[Interview Skills] Dedication: Why Study Medicine? The road to becoming a doctor is both long and arduous, which is why it’s important you’re motivated enough to reach the end of it. This article will help articulate your motivation to interviewers but first of all, it’s important to make sure you actually want to do medicine. [...]
[Interview Skills] Mindset Management ‘You’ll be fine, just relax and show them who you are”. Easy for your parents to say! Getting out of the car, walking up towards your first Medical School interview, it’s easy to feel nervous. It’s easy for those thoughts to creep in: "This is my chance, what if I mess [...]
[Interview Skills] Communication Welcome to another 6med blog on the skills you need to smash your medical school interviews. In this post we are focusing on communication skills and will look at:What are communication skills and why are they important?How are communication tested at medical school interviews?Some examples of questions that may come upOur top [...]
[Interview Skills] Healthcare & Current Affairs Healthcare and current affairs are important topics for you to stay up to date on and will be tested at your medical school interviews.The NHS is a unique healthcare system, so it is important that you know the key principles upon which it was founded and how it works.There [...]
Common Medicine Interview Questions [& How To Answer Them] Your medical school interview is the last hurdle between you and that all important offer. It is essential you make a great impression in this relatively short period of time and persuade the interviewers that you would be a great fit for medicine at their university.Although [...]
Medicine Interview Skills: Ethics Guide Hello and welcome to the 6med medicine interview ethics guide! Medical schools like to test medical ethics as they are an important part of understanding the challenges you will face when working as a doctor. You will almost definitely face an ethics question at some point in your interview, so [...]
Medical School Interview Format [Every University] Got a medical school interview coming up? Wondering how best to prepare? The key to successful preparation is a good understanding of the university’s interview format. Broadly speaking, interviews can be categorised into three different formats: Multiple Mini Interviews (MMIs), ‘Traditional’ Interviews and Group Interviews.Knowing the style of your [...]
Medical School Panel Interview: The Definitive Guide Medical school interviews can seem daunting, but they can turn out to be a tolerable and almost enjoyable experience if you remember that you deserve to be there.You have come through a long and highly competitive streak of Admissions Tests, Personal Statement drafts and revision so give yourself [...]
Medical MMI Interview: The Definitive Guide Hello and welcome to the 6med Multiple-Mini-interview guide!Congratulations if you have completed the first stage of medical school match-making and submitted your Admissions Test scores and UCAS form (or what we like to call your dating profile) - you are almost through all the hoops medical schools lay out… [...]
Medical Interview Dates & Decision Dates Now that you have submitted your UCAS application you can relax and wait until you hear back for a medical school interview. To calm your nerves, we’ve created a guide on every UK medical school and information on when they send out invitations, conduct their interviews and give you [...]