I was so nervous at the Notts interview; stuttering all over the place like a broken windscreen wiper and I found that I repeated similar points too often. He was a nice interviewer but looked bored after a bit lol
So an imminent rejection.
The interview was kind of informal, It was conducted in an IT suite where there's many other applicants being interviewed at the same time. Your questions also differ based on what interviewer you get and what there interest and specialities are.
I was asked a few more open-ended questions, but in the interview the questions I could remember are:
How did you find the uni so far?
What skills are important as a pharmacist?
There are many different areas of pharmacy like hospital etc, how would the skills of a hospital pharmacist differ from a pharmacist in a community?
What did you learn from your work exp?
What did you think of the diabetes app page that was sent to you: Any negatives about the app?
Since we're discussing diabetes, what do you know about diabetes? How would you manage the two different types?
You've mentioned that insulin is important in the regulation of diabetes, why do you think it's taken through the blood and not as a pill?
Are there any other ways of administering insulin?
Apart from injections and pills what other forms of drug delivery are there?
(forgot to mention inhalers, so he gave a hint) Asthmatics commonly use inhalers to alleviate symptoms, why do you think this is?
Are there any differences in doses between an inhaler and a pill? Why so? Why do you think a pill has a different dose?
That concludes our interview, are there any questions you'd like to ask? (spent 5 mins just randomly discussing things with him and interviewing him on why her chose to go down the research pathway
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Some other people I was speaking to got asked:
Why pharmacy? and why not medicine/dentistry? (Majority of people here today were ex medic and dental applicants on their gap year)
Draw penicillin (must've been in her p.s)
Division maths question
Substitution reaction
When would a drug be taken as a pill rather that intravenously?
Tell me what you know about aspirin
Draw an amino acid. Draw how two amino acids join.
Tell me what you know about proteins i.e structure etc.Good luck
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