What have you gained from your work experience/community work/hobbies?
What did you do in your year out (if you had one?)
What experiences have given you insight into the world of medicine? What have you learned from these?
What aspect of your work experience did you find the most challenging, and why?
In your work experience, what skills have you learned that you can apply to medicine?
Can you give me an example of how you coped with a conflict with a colleague or friend; what strategy did you use and why?
Reflect on what you have seen of hospitals or a health care environment. What would you most like to organise differently, and why?
What aspect of your work experience would you recommend to a friend thinking about medicine, and why?
What impressed you most about the doctors in your work experience?
Can you think of a situation where good communication has saved the day and give a reason why?
Thinking of your work experience, can you tell me about a difficult situation you have dealt with and what you learned from it?
Have you visited any friends or family in hospital, or had work experience in a hospital? From these experiences, what did you see that you would like to change?
Can you tell me the key things you learned from your work experience, in caring or other settings?
What have you done on work experience/ in employment previously? What would you change about what you saw, if you could, and how would you set about this?
What do you think would be the advantages, and difficulties, for a person with a major physical disability (e.g. blindness) wishing to become a doctor?
Tell me about a project, or work experience, that you have organised, and what you learned from it?