One of my teachers gave me a crapload of practice questions before my Keele interview the other day...
I read through 'em all on the train, and I must say it helped A LOT.
Oh yeah - these questions are geared toward Keele/Manchester
So without further ado:
Why do you want to be a doctor (bet you didn’t see that one coming!)?
Why medicine and not science?
What makes you think you can succeed in a medical career?
What are the key qualities a doctor should have?
What are you lacking and how would you develop your shortcomings?
Are graduates potentially better doctors than A-level leavers?
What would you do if you don’t get into medicine?
Do you know what the course structure is?
What is PBL?
Is PBL a good way to teach and learn?
What is the greatest discovery in the past 100 years?
What is the greatest advancement in the last 50 years?
Should regular breast screening be discontinued?
How can the social implications for a patient aid a doctor?
What do you do in your spare time?
Why this university?
How does this university’s curriculum aid learning?
How does this university’s curriculum suit you?
What would you bring to our university (NOT stuff like family photos and teddy bears!)?
How would you spend one hour of free time?
How do you manage stress?
How is being a junior doctor stressful?
Should a foetus with a cleft palate and lip be aborted?
What is difficult about being a junior doctor?
How has the way doctors are perceived changed?
What are the implications of the Human Genome Project on medicine?
Is there anything in particular that has drawn you to this university?
PBL – a member of the team is not pulling their weight. How would you deal with them?
What do you do to relax?
What can you tell us about your work experience?
How has your college prepared you for entry to medical school?
What do you think will be major advances in field of medicine in the next 20 years?
Are there any negative aspects of being a doctor?
How do you deal with mistakes?
Do you think the MMR vaccine should be compulsory?
Should Tony Blair disclose statistics regarding operation success rates?
How do you feel about cloning?
If you were running the show, how would you change the NHS?
What are the disadvantages of PBL?
How important is teamwork to a doctor?
Why medicine instead of dentistry?
What would you do if a consultant yelled at you for making a mistake?
What problems might you face being a doctor in the next 20 years?
What changes in the last 50 years have had a significant effect on the health of the nation?
If you could put together a committee on genetic engineering, whom would you put on it?
Have you read an interesting article about medicine lately?
What are your thoughts on stem cell research?
What would you do if you made a mistake that resulted in the death of a patient?
How important are good communication skills to a doctor?
How would you maintain a balance between work and leisure?
You say you want to care for people, why not be a nurse?
What would you gain from being a doctor that you would not gain from being a nurse?
Who is your hero? Explain.
Given budget constraints, should a non-smoking lung cancer sufferer be treated over a smoking lung cancer sufferer? Which leads nicely onto:
Who should decide which patient gets priority? – I got this one… Completely clueless, I was.
What do you think helps build team-working ability?
What do you think will be the hardest job for a doctor?
How do you feel about medical soap operas?
Do you feel medical soap operas are an accurate portrayal of life as a doctor?
Which supermarket do you use, and why? (I got this one! Clearly an attempt to freak me out!)
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