Online Medicine Interview Course

Our Online Interview Course covers the entire interview process, from early timeline preparation to what to wear on the day! Learn how to approach every question type and go into detail with example questions or full debates and example answers. It’s a blend of video and text learning that will have you prepared to handle any question or situation that might come up at your interview!

Free access has over 4.5 hours of interactive footage

Full access has 168 lessons with 200+ fully answered interview questions

These are high-quality videos with real doctors and real interview experts; created by Doctors who have over 15 years of combined experience. In addition to working in a career in medicine, our instructors have worked as admissions tutors, developed interview question banks, sat on university panels as a faculty member, worked as medical educationalists and much more!

Each module offers unlimited replays with flexible playback features which allows you to learn at your own pace and track your progress, to make it a more personalised learning experience. The course is professionally filmed for a better learning experience and is fully mobile and tablet responsive, so you can access the videos from anywhere.

Fundamentals

• Your preparation timeline
• Interview structures
• Body language
• Appearance
• Professionalism
• Structuring your answer - Example style questions
• Structuring your answer - Opinion style questions
• The importance of an introduction and a conclusion

Motivation

• Why do you want to be a Doctor?
• Why do you want to study at this medical school?
• Based on your work experience, what are the challenges involved in a career in medicine and how will you overcome them?
• Briefly describe your volunteering experience, then tell me your motivation for undertaking this role.
• Compare the demands of Doctors to Nurses.
• Discuss mental health in medical students.
• Do you think you will fit in well at this medical school?
• Has anyone tried to put you off pursuing a career in medicine? What challenges do you think medical students face?
• How do you handle stress?
• How do you plan to get involved with university life?
• How do you relax?
• Please describe your extra-curricular activities and how these will make you a better Doctor.
• Tell me about your hobbies outside of medicine.
• Tell me about your voluntary work.
• Tell me the two main issues that affect medical students today.
• What are the demands placed on Doctors?
• What are the reasons Doctors are criticised in the media?
• What convinced you to pursue medicine?
• What did you learn on your work experience?
• What do you anticipate liking most about a career in medicine?
• What do you think are likely to be the worst things about being a Doctor?
• What do you think you will struggle most with at medical school and why?
• What do you understand about problem-based learning? Why do you think you will suit this style of learning?
• What have you done to find out about a career in medicine?
• What is a spiral curriculum? What do you think of this type of structure?
• What is meant by a multi-disciplinary team and what is its purpose?
• What is the most important skill you learnt from your work experience?
• What negative qualities do you have and how do you overcome them?
• What previous experience do you have of the NHS?
• Why do you want to be a Doctor, not a Nurse?
• Why is it important to attend all lectures at medical school?

Duties of a Doctor

• Can you give me an example of when you saw a Doctor displaying qualities of a Doctor in hospital.
• What qualities make a good Doctor?
• What skills do you have that will make you a good Doctor?
• Discuss a recent medical development and the impact you think it will have.
• Tell me about a situation where you had to overcome a challenge
• Tell me about a time you have demonstrated resilience.
• Would you volunteer in an area affected by the Zika virus?
• A colleague of yours was taking blood from a patient and injured themselves with the needle. They refuse to seek help or report the injury. What would you do?
• A GP you are shadowing snaps at an obese patient. What would you do?
• Should Doctors be allowed to go on strike?
• Someone is coming from football practice, and he has cuts on his arms. What would you do?
• Travelling on the London Underground, one of your friends has become separated from the group. It’s their first time in London – describe your plan of action.
• You are a medical student on the ward and overhear a nurse mocking a patient. How would you approach this situation?
• You notice a colleague who smells of alcohol on placement. How would you deal with this situation?
• Your best friend is being bullied - your older brother is responsible. How would you approach this situation?
• Can you give an example of a time where you have shown compassion to a patient or a vulnerable person
• Can you give me an example of when you have used feedback to improve a situation that you were involved in?
• Dealing with difficult colleagues.
• Give an example of when you have seen somebody lack empathy.
• Give me an example of when you have shown good communication skills.
• In what situations might good communication skills be important for a Doctor?
• Please explain in your own words the difference between empathy and sympathy.
• Should Doctors always discuss treatment with their patients?
• Tell me about a time you worked as part of a team.
• Tell us about a time you lead a team in a difficult situation.
• Tell us about a time you showed good leadership.
• What traits would you find hard to get along with in a colleague?
• What would you do if the personal relationship between two colleagues had broken down, leading to problems within the team?
• When were you a good team leader?
• Your colleague is threatening to drop out of the medical course ahead of the dissection module due to a severe phobia of dead bodies. What would you do?
• A brain surgeon fakes the results of a clinical trial. How would you deal with this situation?
• As a first-year medical student, you see a post on social media by another student criticising a consultant. What do you do?
• Did you see any ethical scenarios on your work experience?
• Give me an example of a time you let someone down.
• One of your colleagues, another Junior Doctor, has been seen stealing money on multiple occasions. What do you do?
• Tell me about a time you made a mistake.
• What do you know about the Harold Shipman case?
• What experience have you had with diversity and cultural differences?
• Your friend calls you to tell you that if her parents ask, she was with you last night. What do you do?

Medical Ethics

• The 4 Ethical Pillars of Medical Ethics - OVERVIEW
• The three C's of medical ethics - OVERVIEW
• Medical Ethics - Autonomy
• Medical Ethics - Beneficence
• Medical Ethics - Non-Maleficence
• Medical Ethics - Justice
• The 3Cs: Capacity
• The 3Cs: Confidentiality
• The 3Cs: Consent
• Abortion and pregnancy
• Assisted Reproduction
• In GP Practice, a 26-year-old lady is 8 weeks pregnant and requesting an abortion.
• End of Life Care
• Euthanasia
• Can you tell me what is meant by the term ‘Do not attempt resuscitation’?
• It has been decided it is in the best interests of a patient to have their life support switched off. What would you need to consider when discussing your decision with the patient’s family?
• Physician Assisted Suicide
• Cosmetic surgery on the NHS
• Discuss the use of homeopathy in the NHS
• How will the 7 day NHS affect…
• Should vaccinations be compulsory for children?
• Should we privatise the NHS?
• You spot one of your patients, a recovering alcoholic about to have a liver transplant, clearly intoxicated in a bar.
• Organ Donations
• Jehovah's Witnesses
• As a GP, you prescribe contraceptive pills to a 15-year old girl. The mother discovers this and confronts you.
• Discuss a time when a Doctor may need to override patient autonomy.
• Do you feel the modern Healthcare system has become too reliant on information technology?
• Do you think speed limits should be raised from 70mph to 80mph?
• How can social media impact healthcare?
• Tell me about the ethics of giving money to the homeless.
• Use the principles of the NHS to consider to what extent a patient should be able to choose their own treatment.
• Genetics
• Vaccinations
• Antibiotics Resistance - what's the problem?
• Biological and genetic treatments
• Should parents have the right to experimental treatment? The Charlie Gard case.
• Discuss the ethics surrounding stem cell research
• Do you think mapping the human genome is a good idea?
• The current use of virtual reality in modern medicine

Role Play

• Preparing for the role play station
• Breaking Bad News - SPIKES
• You are a Baker. 6 weeks ago an order was taken and not put into the system. The customer has arrived to pick up the order.
• You ran over your neighbours cat. You need to inform your neighbour
• You, a babysitter, accidently bump a child in the head. Please explain to Tim’s mother how he acquired this injury.
• You, a dog walker, accidentally lose a dog. You must inform the owner of the situation.
• A patient expresses her concern that there is no gluten free nor vegan food in or around the hospital.
• Your neighbour, a long-time smoker, has asked you for information on what harm smoking can do to his body. How do you approach this situation?

Hot Topics

• How to approach Hot Topics.
• Can the sugar tax limit the obesity epidemic?
• How can we attract more doctors?
• List three issues currently facing the NHS. Which one would be your top priority and why?
• Should we allocate more funding towards A&E when compared to other specialities during winter?
• Should we have specialist A&E departments in the UK for patients aged over 80?
• Tackling the obesity epidemic.
• The Hadiza Bawa-Garba Case: what are the implications on Junior Doctors?
• What are the causes and consequences of increasing primary care pressures?
• What do you think the challenges of rural medicine are?
• Why do you think A&E waiting times have increased recently and is the A&E 4-hour target a good idea?
• Why do you think some A&E departments had to close this winter?
• Why does the ageing population represent a challenge to the NHS?
• Why is the NHS budget increasing if health standards are improving?
• Youth mental health.

NHS

• Tell me about the interaction between primary, secondary and tertiary services.
• NHS Constitution & Values.
• The structure and role of the NHS.

Special Stations

• Articles
• Calculations
• Data interpretation
• Group tasks
• Pictures
• Tasks
• Videos