Imperial College London Medicine Interview Questions

Why Medicine/Imperial/Insight into Medicine

1. When and why did you decide that you wanted to be a doctor?
2. What would you do if you don’t get into medical school this year?
3. What have you done to find out about medicine as a career/Who have you talked to about doing medicine and what did you learn from them?
4. What do you think you might like best about medicine as a career?
5. What do you feel are likely to be the worst things about being a doctor?

 
Character, Background and Personal Statement

1. What do you do to relax?
2. What skills do you have that would make you a good doctor?
3. How do you cope in situations where there is not enough time to finish a task?
4. We all know exams are stressful. How did you manage when you were taking your GCSEs?
5. What do you do when you have 3 or 4 things to do that are all urgent?
6. Have you dealt with a difficult situation?
7. Could you tell me about a time where you lead a team in a stressful/difficult situation? How did you deal with this?
8. I see you are captain of a team. What duties does that involve?
9. I see you play sport/do the Duke of Ed/play in the orchestra (or similar) – why is this important to you?
10. What contribution would you make to university life?
11. How do you balance work and all your outside activities?
12. I see you were Director/Manager in your Young Enterprise company. How did you go about performing this role?
13. How do you feel about sharing work with others?
14. What are your strengths/weaknesses?
15. How do you deal with conflict?

 
Work Experience

1. When you visited a hospital, what did you see that caused you to think about the challenging aspects of a medical career?
2. What difference did your work experience make to you?
3. Tell me about a patient who interested you whom you met during your work experience

 
Attributes of a Good Doctor

1. What do you feel makes a good doctor?

 
NHS/Medical Topics

1. How should doctors tackle the problem of obesity on a national level?   
2. If you were the Secretary of State for health, what changes would you make?

 
Ethical Dilemmas

1. If you had £100,000 to spend, would you give it to a three-year-old needing a heart transplant or 100 older patients needing hip replacements?
2. In a scenario where your schedule is fully packed, and yet you need to see more patients, what would you do?
3. If the parents of your patient (who is a child) denied treatment of radiotherapy for that child, what would you do to convince them otherwise?
4. With the current organ shortage in the United Kingdom, should we legalise the sale of organs?
5. Is human cloning acceptable under any circumstance?
6. Can a doctor withhold information about a patient who has broken the law?