Experience
- 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?