Future Doctors

This book is intended to help students, graduates, and mature and international applicants prepare for medical school admissions. We use our combined wealth of experience to offer specific, personal guidance to help YOU maximise your application’s chance of SUCCESS.

We detail the basics and little-known tips and tricks for EACH STEP of the application process to allow you to take full advantage of your existing and future experiences.

THE INTERVIEW can seem like the largest hurdle of the medical school application. However, we have analysed common questions across all universities and interview formats, and structured our findings into distinct categories, each given with STRUCTURES to help you best recognise and tackle them.

We help you make the strongest application possible with specific, personal guidance to fully display the strengths of your experiences and personality.

In this book we discuss:

- The Ideal Applicant: what medical schools look for in applicants

- Before the Interview: how to best prepare your application

- Important Health Topics: background information to make you stand out

- Common Diseases: diseases you should be aware of

- Medical Ethics: how to approach any ethical scenario

- Interview Skills: how to give the best performance at interviews

- Interview Day: how to plan for the day

- General Interview Questions: the common questions you will face

- Multiple Mini-Interviews: how to specifically deal with multiple mini-interviews

- Deferred Entry/Gap Year, Graduate and International Applicants: information specific to each group and how to maximise the strength of their application

- Oxbridge Admissions: specific preparation for the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

Mr CK Sinha is a consultant paediatric surgeon in London and an established, world-renowned author. He has published and edited over 16 books and 125 articles in journals, books, and abstracts. One of his most popular books, Handbook of Paediatric Surgery published by Springer, London-New York, received the British Medical Association Book Appreciation Award 2010 and has been downloaded over 1.6 million times. He is an experienced interviewer in medical school admissions, a trainer at the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Edinburgh, and a professor of paediatric surgery. He also leads the SARP medical school admission interview courses to great success.

Dr Ankit Sinha was a medical student at University College London, UK, and has vast experience in the interviews and selection process for medical students. He has carried out research into functional photoacoustic spectroscopy and through this, has gained a BSc (Hons) in medical sciences with medical physics and bioengineering from University College London. His commitment to research is exemplified by his publications and presentations looking into medical student education. He has pursued his interest in education by setting up programmes to promote access to medicine and is the director for SARP medical school interview courses.

The authors are fortunate to have received contributions from numerous talented individuals (doctors and medical students) across a wide range of academic and medical institutions, both nationally and internationally.