Motivation

Question 1

Why do you want to be a doctor?

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Question 2

How do you think your friends/teachers/future patients would describe you?

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Question 3

What have you read or experienced in regards to medicine?

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Question 4

Why do you think you have the ability to do the course and be a doctor?

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Question 5

Why do you think you have the ability to do the course and be a doctor?

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Question 6

What branch of medicine would interest you? Why?

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Question 7

When you think about being a doctor, what do you most/least look forward to?

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Question 8

What impact would you hope to make in medicine?

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Question 9

If you were interviewing for medicine what questions would you ask and why?

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Question 10

Why do you want to study medicine as opposed to any other health or caring profession?

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Question 11

Why do you think people drop out of medicine courses?

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Question 12

• Tell me about any life experience you have had that may help/hinder you in a medicine
career?

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Question 13

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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Question 14

What are the advantages and disadvantages of being in a team?

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Question 15

Tell me about your outside interests and hobbies and will you keep them up at medical school?

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Question 16

Tell me 2 personal qualities you have that will help you be a good doctor

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Question 17

Tell me 2 personal shortcomings you have that you think you will have to overcome to be a
good doctor

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Question 18

What relevance are non science A levels for medicine?

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Evaluative skills- English Lit

Question 19

• Tell me just one thing about yourself to help me get a sense of you

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Question 20

• If you could change just 2 things about yourself what would they be and why would you
change them?

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Question 21

What qualities do you have that others value in you?

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Question 22

Why are doctors and the NHS in the media so much?

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Question 23

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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Question 24

Why do people in the North of England on average live 5 years less that people in the South?

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Question 25

Should the government intervene to try and alter this?

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Question 26

What is holistic medicine and is it within the NHS remit?

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Question 27

Is the media portrayal of doctors accurate? In what way does it influence the public’s view of
doctors?

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Question 28

• Does the bulk of medical treatment take place in hospitals or the community?

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