Background & Motivation for medicine

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1. Tell us about yourself

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Seems simple, right?
It’s not. “This is difficult because people tend to meander through their whole resumes and mention personal or irrelevant information in answering,” says Dawn Chandler, professor of management at Cal Polytech’s business arm. Jana Fallon, a VP of staffing and recruitment for Prudential, agrees. “Keep your answer to a minute or two at most. Cover four topics: early years, education, work history, and recent career experience. Emphasize this last subject. Remember that this is likely to be a warm-up question. Don’t waste your best points on it. Keep to your professional career! (e.g., don’t cover your family life, weekend activities, pets, collections, etc.)

Question 2

2. Take us through your personal statement.

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Question 3

3. Why do you want to be a doctor? What do you want to achieve in medicine?

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Question 4

4. What have you read or experienced in order to prepare you for medicine?

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Question 5

5. Why do you believe you have the ability to undertake the study and work involved?

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Question 6

6. Why do you want to be a doctor, rather than another profession that is caring or intellectually challenging?

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Question 7

7. What do you think being a doctor entails, apart from treating patients?

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Question 8

8. What branch of medicine do you think would interest you? Why?

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Question 9

9. When you think about becoming a doctor, what do you look forward to most and least?

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Question 10

10. What impact do you hope to make in the field of medicine?

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Question 11

11. What one question would you ask if you were interviewing others to study medicine? What would you most like us to ask you in this interview?

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Question 12

12. Why study medicine rather than any other health care profession? How do you think medicine differs from other health professions?

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Question 13

13. What aspect of healthcare attracts you to medicine?

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Question 14

14. Why do you want to be a doctor? If you were to become a doctor, how would you wish your patients to describe you and why?

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Question 15

15. What steps have you taken to try to find out whether you really do want to become a doctor?

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Question 16

16. What things do you think might make people inclined to drop out of medical training?

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Question 17

17. There are many different ways of helping people. Why do you want to study medicine, rather than working in any other health or social care professions?

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Question 18

18. Can you tell us about any particular life experiences that you think may help or hinder you in a career in medicine?

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Question 19

19. How would you dissuade someone from going into Medicine.

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Question 20

20. How old are you when you become a consultant?

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