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UWS Bachelor of Medicine/Surgery was introduced in 2006. Their course was largely based off The University of Melbourne Medicine course, one of the most prestigious universities in Australia. The interview is structured as a MMI (Multiple Mini Interview). Each station lasts for up to 5 minutes, you can finish before the 5 minute period is over.
Station 1: Why do you want to be a doctor? Why do you want to do medicine? Are you thinking of becoming a specialist, if so what kind? What do you think the specialist does?
Station 2: How do you deal with stress? How do you study? How many hours of study do you do per week? Typical structure of a normal day?
Station 3: Give an example of how you worked in a team?
Station 4: What are some medical and socio-economic issues in the Greater Western Sydney area?
Station 5: A short video of patient/doctor relationship. Describe how the doctor can improve his treatment of the patient? What can the doctor do to make the patient more comfortable? What wrong things did the doctor do?
Station 6: A short video of a parent with a child whom both have the same mental illness. Identify what each character feels?
Station 7: Your friend tells you, they have a STI or AIDS etc. but makes you promise not to tell anyone. She is dating someone you know and they do not know about her disease. What should you do, keep your promise or alert their partner so they will not be infected?
Station 8: What will you do if a patient is presented with a fatal illness. There is an experimental treatment available however it incurs a huge risk. You can choose to take that option or don't take the treatment option. Whichever option you take the interviewer will say your patient dies as a result. What will you tell their family and friends? Did you make the right decision?
Station 9: You are a doctor and a patient comes in with tonsillitis. You are given a fact sheet about the patient, tonsillitis symptoms and medication, you are also informed of the patient's occupation (cleaner at a nursing home). You need to tell the patient to take sick leave to recover otherwise there is a chance they will transmit the disease to people at their workplace. You also need to advise your patient on how to take the medication (this is given on the fact sheet). The patient is a migrant whose English is poor and is reluctant to take days off work.
Station 10 and 11 are rest stations. You may talk to a student currently undertaking medicine (Good time to ask questions).
Information updated from students in 2009.
Do note the questions may differ and scenarios may change year to year, as well as depending on the time of the interview (people to be first interviewed may have different questions to those being interviewed later) however they are unlikely to change everything.
