SJT: Pass the Situational Judgement Test: A Guide for Medical Students, 1e

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Make sure that you treat responses independently, you should make a judgement per response, not comparing them to each other - this leads to mistakes!

D. Use Google Translate to change the patient information leaflet into the patient’s native language and use this instead of verbally counselling them; Additionally, your SJT score is the only score that you cannot hide behind your UCAT average as it is stated as a separate “banding score” alongside your UCAT total or average numerical score. The overriding theme of this scenario is protecting the identity and anonymity of patients. There are two factors to consider here; the location in which the conversation has taken place, as well as the students’ actual conversation regarding the patient. The fact that Mark has anonymised the patient to only his initials is a good way of protecting the patient. The following questions and answers are provided as examples only and are included to give you an idea of the types of question that will be asked during the SJT. Please note that these exact questions will not be asked during the assessment. Example question 1: Rank five question

Accurately assesses, takes into account and is sensitive to the person’s current and longer-term expectations, needs, situation and their wider social circumstances Read each scenario and option thoroughly before answering the questions, begin to start using this during your SJT preparation. A) Explain to the family that the treatment plan has been carefully developed by the medical team and that additional tests and procedures are not necessary. That being said, when answering questions in the SJT, you need to answer with how you should respond according to Good Medical Practice, which may not always match up with what you see in reality! Read the question! At present, there is a limited number of pharmacy-specific model questions available for candidates to use as part of their SJT preparation. As a result, you may want to look at online resources for medical and dentistry students. Although these may provide insight into the possible structure of SJT questions, they are not pharmacy specific and should therefore be used as a guide only.

You are a medical student who is sitting in on an obstetric and gynaecology clinic during your fifth year rotations. Whilst the consultant is outside taking a call, a pregnant patient asks you for advice on whether to have a natural childbirth or a c-section. Option B is the most appropriate action, as having a translator able to correctly translate your instructions to the patient will minimise risk to the patient and give them the best chance of taking their medication correctly. Timing is the most important in this section - make sure that you pace yourself. Use different milestones throughout the test to ensure that you always know roughly how you are doing.Tutorial (5 minutes) – an optional tutorial is available to show you how to navigate around the computer-based test This is one that is very easy to forget when taking the SJT. The scenarios will often purposely give limited information and it’s always tempting to make assumptions about the situation when answering them – don’t do this, the question should always be answered only using the information given in the scenario. Within each scenario, each rating can be used more than once or not at all, e.g. everything could be a very appropriate thing to do. For each question, you should try to determine which attribute(s) is being assessed, then choose the responses that best demonstrate these;

Time management – you have on average two minutes per question, so you should not dwell on a single question for too long. It is possible to skip a question and return to it at a later point, this will ensure you are no spending too much time on single question;Weallsortagotthesame-ishscores(notreallybutyougetthepoint)andthankfullyweallgotintoourtopchoicedeanerieswithdecentjobs/hospitals,butoneofushadamuchlighterwalletattheendofit... Coping with pressure – knowing when to seek help, acting within your competence, remaining calm in difficult situations The correct responses demonstrate that you would take responsibility and show leadership by personally explaining to a member of your multiprofessional team that the medicine is not available ( option C), further explore why the specific medicine is needed ( option D), before taking all the relevant information to the senior pharmacist to explore next steps ( option H).