 what is up guys karma medic here and welcome back to another dose today i'm joined by kenji again what's up from kenji to me to vlogs you guys saw him in my last video on the mmi's so i'm gonna be doing a mini series on my channel where i talk about different mmi questions how we would answer them our thoughts on them what you should talk about things that you definitely want to avoid maybe some red flags things like that and then hopefully you guys find them useful for your mmi practice enjoy there'll also be a couple of mmi videos on kenji's channel if you guys want to check him out go to his youtube channel follow him on social media instagram snapchat and all the rest of it in this first video i wanted to talk about why in this video i wanted to talk about why you chose medicine in this first video i want to tackle the question why medicine and not another healthcare field so this is a question that i was asked when i was interviewed in bristol and it's one that comes up pretty often you should know how to answer or at least what to think about in a question like this really what they're getting at is why did you choose to be a doctor or why do you want to be a doctor as opposed to a nurse a healthcare assistant a physiotherapist a research scientist any of these other positions that also help people because a common answer given to one of these questions is well i want to help people but they'll help people right almost every job helps people you want to give reasons why medicine is distinguished from all these other professions in your answer you want to really bring across why being a doctor is unique so for example a common comparison is made between doctors and nurses right and nurses play a really important role in the hospital in fact they spend way more time with patients than doctors do yeah it's so important to actually acknowledge that and be like actually nurses play a massive part in the team yeah and you wouldn't have hospitals without nurses yeah really important to say that first absolutely big red flag is to diminish the role of nurses to talk about nurses or any other healthcare healthcare professional in a negative light you definitely don't want to do that you want to show how they're important also our doctors are important but why doctor it's different yes one thing you can say is that doctors often have the final decision in a matter you can kind of bring in your own personal experience from this as well so you can say when i was in hospital uh i was part of an MDT team and i noticed that the consultant always had fun decision or the doctors always had the biggest decision and that kind of suits your personality yeah so for me you know i love being uh i love having a lot of control a lot of responsibility i mean you could definitely say that as well doctors will have an elevated sense of responsibility and leadership right and like ken you said doctors do make the final decision the final care of the patient falls on their shoulders so if you are someone who likes to be in those kinds of positions then maybe being a doctor is a good fit for you and you definitely want to back that up you want to say why it is that you would make a good doctor why why are you a good leader why do you like high responsibility yeah an example of where you've shown that as well so you could be like okay i'm a captain in a team or i work in a restaurant and i'm the manager or whatever yeah and you're back over your own experience and how you can transfer that from your experience now to being you know being a doctor exactly um you could also mention that nurses um right now have an increase in responsibility so there are different specialities of nurses and they are getting more and more power um but again the you know the last final decision is normally up to the consultant yeah always bring it back to you and bring it back to an experience that you've had so that you can show and demonstrate what it is that you're talking about otherwise your answer is going to sound very bland it's not going to be unique and it won't stick in the interviewer's mind yeah there's no point saying like um yeah i'm great at having responsibility i love having responsibility they're actually showing how you did it exactly yeah you might as well not say yeah exactly yeah so another common health care position is being a research scientist and the reasons that i would give for why a doctor is different than that is mostly about the interpersonal connections and the social interaction that you have with your patients being a doctor puts you in a unique position to be able to talk to patients and follow them through time you get to see them progress or even worsen um but you get to follow them and you get to see how they change and your decisions and your impact will cause that change maybe in other positions like a research scientist or a pharmacist you don't get to see the patient over time you don't get to follow their progression and that's something that is unique to doctors yeah you can say like um i love being personal i love um you know being social i think we know working at labs the two of us definitely know that sometimes it's just me and myself all day and you know you love it you know the person's traction yeah of being a doctor because sometimes you may not like that you know you may not see your personality as well yeah yeah you know as a doctor you're always going to be talking to new patients you're going to be learning their story um and you don't get to do that so much as a research scientist a lot of the time like as you said it's just you with your earphones on drowning away at some work like the pence i hate that stuff yeah i mean i'm in a lab now as well but at least now i when i work with that i have time to speak to you know patients yeah so it's not you know it's it's not as difficult as i found it before if you're interested in research like you know the two of us you could always say that when i do become a doctor i want to pursue a career in research as well in academia so for me personally i do definitely want to go down the role of research so right now i'm working at lab nasi was working at lab over summer and you can definitely become a research position i think i call it research position right yeah you can definitely become a research position if you'd like to so that's another point you can raise that i want to help patients today i also want to change the world for tomorrow being a researcher and there is as a key point and there are roles for you know for nurses to be involved in that but again a lot of times the p.i or the lead investigator is a doctor's consultant yeah so that's another massive point you could mention you know bench bench the bedside kind of thing yeah one other point you could say is that you are really interested in science behind medicine so medicine is a five or six year course and we go into a lot of detail you know in medicine a lot of times the first two years of medicine is just pure science and that's something you may not necessarily have on a two or three year nursing course so you could just say that yeah that is something i'm really interested in i'm so passionate about you know the science of things and i want to fully you know understand it before i go on to help patients yeah because a lot of times in nursing i think from day from like week one they go on to the wards and they learn a lot more about care of patients rather than the science behind it in addition to that is also the anatomy as someone studying medicine you get to have a much deeper look into anatomy you also get a cadaveric dissection and all of that anatomy is a very important part of the course so if that's something that interests you as well then that's a good reason for wanting to study medicine another really great thing about medicine is that it's so diverse and there are i don't want to say infinite but there are so many different specialties that you can go into any single part of the human body that you find most interesting that you think is really cool you can specialize in and you'll never run out of years of training in the hospital you never run out of books to read about it yeah there's always more and more information coming out every single day the scene is rapidly evolving and there's so much to learn yeah and it's a really long career i mean you'll constantly be learning from day one of medical school up until the final day as a consultant and even when you are a consultant i think you still do learn so much and obviously that is possible in nursing as well but i don't even go to the extent of you know what medicine is like in terms of specialities and learning as well so the final point that i want to hit on is about the role of teaching as a doctor teaching is something that is central to the role of a doctor it's something that you learn very well in medical school and you continue to do throughout your practice and i talked in my interview about my love for teaching how i did little teaching sessions at university to help other students understand the lecture material a little bit better and i thought that brought across like a really nice way to show that i was personable as well and being able to teach is one of those core skills that they want to see in their students when applying for medicine so i think that came across quite well as well so i think that's where we're gonna wrap it up for today i hope those tips gave you something to think about when answering this question in your mmi's if there's anything that you guys want to see me and kenji answer in a future video any specific question something that you want a little bit more information on do let us know in a comment down below don't forget to go to kenji's channel subscribe to his channel check him out and yeah we'll see you guys in the next video see you guys peace