When you are responding to your questions at your medical interview, you have to deliberate how you can execute the following things, when you are hassled.

Contemplate them and if they make sense, practice doing them. Then make a deliberate effort to do them in your interview. You may choose to write some of them down and put them on a small piece of paper to remind you on the day!

Make eye contact with the interviewer, before you open your mouth to discuss. Making eye contact makes you appear more positive and look more honest.

Sit head-on on the chair and be conscientious but unperturbed.

Keep your facial expressions and hand gestures genuine.

Try not to twitch around and emerge restive or panicky – even if you are!

Stick to the point at hand. Do not talk about nothing in particular or go off topic too much. Try to keep your verbal communication precise, but all-inclusive.

Create a structured and commonsense answer to help make yourself openly understood. Try to not use jargon.

Speak confidently so that you can be heard – but don’t bellow. Do not speak too hurriedly … or too leisurely. Alter your tonality and pace and use your voice to reflect the meaning of what you are trying to say.

Oh, and finally, on no account bicker with the interviewer.

Hope these help you to answer your questions better and increase your chances of performing well at your medical consultant interview