Medical School Interviews: A Practical Guide to Help You Get That Place at Medical School - Over 150 Questions Analysed

"Using this book got me 2/4 offers for medicine (after using it for 2 interviews). The book does exactly what it says on the cover. It goes into extensive detail on how to answer a range of questions, from explaining how to tackle ethical scenarios, euthanasia and abortion issues to detailing government influence in healthcare and even describing how teamwork, communication and leadership plays out in a healthcare setting."
~ Written on 2008-05-02

"Very informative and up to date book which doesn't give the answers straight away, but implores you to think of them yourself, and then helps with the finer points and structure of your answer. With two offers under my belt now, I am very grateful for this book which really improved my confidence when I walked into the interview room-And I firmly believe that it was the 'clincher' for me this year. I would definately reccomend this book!
Thankyou so much!
Andrew"
~ Written on 2008-03-28

"I bought this book in the hope to get better not just interview skills but also better for any medicine interviews I may get. I know that someone mentioned that this book is better suited for a medical graduate applying for a residency post- but I do not think that it should be thought of as a disadvantage. The interviewer are going to be looking for students that they feel would graduate and get an internship- therefore they would use a lot of the questions in the book- depending on how hard they will be on you. Another thing that I really liked about this book is that it teaches you how to answer the questions,rather than just giving you a cliched example for you to learn off by heart. These are my reasons for giving it 5*s"
~ Written on 2008-02-06

"I bought this book for my two children. My son is applying for the second time this year, having failed to get in last year when he tried to prepare on his own. One of his main worries was that last year he had been asked a number of questions that he had found difficult such as what he thought of the changes to the way doctors are being trained or how to choose between two difficult patients who want a liver transplant. Peninsula med school even asked him how he would deal with a terminally ill man with an unemployed wife and a very small child, who refused chemotherapy, knowing that he would then die 2 months later. My son was worried that he would face the same problems this year. The book was very good in helping him think about the NHS and the ethical issues and in explaining in detail how to approach all these tricky situations.

My daughter is applying at graduate level, being in the process of completing a bioscience degree. She is more comfortable with ethics than my son (probably more mature in that respect too, having undertaken a degree already) but her biggest worry was how to sell herself i.e. her motivation for medicine and her personal qualities. She found the book extremely useful too, as it gave her a range of ideas to think about, and the examples provided, although sometimes slightly long, were a mine of information both to derive good content for her answers and to structure them.

Medical school interviews have definitely become far more difficult than when I started medicine myself and this book is an invaluable preparation tool. The questions that it deals with range from standard to stretching, and as such it covers the different types of questions that you can be asked.
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~ Written on 2008-01-17

"Written by a Consultant Urological Surgeon and "Communication Consultant" this book is pitched far too high up the medical career structure.

Many issues and questions are the sort that get asked at Consultant interviews - not student interviews.

Some topics are totally beyond what could reasonably be expected of a sixth former and as such create a false and very misleading sense of what should be expected of them. Many of these questions would never be asked at student interviews.

There is also a distinct "surgical" bias to the text and coverage. If you are applying for a Consultant Surgeon's job this book is OK. If you are a sixth former applying to medical school read it with a pinch of salt - the problem is you will not know which questions are appropiate and which are in the wrong orbit way above you."
~ Written on 2007-11-19