The Consultant Interview Master Workbook: The Complete Evidence-Based Guide to Winning a Consultant Post

They already believe you can operate. The interview is about everything else.

The consultant interview is the single assessment that decides where, and how, a doctor will practise for the next two or three decades - and it is almost never formally taught. Candidates arrive with a decade of clinical evidence and prepare on hearsay.

This workbook replaces hearsay with method. Written by surgeons who have sat on both sides of the Advisory Appointment Committee table, it decodes how the panel is built, how marks are actually awarded, and what separates a consultant-level answer from a trainee-level one. Weak and strong answers appear side by side with the panel's own scoring commentary.

It covers the whole journey: the application and CV, the pre-interview visit, the presentation, the governance, service-leadership, professionalism and clinical-judgement stations, delivery on the day, and the first ninety days in post.

Professor Mohamed A. Imam MD, PhD, FRCS (Tr & Orth) is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in the upper limb at the Rowley Bristow Orthopaedic Centre, Surrey, and Director of Research and Development at Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.