Course Description

At MedPrep, we understand that successfully completing the GAMSAT is just the beginning! That's why we've designed online preparatory courses that help you realise your ultimate goal, step by step, right from the time you sit GAMSAT all the way up to your admission to medical school.

Make No Mistake!  All Serious Candidates Prepare For This Interview...
...though most prepare poorly.

In recent years, a number of Australian, UK and Irish medical schools have shifted educational focus away from an information-heavy curriculum to a concept-based curriculum. There is currently more emphasis on problem-solving, holistic thinking, and cross-disciplinary study. Be careful not to dismiss this important point because it is reflected in the interview. Every good tool matches its task. In this case, the tool is the interview (used, in part, to measure your thought-process against that of other candidates), and the task is to determine how likely it is that you'll succeed in medical school and as a practicing doctor.

MedPrep's Professional Development Team has identified the key proficiencies and problem-solving strategies that are necessary to navigate the interview-mine-field successfully. We believe that, with the aid of these skills, you will acquire an important edge over your competition.

In addition to containing a compendium of previous years medical entrance interview questions at 9 Australian and 4 UK and 2 Irish graduate medical schools, as well as analysis of the interview encounter itself, this coveted course is invaluable. Following a trial interview scenario designed to reveal strengths and weaknesses, descriptions of, and advice regarding, interview elements such as the hypothetical scenarios, detechnicalising exercises, group activities, thought puzzles, clinical simulations, ethical debates, and personal inquiries are developed. Key proficiencies and problem-solving strategies that are imperative to interview success are elaborated within both the traditional structured interview scheme and the new multiple mini-interview (MMI) format. Because beliefs, attitudes, social graces, and cognitive skills evolve over many years, these cannot be changed or instilled overnight. For this reason, MedPrep provides this module so that your interview preparation can begin early on. MedPrep stays with you all the way.

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• Immediately accessible upon purchase (after March 2008)
• 30, 60, or 90 day study plan
• Analysis of previous years' interview questions at 4 UK graduate medical schools including:
  1. University of Nottingham
  2. Peninsula Medical School
  3. St Georges Medical School
  4. University of Wales at Swansea
• Analysis of previous years’ interview questions at 2 Irish graduate medical schools including:
  1. Royal College of Surgeons Ireland (RCSI)
  2. University College Dublin
• Analysis of previous years' interview questions at 9 Australian graduate medical schools including:
  1. Flinders University
  2. Australian National University
  3. University of Melbourne
  4. University of Queensland
  5. University of Sydney
  6. Griffith University
  7. Notre Dame University
  8. University of Western Australia 
  9. University of Wollongong
  10. Deakin University (subject to AMC accreditation)
  11. Monash University (subject to AMC accreditation)
• Analysis of the new Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) format
• Deconstruction of hypothetical quandaries and ethical dilemmas
• Illumination of detechnicalising exercises
• Explication of logic scenarios and thought puzzles
• Illustration of  controversial discussion topics and role plays
• Examples of spatial skills assessments