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2018

2018-01-10 · Euthanasia - Medical Ethics and Law at the end of life — Ali says there is a lot of confusion around the terms active euthanasia, passive euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, and many medicine applicants use them in the wrong context. — 00:00:00
2018-01-10 · Euthanasia - Medical Ethics and Law at the end of life — recommendation: Ali says applicants asked about euthanasia should structure their answer with the four principles, then add the legal status of euthanasia and perhaps the Dr Cox case, which would help them stand out. — 00:15:27
2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, presents the fourth video of his medical ethics mini-series for medicine interviews, on legalising assisted suicide. — 00:00:00
2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — recommendation: Ali says the law on assisted suicide is not very high-yield for medicine interviews: applicants revising should focus on the ethics of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, which interviewers are very likely to ask about. — 00:00:58
2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — announcement: Ali says a few more videos of his medical ethics series and a few more about interviews are coming, before the channel moves into more uncharted territory. — 00:26:11
2018-01-27 · Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law — recommendation: Ali says medicine interview applicants should be aware of the ethical points raised by the Charlie Gard case. — 00:08:27
2018-02-17 · Medicine Application - No offers? — recommendation: Ali says an applicant who got medicine interviews but no offer had a strong enough application and should work on interview performance. — 00:03:32
2018-02-17 · Medicine Application - No offers? — Ali says doctors he has spoken to say the job goes to whoever performs or prepares best at interview, not the best person, so the interview is the most important part of an application. — 00:03:32
2018-02-17 · Medicine Application - No offers? — recommendation: Ali says improving medicine interview performance mostly comes from practising with friends, family, teachers and anyone else available. — 00:04:01
2018-02-17 · Medicine Application - No offers? — recommendation: a guest: The same student advises asking for feedback after an unsuccessful medicine interview, since some places give it, so you know what to fix. — 00:11:18
2018-02-17 · Medicine Application - No offers? — recommendation: a guest: The same student advises rejected applicants to write to universities asking why an interview went badly or why they were not interviewed, and to work on that feedback. — 00:12:39
2018-04-05 · Finding out my Foundation Year Jobs - Quick update — Ali found meeting viewers in person when they came for their Cambridge interviews a pretty incredible experience. — 00:02:44

2017

2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, presents 15 tips from 10 medical students on preparing for medicine interviews, for a panel interview, an MMI or an Oxbridge interview. — 00:00:00
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — recommendation: a guest: A student prepared for medicine interviews by writing down every question they might ask and shortlisting the work experience to talk about, such as a year as a healthcare assistant. — 00:01:01
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — recommendation: a guest: The same student kept only one bullet point per experience in mind and talked around it, because unscripted interview answers come across as more fluid. — 00:01:59
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — recommendation: a guest: Another student listed the likely interview questions (why medicine, why this medical school, what you learned on work experience) and answered them in bullet points, since written paragraphs tempt you to learn and recite them. — 00:01:59
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — recommendation: a guest: A third student says memorised paragraphs leave you stressing over the next line in a medicine interview; note the core ideas, not the words, like a lecturer who stops reading the slides and becomes more engaging. — 00:02:36
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — recommendation: a guest: A student advises getting friends to fire unexpected questions at you, since medicine interview practice is about learning to be spontaneous, not getting the right answers. — 00:03:04
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — a guest: One student gave a book of 100 interview questions to a friend's family, their mother, brother, friends and teachers for 20-minute mock interviews and asked for critical feedback; every time they were told they spoke too fast. — 00:03:04
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — recommendation: a guest: The same student says that speaking at what feels too slow is about the right speed in an interview, since fast answers go all over the place. (hedged) — 00:03:50
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — recommendation: a guest: A student advises having friends or family ask your interview questions and comment on your mannerisms, where you look and your body language, to find bad habits when talking. — 00:04:39
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — recommendation: a guest: A student says the key to medicine interview preparation is being comfortable and confident: Cambridge and Oxford throw curveballs, and the only preparation is a mindset that lets you think things through and reply concisely. — 00:05:08
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — a guest: That student prepared by doing as many practice interviews as possible with teachers and parents, to practise staying calm and confident even when the answer was poor. — 00:05:08
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — recommendation: a guest: A student found a mock interview with a friend's father, a consultant used to interviewing applicants, among the most useful, and advises having people test you on basic sciences for Oxbridge. — 00:05:52
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — recommendation: a guest: The same student advises asking any doctors you know basic questions on professionalism, ethics and the NHS for clinical interviews, since people you approach will often be more than happy to help. — 00:06:33
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — recommendation: a guest: The student says practice gets you used to answering under pressure and to saying answers aloud, an important skill that makes the real medicine interview more comfortable. — 00:07:02
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — recommendation: a guest: A student advises preparing in a way that fits you: work out your interview weakness, such as sounding flippant or arrogant ("GPs only deal with coughs and colds") or getting very anxious, and tackle it. — 00:07:02
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — recommendation: a guest: The same student advises mock interviews with parents' friends or colleagues you don't know well, to replicate the stress of talking to a stranger. — 00:07:37
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — recommendation: a guest: A student advises leaving your ego at the door when getting critical feedback, in medicine interview preparation and in the rest of life: don't get defensive, and work on the parts you feasibly can. — 00:08:38
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — recommendation: a guest: A student advises finding out about the places you apply to; before applying to Birmingham this student looked up fun things to do there, such as a mini golf place at Star City. — 00:09:09
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — recommendation: a guest: A student advises keeping up with current events in health and science before medicine interviews; this student read BBC Health every day on the train to school. — 00:09:09
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — a guest: A student says spontaneity in a medicine interview is good, but facts and current affairs cannot be improvised and need preparing. — 00:09:46
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — a guest: Another student read the health articles on BBC News and the latest Student BMJ before interviews and, for the more scientific Cambridge interview, read up on all their school subjects. — 00:09:46
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — recommendation: a guest: A student advises keeping go-to positive thoughts for nerves before an interview: past successes, stressful times that turned out well, and people who believe in you. — 00:10:28
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — recommendation: a guest: A student advises treating a medicine interview as a conversation in which the interviewer is getting to know you, because medicine is largely communication; being honest then shows in your tone. — 00:11:13
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — recommendation: a guest: A student advises talking honestly and genuinely in a medicine interview; a wordy style meant to sound intelligent comes across as stiff and weird. — 00:11:44
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — recommendation: a guest: A student advises not over-preparing for a medicine interview but trusting yourself to answer some questions spontaneously, because spontaneity adds realness. — 00:12:13
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — recommendation: a guest: A student's last tip is to relax: the more you prepare answers in advance, the more unexpected questions throw you, and the interview is a chat. — 00:12:13
2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — announcement: Ali says more videos are coming in the next few weeks on specific parts of medicine interviews, such as answering common questions and Oxbridge interviews. — 00:12:41
2017-10-15 · Interview Tips - How to answer "Why Medicine?" — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, gives his take on answering "Why medicine?" in medicine interviews, seven tips from medical students and three example answers. — 00:00:00
2017-10-15 · Interview Tips - How to answer "Why Medicine?" — Ali says the mock answers in the video are not model answers, so viewers need not make their answers sound like them. — video description
2017-10-15 · Interview Tips - How to answer "Why Medicine?" — Ali does not like "Why medicine?" as an interview question: interviewers know everyone prepares for it, quite a lot of universities no longer ask it, and that makes it a sort of useless question. — 00:00:37
2017-10-15 · Interview Tips - How to answer "Why Medicine?" — Ali says those who do well with "Why medicine?" genuinely have a specific moment to point to, such as friends who spent time in Great Ormond Street as children because of health problems. — 00:00:42
2017-10-15 · Interview Tips - How to answer "Why Medicine?" — recommendation: Ali advises not worrying much about "Why medicine?": treat it like "How was your journey here?", a question to relax you; a cliched answer is fine, and a genuinely specific reason is better if you have one. — 00:01:52
2017-10-15 · Interview Tips - How to answer "Why Medicine?" — recommendation: a guest: A medical student advises preparing for "Why medicine?" by talking to teachers, friends and family and writing down a few points to talk around, not a paragraph to recite. — 00:02:57
2017-10-15 · Interview Tips - How to answer "Why Medicine?" — recommendation: a guest: A second student advises going in with the main point of your "Why medicine?" answer and talking about it, since passion shows through when you have not rehearsed too much. — 00:03:27
2017-10-15 · Interview Tips - How to answer "Why Medicine?" — recommendation: a guest: A student advises making your "Why medicine?" answer true of you: besides the normal reasons everyone gives (liking science, solving problems, teamwork), think what your own reason for applying is. — 00:03:44
2017-10-15 · Interview Tips - How to answer "Why Medicine?" — recommendation: a guest: The same student suggests reflecting on a family member's illness or your own health problems: what the experience taught you and what made you want to be on the other side. — 00:04:24
2017-10-15 · Interview Tips - How to answer "Why Medicine?" — recommendation: a guest: A student answered "Why medicine?" by describing the moment on work experience when they knew this was what they wanted to do for life, which made the answer personal and unique. — 00:04:55
2017-10-15 · Interview Tips - How to answer "Why Medicine?" — recommendation: a guest: Another student adds that such a moment helps you stand out from applicants who only list reasons, as does a particular doctor who inspired you and what you liked about them. — 00:05:12
2017-10-15 · Interview Tips - How to answer "Why Medicine?" — a guest: A student says "Why medicine?" is worth preparing for because it is often one of the first interview questions, and a confident answer makes you more comfortable for the rest of the interview. — 00:05:31
2017-10-15 · Interview Tips - How to answer "Why Medicine?" — recommendation: a guest: The student advises avoiding financial reasons and idealistic ones about saving lives in "Why medicine?"; reasons that show a realistic appreciation of what the career entails cause few problems. — 00:06:03
2017-10-15 · Interview Tips - How to answer "Why Medicine?" — recommendation: a guest: A student says even the generic answer of liking science and wanting to help people should be made specific: what you like about science, which area of helping people, such as helping neurologically disabled people. — 00:06:29
2017-10-15 · Interview Tips - How to answer "Why Medicine?" — recommendation: a guest: A second student says everyone has generic reasons for medicine; what counts is how you flesh them out and explain why, putting your own spin on them to stand out. — 00:06:29
2017-10-15 · Interview Tips - How to answer "Why Medicine?" — a guest: A student says the interviewers' key aim with "Why medicine?" is to find out that you are not there for the wrong reasons and have given the question some thought. — 00:07:14
2017-10-15 · Interview Tips - How to answer "Why Medicine?" — recommendation: a guest: The same student says cliched answers are fine but speaking from the heart matters most, since six years of medical study is a long journey you should have thought about. — 00:07:14
2017-10-15 · Interview Tips - How to answer "Why Medicine?" — recommendation: a guest: A student advises saying what you really mean, to come across passionate, and not worrying, since "Why medicine?" is not the most important question; an anecdote or details make it more original. — 00:07:47
2017-10-15 · Interview Tips - How to answer "Why Medicine?" — Ali says there is no right or wrong answer to these interview questions beyond what would make you seem a bad person; some students think it is good to stand out, while he thinks being a bit cliched does not matter, since interviewers do not really care about "Why medicine?". — 00:12:08
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, presents himself and seven medical student friends on their experiences of the Cambridge medicine interview, for applicants to Cambridge or Oxford. — 00:00:00
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — Ali says the students' accounts of the Cambridge medicine interview are repetitive: everyone has broadly the same experience, enjoying an interview that is scientific and academic. — 00:00:21
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — recommendation: Ali says Cambridge interviewers ask about what you know, then about what you don't and try to teach it to see how you think, so applicants should think out loud. — 00:00:21
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — announcement: Ali says a dedicated video of tips for the Oxbridge interview is coming out within the next few days. — 00:00:50
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: A student loved the Cambridge interview: rooms with comfy sofas and chatting with awesome people; expecting not to get in, the student decided just to have fun. — 00:01:19
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: Another student found Cambridge the most enjoyable of four medicine interviews: questions the student vaguely knew were explored in more depth than covered before, so the student had to think a lot. — 00:01:49
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: Expecting old men behind a desk firing formal questions, the student found the Cambridge interview friendly and relaxed, in a lounge with comfortable sofas, a two-way conversation rather than an interrogation. — 00:02:30
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: After five years at Cambridge, the student says the interview was much like the small-group supervisions: the supervisor teaches something on a topic, then asks a question about it, in a two-way dialogue. — 00:03:00
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: A third student's Cambridge interview was science and maths, unlike the student's other interviews: two separate interviews with two groups of interviewers and waiting around all day. — 00:03:29
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: The student kept getting things wrong in a maths interview and was guided to the answer; Cambridge interviewers look for someone who can get things wrong, recover and learn, because they will be your tutors. — 00:04:13
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — recommendation: a guest: The student advises not being afraid of getting things wrong in a Cambridge science interview: have a go, using first-principles knowledge of basic biology, maths, chemistry and physics to reach an answer. — 00:04:43
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: The student got only about halfway through a question in the second Cambridge interview, but says the interviewers only wanted to see how the student's mind works. — 00:05:12
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: Another student calls the Cambridge interviews two half-hour science tests, great fun: the interviewers probed until they found something the student did not know and watched the response. — 00:05:39
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: Another student, interviewed last with tired interviewers, came out of a quick Cambridge interview thinking it had been horrible and expecting not to get in. — 00:05:39
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — recommendation: a guest: A student says the Cambridge interview is not about knowing answers right away: when asked something unknown, keep your head, work through it and talk the interviewers through your thinking. — 00:06:25
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: A student found the four interviewers across two Cambridge interviews polite and friendly, smiling and shaking hands, as if they wanted to be there, which eased the student's nerves. — 00:06:54
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: The student unreservedly recommends the Cambridge interview to medicine applicants, since it is like a little supervision, the small-group teaching at Cambridge, and a pilot of that way of learning. — 00:06:54
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: Another student's Cambridge interviews were a thorough test of the basic sciences; the first was more clinical, on medical problems and what it is to be a good doctor professionally. — 00:08:12
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: The student says the entry level of the Cambridge interview questions, such as genetics and organic chemistry, was accessible to anyone who knew the AS-level syllabus. — 00:08:41
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: A student says Cambridge interviewers do not want only to ask what you don't know: they see how much you know, then, more importantly, how much they can teach you and how receptive you are. — 00:09:09
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: Another student found the opening why-medicine questions perfunctory, a screen for applicants who are awkward or have not thought their answers through; the real meat was the way you think. — 00:09:37
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: The student calls the interview a dance in which the interviewer pushes the implications of existing knowledge one step at a time; the first question asked for the probability that a drug will not work. — 00:09:59
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — a guest: Another student had two Cambridge interviews; the first was a general one many applicants prepare for, on why medicine and why Cambridge. — 00:10:27
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — recommendation: a guest: The student had covered nothing from the Cambridge science interview before, some not until third year, and advises expecting questions on what you don't know, since interviewers want to see how you think, not what you memorised. — 00:10:56
2017-10-17 · Cambridge Medicine Interview - Experiences of 8 students — Ali says the shared experience helps applicants know what to expect: Cambridge interviewers do not throw curveballs such as the rugby ball out of a window seen in newspapers; that is completely mythical. — 00:11:25
2017-10-21 · Speaking on Live TV - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #10 — Chris, president of the Imperial College Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Society (as heard), says the panel runs the Bangladeshi British TV show so people without usual access to medicine application information learn about the personal statement, UKCAT, BMAT and interviews. — 00:01:11
2017-10-24 · 6 tips for Medicine MMIs - Multiple Mini Interviews — Ali says medicine interviews and MMIs overlap so much that any tip for interviews also applies to MMIs, which is why his MMI video is short. — 00:00:00
2017-10-24 · 6 tips for Medicine MMIs - Multiple Mini Interviews — recommendation: a guest: A student says MMI preparation and interview preparation are not separate: the skills needed to do well in a medicine interview are exactly those needed in an MMI. — 00:00:29
2017-10-24 · 6 tips for Medicine MMIs - Multiple Mini Interviews — recommendation: a guest: The student advises applicants to universities that use only MMIs not to ignore interview advice, since the many resources for interviews also prepare you for MMIs. — 00:01:09
2017-10-24 · 6 tips for Medicine MMIs - Multiple Mini Interviews — recommendation: a guest: The same student repeats a standing piece of advice: prepare your interview answers but avoid sounding rehearsed, going by talking points rather than a script. — 00:02:16
2017-10-24 · 6 tips for Medicine MMIs - Multiple Mini Interviews — announcement: Ali says many more videos are coming about medicine interviews and other parts of the medicine application, alongside occasional vlogs about life as a medical student. — 00:03:42
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, presents tips for the Oxbridge medicine interview from nine medical students. — 00:00:00
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — Ali says his Oxford friends unanimously agreed that every tip for the Cambridge medicine interview also applies to the Oxford one, as the two are pretty much identical. — 00:00:00
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — recommendation: a guest: A student's biggest tip for the Cambridge medicine interview is to think out loud rather than sit silently on a hard question, since interviewers want to see how you reason, not that you know everything. — 00:00:53
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — recommendation: a guest: Another student practised before the interview by having a friend ask unknown questions, such as how to calculate the number of oxygen molecules in a room, and talking them through as a two-way dialogue. — 00:01:23
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — recommendation: a guest: A student advises not being afraid of not knowing the answer in the Oxbridge interview, since the questions are hard and the aim is to think; applicants flustered by not knowing should practise that. — 00:02:32
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — recommendation: a guest: A student advises always venturing an answer in the Oxbridge interview: say you are not sure but hazard a guess, showing you grapple with the problem intellectually. — 00:03:07
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — a guest: A student says Oxbridge interviewers test you but want to get the best out of you: when the student could not reach an answer to science questions, they gave clues and guided. — 00:03:30
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — recommendation: a guest: A student advises revising science and maths for the Oxbridge interview: know the A-level chemistry and biology syllabus and its principles well; complicated concepts are needed only if your personal statement mentions them. — 00:03:53
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — recommendation: a guest: A student advises answering the question the interviewers actually asked, not the one you wish you had been asked: asked about high blood pressure and coronary disease, do not talk about diabetes. — 00:04:20
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — a guest: The student says that if you know a lot about a topic the Oxbridge interviewers touch on, they move on, since they want to see how much new knowledge you take on and apply. — 00:04:52
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — recommendation: a guest: A student who found the Cambridge interviews fun says applicants should be passionate about medicine and science, since Oxbridge medicine is a science-heavy course and the interview lets that passion show. — 00:05:20
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — recommendation: a guest: The student advises talking confidently and enthusiastically about science on the day: the interviewer, usually a lecturer or supervisor in the subject, will think you would be fun to teach. — 00:05:47
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — recommendation: a guest: A student advises being willing to pivot and backtrack in the Cambridge interview when your reasoning goes wrong, without pride, and to push the logic on from there. — 00:06:23
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — recommendation: a guest: Another student advises taking a pen and paper to the Oxbridge interview: on some questions, writing and drawing lets you think out loud and shows interviewers more of your thinking. — 00:06:40
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — recommendation: a guest: A student says any practice for the Oxbridge interview helps, especially with people who had one, as the interviews are not as sinister and out to get you as the media suggest. — 00:07:15
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — recommendation: a guest: A student advises going slowly in the Oxbridge interview even when you think you know the answer, since it uses up time and shows your thinking. — 00:08:00
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — a guest: A student says the Cambridge interview tests how you learn outside your comfort zone, since a test of answers alone would be wasteful among top applicants and students come to learn new things. — 00:09:21
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — a guest: The student says that if you are an expert on lungs, interviewers will switch to the kidney: they would rather hear you struggle through kidneys than breeze through lungs, and that does not mean you are bad. — 00:09:21
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — recommendation: a guest: Another student says that apart from enthusiasm, Oxbridge interviewers want to see you can think: it needs no great intelligence or every fact about a disease, only thinking on your feet. — 00:10:11
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — recommendation: a guest: The student advises, when asked about something you know nothing about, using any relevant information you do have to answer the question. — 00:10:11
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — a guest: Another student says Oxbridge interviewers deliberately ask questions you cannot answer to keep you from textbook answers and see how creatively and sensibly you think and link ideas. — 00:10:57
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — recommendation: a guest: A student calls keeping calm in the Oxbridge interview a huge thing: freaking out can make you miss stages of a question, and the whole interview may be one question. — 00:11:20
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — recommendation: a guest: The student's Cambridge interview was about the sciences, not why medicine or why this college; the student advises focusing on science but having your personal statement and extracurriculars ready, as some colleges ask about them. — 00:11:20
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — recommendation: a guest: Another student says the Cambridge interview may need even less preparation than a normal one, being unpredictable: just practise talking and being relaxed. (hedged) — 00:11:50
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — a guest: The student forgot a razor on coming for the interview, walked into town for a shave at a barber, and calls that the whole interview-day preparation. — 00:12:12
2017-10-28 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - 15 Tips (Oxford / Cambridge) — announcement: Ali says many more videos are coming over the next few weeks on interviews specifically and on the medicine application process. — 00:13:08
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — recommendation: Ali says there is no right or wrong answer to "What did you learn on your work experience?": books and videos only give ideas and structure, and the correct answer is what is specific to you. — 00:00:21
2017-11-08 · Medicine Interview Tips - Talking about Work Experience — announcement: Ali presents tips from eight medical students on answering "What did you learn on your work experience?", mock answers from himself and Kenny, and his own somewhat cynical view of work experience. — 00:01:07
2017-11-15 · Medicine Interview Tips - Dealing with Nerves — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, presents 12 tips for applicants who are nervous about their medicine interviews. — 00:00:00
2017-11-15 · Medicine Interview Tips - Dealing with Nerves — recommendation: Ali says nervous applicants should prepare a lot, by far best with many mock interviews with friends, family, teachers or doctors, practising standard questions such as their motivation and what makes a good doctor. — 00:00:58
2017-11-15 · Medicine Interview Tips - Dealing with Nerves — recommendation: a guest: A medical student says it is okay to be nervous at a medicine interview: interviewers know candidates will be, nobody acts as they do every day in such a strange situation, and they are ready for that. — 00:01:57
2017-11-15 · Medicine Interview Tips - Dealing with Nerves — recommendation: a guest: A student who was very nervous despite preparing says the main tip is to remember that interviewers want you to do well: Cambridge colleges, like anywhere that interviews you, picked you because they see potential in you. — 00:02:18
2017-11-15 · Medicine Interview Tips - Dealing with Nerves — recommendation: a guest: A student advises applicants who lack confidence at a medicine interview to fake it until they make it: practice teaches you to pretend to be confident until you believe it. — 00:02:47
2017-11-15 · Medicine Interview Tips - Dealing with Nerves — recommendation: a guest: The student says interview practice trains you to be spontaneous and to handle not knowing what will be asked, since interviewers could ask anything and Cambridge interviews sometimes throw curveballs. — 00:03:21
2017-11-15 · Medicine Interview Tips - Dealing with Nerves — recommendation: a guest: Another student says that when a medicine interview question puts you on the spot, you should take time to think about it, since you are never penalised for thinking. — 00:03:50
2017-11-15 · Medicine Interview Tips - Dealing with Nerves — recommendation: a guest: A student advises enjoying the medicine interview once calm and showing that you enjoy talking about why you want to study medicine, which helps the interview. — 00:04:42
2017-11-15 · Medicine Interview Tips - Dealing with Nerves — recommendation: a guest: A student says applicants need not invent something new and exciting for "Why medicine?": saying you like science and want to help people is acceptable. — 00:04:42
2017-11-15 · Medicine Interview Tips - Dealing with Nerves — recommendation: a guest: A student advises getting enough sleep the night before a medicine interview, having a good breakfast and wearing something comfortable rather than a stiff suit, to ease your mind. — 00:05:31
2017-11-15 · Medicine Interview Tips - Dealing with Nerves — recommendation: a guest: A student advises taking a medicine interview step by step and not thinking about the result or about not getting in, since that gets you worked up. — 00:05:55
2017-11-15 · Medicine Interview Tips - Dealing with Nerves — recommendation: a guest: A student says medicine interviewers are not out to make you nervous but on your side, wanting the best out of you, so talk about medicine as you would about a hobby you are passionate about. — 00:06:33
2017-11-15 · Medicine Interview Tips - Dealing with Nerves — a guest: A speaker says tutors are not especially impressed when applicants look coached; what matters is being comfortable enough in an interview to do yourself justice, which practice at voicing your thoughts builds. — 00:07:02
2017-11-15 · Medicine Interview Tips - Dealing with Nerves — recommendation: a guest: The speaker advises giving even your parents your personal statement to question you on, as they will probably ask many of the same predictable questions interview tutors would. (hedged) — 00:07:40
2017-11-15 · Medicine Interview Tips - Dealing with Nerves — recommendation: a guest: A student who was very stressed before the interviews prepared by having casual conversations about medicine with friends and family, so that talking about it would not feel alien on the day. — 00:08:12
2017-11-15 · Medicine Interview Tips - Dealing with Nerves — recommendation: a guest: The student advises reading through your personal statement a few times so you know what you will have to defend and show the interviewers. — 00:08:36
2017-11-15 · Medicine Interview Tips - Dealing with Nerves — recommendation: a guest: The student says applicants need not be nervous, since reaching interview shows something good about them and interviewers only check that they are human; nervousness shows, so go in expecting to enjoy it. — 00:09:32
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, answers questions viewers sent in about the Oxford and Cambridge medicine interviews. — 00:00:00
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — recommendation: Ali says Oxbridge medicine applicants need not learn all their A2 biology and chemistry ahead, since interviews come a few months into year 13, but should know well what they have covered. — 00:00:53
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali says the Oxbridge medicine interview is not really a test of knowledge: if you already know a lot about the lungs, they ask about the kidneys to see how you think and can be taught. — 00:01:43
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — recommendation: Ali's rule of thumb: for anything your personal statement mentions, such as dialysis or diabetes, read its Wikipedia article and be able to talk about it if asked. — 00:04:35
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — recommendation: Ali's rule of thumb for medicine interviews: recent news is any big medical story of the last 12 months, plus older big ones still relevant, such as the 2015 Montgomery ruling or the junior doctor contract. — 00:05:15
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — recommendation: Ali advises applicants who get a topic they have not covered, such as the kidneys, or a mind blank, to say so nicely, offer to have a go and then try, rather than bluff. — 00:07:10
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — recommendation: Ali warns against getting confrontational when asked about an uncovered topic, such as saying the question is unfair because it was not on your supplementary questionnaire. — 00:07:39
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — recommendation: Ali says the best preparation for the Oxbridge medicine interview is mock interviews with friends, giving them a list of questions and asking them to challenge you scientifically. — 00:09:41
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — recommendation: Ali suggests asking a friend who studies a subject you have not done, such as economics, to quiz you on it and teach it, and seeing how you respond. — 00:10:10
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali says the Oxbridge interview works out whether you would benefit from and thrive in their style of teaching; some people are not compatible with it, and no preparation changes that. — 00:12:04
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali says there is no catch to the Oxbridge interview: it really is about how you think and respond, meaning whether you can reason out a topic from first principles. — 00:13:34
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali says Oxbridge interviewers test whether you can take a topic you know further until you no longer know it, and how well you respond when they teach it; the skill can be developed. — 00:14:06
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali says Oxbridge medicine interviewers also look for a pleasant, personable applicant they would enjoy teaching, which is why they interview rather than set a test or an essay. — 00:14:58
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — recommendation: Ali advises approaching the Oxbridge interview as a friendly conversation with people who might teach you next year (2018), not an interrogation, which makes you withdraw into yourself. — 00:15:41
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — recommendation: Ali: For a general answer structure, Ali uses the point, evidence and link structure taught in English and history, giving several points and expanding on each. — 00:16:36
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali disagrees with explicitly linking every interview answer back to being a doctor: done unnaturally it looks amateur and over-prepared, as if memorised from an interview book. — 00:18:58
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — recommendation: Ali advises ending every interview answer with a confident summary restating its direct answer, like an essay's conclusion, instead of waffling and petering out. — 00:18:58
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — recommendation: Ali says the worst thing you can do in an interview is not answer the question. (overstated) — 00:20:24
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — recommendation: Ali says neither he nor any of the 10 to 15 friends he asked got current-affairs questions in their Oxbridge interviews, so he would not worry much about current affairs. — 00:20:24
2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali says the Oxbridge interviews are hard and almost everyone walks out thinking they did badly; the few who leave confident probably missed something or had an easy interview. — 00:21:10
2017-11-29 · Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "Why should we choose you?" — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, tackles the common medicine interview question "We have 10,000 applicants, why should we take you?" in his series of interview advice videos. — 00:00:00
2017-11-29 · Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "Why should we choose you?" — recommendation: Ali advises roughly knowing in advance what you would say to "Why should we take you?", as a list of talking points rather than a rehearsed, memorised answer. — 00:00:24
2017-11-29 · Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "Why should we choose you?" — recommendation: Ali answers "Why should we take you?" in two parts: why the medical school's course suits you, then what you can bring to the school, a non-arrogant way of selling yourself. — 00:01:17
2017-11-29 · Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "Why should we choose you?" — announcement: Ali says more videos about medicine interviews are coming, including medical ethics, and he wants to make an entire interview syllabus. — 00:13:03
2017-12-06 · Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "What's your biggest weakness?" — announcement: Ali presents tips from six medical students on answering "What's your biggest weakness?" in medicine interviews, and mock answers from himself and his friend Kenny. — 00:00:00
2017-12-06 · Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "What's your biggest weakness?" — Ali says there is no right or wrong answer to "What's your biggest weakness?": the right answer depends on what you think your biggest weakness is. — 00:00:29
2017-12-06 · Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "What's your biggest weakness?" — recommendation: Ali's formula for "What's your biggest weakness?" in medicine interviews: pick something that actually is a weakness for you, then talk about how you are improving on it. — 00:00:29
2017-12-06 · Medicine Interview Questions - How to answer "What's your biggest weakness?" — recommendation: Ali says never to copy interview answers from anywhere: the right answer is the one that is right for you, and the mock answers only give an idea. — 00:05:47
2017-12-14 · How to answer Medical Ethics interview questions — recommendation: Ali says every medicine applicant with an interview will recite the four principles of medical ethics, so to stand out you should give more than just the four principles. — 00:00:00
2017-12-14 · How to answer Medical Ethics interview questions — recommendation: Ali says everyone knows the four principles and that they must apply them, so what distinguishes candidates is what they say while applying them and showing personality: talk engagingly and smile occasionally. — 00:04:23
2017-12-14 · How to answer Medical Ethics interview questions — recommendation: Ali says saying the usual points in a nice way, giving examples or showing real insight into medicine is what sets an applicant apart in an ethics question. — 00:05:04
2017-12-21 · Consent, Capacity and Jehovah's Witnesses - Medical Ethics & Law for interviews — Ali says the case of the woman refusing a caesarean, Re MB, is a very classic case that interviewers might ask about. (hedged) — 00:02:45
2017-12-21 · Consent, Capacity and Jehovah's Witnesses - Medical Ethics & Law for interviews — recommendation: Ali says consent scenarios are surprisingly common in interviews, and saying that valid consent needs three things, informed, voluntary and competent, looks very impressive. — 00:03:14
2017-12-21 · Consent, Capacity and Jehovah's Witnesses - Medical Ethics & Law for interviews — recommendation: Ali says advance directives and lasting powers of attorney are beyond what applicants need to know for interviews; the video covers them for completeness. — 00:17:36
2017-12-21 · Consent, Capacity and Jehovah's Witnesses - Medical Ethics & Law for interviews — recommendation: Ali says applicants need not know case names and dates, but citing even vague details of a case, such as Re T when asked about Jehovah's Witnesses, looks really impressive and shows commitment to medicine. — 00:24:35
2017-12-22 · Singing carols in the hospital - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #18 — announcement: Ali: The same day Ali films a series of medical ethics videos for medicine interview applicants, going into more detail than they probably need; he says it is good revision for his finals. — 00:01:22
2017-12-22 · Singing carols in the hospital - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #18 — announcement: Ali tells medicine applicants to look out for the medical ethics videos, which will come out at some point; he is not sure whether they are already out. (hedged) — 00:01:51
2017-12-22 · Singing carols in the hospital - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #18 — Ali: At dinner with Katherine at Prezzo, a girl with a medicine interview at St John's College the next day recognises them from their YouTube interview tips videos, and they take a photo with her. — 00:04:24