Interview Format - Multiple Mini Interviews

This interview format allows several small interviews to determine different aspects of your behaviour.

Mini-interview types include:

Giving and following directions - At the ANU, this interview step involved talking someone, unseen, through folding an origami frog from printed instructions. Then, you had to follow instructions.

Empathy - In this scenario, you are presented with a situation which requires you to demonstrate empathy. One example would be being confronted with an elderly man who has just been robbed and is feeling upset. The actors in this scenario are often very good. You will need to show an understanding of their problem.
One refreshing response I heard to this situation was to turn it into a group-hug session.

Rural - This station asked questions about what problems you think are facing rural health, what problems doctors face in working in a rural environment, and whether you have special skills or would be interested in working in such an environment.

Motivation - Why do you want to become a doctor? What are your reasons for becoming a doctor? Where do you get your ideas of what medicine entails? What would make you a great doctor?

Weaknesses - What are your weaknesses? How do you handle them? Do you get stressed? What do you to handle stress?

Problem-solving - What would you do if you were (stuck in the bush with three random objects/finding a small metal object in a haystack/dealing with a prison riot). Look at many different factors - eg with the bush situation, you are considering survival and rescue, but you can also be creative

Ethics - This aims to determine your response to an ethical situation. in this scenario, I was shown a short video where a student had not completed a paper and was offered the opportunity to cheat by using another student's work. However, she did not complete the work because she was involved in charity commitments at the time. The discussion ranged over good reasons to miss school work, whether the charity could have managed without her contribution, and how cheating on the essay would impede her learning. Alternative scenarios: How would you deal with an elderly woman who is the victim of wife-bashing who does not want the situation escalated?