AMEPP^® - INTERVIEW PREPARATION

As part of our commitment to offering the nation's most comprehensive Preparation Courses and Resources, AMEPP offers an intense interview-preparation workshop. The workshop is designed to help candidates achieve their ultimate goal. Using a step by step mentoring approach, AMEPP will be there with you all the way to the entrance interview. AMEPP's core instructors have been to interviews at both undergraduate and graduate level for admission into medicine.

After a candidate has successfully obtained a good test score in UMAT or GAMSAT, the final hurdle before achieving your ultimate goal of getting into medicine, dentistry or the desired health science course is the entrance Interview. Many candidates feel intimidated or apprehensive by the prospect of the interview, because of its lasting significance.

In recent years, a number of Australian and International (New Zealand) medical schools have shifted pedagogic 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 entrance interview.

Whereas the first stages in the admission process (reviewing your test and academic scores) may seem cold and calculating, the entrance interview introduces the element of humanity into the admission process. All candidates should be aware that these days medical schools are not only looking for intelligent, motivated candidates, but also personal attributes and qualities deemed to be important for success in the course and important in later practice. Do not make the mistake of thinking that the interview is a simple and straightforward test of your character, like you may have experienced in the past in job interviews. In its own way the entrance interview is a thinking test.

Once you have reached the entrance interview stage, a candidate should realise that everyone's test numeric credentials are probably close to comparable. The quality of your interview is therefore likely to make a major difference. In fact performance in the entrance interview is used in the weighing of candidates for selection into all the graduate entry programs and in most undergraduate entry programs.

Many aspiring candidates go into their first interview completely unprepared, hoping to see what it's like and maybe getting the hang of it. Now nobody in their right mind would attempt to run an Olympic marathon untrained and unprepared, just to see what it was like. The same principle or analogy applies here. Ideally a candidate is more likely to minimize the potential for disaster if he/she can anticipate the questions that they may ask and formulate the essence of their responses. AMEPP believes that a candidate is more likely to give a quality response if they have considered, thought through and verbalised their expectations and motivation.

Prepare with AMEPP

AMEPP's Professional Team of instructors and consultants have identified the key areas that are necessary to help prepare you for the entrance interview. The interview preparation course is a group-learning session that is designed to help candidates develop a confident approach to the entrance interview. Communication skills, self identity, cooperativeness and a genuine motivation to practice medicine will be discussed within the context of developing a framework through which participants can clarify their motivation and their expectations not only of the entry interview itself but also of the course they are intending to study

REMEMBER, ONCE GRANTED AN ENTRANCE INTERVIEW, YOUR FATE IS IN YOUR HANDS. MAKE NO MISTAKE, PREPARATION IS A MUST!

AMEPP will address the following:

The aim of the Entrance Interview
The nature of structured, semi-structured and panel interviews.
The various criteria considered by many medical schools to assess candidates

Common interview questions
How to approach "fictional or hypothetical situations"... and much much more.