Interview notes

Notes for GUMSAA

✓ Talking to someone who has been diagnosed with terminal illness.
✓ Describe a situation/event/book/person that has impacted your life and why this
✓ Name three strength and three weaknesses.
✓ Why do you want to be a doctor?
✓ Complete a task using leadership skills.
✓ Conflict management.
✓ Migration crisis in Europe.
✓ Bullying in the workforce.
✓ Aboriginal healthcare. First Peoples.
✓ Ageing people in the population.
✓ Voluntary euthanasia.
✓ Time management.
✓ Facebook posts.

Notes from Skype Interviews

⁃ When it’s an emotionally charged situation, you can involve a third party.
⁃ Defect responsibility when a big choice is involved.
⁃ Can ask questions about the questions.
⁃ Consider all possibilities: (Your grandmother lives alone and is fiercely
independent. Recently however, she has become quite ill, and your mother is worried
that she is unable to look after herself anymore. Your grandmother however, flatly
refuses to live in a nursing home. Your mother then decides that it would be best for her
if she came and lived with the family instead. Your father however, is resolutely against
this idea. How might you discuss this with your father?) Child can have a say by being
‘selfish.’
⁃ When a problem is admitted, support them and try to move towards a solution.
But commending is a really good start.
⁃ If something is a once off, maybe don’t talk to authorities straight away.
⁃ Acknowledging bias is good.
⁃ Trying to find reasons behind things is good!
⁃ When some sort of law is being broken, first talk with the party involved in the
transgression to check if they are aware. Don’t just assume. Talk with them first, give
them a chance, then consider actually officially reporting them (if consequence of report
is not so bad, probably go ahead).
⁃ Rural relocation solutions (rural schools, funding for trips home, more incentives,
infrastructure for relocation of families/larger groups) and rural stuff in general
⁃ When a decline in behaviour is observed, perhaps a hard time has come upon
that particular person. There is probably a reason. DON’T ASSUME.

Things to do
⁃ Look up GU indigenous health stuff (first nation, closing the gap)
⁃ Read GU website in general
⁃ AMA website for current medical issues
⁃ Why med (30 seconds)
⁃ Ethical scenarios

Breaking Bad News

S - Setting
P - Perception of patient (what do you know, correct wrong info, etc)
I - Invitation, does the patient want to talk/know more
K - Knowledge, give it to them! Slowly, and clearly, warning of bad news
E - Emotion through empathy
S - Strategy and summary

Connect - build report

Focus on the issue
Relieved distress
Enable coping
Deciding next steps