What is your 'Most Annoying Medical admissions Interview...ever!'?

I don't know Helenia, I think that if it was approached carefully and politely then it might not seem at all arrogant, and certainly not rude. It is his future on the line, and he might have to have paid quite a lot to travel to the interview and it's just plain rude of interviewers to blatantly ignore a candidate.

On the other hand, it could even sound good; it shows determination, assertiveness and confidence, all of which a doctor needs. All my opinion, of course.

Oh God ... yes... way too many bad stories to tell, but this was one of the worst ones, and it happened at my Dundee MMI:

I had a piece of card with different coloured shapes on it arranged in a specific manner. I had to describe the position of the shapes to the interviewer ... something like this happened

"Ok so, put the triangle in the bottom left corner of the page."
"The triangle?"
"Yes, the yellow triangle."
"Uuuh sorry, but what's a triangle?"
"It has three sides ... it's kind of pointy like?"
"Uuuh ok ..."
"Ok so take the yellow triangle and put--"
"Yellow? What's yellow?"
"It's a colour? You know, like the sun? It gives us light and stuff ... ?"
"This is Scotland, we don't get much sun around here..."
"Um ok well let's move on then? Do you see the little purple rectangle?"
"Pur-"
"TIME'S UP!!!! Next station!!!"
"... **** me."

Obviously they were being dense on purpose but still ...

Don't feel too bad about it, Dundonians often present that way.

On the other hand, it could even sound good; it shows determination, assertiveness and confidence, all of which a doctor needs. All my opinion, of course.

Oh God ... yes... way too many bad stories to tell, but this was one of the worst ones, and it happened at my Dundee MMI:

I had a piece of card with different coloured shapes on it arranged in a specific manner. I had to describe the position of the shapes to the interviewer ... something like this happened

"Ok so, put the triangle in the bottom left corner of the page."
"The triangle?"
"Yes, the yellow triangle."
"Uuuh sorry, but what's a triangle?"
"It has three sides ... it's kind of pointy like?"
"Uuuh ok ..."
"Ok so take the yellow triangle and put--"
"Yellow? What's yellow?"
"It's a colour? You know, like the sun? It gives us light and stuff ... ?"
"This is Scotland, we don't get much sun around here..."
"Um ok well let's move on then? Do you see the little purple rectangle?"
"Pur-"
"TIME'S UP!!!! Next station!!!"
"... **** me."

Obviously they were being dense on purpose but still ...

No... Maybe I'm lucky, but all of my interviewers were very professional. There was one interviewer at Manchester who was very blatantly rude during the MMI, but us candidates discussed it afterwards and agreed that it must have been to pressure us.

This Chinese doctor walked me from the waiting room to the interview room, and whilst he was walking me down he was being really nice and asking how the tour was etc. Then the interview starts, and first is a transplant surgeon asking me questions and he's really nice and encouraging. He said some of my answers were very good and I was thinking outside the box, and they were pretty standard questions as well tbh. Then it's the Chinese doctors turn and I think to myself "oh, this guy seemed really nice, I'll just ace his questions and then I'm in-jobs a good 'un". But he jumps straight in:
"How would you persuade a fellow Muslim that the theory of evolution is correct?
"Ermm.. scientific evidence and stuff...?"
"Like what?"
"Fossil records and genome comparisons"
"And?"
"Sorry, I don't know"
"Hmm..ok, let's move on. You must have been asleep in your Biology lessons!"
*nervous laugh* "Haha, yeah that's right" (I started laughing very hard at his joke which I didn't find funny)
"Ok, so your friend has the answers for your medical final exam what would you do?"
*Give an answer talking about integrity and professionalism yet compassion and love for my colleague, and how I would not look at the answers*
"But reeallly?...Are you sure you wouldn't have a look?"
"Yes, I definitely wouldn't"
"Really? I'm sure if I was a medical student, I'd have a hard time not looking"
"To be honest, in the situation I might be tempted to have a good look through the answers"
"That's not very good is it?! What happened to honesty?"

Seriously, I think he found it funny to toy with me like that

Wow lol.. did you get an offer in the end? If you hadn't said the last bit I think there might've been a chance!

This Chinese doctor walked me from the waiting room to the interview room, and whilst he was walking me down he was being really nice and asking how the tour was etc. Then the interview starts, and first is a transplant surgeon asking me questions and he's really nice and encouraging. He said some of my answers were very good and I was thinking outside the box, and they were pretty standard questions as well tbh. Then it's the Chinese doctors turn and I think to myself "oh, this guy seemed really nice, I'll just ace his questions and then I'm in-jobs a good 'un". But he jumps straight in:
"How would you persuade a fellow Muslim that the theory of evolution is correct?
"Ermm.. scientific evidence and stuff...?"
"Like what?"
"Fossil records and genome comparisons"
"And?"
"Sorry, I don't know"
"Hmm..ok, let's move on. You must have been asleep in your Biology lessons!"
*nervous laugh* "Haha, yeah that's right" (I started laughing very hard at his joke which I didn't find funny)
"Ok, so your friend has the answers for your medical final exam what would you do?"
*Give an answer talking about integrity and professionalism yet compassion and love for my colleague, and how I would not look at the answers*
"But reeallly?...Are you sure you wouldn't have a look?"
"Yes, I definitely wouldn't"
"Really? I'm sure if I was a medical student, I'd have a hard time not looking"
"To be honest, in the situation I might be tempted to have a good look through the answers"
"That's not very good is it?! What happened to honesty?"

Seriously, I think he found it funny to toy with me like that

Oh Gosh! If i was ever asked questions like that, i would have no idea as to what to say. That first question was very harsh, i would've just been like "errrmm, errmm..next question please!" And the chinese doctor sounds funny, hahaha

He was a nice guy deep down I think, it was just an act to put me under pressure. Do you know Mr Raftery who does some talks for soams, he was the other interviewer!

Just googled him, yeah i know who he is.
He gave us some good hint and tips during his talk a few months back
Thanks for letting me know.

Funnily enough I did get an offer, it was my only offer as well!
But then Sheffield do have a high interview to offer ratio

Congrats on the offer.
Just curious, were you in SOAMS too? And if you don't mind me asking, what other unis did you apply too?

Yep, I'm a year 13 in soams. I'm guessing your a y12 soams student? Applied to oxford, bristol, notts and sheff obviously

Oh God ... yes... way too many bad stories to tell, but this was one of the worst ones, and it happened at my Dundee MMI:

I had a piece of card with different coloured shapes on it arranged in a specific manner. I had to describe the position of the shapes to the interviewer ... something like this happened

"Ok so, put the triangle in the bottom left corner of the page."
"The triangle?"
"Yes, the yellow triangle."
"Uuuh sorry, but what's a triangle?"
"It has three sides ... it's kind of pointy like?"
"Uuuh ok ..."
"Ok so take the yellow triangle and put--"
"Yellow? What's yellow?"
"It's a colour? You know, like the sun? It gives us light and stuff ... ?"
"This is Scotland, we don't get much sun around here..."
"Um ok well let's move on then? Do you see the little purple rectangle?"
"Pur-"
"TIME'S UP!!!! Next station!!!"
"... **** me."

Obviously they were being dense on purpose but still ...

I found my St.Andrews interview very annoying, the interviewers spent more or less the whole interview asking me how great I think their course is. It was definitely a waste of 7 hours travel for a 20 minute interview in which they were supposed to assess my suitability for the course. I know they assess your communication skills etc... throughout the interview but they seemed very self-absorbed and overly concerned with image