How To Make Your Interview Answers More Powerful
For the majority of questions, an interviewer can throw at you, you should be aiming to follow roughly a set format for each answer you give. A format will help you organise your answers and make them more powerful. Read on to see our suggested structure and tips.
What Do They Look For In A Medical School Interview?
The key to answering questions convincingly and confidently, whilst providing sufficient evidence from your personal experience, is to create a database of all the qualities the Medical Schools are looking for (which in turn are the qualities of a good doctor, as described in the previous chapter).
What Are The Qualities Of A Good Doctor?
Medicine is a vocational course that demands resilient professionalism under a core set of values that is imperative in our care of the most fragile in our society. If you can’t demonstrate that you understand what it means to be a good doctor, your academic achievements won’t be enough to get you into Medical School and excel in your future careers.
The traditional semi-structured interview
The semi-structured interview used to be the most commonly used interview type, but in recent years, the vast majority of medical schools have moved to MMI and show no signs of moving back to traditional interviews.
Medical MMI Interview: The Definitive Guide
The complete guide to Multiple-Mini Interviews (MMIs). We cover, what are MMIs? Why are MMIs used? What is the format of an MMI? How should you prepare for your MMI? and our top tips. Read on to start improving your MMI confidence.
The two types of interview – MMI and Semi-structured
In this section we’ll first go through the different interview types and then the qualities medical schools are looking for as well as the key questions and tasks that can come up. Take this chapter seriously, because we’re going to go through a lot of the important stuff you need in order to build a solid footing, and so that you can handle any interview that’s thrown your way!
UCAT Verbal Reasoning: The Definitive Guide
Verbal Reasoning is one of the five major question types within the UCAT. But what exactly are these questions about? This guide will take you through what the questions look like and how you should answer them as a prospective medicine/dentistry student.
Preparing for Psychometric Tests
For many of you, the UCAT is probably an intimidating part of the application procedure. The UCAT is a new challenge that many of you have not encountered before – this is why effective and targeted preparation is so important. Read on to understand the whole UCAT process.
General Advice for the UCAT
Remember that success on the UCAT, or almost any test, comes down to smart practice; Here are a few tips to get you started and get into the swing of things:
Medical School Myths
There are tons of medical school myths out there, no doubt you have heard some already. Learn the truth about medical schools and the misconceptions about doctors. Don’t believe all you hear on forums.