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Why do you want to go to medical school?

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What about medical school peaks your interest?

How did work experience enhance your decision?

What life experiences have enhanced your decision?

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If You Weren’t Offered a Place to Study Medicine, What Would You Do?

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What would you do during your gap year?

How would this improve your skills?

How will this help you in medicine?

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What Aspects Of The Working Life Of A Doctor Appeal To You?

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What about being a doctor interst you?

Why do these interest you?

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What Aspects Of The Working Life Of A Doctor Don’t Appeal To You?

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What about being a doctor doesn’t interest you?

Why do these not interest you?

How do these not stop you from continuing a career in medicine?

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Can Non-Scientific Hobbies Add To A Person’s Ability To Be A Good Doctor, And Why?
Can You Think Of Any Examples In Your Own Case?

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What hobbies enhance medical skills?

Why do these skills help with medicine?

Which one of these hobbies have you done?

How does this hobby help with medicine?

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What Do You Find Interesting About Medicine?

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What part of old or modern medicine interest you?

What research about medicine has interested you?

  • ( Da Vinci surgical machine )

How has work experience enhanced your interest?

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*What Do You Wish To Achieve From Your Medical Career?

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What is your final goal?

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*Why A Doctor And Not A Nurse?

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  • What do doctors do that nurses don’t do?
  • Nurses advocate for patients
  • Provide patients with more holistic care
  • Doctors more or less do research on diseases and how to cure them
  • Do you want to contribute to that part of the picture?
  • I would not like to participate in this part of the picture
  • However I do appreciate them a lot because they help with the healing of the patient
  • How does a doctor’s life suit you better than a nurse’s life?
  • I prefer to do less frontline care
  • How does your work experience intervene?
  • I witnessed a nurse helping a man who was having a stroke
  • They did a number of test to identify where exactly the stroke occurred
  • It covered the right side of his face and the left side of his body
  • They advocated for him to his wife on a call
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*What Excites You Most About A Career In Medicine?

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  • Does anything about medicine peak your interest?
  • What about the course structure is interesting?
  • How has work experience made anything exciting?
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Talk Us Through Your Personal Statement

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(Research) Do You Read Any Publications That Are Relevant To Your Interest In Medicine?
Tell Us About An Interesting Article That You Have Read Recently.

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  • Can I talk about books?
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(Research) Have You Heard About Any Public Health Campaigns Recently?
What Is Your Opinion On The Role Of Public Health Campaigns In Medicine?

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(Research) Have You Thought About What You Would Like To Specialise In?

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  • I would like to specialise in doing plastic surgery
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Have You Read About Any Interesting Research Recently?

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  • How about talking about “ Year of the nurse “?
  • Talks about nursing and the difficulties of it
  • Who is taking care of them?
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(Research) What Have You Learnt About Medicine From The Doctors You’ve Spoken To?

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  • What is doctor Manpreet’s story?
  • She taught me that there are definitely going to be aspects of medicine which I will like and won’t like
  • Balancing your life is essential
  • You will barely get any time to yourself

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What Do You Think Is The Most Exciting Development In Medicine Recently?

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What Do You Think The Most Important Development In Medicine Has Been?

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Have You Taken On Any Extracurricular Projects That Demonstrate Your Interest In Medicine?

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How Important Is Evidence-Based Practice In Medicine?

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How Have You Demonstrated Your Commitment To Medicine?

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Are You Aware Of The Main Method Of Teaching At This Medical School?

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Do You Think Cadaveric Dissection Is Important For Medical Students?

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Why Did You Choose This Medical School?

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Are You Aware Of The Catchment Area Of The Teaching Hospitals That This Medical School Has?

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This University Offers A Wide Range Of Extra-Curricular Societies Reflecting The Diversity Of Students And Courses We Have Here. If You Were A Student Here, Which Societies Would You Be Interested In Joining?
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What Would You Do If You Fell Behind On This Course?
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What Is Your Knowledge Of The Health Of The Local Population?
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Have You Spoken To Any Current Medical Students?
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How Much Does A Mountain Weigh?
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How Different Would The World Be If The Wheel Wasn’t Invented?
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How Many Words Are There In An Average Book?
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To What Extent Do You Think Fear Is Beneficial?
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Why Do We Wear Shoes?
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If You Were Stranded In A Remote Rainforest And Trying To Escape, Who Is One Person You Would Want To Accompany You And Why?
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How Many Atoms Are There In A Glass Of Water?
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What Do You Understand About Euthanasia? Does Euthanasia Have A Place In Modern Medicine?
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Do You Agree With Abortion? What Are The Ethical Issues Here?
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A Patient Refuses Treatment For A Life-Threatening Condition. Discuss The Ethical Issues Involved.
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A 14-year-old Patient Goes To The GP And Asks For The Oral Contraceptive Pill. Discuss The Ethical Issues Involved.
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A Patient Diagnosed With HIV Reveals To Their GP They Have Not Disclosed This Information To Their Partner. Discuss The Ethical Issues Involved.
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You Are A Medical Student At School. One Day In The Teaching Hospital, You See One Of Your Fellow Students Putting Medical Equipment From The Stock Room Into Their Bag. When You Ask Them About It, They Say They Only Want To Practise Their Clinical Skills And Not To Tell Anyone. What Would You Do?
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What Does ‘Patient Confidentiality’ Mean? When Would It Be Appropriate To Breach This?
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A 13-Year-Old Patient Reveals To You That They Are Sexually Active And That Their Parents Do Not Know. What Would You Do As A Doctor In This The Situation?
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A Depressed Patient Who Has Refused Treatment Has Mentioned Having Suicidal Thoughts And You Are Concerned About His WellBeing. Discuss The Ethical Issues Involved.
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Do You Think The NHS Should Fund Treatment For Smokers?
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What Would You Do If You Saw A Colleague Making A Mistake With A Patient’s Medication?
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Is It Ever Ethically Acceptable For NHS Doctors To Go On Strike?
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You Are A GP, And Your Patient Confides In You That They Are Regularly Using Illicit Drugs. What Should You Do?
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Should Vaccination Of Children Become Mandatory?
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How Would You Define Empathy To Someone Who Does Not Know What It Means?
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Why Is It Important For Medical Professionals To Be Empathetic Towards Their Patients?
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Is The Practice Of Being An Empathetic Healthcare Professional Something That You Can Learn In A Lecture?
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Which Is More Important In Medicine, Being Empathetic Or Being Sympathetic?
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Imagine That You Are A Medical Student On A Hospital Ward Placement. How Would You Explain To A Patient That They Need To Have Another Blood Sample Taken, As The Results Of The Last Test Having Been Lost?
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Why Should Members Of A Healthcare Team Show Empathy Towards One Another As Well As Towards Their Patients?
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As A Doctor, How Would You Deal With A Parent Who Has Brought Their Child Into Accident And Emergency And Is Angry About Them Having To Wait A Long Time To Be Seen?
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What Would You Say To A Female Patient Who Is Scared To Get The HPV Vaccine Which Protects Against Cervical Cancer?
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As A Recently Qualified Junior Doctor, You Are Given The Chance To Perform Your First Unsupervised Colonoscopy. During the procedure, the colonoscope perforates the colon, resulting in the patient becoming acutely unwell and dying just two days later. The patient’s family has now come to see you; how would you approach the situation?
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What Thoughts And Feelings Will Go Through The Head Of A Patient After Having Been Told That Their Alcoholism Has Led To Irreversible Liver Damage?
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Tell Us About A Time You’ve Displayed Empathy
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What Do You Think You Would Find Most Challenging About Being a Doctor?
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How Do You Cope With Failure?
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If Your Peers Were To Describe You In Three Words, What Would They Be?
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What Is Your Biggest Weakness?
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What Would Be Your Greatest Strength And Why?
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How Do You Deal With Stress?
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Do You Know When To Seek Help?
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Why Do You Deserve A Place At This Medical School Over The Other Candidates?
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Give An Example Of A Time When You Were Unsatisfied With Your Performance.
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What Would You Change About Yourself?
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Give An Example Of A Time You Worked In A Team And It Was Successful.
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Give An Example Of A Time You Worked In A Team And You Failed.
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What Are The Attributes Of A Good Team Leader?
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What Are The Attributes Of A Good Team Member?
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Are You A Leader Or A Follower?
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Is Teamwork Important In Medicine? Why?
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How Do You Resolve Conflict Within A Group?
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What Would You Do If You Were Working On A Group Project And Noticed Than One Member Of The Team Was Not Contributing?
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Why Is It Important For A Team Leader To Be Able To Allocate?
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You Are The Team Leader For A Fundraising Project, And While Totalling Up The Donations You Find £20 Is Missing. You Suspect That One Of Your Team Members Has Been Keeping Some Of The Money To Themselves. What Do You Do?
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What Medical Work Experience Have You Carried Out?
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What Did You Learn From Your Work Experience?
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From Your Work Experience, Can You Tell Me About A Difficult Situation You Observed/Had To Deal With And What You Learnt From This?
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What Qualities Did You Learn Are Important From The Doctors And Nurses During Your Work Experience?
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What Aspect Of Your Work Experience Did You Find The Most Challenging/Difficult And Why?
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What Did You Like Most About The Work Experience You Undertook?
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What Did You Like Most About The Work Experience You Undertook?
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Why Do You Think We Ask Candidates To Undertake Work Experience?
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Reflecting On Your Work Experience, What Event, If Any, Changed Your Views On Modern Medicine?
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Give An Example Of An Interaction Between A Doctor Or Nurse And A Patient That You Observed During Your Work Experience. What Skills Did You Find To Be Important For This Type Of Communication?
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During Your Work Experience, Did You Learn Or See Anything That Did Not Appeal To You About Being A Doctor?
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During Your Work Experience/Shadowing, What Three Skills Did You Observe And Could You Rank Their Importance?
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How Did Your Work Experience Help You Confirm Your Desire To Pursue A Career In Medicine?
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After Your Work Experience, How Did Your View On The Medical Profession In Real Life Compare To That Depicted By The Media?
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Tell Me About The Roles Of The Allied Healthcare Professionals That You Met.
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