Interview with Dr. Pandiaraja Jayabal

What are your strengths?

Never give up.

May I know your weaknesses?

Decision making.

What are your goals?

I want to do lot of research work in gastrointestinal surgery.

Where do you want to be in next 5 years time?

Want to achieve highest position as scientist in medical fraternity.

What 3 positive words would your colleagues/friends say about you?

Hardworking, never give up, consistency.

Tell me about a time when something went well?

Post graduate period.

What is your greatest achievement?

Got young medical achiever award from IERP 2018 for inventions in medical sciences.

What & who motivates you?

Desire to achieve and my daughter, wife and mother.

What do you want to develop about yourself?

Skill to change difficult situation.

How do you handle pressure/stress?

Most of the time I will relax for some time and analysis the situation completely, then I will take decision.

What do you like to do outside of work?

Gardening.

What’s unique about you?

Analysis and correlation of scientific parameters.

Tell me about how a professional qualification you have obtained has helped you personally?

I feel education give lot of courage and power in personal life. My professional qualification changed my economical and personal life drastically.

Tell me about a significant crisis you have faced?

Getting an undergraduate and post graduate seat.

How do you resolve conflict in the groups or teams that you are a part of?

I used to prefer open discussion and different opinion from all group members and incorporate into group idea. It usually resolves conflict in the group.

Tell me about a time when you changed your priorities to meet others’ expectations?

After birth of my daughter.

What significant problems have you faced in the last year?

Setting up a private clinic.

Tell me how you organize your work and schedule your time?

First I will analysis what is the target and end point before planning. Later I will plan the resources, available time and end point results. Based on that I will plan and schedule my work.

Describe a situation you were involved in that required a multi-dimensional communication strategy?

Attending national and international conference.

Give an example of a difficult or sensitive situation that required extensive communication?

Breaking bad news particularly, disclosure of advanced disease and malignancy.

What two or three accomplishments have given you the most satisfaction? Why?

  1. Getting young medical achiever award.
  2. Got gold medal in urology.
  3. Medical science inventions.

Describe a time when you led or motivated others?

During my teaching time (As Senior resident).

Describe a situation where you were successful in getting people to work together effectively?

Coordination and arrangement for free medical services, particularly poor and economically unstable patients.

Describe a situation in which you were a member (not a leader) of a team and a conflict arose within the team. What did you do?

I used to discuss the problem and follow leader comments.

Tell me about a time when you were able to change someone’s view point significantly?

Even though I am a surgeon, I trained in palliative care as one of the specialty.  I tried to change general population perceptive related to palliative care. I make them understand palliative care should be provided when the day we made diagnosis rather than at end of disease and early diagnosis make more curative option rather than palliative care.

Tell me about a time when you were asked to do something that you disagreed with?

My practice is ethical practice. If someone asked me to do unethical practice and I disagreed.

What your researchers should develop in research?

I want to do my researchers to do research on early detected of malignancy before metastasis occur and I want to do research pattern of spread of malignancy.

What are the qualities of an ideal student / learner?

An ideal student should learn and teach us.

What are the qualities of an ideal teacher?

An ideal teacher should teach and learn.

Which stage of education for a child is important?

I think every stage of education for a child is important, but more important is character building.

Does nationalism has any impact in learning process?

Yes.

Does one education system suit for all set of students across the world?

No. Different kind of education system need across the globe depends on the nature of people and productivity of that particular population.

How to initiate problem based learning?

I think simulation is the best way to teach problem based learning. We should allow the candidate to think different aspect to solve the problem.

What is the goal of education?

Education should allow the candidate to think independently.

What is the root cause of existing scenario of choosing education as an earning source than learning source?

I think pattern of education and system of education made like this.

How to define a success?

Success is a state of victory after a difficult time.

How to handle failure?

Always think failure is not permanent, it is a state to test your hidden potential.

Does a person daily routine has an impact in learning?

Yes, habit makes lot of changes in learning.

Finally, what do you suggest the young/upcoming researchers?

Try hard even after got defeated, there is always a way to rise.

You may also like...