Why Medicine? (A Doctor's Thoughts) | Med School Interviews

Hello! Jumping back into some older content and frantically trying to address your questions surrounding medical school interviews. Here I'm trying to reconsider the question 'why medicine' from my position working as a doctor as opposed to a medical student when the first round of videos was created.

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction & Views as a Doctor
01:40 What are you getting in for?
03:45 Science & First Principles
05:44 Working with People
08:00 Other Options
09:35 Apprenticeship
10:45 Leadership

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UKCAT / INTERVIEWS:

[nene-bp]

In a world of “let’s quit medicine” to become an “influencer”, “coach”, “YouTuber” choose to be an Ollie. Thank you Ollie for reminding us WHY MEDICINE.

[ueenelisabeth]

I love how you explain things in a way that respects everyone, without looking down on other people's beliefs and lifestyles.

[Mona_A]

Thank you for this video, I have an interview in just 3 hours 😭 reviewing your entire playlist right now!! Thank you so much for the help.

[lvljm]

So glad this medical school interviews series is back! keep it up Ollie

[Kristielina]

this video is excellent!! Thank you for the overview of what a doctor does and learns about in their journey ❤

[R]

Thank you so much! This was very beneficial. I have a question, how can I deal with questions that ask me about "give me an example of a time when you ...etc" when I did not experience that specific situation.

[saanviganesh]

Can you do a video on preparing for an article that’s sent to you to read prior to the interview?

[neuro]

Hey, great video! Don’t know if you’ve seen but the UKFPO are considering removing the EPM and SJT from the allocation process for the foundation programme for around 2024. Making in ‘preference-informed’ only. It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on it as I’m not sure what to think… gone from joking about how much of a lottery it is to it becoming a literal lottery for competitive deaneries!

[NotSmasher]

My 4th and final med interview tomorrow 😅😭

[GeorgiaPaddington]

Question- I have been looking at previous MMI questions and quite a few are scientific. For example, Huntington's Disease and CRISPR-Cas. Are we likely to have science-based questions in the interview? Thank you!

[Kin-ufep]

Thanks for that...
How do you answer"Should patients pay for medical services?"

I have interviews in 3 weeks, I'm in Zimbabwe

[geraldinemiller]

Are you hoping to remain in the north for your next job Ollie

[johnalexander]

PSA: don't do medicine if you want to reduce suffering in the world... The number of sentient beings suffering increases by extending human life. Wish someone had told me this before I applied for med.