Just done a week of work experience in cardiology

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Easy!

Either:



Easy!

To be fair I don't think they'd ask you any ridiculously outlandish questions about it. I mentioned seeing some total thyroidectomies and in preparation for interview just did some very basic research behind what the thyroid is, why it acts up, symptoms, how it effects the patient, what the surgery involves, side effects, etc. in case they asked. Nobody asked about it though.

But don't some universities have your PS with you and ask you questions about your PS?

Yeh. All my interviewers at all my interviews had my PS and just didn't ask any specific questions about the surgery I had saw. More about what I learnt from the whole experience and all that jazz. YMMV though.

What did you learn?

I've just seen a video from an interview for medicine at cambridge. Although I haven't yet studied much biology, so I might be a bit biased, but the interview seemed to be incredibly academic related. Is it only in cambridge the case or are most interviews like this. You've probably already seen which one I mean but in case not its this.

I learnt whatever the ISC medical interviews book told me I had learnt...




Most aren't like that, Oxbridge ones are quite abstract and sciencey though. They want to try and see you reason through problems that you don't necessarily know the answers to.

I learnt whatever the ISC medical interviews book told me I had learnt...




Most aren't like that, Oxbridge ones are quite abstract and sciencey though. They want to try and see you reason through problems that you don't necessarily know the answers to.

So, in your interviews i.e. Barts/Newcastle apart from the articles given, are there any other scientific knowledge/reasoning tested?

I found it very interesting and a doctor invited me to watch him do a PCI and pacemaker implantation. The thing is when I write all this in my PS, I'm scared I will be asked questions about it in my interview and I don't know that much so I would find it difficult talking about it. What do I do?

did u do the w/e at st.marys/hammersmith/charing cross hospital???

Well, yeh, but only because I bought stuff up. Barts was mostly all a very ethical discussion (thank god for AS Philosophy) surrounding the article while Newcastle's interviewers asked me some scientific questions about stem cells - how do they work, why do they work, what can they be used for, etc. But that's only because I bought them up in the first place in response to a "ethical issue in the news in the past 6 months" question.

oh its because those hosps did w/e this week and there were about 15 people doing it, i was one of them, so i thought you might have been there too!!

sorry!!