Talking with interviewers, training many students for the interview (I've helped 4 students enter UWS medicine) and helping them get in seems to speaks more than a 1st year medical student who just recently got in. You learn a lot in 7 years and experience does wonders. If I cannot perform better in the interview than all first year entrants I would be surprised. Regardless of my past situation, I can teach students more than what a first year can, just purely based on experience.
I do agree some people can get in without any training but that is from a pool of a significant number of students who don't get interview training for many reasons. I am pretty confident to say hypothetically if you take a pool of students who did have interview training vs a pool of students who didn't get interview training, you will probably notice that the pool who did undergo interview training will have a higher percentage of entry. In my opinion the cost to benefit ratio is worthwhile if you don't want to do anything else but medicine. I don't think the benefit will be negligible, I think any year 12 leaver will learn something important from a competent interview tutor.
I never said you needed to respect your elders. I'm just saying your future is dictated by your elders when you graduate from medical school when marks no longer counts, I'm sure you would have known that. I'm just giving you general advice on how not to destroy your career because I have heard stories of registrars really setting back some junior doctors.
I've made my point. If you guys wish to debate feel free. If you don't believe it I'll let my students do the talking.
I've spoken with interviewers too ~lol~ and I don't know why you would assume otherwise.
A bunch of them are pretty much ~regular people~ who mark on the criteria given and shiz.
I stick by my stance that you are purely trying to plug your service because you want money, and I don't believe it's right to take advantage of people in a situation where they think they won't be able to enter medicine otherwise. You are basically playing on their fears of not getting in just so you can make dollars, and that's not really cool.
And yeah, I get that I will have to ~respect my superiors~ but you aren't my superior and you're just being a salesman atm, not a doctor. So I couldn't care less.
I didn't pay for any UMAT or interview prep because I'm not exactly the richest kid out (poor as shit) and I would rather spend that money elsewhere, but I do know people who aren't very well-off who have spent ~$3,000 trying to get into medicine (this is only the stuff I know of) who still haven't gotten in.
And I don't really think that's right.
