1. Introduce yourself. tell the interviewer where do you come from, what is special bout your country/state.

(contohnye kedah ada apa. Ganu ada apa. Make sure korang tahu jugak tempat2 menarik di negeri korang. So takdela terkantoi if the interviewer dah penah ke negeri korang. Mcm saye. Hee) 2. Family history. any of family members who work as doctor. Does it influence you. 3. What do you know about Ireland. About culture in Ireland. About Irish people. About interesting places in Ireland. (boleh google2, or tanye kakak2 dalam Ym ke. Psl irish people, silalah puji mereka ye. Haha ;P. They are friendly and ckp je u are so interested to make friends with them) 4. Why do you want to be a doctor. try cari jawapan yg best2. Any significant experience that made you wanna be a doctor. (contohnye ade family member yang mengalami something that then membuatkan korang sangat2 terasa nk jadi doctor. Or maybe your own experiences) Be different. Kalau boleh avoid jawapan yang common. Or kalau2 ade any plan in the next 10 years yg korang nak buat, yg mendorong korang untuk mengambil bidang perubatan. (contohnye in the next 10 years korang nak jadi cardiologist/neurologist yg berjaye sbb Malaysia kurang cardiologist/neurologist. Ini contoh je. Try cari fakta tentang kekurangan pakar di Malaysia. (Contoh lain, korang nak jadi pakar kanak2 yg best so that you can do something for the society. Contohnye di Malaysia rumah2 kanak2 hIV or orphanage sangat terhad dan serba kekurangan. So u are hoping to improve something about it. Maybe dengan title paediatrician will help u a lot dalam dapatkan dana dari kerajaan ke..) 5. What is the qualities a doctor must have. 1. Confident. [doctor bnyk kene wat keputusan. So xleh ada sifat ragu2. Sume bnde kene confident abeh. Tapi mesti confident dan betul la. Hehe. Elaborate la eh]

2. Professional. [coz bnyk bende nk kena balancekan. So maybe under this quality boleh include pasal control emotion and so on. Sedih tengok patient tapi takleh nanges2 depan diorang. Rase treatment akan menyakitkan patient but that treatment is needed, so perasaan sangat perlu diabaikan. Contohnye la. Ini contoh professional i guess. Tambah contoh2 lain okay] 3. Punctual. [coz doctor is playing between life and death. Even a second can cause a big impact on patient. So kene dan mesti on time] 4. Empathy and sympathy. [keje doctor isnt about bagi ubat n kasi treatment je. Itu sesape yg ade sijil pun boleh buat kan. To be a doctor is easy, but to be a good doctor is not and not easy. We have to consider patients situation and feeling. And sometimes have to help them in finding the solution. Contohnye saya penah jumpe pesakit yg sakit2 sendi. Teruk jugak. Doctor suruh jangan jalan banyak. Tp nothing she can do sbb dia ada beberapa anak kurang upaya and she has to take care of all of them. Kesian kan. Maybe in some ways as a doctor, we must help them la. Try cari dana ke untuk beri kemudahan utk pesakit tu kurangkan masalah dia. Try to think of a good idea ;D 5. Love aka loving. [Kalau takde rasa sayang mcm mane nk buat keje dgn suka hati kan. If there is no love, we will see doctor as a carrier semata-mata. Jadi mcm xbest la kan. Keje penat2 dan tak dapat pape. If doctor ada rasa sayangkan manusia termasuk pesakit, then they will do their best in everything. All they want to see is just the patient recovers from illness and mengecapi kehidupan seperti orang2 lain.] Other point, please google2 n top up sendiri. Ley gak tgk web ni. http://www.slideshare.net/wraithxjmin/qualities-of-a-good-doctor

6. What qualities do you have. Why do you think you must chosen. Okay, yg ni sgt kene promote diri. Interviewer just nak tengok, adakah qualities yg korang cakap tadi ada pada korang sume. Oleh sebab itu make sure apa yg dicakapkan dlm soalan sebelum ni (qualities of a good doctor), point2 yg korang bagi tu, mampu korang elaborate jugak untuk describe diri korang. I mean korang confident, professional, punctual, bla bla bla. Be prepared so takdela tergagap2 mcm saya masa dpt soalan ni. The interviewer will ask u more and more dan menggalakkan anda sume promote diri.

7. How are you going to adapt yourself with Ireland, irish people, the climate. Everything that exist on this earth need adaptation. Even dalam biology pun kite ada belajar kan. So it ist true, kite dah hidup 20 tahun di Malaysia. And we are comfortable with our own country. The climate, the people, sume kite dah biasa. But as we want to further our studies abroad, we need to adapt. There is no choice. Kene biasakan dengan orang baru,

gaya hidup baru, bahasa baru, and cuaca baru. Perbezaan suhu hampir 30 darjah jugak la. Then cakap la betapa korang sgt2 interested nk sambung belajar di Ireland, walaupun tahu kene biasakan diri. Boleh gak tambah2 kelebihan belajar di luar negara. 8. How are you going to do with the language. What did you do to improve your English. Disebabkan our mother tounge is malay, so the interviewer maybe kasi soalan ni. Whan u study in ireland, everything is in English. N maybe gak diorang ckp your English is not so well so mcm mane nk study abroad. Apa yg korang buat untuk improve. Ckp la sume efforts that u did and do to improve your English. Contohnye, pegi kelas bahasa inggeris ke, banyakkan membaca paper n artikel English. Belajar trough internet. Belajar melalui kawan2 yg good in English. Please show your interests walaupun not so good in English. Tunjukkan yg korang eager nak belajar di Ireland and sedang berusaha kea rah tu. 9. How to manage your time as a doctor, a mother and wife as well (between carrier and family) http://www.ehow.com/how_4894059_juggle-home-career.html http://www.annals.org/content/125/7/618.full as for us, its all depends on u..how u manage ursef..because evrybody is different..u might heard that sometimes a doc well succeed in his career but never in his life,on the other side of the world,there is a doc who have been married hepily for 40 years long and have 7 children..all grew up as successful people... how this can be possible?ask ursef..coz u have de answer on how much do u want something...n how much n how futher u wanna go to take it n grab it firmly within ur hands...its all about sacrifines,..=) dun afraid of ur future..juz live in it..coz u might only have today to live...n never afraid to fail too..coz de best part of fall is when u hit de bottom n bounce back as high as u can! This type of question basically to see how u can handle between works and personal matters. make sure, u can control and juggle between the thrice carefully and dont mix them together! I bet u have your own original and much creative answer this is just our opinions.

10. What would be your interested in (specialised). Why. Hah. I bet this is favourite question :P. you guys must have your own decision and choice. But it will be better if you put any well-known person in your specialised as well. Contohnye, if you think of specialised in paeds, cari one important person in paeds, dan important person tu carilah one in Malaysia and cari lagi satu yang well-known specialised in paeds outside of Malaysia. The interviewer dont expect you to know all the biography of that important person, enough that you know a lil bit about them. Tanye je Mr Google 11. Difference between uCD n RCSi. Pro n cons. 12. Then what is your choice. Why. 13. Current health issue in your country.

maybe can search on top killer disease in developing country n kaitkan dengan Malaysia. [eg. chikugunya, aedes, swine flu yang lepas, heart attack, cancer etc]. But make sure you dont make up the story cause nnt lagi pening if the interviewer ask u further. As Ive told you before, the interviewer dont expect you to know all the things detailly, enough that you know about it and understand the disease on surface. At least you have idea if they point out this question. But dont worry much, they know that you are still a pre-med student, not a medic student yet 14. Health issue in Ireland 15. Your cocuricular activities Hah, this questions. For those yang ade byk take part in any activities, you can show up what you have done. Impress the interviewer. Be it sport, fayc team, being class rep, or even treasurer. Just say out. And of course , put some impressive word to add in flavour..hee Your hospital attachment too is a good point. Just tell them your experiences throughout the hospital attachment, or maybe you have done some voluntarily work. You are not forced to go to hospital attachment too right? If you dont have any stories, you can tell them your friends stories. Heee. But make sure you can blend it to become yours and dont mix up! Nanti kantoi! :P 16. Why must we choose you? What are your advantage? what are your disadvantage?

After all, it all depends on you.

Alhamdulillah, prepared by us, Masmuna soleh [hao_spider@yahoo.com] Siti Fasihah Muhd Fisal [sisfas@yahoo.com] With the help from other seniors of ucd and rcsi, too many to outline here