Product Description

This book presents an in-depth look at over 150 medical school interview questions. The book provides you with techniques to address the various types of questions, analyses good and bad examples of answers, teaches you how to add depth to your answers and how to answer those difficult ethical scenarios and lateral thinking questions. If someone asked you: Why medicine? or What are the qualities of a good doctor? Would you crumble or would you respond with the same old cliche as the next candidate? How about: What makes a good team player? Are you a leader or a follower? Should alcoholics receive liver transplants? Was it a good idea to send a man to the moon?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3888 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-10
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 326 pages

From the Back Cover
If someone asked you: "Why Medicine" or "What are the qualities of a good doctor", would you crumble or would respond with the same old cliche as the next candidate?

How about: "What makes a good team player?", "Are you a leader or a follower?", Should alcoholics receive liver transplants?", "Was it a good idea to send a man to the moon?". These questions are posed are real interviews for medical school and, at last, there is a comprehensive text that will help you answer them, and many more.

This book is an easy-to-read practical guide that will help you express your true potential and get that medical school place you dreamt of.

ISC is established as the leader in the field of interview skills for the medical profession. ISC trains doctors and medical school applicants almost every day of the year. With a combined experience of several thousands of candidates and many more thousands of interview questions, along with our teaching style, we have put together a book that will help you teach yourself to shine at your interview.

Areas covered in this book include questions on: Background and work experience; Personal attributes; Motivation for Medicine; Studying Medicine; The NHS and the medical environment; Medical ethics - issues and scenarios; Handling difficult colleagues; Hot topics - today's temporary medico-legal and political issues and many more.

About the Author
George Lee graduated from Cambridge Medical School and currently works as a Consultant Surgeon at Southend Hospital. Olivier Picard is a communication consultant. Both have many years of experience in coaching medical school applicants and practicing doctors of all grades for medical interviews.

Customer Reviews

A really useful book for any high school student applying for medicine
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

A fantastic book
Having read a fair amount of advice on medical school interviews, this book really stands out as first rate. It contains extremely helpful information on what questions to expect, ranging from your motivation for and knowledge of a medical career, your personal experiences and transferable skills, to questions about the NHS and ethical dilemmas. The advice on the latter is very well informed and will save you countless hours trying to find the information yourself.

The scope of the book is very broad, suggesting answers to 151 questions, which of course is too much to retain in the memory. My advice is to concentrate on a core of about 20-30 questions, the perennial favourites that tend to feature in most interviews, so that you can answer them easily; but also make sure you have a reasonable background knowledge of the other questions, so that you're not caught out with nothing to say should they come up.

It should be stressed that this book is a guide, not a blueprint that you should regurgitate parrot-fashion. You'll need to read about medical stories in the news to stay up-to-date. You'll also need to work out your own answers to questions about your personal motivation and experiences. However, this book will provide you with excellent tips on how to structure your answers on these topics.

ISC Medical, the publishers of the book, also offer interview preparation courses for medical school applicants. I attended a one-on-one coaching session, which I found very useful. It was beneficial to have a mock interview with someone who wasn't a friend or family member, because it made the situation feel more formal, and therefore more like a proper interview. The person interviewing me also offered excellent feedback on my answers, which really helped to steer me in the right direction, and enabled me to put the finishing touches to the significant amount of preparation that I had done by this point.

I attended interviews at two medical school interviews and received offers from both. Neither this book or the interview skills sessions will guarantee you a place at medical school, but from my experience, they will guarantee you an improved performance.

Absolute Brilliance
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