At the beginning of your medical career, you will be attending one or more interviews for entering medical school. Since you will be making a lot of presentations during the tenure of your studies, it goes without saying that you can never be over-prepared. Here are some excellent resources for you to use that will help you prepare well to face a barrage of questions from even the most formidable kind of interview panel.
Where is the line between sounding confident and relaxed, and over-rehearsed? In an interview where should you keep your hands? Get help on such issues and plenty of other answers on preparing for your ’20-minute opportunity’ from people who have been there, done that – over 60,000 members of an online community of doctors, medical students and applicants to medical school. Hailing from all over the world, they share information, tips, insights and generous advice for the benefit of aspirants like you.
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The NHS Medical Careers, a career planning guide, is a major resource for doctors-to-be as well as aspiring specialists. By choosing to follow the four-step process of self assessment, career exploration, decision making and plan implementation, you have probably made the right decision in your effort at career development.
The NHS medical careers site make available several useful tools and resources for medical aspirants. Among these, you’ll find a few podcasts where experienced practitioners share personal insights and bring out the nuances in their specific career choice. You can access the entire podcast / audio-cast offering from the Medical Careers here.
Here is a resource where you can find an impressively long list of (online) medical courses based in the UK, and indeed elsewhere in Europe.
This ‘smart course guide’, an education search engine, provides users plenty of useful information on courses and a chance to contact course providers. The service also has additional features that allow you to search using advanced criteria – specific subjects, preferred regions, course type and even price range.
Access the listings of health courses in this education search engine here.
The British Medical Association BMA is a professional organisation that was started to take care of both professional and personal needs of members. Doctors in all branches of medicine all over the UK are represented.
As a student you will most likely benefit from membership to such an organisation, since you have access to information from people who have been there, done that. Continue reading →
Have you come across medical teaching podcasts to help trainee doctors revise for professional medical exams?
Dr Podcast provides podcasts of questions and model answers for the whole UK syllabus. Students have the model answer presented to them in just the way the examiners expect to hear it.
Using Dr Podcast students can listen to the perfect exam answer, experience the format of the questions they are likely to be asked and hear tips on how to excel in their exam. Continue reading →
While you prepare for your medical membership exams such as MRCP, MRCS, MRCPCH, MRCGP, MRCOG, who is your companion-in-preparation? Your best choice are online providers of revision material.
As an earnest aspirant for memberships that will surely make a world of difference to your career path, you will certainly like to put your knowledge to the test before the final exams, to check out your depth of know-how and also to boost confidence levels. Test and revision tools compiled by dedicated professionals in the field will offer you the best options to ensure the right kind and level of preparation needed to get over every higher examination hurdle successfully. You could choose books, courses or just online revision material, or combinations of these as part of your prep. Continue reading →
As a doctor or as a student in medicine, you are likely to give considerable thought to pursuing specialty training. The information service for careers in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) will guide and help you understand, choose and follow the right course of action to achieve your career goal.
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If you are looking for health, alternative, chiropractic, professional training – BrightCourse.com tries to offer information on online continuing education for medical practitioners.
