Medical Interview Preparation
You won't be appointed for what you've done. You'll be appointed for how you explain it.
Every shortlisted candidate has the CV. The panel already knows you can do the job - that's why you're in the room. What separates the appointed candidate from the rest is whether they can make a panel hear the thinking behind the work.
That's a skill. It's trainable. It's what I do.
THE PROBLEM: Most doctors prepare for their interview like it's a viva
So they revise. They read every document, memorise facts, practice answering the predicted questions.
Then when they're asked to describe a time they led a team, and they just narrate the events. What happened, then what happened next, then how it turned out. All true. All accurate. And almost none of it shows the panel a single thing about how the candidate thinks.
The gap is nearly always the same one. Doctors tell a panel what they did. They rarely tell them how they did it, and they almost never tell them why. Every action step you skip past is a mark you've left on the table.
You can't fix that by knowing more. You fix it by changing how you build a sentence.
WHAT MY COACHING ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE
One hour, on Zoom, with the camera on and the pressure real
There's no lecture on facts - just skills. You answer questions, I stop you, and we rebuild the answer in front of you.
You get asked a real question. The kind your panel will use - including the ones you're hoping they won't.
You answer it properly. Full length, out loud, under the same discomfort you'll feel on the day.
We take it apart. Structure, language, the specific places you moved past your own best evidence without stopping to bank it.
You do it again. More questions - more practice - more critiques
You leave with the drill, not just the note. Structural and linguistic habits don't change because someone described them to you. They change because you think differently.
Clarity of communication comes from clarity of thought and you will change the way you think.
By the end, you'll have a repeatable way to answer any question a panel throws at you - a structure for theoretical questions, a structure for story questions, and the language patterns that turn your experience into something a panel can actually mark.
YOUR OPTIONS:
FOR CONSULTANT INTERVIEWS
Book sessions on my diary
You can just go to my diary and book as many 1-hour online, individual sessions as you think you need. Most need between 2-4 depending on how competitive the post is and how confident you are.
I would suggest booking them about once a week in the run up to your interview (usually about 2-3 weeks after applications close)
You will be offered the opportunity to buy my online course for consultants - which is only made available to those who have booked at least one coaching session with me. It has over five hours of video coaching material, handouts and homework tasks and it will save us time going through strategies on your first session
The sessions are £240 for an hour (including VAT)
The online consultant interview course is £240 (including VAT)
Book my four session package
You can opt for booking a package of four sessions.
Here you will need to give me the four available dates on my diary that you want me to book for you
I will also give you access to the online course
The total cost of this package is £800 (including VAT)
Please be aware that there are no refunds on this package
You need to give me time to book your four available slots on my diary by emailing me at nalin@medicalinterviewpreparation.co.uk
or contacting me at https://medicalinterviewpreparation.com/contact-me
I really want you to take this option as it gives me the best chance to develop your skills to the necessary standards hence the offer of a reduced price AND the online course
FOR RESIDENT DOCTOR INTERVIEWS - specialist training, GRID, fellowships etc:
Book sessions on my diary
You can just go to my diary and book as many 1-hour online, individual sessions as you think you need. Most need between 2-4 depending on how competitive the post is and how confident you are.
I would suggest booking them about once a week in the run up to your interview
The sessions are £240 for an hour (including VAT)
Get the online course for Residents
This online course will have a series of videos of me coaching you on the strategies that you need to use for your resident doctor interview
We will discuss the different styles of questions and how to construct compelling answers to help you to gain the marks needed.
You don't need to book an online course with me to get this