Synopses & Reviews
After completing the medical school application comes the last and often most challenging aspect of the school selection process: the interview. Notoriously hard to prepare for, it's difficult to know what questions might be asked and how to answer them.
Extensively revised, How to Succeed In Your Medical School Interview de-mystifies the interview process. It provides a systematic and methodical process which enables the interviewee to mine information from examiners, while demonstrating academic ability. Full of practice questions and free downloadable podcasts of mock interviews, this book offers tips on preparation, presentation, and most importantly, what to say.
The most significant addition to the book covers the multiple mini-interview system, which schools are beginning to use instead of the formal, fixed panel interview. This new system is made up of short "stations" ranging from 3-10 minutes, with a specific goal and a separate interviewer. The format can be a conventional interview question, a role play, linguistic skill test, writing exercise, or another challenge. The author has also added more graph-and-table data interpretation questions to the Oxbridge interview section and updated discussion material to include the current "hot topics" in medicine, such as e-cigarettes, medical ethics, and the US patent ban on genes.
About the Author
Dr. Christopher See is the author of How to Get Into Oxbridge, How to Master the BMAT, and How to Get into Medical School (all published by Kogan Page).
Table of Contents
Introduction
1 Preparation for the interview
Input
Output
Summary
2 Interview macro-analysis - chain theory
Chain theory
Summary
3 Motivation for medicine
Introduction
How to become a great storyteller - dinner party theory (DPT)
Learning tasks
Questions
Summary
4 The Multiple-Mini Interview
What is it?
Why is it used?
Example questions by category
Practice techniques
Summary
5 Work experience and voluntary work
Making the most of your work experience
Questions
Learning task
Summary
6 Personal attributes
Which attributes?
Learning task
Summary
7 Knowledge of the medical school
Introduction
Questions
Summary
8 Medicine as a profession
Introduction
Questions
Learning task
Learning task
Learning task
Summary
9 Hospital life and the NHS
Introduction
Questions
Learning task
Summary
10 Medical knowledge
Sources of knowledge
Questions
Learning task
Summary
11 Ethics and law
Introduction
Ethics and law
Questions
Further reading
Summary
12 International students
Introduction
Questions
Summary
13 Graduate students
Introduction
Questions
Summary
14 Oxbridge
Introduction
Questions
Summary
Appendix: List of interview questions