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Motivation & Insight into Medicine 12
What have you learnt from your work experience?
This is not a clinical question trying to assess your medical knowledge, instead an overall question assessing how your work experience has affected your desire to pursue a career in Medicine and how your understanding of healthcare provision in general has improved.
Average Candidate Response
I learnt about how to manage cardiovascular accidents and how amazing thrombolysis is
Excellent Candidate Response
From my work experience, I recognised the importance of effective communication both within the MDT and between doctors and patents. I think that being able to adapt how you communicate, depending on the situation and to whom is very much an art form, for example, it can be difficult to obtain a full history from a patient but this is vital information as 80% of diagnosis are made from history taking.
My work experience also emphasises the importance of teamwork in the medical profession, as doctors work alongside a number of healthcare professionals who have very useful input especially at multidisciplinary meetings
There were also a number of challenges faced by doctors, primarily a consequence of limited resources resulting in a lack of bed space, long waiting lists, some treatments not licensed by NICE on the NHS.
Finally, I learnt how medicine can be considered an art as much as it can a science. Although the reasons for diagnosis primarily have a scientific background, the method with which patients are dealt with is very much an art.
Average Candidate Response
I learnt about how to manage cardiovascular accidents and how amazing thrombolysis is
Excellent Candidate Response
From my work experience, I recognised the importance of effective communication both within the MDT and between doctors and patents. I think that being able to adapt how you communicate, depending on the situation and to whom is very much an art form, for example, it can be difficult to obtain a full history from a patient but this is vital information as 80% of diagnosis are made from history taking.
My work experience also emphasises the importance of teamwork in the medical profession, as doctors work alongside a number of healthcare professionals who have very useful input especially at multidisciplinary meetings
There were also a number of challenges faced by doctors, primarily a consequence of limited resources resulting in a lack of bed space, long waiting lists, some treatments not licensed by NICE on the NHS.
Finally, I learnt how medicine can be considered an art as much as it can a science. Although the reasons for diagnosis primarily have a scientific background, the method with which patients are dealt with is very much an art.