Starting to think about what an MMI even is.
You're in Year 12, just hearing about the interview side of medicine. We start from the ground up. Knowing what an MMI is matters less than learning how to think under one.
Year 12 · planning aheadInterview Course with Dr. Dibah Jiva
By December, your own voice on a hard question won't surprise you.
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Structure, not script.
Practised every week.
And me coaching every answer.
When most students click on an interview course, they picture the same thing. A long day. Maybe a weekend. A lot of content delivered fast. A pile of mock questions. Then home, with notes.
That isn't what this is.
What I run is three months of small-group practice with the same coach. October through to the end of January. Some weeks I'm teaching the full Monday-to-Friday schedule. Every Sunday I'm running the practice hour.
The £270 is the price of the whole season, not the price of ten hours. I built it this way because that is what works.
The work is the same. We rehearse what comes up at your specific schools, until you can do it without thinking about it.
You're in Year 12, just hearing about the interview side of medicine. We start from the ground up. Knowing what an MMI is matters less than learning how to think under one.
Year 12 · planning aheadYou have interview offers in hand and no idea where to start. You front-load on the cycles before your earliest interview, then keep coming for the rest of the season.
Year 13 · offers in handYou came close last cycle and still don't quite know which station was the one that lost it for you. Tell me which schools rejected you and where you think it broke down. I'll bring that into how we work.
Re-applicantsYou're trying to picture what a UK panel interview actually feels like in the room. Live, online, webcam on. The format isn't a mystery by the time you walk in.
International applicantsIt isn't. Ethics, NHS, role-plays, motivation: graduate interviews have specific demands your degree didn't prepare you for. The course covers the full range, undergraduate and graduate.
Graduate applicantsThe skill that wins an interview isn't the same as the knowledge that goes into one. You can read every NHS hot topic and every duty of a doctor and still freeze when an examiner asks “and what would you do if the consultant disagreed?”
Knowledge is the floor. The skill is what you do under the actual question, with the actual clock, with the actual eye contact.
That skill is built by repetition over time. Not by intensity over a weekend.
What I changed three years ago was the shape of this course. Before, I ran multi-day teaching, which is fine for delivering content. What I added was every-Sunday practice across the whole interview season. November, December, January. So that the skill keeps moving.
You answer a motivation question on the second Sunday in November. You answer a different motivation question on the third Sunday in November. You don't get to coast on what you already know. You get reps.
Every five-day teaching week runs the same shape. Same topics. Same days. Different example questions every cycle.
Why medicine, structured. Your stories drilled into clear, specific examples. Most students walk in with the right motivation and the wrong shape; we fix the shape.
Modified STAR for the experience-led questions. Reflection that lands as a reason, not as a list.
GMC's Good Medical Practice in a way that lands in interview. Personal attributes connected to what medicine asks of you, without overclaiming.
The questions get specific. “Tell me about a time you worked in a team” becomes a question you can answer in 90 seconds, with a story that lands.
Scenario reasoning. The four pillars, applied. Common dilemmas, deliberate framing. Multiple Perspective for the questions where two reasonable views exist.
Come to Wednesday three times across three weeks if ethics is what trips you up. Different scenarios every time.
NHS issues you will be asked about. Prioritisation. SJT-style stations under timed conditions. Hold ground without sounding defensive.
MSAG for the prioritisation stations. We'll work through it together.
SPIES for conflict and breaking-bad-news role plays. Live role-play practice with a partner, then live coaching from me on what shifted and what to repeat.
Special stations: data interpretation, ranking, free-text. By Friday you sound like yourself, only ready.
Separately, every Sunday across November, December, and January, the practice hour. Each week the published focus is different. You bring the answer; I give you the feedback.
The teaching weeks run four times across the season. You don't have to come to all four. You don't even have to come to one full week. Mix and match by weekday: Monday in cycle one, Wednesday in cycle two, role-play Friday in cycle three.
Every Monday-to-Friday week. Every Sunday. Every cycle. I'm not handing you off to someone else mid-season.
You answer a 'why medicine' question. I see how you structure it, where you reach for a story, where you cut yourself off. I write it down.
Mid-week, you do an ethics scenario. The structural habit shows up again. I name it on the spot so you can hear yourself doing it.
Sunday practice. New question. I'm checking whether you've absorbed the fix from Monday and Wednesday, or whether it's still there.
You come back to Monday in cycle two. I'm bringing the kind of question that exposes the habit, because the work isn't finished.
The habit is gone. You haven't been told it five times by five different tutors. One coach, one continuous arc, watched the shift.
“I keep track of each of you individually. The next session is built on what I noticed last time.”
Dr. Dibah · sole instructor
After your first few sessions I know what your motivation answer sounds like, where your ethics reasoning gets stuck, whether you cut yourself off mid-station because you're worried about time. That isn't a feature description. That is what makes the difference between a group class and actual coaching.
Three months of small-group practice with the same coach. October through to the end of January. Every five-day teaching week, every Sunday practice hour, every cycle.
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Here is some of what they have to say.
A one-day workshop delivers content. This delivers practice. A workshop ends; this runs for three months. A workshop sees you once; I see you every week. The price comparison is misleading because the products aren't doing the same job.
If you want a long day of content, a workshop is faster. If you want to be better in the room when the question is asked, repetition over time is what builds that.
Yes, and probably more than the first time. Re-applicants come in with specific scar tissue from where it went wrong last cycle. I can work with that directly.
If you tell me which schools rejected you and where you think it broke down, I'll bring that into how we work together.
You front-load. Come to the cycles in October and the early Sundays in November before your interview. The rest of the season is there if you have other interviews still to come, or you've already taken your offer and you're done.
You're not paying for time you don't use; you're paying for the season being there when you need it.
Same coach across three months. Same practice rhythm interview season actually needs. Five days of teaching every cycle, an hour of practice every Sunday through January, and me tracking how you're doing the whole way.