There are a few areas that you definitely need to know a fair bit about.

 

1.The NHS - A basic understanding of the structure, the key entities and recent changes should be good enough.

 

2. Medical Ethics- It is important to know about the basics of medical ethics, and how to apply them to given scenarios. You should know the Four Pillars of Medical Ethics like the back of your hand and then using them, be able to reason out medical ethics scenarios. These will be useful in both MMI and panel interviews and also later, as a medical student and a doctor. 

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3. 4-5 news items related to medicine from the last year or so- While it’s important to be generally aware of the goings-on in medicine at the time(we recommend reading the BBC Health section for 6 months leading up to the interview), it’s more important to critically analyze what you are reading. 

 

Here we’ve collected some books, blogs, podcasts, shows, news websites that might be helpful for extra extra reading. 

 

Books- 

• This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay : Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor 

• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

• The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks 

• Better by Atul Gawande

• Kill or Cure: An Illustrated History of Medicine by DK Publishers

• The Emperor of All  Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

• The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World by Michael Marmot 

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Shows(Informational Shows on Netflix)-

 

• Coronavirus (explained)

• The Mind (explained)

• Explained

 

Podcasts-

 

• Sharp Scratch by the Student BMJ