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Consent: patients and doctors making decisions together

Let’s take a look at decision making, many times it does not only concern one person, but must be discussed with someone to see their viability, the same goes for doctors when giving a diagnosis, it is necessary to discuss it with their patient to know which course to take.

How to show empathy at your medicine interview

The practice of medicine is often described as both a science and an art, where knowledge from fields of biology is applied in an approach based on ethics and human values. A cornerstone of this approach is empathy, which is the ability to understand the feelings of another, imagining what it might be like to experience what that person is feeling. Simply put, being empathetic is to see the world in someone else’s eyes or to put yourself in someone else’s shoes.

What can you bring to this medical school?

The competitive nature of medicine means that schools can afford to be selective. Therefore, universities do not only want good grades, a good entrance exam and relevant work experience. They also want a well-rounded person who brings something to the medical school. Take a look at this article!

Physician Heal Thyself: How will you deal with stress in medical school?

There is no doubt that stress is present in the life of a medical student. You will be overloaded with information, from the anatomy of the ankle to the pharmacology of dementia drugs, it is important that you have efficient stress management so that you never have to deal with it as a big problem, read on for tips and solutions to this terrible enemy.

Ethical Framework For Interviews

Ethical issues are one of the most frequently asked medical interview questions. Instead of meticulously going through each potential ethical scenario, it might be more useful to learn the mindset that can be applicable to nearly all of the questions. To give an example of such a mindset, we will use the example of abortion.

Robots VS Doctors?

will robots replace doctors? this is a question we wish we didn’t ask so often or so tentatively but… this question appears on your MMI, the most obvious answer is that it won’t, or else the examiner will probably rebut by asking why you applied for medicine only to have robots replace you.
There is no right answer, but take a look at these tips to help you do better in the interview with this type of question.

Structuring your interview answers

Interviews can be stressful. You can predict what some of the questions may be when being interviewed for your medical school place, but you cannot prepare for each and every question which is thrown at you.

Do you have the resilience to be a doctor?

A common interview question is “Why do you want to be a doctor?”. Easy enough right? However, interviewers are looking for something that is going to last longer than “my parents are doctors”. They are looking for something that you need to have in common with methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus… resilience.

Medical Ethics

Consent: patients and doctors making decisions together

Interview Practice questions

How to show empathy at your medicine interview

Interview Practice questions

What can you bring to this medical school?

Interview Practice questions

Physician Heal Thyself: How will you deal with stress in medical school?

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Ethical Framework For Interviews

Interview Practice questions

Robots VS Doctors?

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Structuring your interview answers

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Do you have the resilience to be a doctor?

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