Staff needed for the medicine admissions process
Interviews for medical students will be held at the Clayton campus from 3-10 January (including the weekend) and 20-24 January 2014.
The Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences is calling on staff to be interviewers as part of the 2014 student admissions process for the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS).
To gain entry in the MBBS at Monash, applicants are required to attend an interview. With around 600 students being offered interviews, the Faculty requires 350 volunteers to take on the role of interviewers.
Academic Director of Admissions in the Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, Associate Professor Margaret Hay, explains that this year there has been a change to the selection process for the degree that allows interview offers to be based on a combination of the applicant's UMAT and ATAR scores, rather than just the UMAT.
“Using a combination of UMAT and ATAR provides us with two of the three selection parameters when offering applicants an interview allowing for efficiencies within the process and also providing a more streamlined progression for the applicants,” Associate Professor Hay said.
“The interview process is an integral part of MBBS selection helping us gauge applicants’ ability to demonstrate a range of traits considered vital for success in their training and future practice.
“The scenario based interviews explore applicants’ ability to show empathy, while also giving them the opportunity to demonstrate their communication skills, critical thinking, interpersonal skills and their motivation for wanting to become a doctor.”
Interviews for medical students will be held at the Clayton campus from 3-10 January (including the weekend) and 20-24 January 2014.
“At Monash we run Multiple Mini Interviews (MMIs) consisting of eight, 10 minute interviews. The interviews are one-on-one with the applicant given a scenario to read followed by the interviewer asking five questions relevant to the scenario. The interviewer then scores each answer on an iPad,” Associate Professor Hay said.
Interviewers do not require any special skills or knowledge.
Two-hour training sessions will be held at the Clayton campus between 25-29 November 2013.
Those interested in becoming an interviewer can register online.