Consequentialism in Healthcare: Medical Ethics Question

Consequentialism in Healthcare

As medical professionals, everything we do needs to be in service of our patients. This means our morality will always play a part in decision-making, so we have to consider consequentialism throughout. In this guide, we’ll explore more about this doctrine, including what it means and how it may come up in a med school interview.

Consent In Medicine: A Medical Ethics Guide

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Consent is important in any context, but consent in medicine is a major aspect of one of the key pillars of ethics. All doctors must respect the wishes of their patients when they are capable of making their own decisions, but this can lead to challenges along the way – as well as the question of how to measure someone’s capacity. This guide will explore the ins and outs of consent in medicine, including how you may be asked about it in an interview.

Medical Negligence: A Medical Ethics Guide

Medical negligence is an important topic to understand both during medical school and during your application. It’s a topic that you must learn to ensure you don’t put any patient’s life at risk, as well as your own career. It may be discussed in your interviews, so this guide covers what you need to know and how you could discuss it yourself.

Medical Confidentiality: Medical Ethics Interview Questions

Medical Confidentiality

Confidentiality is one of the most important principles for medical professionals to follow, but it’s not always easy or right to do so. In this guide, we’ll explore the intricacies of confidentiality in medicine and see how the topic may be brought up during your medical school interviews.

The Oxbridge Medicine Interview

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Interviews are a vital step in any Medical School application, and for those applying to Oxbridge it is all the more important. In this guide we’ll go over all the advice you need to do well in your Interview.

Structuring your interview answers

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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.

5 Things To Do Before Your Medical School Interview

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The medical school interview is an experience you probably won’t forget. It is also the first time you find yourself out of your comfort zone during your medical school application, but you can certainly prepare for it.
That’s why we’ve put together some tips that are sure to help you.

Where do you think the future of Medicine is going?

With exams and interviews piling up, applicants often overlook the importance of recent medical news. What if you were given this question “Tell me about where you think the future of Medicine is going.”, a rather popular question among interviewers? Let’s see how one could potentially show the interviewers that.

4 Tips To Prepare For Your Medicine Interview!

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Before commencing this article, an obvious but important point to make would be that all medical schools have different ways in which they conduct their interviews, and the combination of medical schools that you have applied to will determine the type of preparation you will have to do.
This article will give you four ways that my friends and I went about researching and preparing for our interviews!

‘Fat but fit’ – From Theory to Myth

Findings from University of Birmingham presented this week provided evidence to suggest that the possibility of being ‘fat but fit’ is all but a myth.
The findings, presented the European Congress on Obesity in Portugal, suggested that people who are obese are at an increased risk of heart failure and stroke without the prior warnings of hypertension and diabetes.