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SJT-Confidentiality
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Situational Judgement Question Bank 1 Instructions
Use this question bank to practice Situational Judgement questions.
You will be presented by a set of hypothetical scenarios based in a clinical or educational setting and may involve a student or clinician at their center. You will be asked to make judgments as to the appropriateness or the importance of a series of statements in response to the scenario.
It is in your best interest to answer all questions as there is no penalty for guessing. All unanswered questions will be scored as incorrect.
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Robert is a 4th year medical student on his paediatric rotation. Today, he is shadowing Dr Patel, a consultant immunologist. One of Dr Patel’s patients is a six-month-old baby who has recently been diagnosed with a very rare condition called FOXN1 Deficiency. It is a condition which weakens the immune system and there have only been nine reported cases ever. Robert wants to share the case with other medical students but does not want to breach confidentiality.
How appropriate are each of the following responses by Robert in this situation?
Explanation
The correct answer is D.
As this is a very rare condition, just removing the patient’s name, age and address is unlikely to sufficiently anonymise the patient’s information. This is outlined in the GMC’s guidelines which states: “The Information Commissioner’s Office anonymisation code of practice (ICO code) considers data to be anonymised if it does not itself identify any individual, and if it is unlikely to allow any individual to be identified through its combination with other data. Simply removing the patient’s name, age, address or other personal identifiers is unlikely to be enough to anonymise information to this standard.” (GMC Confidentiality Guidelines, p39). Therefore, this action would breach patient confidentiality and so would be very inappropriate.
Top Tip: When reading dense stems, you can safely ignore most of the information e.g. the specific condition. You should try scanning for the key points in the scenario.