Medicine Interviews 2017

Sooo stressed preparing for interview. There's so much to do?!

Sooo stressed preparing for interview. There's so much to do?!

Has anyone heard from QUB?


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What separates those that get offers and those that don't?

preparation

Does anyone know if you have to introduce yourself, so you would say "hello my name is and im x" ?

What type of preparation?

YOu've got to look at the medical school's website on criteria they test during the interviews and think of all the questions that they could ask you and points and examples and phrases you can say in return. A prepared answers to a question will sound much more impressive than if you had seen that question for the first time and you will seem much more confident and articulate too.

Also, don't try to dodge the question (happens without knowing a lot of the time when you are nervous) because they are trying to tick boxes and if you ramble on about non important things in your interview then you can't do well. You can avoid this by answering the question directly at first and trying to justify the answer afterward with examples and explanations, etc. Using STARR can also help you structure your answer and say everything that needs to be said.

If you've got MMI say, you can just give 'alright or good' answers throughout your stations and still get offers, as long as you don't mess up any station badly. But if you really want to do well and sound impressive, you need to be very confident with that question stem and be able to bring in things that normal candidates won't from extra readings that you have done or work experiences that you have taken.

Eg. How can we improve the ANE services? - There are long waiting hours in ANE so we could have more doctors and nurses in the ANE. VS. There are long waiting hours in ANE and having more doctors and nurses may help the situation. But I read an article by 'kings fund' that it isn't the number of doctors thats lacking in these services but lack of specialist doctors that could treat patients with more than one problems.... and so on. You see that the second candidate sound much more impressive and probably score higher scores.

I'm just an applicant like you so this is just my view on how you can prepare. Take it with a pinch of salt. But really if you haven't got bucket loads of time to spend, just knowing the basics well and trying to be just 'good' in your answers is probably the best way to go forward. IF you research something in a great detail, 1. it will take a lot of time and 2. it may not even come up in your interview, so I don't advise you go into details of anything tho. Good luck.

thanks for the great response!

I do

At every different mmi station during the atual scenario? I relise the question i asked right there was stupid lol.

Hi there, does anyone have any advice for an interview at Aberdeen and at Manchester (6 years course)?

What can be expected from Birmingham Interview? One is being held in Malaysia in February.That will not be MMI put a panel. Anyone going to Malaysia?