General Flashcards
Why do you want to study medicine?
Patient representation:
- Struggle getting hearing aids due to age
- CISV & Oswin Project
- Women, children and ethnic minorities recieve unequal healthcare
Interest in neurological science:
- Grandfather has alzeihmers
- Genome by Matt Ridley (CAG repeats)
Other science:
- Omphalocele baby
What qualities does a good doctor possess?
Medical:
- Motivation to learn
- Knowledgable and skilled
People:
- Patient and empathetic
- Supportive
- Explains information in an accessable way
How do you think you will handle the stress of medicine?
During:
- Preperation
- Team work
Outlets:
- Friends and brother
- Hiking and spending time outdoors
Why not nursing?
Similarities:
- Patient care and contact
Science:
- Medical pursuits
- Diagnosis and puzzels
Personal:
- Making decisions
- Taking responsibilty for my actions
What steps have you taken to confirm that you want to be a doctor?
Work experience with multidisciplinary team:
- Valuable and interesting roles
- Allowed me to see full process
- Less diagnostic
Work experience with a consultant:
- Ward rounds and paper work
- Enjoyed the overview of ward rounds
- Interesting cases (omphalacele)
EPQ research:
- Ethics of medicine
- Pros and cons
What do you think being a doctor entails?
Knowledge:
- Gathering info from patient
- Collating symptoms to reach a diagnosis
- Establishing treatment plan
Treatment:
- Surgery
- Prescription of medication
- Advising lifestyle changes
Personal:
- Communicating with and often leading a multidisciplinary team
- Listening to patients needs and concerns and adapting treatment plan
- Explaining diagnosis and treatment plan to patient
How have your experiences prepared you for a career in medicine?
Learning:
- Taking on optional academic projects such as EPQ and CREST award
- Balancing heavy work load and personal life
- Interest in the science of learning
- Teachers taught me about the enjoyment of learning
- Recovering from hearing deficit taught me about the value of education
Personal:
- Teamwork through DofE and CISV
- Working with diverse people through junior school, CISV and Oswin Project
- Patience through working with kids
Informed:
- Talking with consultants and junior doctors
- Long hours, effect on personal lives, emotional difficulties
- Talking with multidisciplinary showed me more about teamwork and the whole picture of healthcare
Tell us about your experience of clinical medicine
- Wide variety of shadowing experience including GP, consultant and S&L and OT
- In hospital and on community visits
- GP, S&L and OT taught me about full frame work of treatment
- FINISH
What personal attributes did you develop during your work experience?
What areas of medicine are you interested in?
Neonatology:
- Birth defects and their treatment
- Rising number of premature babies with increasing life expectency
- Baby with omphalocele
Neurology:
- Brain is core to who we are
- Particular interest in degenerative neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Freidrich’s Ataxia
- Interested in how to treat to limit symptoms
- Strong interest in genetics (Genome by Matt Ridley)
What are the biggest challenges facing the health service?
Understaffing:
- 10% of NHS jobs are unfulfilled
- Number of NHS workers from abroad has reduced, particularly post-Brexit
- Waiting time targets, both appointment and in A&E, are not being met
- Staff burnout
Underfunding:
- £30 billion a year gap between funding and necessary spending
- Lower quality of care
- Lack of beds (meaning resources and staffing)
- Contributes to understaffing
- Particular underfunding in mental health
Tell me about yourself
In what way have you shown your commitment to studying medicine?
Work experience:
- GP
- Peads wards
Volunteering:
- CISV
- Oswin project
- Primary school
Medsoc:
- Weekly or biweekly society
- Presentation about thalidomide
Supercuricular:
- Genome by Matt Ridley
- A short introduction to medical ethics
- War Doctor
Why did you carry out work experience in a particular area?
Peads wards:
- Already do a lot of child centered things (CISV and junior school help)
- Wanted to explore the medocal side
- Also wanted experience in a hospital environment
Multidisciplinary (OT and S&T):
- Wanted to see whole team
- Observe what role the consultant played as well as the therapists
- A chance to observe community work
GP:
- Understand how first point of contact links to hospital
- Learn more about general practice overall
- Observed team meeting, learning how to apply government targets
How do you handle failure?
- Feel the feelings
- Talk to teachers/seniors etc
- Work out what went wrong
- Make a plan
- Tackle it again
- Would consider myself to be pretty resiliant
- Periodicity test
What major changes can you think of that will occur in medicine in the next 10 years?
Nano-medicine:
- Diagnosis and drug delivery
DNA sequencing:
- Routine sequencing at birth
- Drugs tailored to DNA
Stem-cell medicine:
- Less need for donor organs
- Growing organs from stem cells
Role of the doctor:
- Virtual chats and phone calls
- Remain central
- Technology assist but not replace
How do you think the roles of doctors will change in 25 years?
New technology:
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Precision and surgery
Doctor wellbeing will improve:
- Hopefully begin to improve understaffing problem
- Emphasis on mental health
Extremes of patients:
- Aging population
- More premature babies surving
What do you find most challenging about medicine?
Unsociable hours:
- Can set you apart from friends in other careers
- Nights and weekends can be more mentally challenging for works
- Logistical family difficulties
What do you think you will enjoy most about medicine?
Constant learning:
- Genuine love of learning
- Always new developments
People:
- Working in a team with coworkers
- Interacting with a wide variety of patients
What interests do you have outside of medicine?
- Martial arts
- Drawing and stone sculpting
Care of children:
- CISV
Prison welfare:
- Oswin project
- History coursework
- Reading prison doctor article
Do you think your A-level scores to date reflect your abilities?
Yes:
- School takes our predicted grades from our Yr 12 final exams with very little variation
- Worked hard in the lead up
- Continue to put effort in
Do you prefer to study independently or in a group?
- Prefer to learn in a group for range of views and knowledge
- Prefer to revise alone from maximum focus
Silent study:
- Spending time with my friends
- Quiet so don’t distract each other
Which extracurricular are you most proud of?
Martial arts:
- 10 years
- Almost at black belt
- Patterns
- Korean
- Sparring
- Power tests
What will you do if your not accepted into medical school this year?
- Take a gap year, hopefully doing international work or volunteering
- Gain more work experience
- Reflect on what went wrong with my application this year
- Reapply next year
How old will you be when you become a consultant?
How would you respond if a member of the team was uncooperative?
Identify problem:
- Is there another reason? e.g lack of sleep, personal life
- Establish there view point
Understand:
- Make an effort to understand
- Ask them to talk through their logic
Solve:
- Consider compromising
- If you are in charge and firmly believe compromising to be wrong you must insist on your decision
- Explain why decision has been made
There are hundreds of applicants that are just as qualified, why should we offer you a place?
Hardworking:
- Intelligence will only take you so far
- Motivated by a love of learning
Personable:
- Good at connecting with people
- Enjoy interacting with the public (Cafe 16)
What do you know about Problem Based Learning? Why would you go to a medical school that uses PBL?
- Presented with a problem
- Researching and coming to a solution
- More engaging and memorable
- Team work
- Variety of opinions and views
What are your strengths and who benefits from them?
People skills:
- Tone and language
- Connecting with a variety of people
- Oswin project, CISV, Yr 2 helper
- Friends and people I care for (kids and brother)
Organised and disciplined:
- Timelines and planning
- Meeting deadlines
- Schoolwork and extra curriculars like medsoc
- Myself and people I work with
What are your weaknesses?
Do you read any magazines or papers regularly?
- Read the paper at breakfast
- Stay on top of news
- Break before a busy day
- Stimulating and conversational
Tell me about a time you went above and beyond what was expected of you
CISV chaos mini-camp:
- Had no leadership experience
- Those in charge fell through
- Myself and a friend in charge of 20 kids
- We stepped up, ran activities and ensured the kids were safe
- Senior leadership were impressed
What medical problem do you think we will never be able to cure?
Mental health:
- Not a one-size fits all solution
- Would involve removing all trauma from the world
- Further develop therapy techniques and medication
What do you think is the most pressing issue in medicine today?
Understaffing and staff burnout:
- Striking
- Increased number of staff working part time or quitting
- Increased staff mental health issues
- Waiting times and impact on patient care
Do you think scientific research is an important part of medicine and why?
Yes
- This is key to medicine
- Development of treatments impossible without research
What medical procedure have you seen?
Do you think your GCSE scores reflect your abilities?
Yes
- Worked hard and did well
- School did in-person full subject exams
- Coped well despite months of online learning and covid isolation
Do you know anyone in the medical profession? How have the influenced you in wanting to become a doctor?
My aunt:
- Leading medical researcher
- Taught me about the science of medicine
- Serious drive and dedication
My friends mum:
- Incredibly charitable women
- Taught me a lot about the purpose of medicine for healing and connecting with people
What challenged you most during your work experience?
Establishing my place:
- Single day work experience
- Introducing myself and being polite
- Balancing being in the best position to learn and not being in the way
- Managing expectations of parents with regards to my experience
E.g:
- Being asked to hold baby still while his dressing was changed
- Nervous mother asked me a question about the frequency of his condition
- Spoke calmly and resassuringly
- Explained my position as a work experience student
- Offered to bring over a junior doctor to speak more to her
Do you enjoy working in a team?
I really enjoy working in a team:
- When goals are aligned, teamwork produces a much greater volume and quality of ideas
- When a participant I enjoy seeing how my work can combine with others and completing my section
- Also enjoy the chance for leadership, to delegate and organise
What do you intend to gain from a medical education?
What drives you?
What are you passionate about?
What is your greatest skill?
Who is affected by your weaknesses?
How do you handle criticism?
Tell me about a time that you took a leadership role
What are the attributes of a good leader?
What strategies do you use to stay focused?
Should patients decide what treatments they receive?
What other proffession make a contribution to the treatment and management of patients?
How will you know if you are being a good doctor?
What would you do to improve the NHS?
Your family member asks you to write a prescription for medication. What would you do in this situation?
Should the NHS fund the treatment of self-inflicted diseases?
Should the NHS be involved in non-essential surgery?
Describe your style of communicating and interacting with others
What is medicine?
You studied History at A-level. How will this be useful to you in your career in medicine?
What do you do when you run across something you don’t know the answer to?
What was your last volunteer activity?
What achievement have you worked hardest to achieve?
Are you planning to carry out an intercalated BSc?
What is your prefered learning style?
Do you have a favourite quote?
Tell me about a time you faced conflict with another individual.
