Motivation Flashcards
Why do you want to be a doctor?
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How do you think your friends/teachers/future patients would describe you?
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What have you read or experienced in regards to medicine?
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Why do you think you have the ability to do the course and be a doctor?
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Why do you think you have the ability to do the course and be a doctor?
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What branch of medicine would interest you? Why?
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When you think about being a doctor, what do you most/least look forward to?
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What impact would you hope to make in medicine?
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If you were interviewing for medicine what questions would you ask and why?
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Why do you want to study medicine as opposed to any other health or caring profession?
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Why do you think people drop out of medicine courses?
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• Tell me about any life experience you have had that may help/hinder you in a medicine
career?
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What are your views on nurses playing a much greater role in medical services and doing
work formally undertaken by doctors?
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of being in a team?
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Tell me about your outside interests and hobbies and will you keep them up at medical school?
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Tell me 2 personal qualities you have that will help you be a good doctor
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Tell me 2 personal shortcomings you have that you think you will have to overcome to be a
good doctor
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What relevance are non science A levels for medicine?
Evaluative skills- English Lit
• Tell me just one thing about yourself to help me get a sense of you
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• If you could change just 2 things about yourself what would they be and why would you
change them?
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What qualities do you have that others value in you?
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Why are doctors and the NHS in the media so much?
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Do you think doctors and the NHS get bad media coverage? If yes why Where do you see
the NHS going?
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Why do people in the North of England on average live 5 years less that people in the South?
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Should the government intervene to try and alter this?
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What is holistic medicine and is it within the NHS remit?
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Is the media portrayal of doctors accurate? In what way does it influence the public’s view of
doctors?
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• Does the bulk of medical treatment take place in hospitals or the community?
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