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

Product Information

If there be any COVID-19 restrictions at the time of the SJT window, as critical workers your travel to UK test centres to sit the SJT as part of the DCT national recruitment process would be considered essential travel. Read each scenario and option thoroughly before answering the questions, begin to start using this during your SJT preparation.

What you may think is the most or least appropriate, may not necessarily be in one of the responses The SJT is a long exam, with lots of reading and a lot of questions to get through. It’s easy to accidentally run out of time so make sure you time yourself doing a practice paper. Honestly,Ididn'tgetmuchoutofthembarhowtogenerallyapproachtheexamintermsoftiming/strategyetc.Loadsofpeopleintheyearabovemeadvisedmenottogoonthem(onewhoactuallygotlike47thepreviousyearsaidtogoonasmanyaspossiblebutI'llignorethatforthesakeofthisargument ),butatthattime,IwasmoreconcernedaboutensuringIendedupinmytopchoicedeanerytolisten.IreallywishIhadlistened. Non-Maleficence –“do no harm”, consider if your actions are causing the patient harm and how to avoid thisWhen dealing with difficult colleagues, escalation to a senior tends to come after talking to the person directly (unless patient safety is being compromised) You are a trainee pharmacist working on a hospital ward. You are approached by a junior doctor, Marcella, who asks you to supply a new medicine that the consultant has just prescribed for a patient. You are aware that the medicine is not kept in the hospital pharmacy and the local formulary has not approved its use in the hospital. All applicants who apply to DCT in any given recruitment year are required to sit the SJT. There are no exceptions or exemptions to this requirement. Take your UKFP exam conveniently from home through OnVUE online proctoring. A live proctor will monitor you through the webcam on your workstation to provide a secure exam experience.

Remember there are different styles of questions in this subset, read the instructions carefully to make sure that you understand what you have to do.Appointment availability: Please be aware, each Pearson VUE centre has limited availability which is on a ‘first come, first served’ basis. You may not find availability at your nearest centre or your preferred date if you delay in booking.

Regardless of how much your chosen Universities consider the SJT section, it is critical that you do not neglect studying for it. As scoring highly in this section will keep as many options as possible open to you when applying. Typically 37 scenarios (19 multiple choice and 18 rating scenarios), each with several questions to respond toRemember that all scenarios are based on the GMC Medicine Guidelines - not what you believe. To score well you must understand these well, and the principles behind them. The dates of the SJT, timeline and booking information will be provided to applicants for the F2 Stand-alone programme nearer the time. The Situational Judgement Test (SJT) is an exam sat by final-year medical students who are applying to the UK Foundation Programme. It currently makes up 50% of your score for your application to the Foundation Programme, the other half comes from the educational performance measure (EPM) which is based on your academic performance at medical school (each school will calculate its EPM differently depending on the exam structure). It is scored on a scale from 0 to 50 points, which is then combined with the EPM score to make up a total score out of 100.