This book is intended to help students, graduates, and mature and international applicants prepare for medical school admissions. We use our combined wealth of experience to offer specific, personal guidance to help YOU maximise your application's chance of SUCCESS.
We detail the basics and little-known tips and tricks for EACH STEP of the application process to allow you to take full advantage of your existing and future experiences.
THE INTERVIEW can seem like the largest hurdle of the medical school application. However, we have analysed common questions across all universities and interview formats, and structured our findings into distinct categories, each given with STRUCTURES to help you best recognise and tackle them.
We help you make the strongest application possible with specific, personal guidance to fully display the strengths of your experiences and personality.
In this book we discuss:
- THE IDEAL APPLICANT: what medical schools look for in applicants
- BEFORE THE INTERVIEW: how to best prepare your application
- IMPORTANT HEALTH TOPICS: background information to make you stand out
- COMMON DISEASES: diseases you should be aware of
- MEDICAL ETHICS: how to approach any ethical scenario
- INTERVIEW SKILLS: how to give the best performance at interviews
- INTERVIEW DAY: how to plan for the day
- GENERAL INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: the common questions you will face
- MULTIPLE MINI-INTERVIEWS: how to specifically deal with multiple mini-interviews
- DEFERRED ENTRY/GAP YEAR, GRADUATE AND INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS: information specific to each group and how to maximise the strength of their application
- OXBRIDGE ADMISSIONS: specific preparation for the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge