How to answer what you have done to prepare for medicine with range

What this lesson covers

• The whole answer on one card
• Step one: hear what they are really asking
• The bridge: from what you saw to what you do
• Don't use every trick at once
• The follow-up ladder
• How this comes up on the day

The words to use

The six moves

Range, moment, assumption, meaning, change, stop. The order that turns your experience into a scorable answer of about 90 seconds.

The bridge

Linking what you saw on a placement to a long commitment where you now act on it. It turns an observation into a change the examiner can test.

Story bank

Three prepared stories, for example one on communication, one on the limits of medicine and one on the team, that you re-aim to fit each question.

Follow-up ladder

The two or three deeper questions a good answer invites, such as "Why did that affect you?" and "Has it changed anything?". Prepare a line for each rung.