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andrewbaillie
26th November, 2001, 8:34 PM
Glasgow

These are the questions (that I can remember) from my interview at Glasgow today. It is amazing how the questions link together. If you say something that interests the interviewer(s) in your answer to one question that will almost certainly be the basis of your next question. And the 15 mins absolutely fly by!
My interview at Glasgow wasnt a grilling, and they made me feel as relaxed as possible (even though they had the wrong UCAS details in front of them at first- they played the first few minutes by ear until they got the right details!)


Why did you choose to study the degree you are doing now?

leading into.......
When did you first become interested in medicine?

What did your GP say when you told him that you wanted to do medicine?

they were (pleasantly) surprised that my GP didnt try and talk me out of it!
Which part of your work experience did you enjoy the most and why?

Did anything from your work experience put you off doing medicine?

Why would you consider becoming a doctor as a hard career path?

i mentioned junior doctors hours and then I was asked....
Do you think that junior doctors work as many hours as they used to?

I mentioned what the current target is for junior docs hours(about 56 I think) and what it is currently (about 72 hours). The interviewer told me that when she was a junior doc she worked 112 hours a week.

Why do you think that medicine would be a rewarding career?

From your degree you have a lot of laboratory experience. Is this something you would continue with after doing a degree in medicine?

The glasgow curriculum has changed a lot since 1996. What do you think are the good points and bad points of the new curriculum?

There is a lot of temwork involved in the new curriculum. Do you think that being a bit older than the other students in your group would put you at a disadvantage?

Being a doctor involves lot of teamwork. Who is involved with team work in medicine?

Say you have had a stroke. Who is the most important person in deciding how you should be treated?

There was loads more I feel I could have talked about but my time was up. Hard to say if what I said went down well or if I came across ok, but I gave it my best shot!


Dundee

A friend of mine is a 3rd year medic at Dundee and she was good enough to e-mail me some frequently asked interview questions (some of which apply mainly to graduate/mature students ,but useful nonetheless) .


Why do you want to study medicine?

Why do you want to go to Glasgow as opposed to Dundee etc...?

How will you feel entering a class of students who are all younger than

How as a graduate student will you contribute to the class?

If you dont succeed in getting into medical school this year what will you do?
Answer is do an MSc in the meantime and reapply next year!

What experience do you have with the health care profession?

What things have you done thoroughout your degree that has shown your caring, sharing side?

What do you want to pursue as a postgraduate career e.g surgery etc.?

What qualities do you have that will make you a good doctor?

In no more than a few sentences sum up why we should offer you this place and not the graduate sitting outside.

How do you feel about the way the media projects the medical world?

What are your opinons on revalidation?

What about the new curriculum???
Look this up!! GMC recommendations 1993 'Tomorrow's Doctors' - this changed the way medical school were teaching.

How will you fund yourself through the course?


Also be informed about topical issues in the news- very important!!
Current one doing the rounds is the cloning for stem cells!

nicolacurrie
27th November, 2001, 4:19 PM
Children's organ removals in Post Mortems?? thats current news...we'll, it's sorta cropped up in the news again because of new legislation?!

jojo
27th November, 2001, 5:54 PM
Plus ther was sumthing in the paper yesterday bout cloning + on the news just now theirs a new drug for a certain type of Leukeimia(dont know how to spell it).Anything else???...

mikie
28th November, 2001, 4:15 AM
if you wish a wee bit of info from the horses mouth as it were re organ donation then please look at

http://www.richardsimpsonmsp.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13


good luck to you all and always read one broadsheet a day 'til your interviews are over

mikie

andrewbaillie
29th November, 2001, 11:34 AM
I was just using the stem cell one as an example. Of course you will have to keep up to date with anything else that happens, although I didnt get asked about anything current (even though I was expecting it!)

elliottsimpson
29th November, 2001, 6:23 PM
Just had a look at www.richardsimpsonmsp.com - has a more than slightly familiar look about it - like looking at NextGen wearing rose tinted specs - hmmmm!

Richard is no relative of mine (as far as I know) but is related to Mikie, I believe.

Perhaps we should request that NextGeners only post genuine serious stuff on his site - wouldn't do to take it over, would it?

:lol :lol :lol

jojo
29th November, 2001, 9:11 PM
WOW!!!Just went on to that website and Elliott isnt joking if it werent that it was red in colour i could have swore it was nextgen!!AND DScollon had a post juct to confuse me even more!!!Other than that it was quite interesting!!

Jo x

Adam
29th November, 2001, 9:48 PM
woah. That IS next gen.

ADVERTISMENT:

NEW!! next gen websites. Available in new flavours- strawberry and blackcurrant. Available on the web NOW!!

adam

DScollon
29th November, 2001, 10:02 PM
Yes, we also designed that site and host it. We believe vBulletin is the best message board system around at the moment, and have decided to use it across all of our sites which need a message board system.

It's possible to do endless customisations on it, but both this site and the richardsimpsonmsp one are reasonably close to the default settings (trust me, you would find the default colours dull).

mikie
1st December, 2001, 4:30 AM
i would like to point out that the similarity of the two websites is due to them both coming from the virtual pen of dr scollon, genius that he is.
However the visual feel and mode of interaction is merely the front end, the code underneath is morphing all the time as derek's forays into perl and php become more frenzied (in a good way ;) ).
Maybe someday people will be able to look at a website and know that it's an original scollon (or a good copy) :lol
seriously though
bow down at the feet of the shamen and give due recognition to his c0demoNk3y skiLLz

mikie

mikie
1st December, 2001, 4:41 AM
forgot to say
the prof would welcome any posts on his board . Either join in threads or pose questions for him to answer, he looks at it regularly and likes to distribute information. Please keep them sane (i have to try very hard) and within the general topic headlines and of course Dr Scollon's usual rules apply :)
he has just been promoted to the cabinet as the deputy minister for JUSTICE (to be said concurrently with a punching fist action) therefore i forsee interesting times ahead

mikie

jojo
11th December, 2001, 7:21 PM
These are the questions i can remember from Aberdeen!!

Why do you want to be a doctor?

Why do you want to go to Aberdeen?

What do you know about the city?

Tell me about your work experience?

What a difference between a Gp and a hospital Consultant? (that was someone elses question but thought i'd post it anyway!!)

What is a good/bad doctor?

Advantages and Disadvantages of long hours?

Do you think hourers should be shorter?

What effect would this have?

If two people in your team where fighting what would you do?

What makes a bad team?

How many are in your school?How many applied to do medicine? Why is this?What makes you special?

Do you think you have to be exceedingly clever to do medicine?

Do you htink doctors know everything?

If they dont how do they find out?

Do you think that you can make a difference in peoples lives?

Even when the person is dying?

Then i was just asked about my interests and how they were related to medicine and if i would continue them if i went to Abrerdeen!!

Good luck everyone!!

Luv Jo xx

Damien
11th December, 2001, 8:04 PM
I was also asked the questions about the long working hours of doctors last year. Again a question was asked about the different types of doctors - in this case GP vs Consultant.

Were there 3 interviewers?

Hmm - what did you say about what you liked or knew about Aberdeen - apart from the fact that it is the best city in the world :lol !

I hope it went well, and good luck to anyone else who is going to an interview.

Damien :evil

jojo
11th December, 2001, 8:14 PM
Not tooo sure if it went well.I froze at the start of the interview but was fine when we started to talk bout wrk expereince!

The only answer i had to the question bout hte city was that it was cold!!!!:lol :lol

Jo xx

lindsmcvicar
8th January, 2002, 8:10 PM
Hey, these are the questions that I got asked at my Aberdeen interview today:

Why did you only apply to Scottish universities, and Aberdeen in particular?

What are the advantages/disadvantages of being a doctor?

What are the qualities a patient looks for in a doctor?
(The first thing I said was being able to make an accurate diagnosis.)

How do you make that diagnosis?

So what do you do then?
(I said talk to the patient so they are informed about what is wrong and what their treatment options are.)

And who makes the decision about what treatment is used?
(I said the patient.)

What if the patient wants you to decide which treatment would be best? How would you decide between treatments?

So what other qualities does a doctor need apart from competence and good communication skills?
(My mind went blank here, so he prompted me by talking about Dr Shipman.)

What do you think are your strengths and weaknesses? How would your friends describe you?

How do you think you would deal with difficult situations e.g. having to tell someone a family member had died?

Do you think the doctor is the leader or part of the medical team? What is their role in the team?

Do you think you are a leader or a follower?

Who else is in the medical team? Who did you work with/see during your work experience?

I've done quite a bit of work with disabled children, so I was asked what I had learned from this.

That's all I can remember at the moment. There were two people on the panel, although other candidtates there today had three. The interview lasted about 20 mins although it went by really quickly.

Hope it helps, love Linds x

andrewbaillie
9th January, 2002, 10:12 AM
I had 2 interviewers at my Glasgow interview!

jojo
27th February, 2002, 5:31 PM
hi just back from my Glasgow interview!Yep i had two interviewers!!

questions where:

what do you know about Glasgows course??

What do you know about Glasgow?

Tell me about your workk experience?

Any doctors try to put you off medicine?

How did the doctors at Monkladns come across to you?

Tell me about your experiences of PBL??

You mentioned teamwork was important can you give examples of where you worked in a team?

If you where in charge of a team how would you sort out arguments within the team?

They asked me all about my voluntary work with ALMA club and how i coped with it??

How i coped with seeing the emotional side of medicine??

How i would cope in the future with the emotions?

What do you think are peoples perception of medicine nowadays?

What are peoples perception of the NHS?

What do you think of the NHS?
I mentioned that sure it had a lot of problems but that it did do a lot of good which we dont see in the papers which led to:

Yeah but theres no smoke without fire dont you think??

Then how do we solve the problem of the media critising the NHS?

There where more but my mind has went blank!!I noticed that the questions asked did seem to be straight from the questions Bernadette was asked last yr at Abdn!!So look at those questions if you have an interview for Glasgow!!

The interviewers seemed really interested to hear ALL about Monklands!!!oh well i have to go ALMA tonight

cya Jo xx

andrewbaillie
27th February, 2002, 11:46 PM
Sounds about right! They were very interested in what I did at Monklands, and what I enjoyed and didnt enjoy. I think they were more interested in my work experience than why I wanted to do medicine!

Devlinator
28th February, 2002, 12:56 PM
An interesting one from dundee yestaerday,

What did you learn about yourself from your work experience?

A different angle on a standard question.

elliottsimpson
28th February, 2002, 2:24 PM
- - apart from the fact that you take no prisoners!

Devlinator
1st March, 2002, 10:09 AM
i just said that i had even more of a passion for it than i thought was possible.

relliott
6th March, 2002, 8:23 AM
oh, they certainly love some enthusiasm

I know someone who got 5As and 3 SYS As, had a month's work experience in a hospital, and when asked why he wanted to do medicine-- "I'm not really sure. I suppose I'm clever enough so I probably should do it"

needless to say he didn't get in.... Although Edinburgh took him - lucky for him they don't interview, eh

elliottsimpson
6th March, 2002, 9:25 AM
It is for your own protection! If you've not got the bit between the teeth and are not full of determination before you start, how will you acquire the motivation when things start getting tough?