The words to use
- Sustained commitment
- A role kept up over months, with a rota, someone managing you and a cost when you don't turn up. It shows reliability, which observation alone can't.
- Layperson's view
- An informed, sensible understanding of dental topics in the news, without specialist knowledge. Dental schools say this is what they expect from applicants.
- Confounding
- When a third factor is linked to both the exposure and the outcome, it distorts the link between them, so a correlation may not mean one thing causes the other.
- EPQ
- The Extended Project Qualification: a project in which you choose your own question, research it and present what you found. Interviewers ask because it is close to real research.
