General Flashcards
Why do you want to study medicine?
Patient representation:
- Struggle getting hearing aids due to age
- CISV & Oswin Project
- Women, children and ethnic minorities recieve unequal healthcare
Interest in neurological science:
- Grandfather has alzeihmers
- Genome by Matt Ridley (CAG repeats)
Other science:
- Omphalocele baby
What qualities does a good doctor possess?
Medical:
- Motivation to learn
- Knowledgable and skilled
People:
- Patient and empathetic
- Supportive
- Explains information in an accessable way
How do you think you will handle the stress of medicine?
During:
- Preperation
- Team work
Outlets:
- Friends and brother
- Hiking and spending time outdoors
Why not nursing?
Similarities:
- Patient care and contact
Science:
- Medical pursuits
- Diagnosis and puzzels
Personal:
- Making decisions
- Taking responsibilty for my actions
What steps have you taken to confirm that you want to be a doctor?
Work experience with multidisciplinary team:
- Valuable and interesting roles
- Allowed me to see full process
- Less diagnostic
Work experience with a consultant:
- Ward rounds and paper work
- Enjoyed the overview of ward rounds
- Interesting cases (omphalacele)
EPQ research:
- Ethics of medicine
- Pros and cons
What do you think being a doctor entails?
Knowledge:
- Gathering info from patient
- Collating symptoms to reach a diagnosis
- Establishing treatment plan
Treatment:
- Surgery
- Prescription of medication
- Advising lifestyle changes
Personal:
- Communicating with and often leading a multidisciplinary team
- Listening to patients needs and concerns and adapting treatment plan
- Explaining diagnosis and treatment plan to patient
How have your experiences prepared you for a career in medicine?
Learning:
- Taking on optional academic projects such as EPQ and CREST award
- Balancing heavy work load and personal life
- Interest in the science of learning
- Teachers taught me about the enjoyment of learning
- Recovering from hearing deficit taught me about the value of education
Personal:
- Teamwork through DofE and CISV
- Working with diverse people through junior school, CISV and Oswin Project
- Patience through working with kids
Informed:
- Talking with consultants and junior doctors
- Long hours, effect on personal lives, emotional difficulties
- Talking with multidisciplinary showed me more about teamwork and the whole picture of healthcare
Tell us about your experience of clinical medicine
- Wide variety of shadowing experience including GP, consultant and S&L and OT
- In hospital and on community visits
- GP, S&L and OT taught me about full frame work of treatment
- FINISH
What personal attributes did you develop during your work experience?
What areas of medicine are you interested in?
Neonatology:
- Birth defects and their treatment
- Rising number of premature babies with increasing life expectency
- Baby with omphalocele
Neurology:
- Brain is core to who we are
- Particular interest in degenerative neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Freidrich’s Ataxia
- Interested in how to treat to limit symptoms
- Strong interest in genetics (Genome by Matt Ridley)
What are the biggest challenges facing the health service?
Understaffing:
- 10% of NHS jobs are unfulfilled
- Number of NHS workers from abroad has reduced, particularly post-Brexit
- Waiting time targets, both appointment and in A&E, are not being met
- Staff burnout
Underfunding:
- £30 billion a year gap between funding and necessary spending
- Lower quality of care
- Lack of beds (meaning resources and staffing)
- Contributes to understaffing
- Particular underfunding in mental health
Tell me about yourself
In what way have you shown your commitment to studying medicine?
Work experience:
- GP
- Peads wards
Volunteering:
- CISV
- Oswin project
- Primary school
Medsoc:
- Weekly or biweekly society
- Presentation about thalidomide
Supercuricular:
- Genome by Matt Ridley
- A short introduction to medical ethics
- War Doctor
Why did you carry out work experience in a particular area?
Peads wards:
- Already do a lot of child centered things (CISV and junior school help)
- Wanted to explore the medocal side
- Also wanted experience in a hospital environment
Multidisciplinary (OT and S&T):
- Wanted to see whole team
- Observe what role the consultant played as well as the therapists
- A chance to observe community work
GP:
- Understand how first point of contact links to hospital
- Learn more about general practice overall
- Observed team meeting, learning how to apply government targets
How do you handle failure?
- Feel the feelings
- Talk to teachers/seniors etc
- Work out what went wrong
- Make a plan
- Tackle it again
- Would consider myself to be pretty resiliant
- Periodicity test
What major changes can you think of that will occur in medicine in the next 10 years?
Nano-medicine:
- Diagnosis and drug delivery
DNA sequencing:
- Routine sequencing at birth
- Drugs tailored to DNA
Stem-cell medicine:
- Less need for donor organs
- Growing organs from stem cells
Role of the doctor:
- Virtual chats and phone calls
- Remain central
- Technology assist but not replace
How do you think the roles of doctors will change in 25 years?
New technology:
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Precision and surgery
Doctor wellbeing will improve:
- Hopefully begin to improve understaffing problem
- Emphasis on mental health
Extremes of patients:
- Aging population
- More premature babies surving
What do you find most challenging about medicine?
Unsociable hours:
- Can set you apart from friends in other careers
- Nights and weekends can be more mentally challenging for works
- Logistical family difficulties
What do you think you will enjoy most about medicine?
Constant learning:
- Genuine love of learning
- Always new developments
People:
- Working in a team with coworkers
- Interacting with a wide variety of patients
What interests do you have outside of medicine?
- Martial arts
- Drawing and stone sculpting
Care of children:
- CISV
Prison welfare:
- Oswin project
- History coursework
- Reading prison doctor article
Do you think your A-level scores to date reflect your abilities?
Yes:
- School takes our predicted grades from our Yr 12 final exams with very little variation
- Worked hard in the lead up
- Continue to put effort in
Do you prefer to study independently or in a group?
- Prefer to learn in a group for range of views and knowledge
- Prefer to revise alone from maximum focus
Silent study:
- Spending time with my friends
- Quiet so don’t distract each other
Which extracurricular are you most proud of?
Martial arts:
- 10 years
- Almost at black belt
- Patterns
- Korean
- Sparring
- Power tests
What will you do if your not accepted into medical school this year?
- Take a gap year, hopefully doing international work or volunteering
- Gain more work experience
- Reflect on what went wrong with my application this year
- Reapply next year
