

Compared with IPEM
 Structure makes sense: learn on the job
instead of cramming for exams and
forgetting
MSc
 Rotations

MSc Clinical Sciences (Medical
Physics)

Location: Newcastle
 Find short-term accommodation or commute
 Provide accommodation? Different
locations?
 Opportunity to see another trust
MSc Clinical Sciences (Medical
Physics)

Medical Physics teaching excellent
 Taught by physicists
 Lots of hands-on learning & tutorials

Professional Practice needs to be
relevant to physicists
 Reflect that we have very little patient
exposure
 Taught by physicists? Not GPs
MSc Clinical Sciences (Medical
Physics)
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Location: King’s College London
 Told of location very last-minute
 Find short-term accommodation or commute
MSc Clinical Sciences (Medical
Physics)

Teaching good
 Taught by physicists
 Long history of IPEM-accredited degree
 Taught as single block

Syllabus very superficial
 1 lecture in ultrasound, 2 in MRI
 Compared to 20+ in Leeds
Rotations

Not taken as four 3-month blocks
Rotations
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Imaging with
Ionising Radiation (3
months)
Radiation Safety
(3 months)
Radiotherapy
Physics (3 months)
Imaging with Nonionising Radiation
(3 months)
Diagnostic Radiology
(9 weeks)
 Radiation Protection
(6 weeks)
 Nuclear Medicine
(10 weeks)
 Radiotherapy (12
weeks)
 Ultrasound (5 weeks)
 UV/Lasers (3 weeks)
 MRI (6 weeks)
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Rotations
Not taken as four 3-month blocks
 First “year” takes approximately 15
months
 Different staff to train and assess
 Use of project-style work
 Evidence
 Feedback

Competencies and Assessments

Some incredibly difficult to do
 OCEs
 CBDs
 Professional Practice

Multiple competencies with single
projects
Specialism

Chosen towards the end of rotations

Incorporates MSc project
Elective
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Rehabilitation engineering

4-week project