Online Medical Interview 2021 - Doktor Perubatan👀
Hi and Salam~! Praying everyone are in best condition, both physical and mental ya, amin.
Today I would like to share my experience, during last online interviews for my degree. I got offered from three local universities to be interviewed and the results will probably come out around mid September, 2021. I did prepared a lot in between, preparation wise like reading some articles related. Happy to say that some of the target questions came out but in fact, it doesn't help that much either because it was totally nerve wrecking from the beginning you were asked to introduce yourself ahahah.
The first one is from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
After getting result of my application, I was required to fill out my information ( certificates related ) through Google form within a period they have decided. They also asked me to create and send a resume video where I need to introduce myself, why I choose medicine and why UKM. Then, another week passed and I was required to undergo synchronous video interview, using Zoom. The funny part was, I am not very familiar with Zoom because when I was at Matriculation, we were constantly using Google Meet and thus, using Zoom was indeed hard for me lolol. Here are the questions that were asked by two panel interviewer ( man and woman ) around 15 minutes.
1. Your neighbor conceal the fact that he is a close contact of COVID-19 patient. Is it the right thing to do? Should the head of villager list down the names of those who are close contact with COVID-19 patient and tell everyone in the village?
2. As a medic student, you need to inject a patient but then you failed to do so,10 times. Your professor were mad and scolded you at that moment. Do you think it is appropriate? How you will deal with the situations, both clinical and your emotion?
That's it and I would love to remind you that the first question is in Bahasa and the second one was in English. PLUS, when I was interviewed with those questions, they did asked like tricky sub-questions to me. For example,
1. Don't you think it would invade people privacy if you say the head of village should list down the names or in oppose, what about the rights of people who need to know that their neighbours are close contact person?
2. If in your own case, how many failed trials that will make you to correct yourself? Is it 10 times like the situations? Or the moment you failed to do the first inject-- you would give up right away?
I also got offered from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
To be honest, I forgot what the first-two steps USM asked before got into video call interview so let just skip that part haha. I think... nothing much, it just I was required to fill out my contact details because later on, I was added into WhatsApp group for my session. USM used Cisco Webex for the interview and again, the day I was being interviewed, I had problem with my microphone. Till today, I don't know why it was not connected to my laptop but luckily they asked me to do video call through WhatsApp instead. Thanks to that, it was less nervous because for me it seems like a bit non-formal, using a handphone. The questions are,
1. Introduce yourself.
( when I said my hobby is reading, they asked me who is my favorite author. they asked me in Malay and it is very ridiculous because I've been practicing using English for my " introduce yourself " question hahah. It really depends to the interviewer nonetheless )
2. Your thoughts on those who are anti-vaccine. How you cope it if your family members are anti-vaccine.
3. Your thoughts about contract doctors.
4. You saw your friend always being isolated alone at class. When you asked her, she told you that she is suffering from sexual abuse at home. Her mum decided to not make it big. What do you think?
Actually... they did asked MORE than I thought because from one big topic, they asked this and that. What you will do, how you're going to help, what and what and endless what. I felt like the time did run slow at the moment lol. The female doctor who interviewed me was quite scary too TT
and the last one was from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
I was required to do an essay and short video during the preliminary stage. The questions are,
1. Essay : Your neighbour is a retired teacher aged 71 years old who lives with her son who has autism. She had an appointment to receive her first dose of Covid-19 vaccine last week; however she refused to be vaccinated. She believes that her son’s symptoms of autism were observed after he was vaccinated when he was young. She also advised her neighbourhood friends not to take the vaccine as reports were shown the vaccine may cause death. She believes that washing hands and wearing mask are sufficient to prevent from Covid-19 infection.
As a future medical practitioner, identify the main issue and discuss critically about this issue.
2. Video : Sebuah organisasi bukan kerajaan telah membuat strategi untuk menyediakan pelindung bayi (baby hatches) di seluruh negara di mana ibu atau orang lain dapat menyerahkan bayi mereka secara tidak diketahui. Apa pendapat anda mengenai amalan ini?
After few days, UPM shortlisted those who are accepted but I failed to be one of their candidates.
I guess that's all from me. I did learned a lot though alhamdulillah and I hope it bring insight to you. I've been enjoying reading a book lately by Ustaz Hasrizal called Erti Beragama Yang Hilang. How about you? What are you doing these days? Thank you for reading. Bye and Salam~!
