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We interview applicants in order to get to know you better and to try to understand how
your attitudes, creativity and personality will contribute to you as a medical student and as
a doctor. There are no ‘right answers’ to the interview questions. The interviewers are
genuinely interested in your expression of your personal opinions and feelings, your
discussion of your own experiences and your ability to explore issues from a number of
different viewpoints.
Here is a list of topics we will ask about and some example questions, so you can have
some idea of what to expect. Do not try to learn answers to these questions. You will do
best in your interview if you listen carefully to what you are asked, and then try to answer
the question you are asked, rather than if you give a prepared answer. Candidates who
appear over-coached put themselves at a disadvantage.
The first interview question will be about an article you will have been given to read while
waiting outside the door of the interview room, followed by seven unrelated questions, one
corresponding to each of the sections below.
Knowledge of Problem Based Learning and the Hull York Medical School
Aim: To explore what you know about the course at Hull York Medical School (HYMS)
including problem-based learning, and whether you will thrive in this particular learning
environment. An understanding of Problem Based Learning (PBL) IS ESSENTIAL. Before
interview, think about how you prefer to learn.
1. Tell us 3 advantages of the HYMS course and explain why those advantages will specifically
suit you.
2. Why will a problem-based learning course suit you? Tell us about 2 other aspects of the
programme that will also suit you.
3. What appeals to you about the course here at Hull York Medical School? Why do you think it
will suit you?
4. This course will require a good deal of independent study. How have you managed this
approach to learning in the past?
5. What do you prefer about problem-based learning to the more traditional forms of teaching?
What are the other distinctive aspects of the HYMS course?
6. Could you comment on how PBL at Hull York Medical School differs from other PBL courses?
Team work
Aim: To explore your own experience of the challenges and problems of working in a team.
Think about when you have been in a group learning activity, a sports team or a work
team. What have you observed and thought about in team situations?
1. Thinking about your membership of a team (in a work, sport, school or other setting), can
you tell us about the most important contributions you made to the team?
2. Think of a team situation where your communication skills have been vital. Tell us about the
situation and your contribution.
3. Think about a team that you have been in: What do you think is the role of humour in team
working?
4. What aspect of your work experience did you find the most challenging, and why?
Personal Insight
Aim: To explore your capacity to reflect on and change your own behaviour. Does your way
of thinking promote insight?
1. What do you think will be the most difficult things you might encounter during your training?
How will you deal with them?
2. Is there such a thing as positive criticism? How do you think you will cope with criticism from
colleagues or other health professionals?
3. How will you cope with criticism from colleagues or other health professionals?
4. Which of your personal qualities do other people find frustrating? What might you do about
this?
5. You will probably have got high marks throughout school. On this medical course most marks
are awarded as ‘satisfactory’ or not. How will you feel about seeming ‘average’ in this new
situation?
6. How would you cope with the death of a patient as a result of your mistake?
7. Think of a time (that you can tell us about) when you said sorry to someone? How did that
change your relationship with that person?
8. Some people are always very certain about what they believe is right. Some people are never
certain. What kind of person are you in this regard?
9. What makes a good working relationship?
10. Describe a work or leisure situation where you have felt stressed. How did you cope and what
have you learned from the experience.
1. Do you think it is better to give food aid or vaccines to a very poor c ountry? Why?
2. Why can’t doctors give a guarantee that a medical or surgical procedure will be successful?
3. What are the arguments for and against non-essential surgery being available free on the
health service?
4. In what ways do you think doctors can promote good health, other than direct treatment of
illness?
5. What does the current government see as the national priorities in health care? Do you agree
with these?
6. Should doctors have a role in regulating contact sports, such as boxing?
7. Do you think doctors should ever go on strike?
1. Imagine a world in two hundred years’ time where doctors no longer exist. In what ways do
you think they could be replaced?
2. You are holding a party with a medical theme – how would you make it memorable?
3. Describe as many different uses as you can for a mobile phone charger.
4. How many different ways can we improve the process of selecting students for HYMS?
5. Imagine you had six months with enough money and nothing you had to do, tell us the most
imaginative (and non-medical) way you’d spend the time.
6. If you were shipwrecked on a desert island with all your physical needs - like food and water
taken care of, what three imaginary items would you like to have with you?
7. Your house catches fire in the night. You are told you can pick up one object to take with you
when escaping. What would it be, and why?
8. Can you think of something fun (not medical) that you’d like to invent, and tell us about it,
please?
9. Fashion in clothes has changed hugely over the past 400 years. What do you think we’ll be
wearing in 200 years time?