PMC Interview


Assalamualaikum.

Hello there, everyone.
Just in case some of you are wondering what PMC stands for, it's an abbreviation of Penang Medical College. 

Well, I just had an interview yesterday (3/11/2016). And it's one hell of an experience, along the lines of a fruitful and a rotten one.

I don't know. So many things to tell to be honest. Ok, so first thing first. The PMC twinning programme is one of the overseas-ish medical programmes offered/sponsored by MARA. it's a twinning programme whereby you get to study in RSCI or UCD in Dublin, Ireland for two and a half years (learrning on theory) and then the remaining two and a half years would be spent in Penang, which would be the clinical part of the medical course. Okay so that's pretty much the basics.

It was nerve wrecking indeed. I mean, you're to be interviewed by an Irish man. On top of that, they're Doctors, Professors, and the Dean of that Uni. Just my luck that I got a Professor in Molecular Chemistry and all of my friends that were interviewed by him got a Chemistry question. Well, I sort of told him that I'm a little bit slow in Chemistry, so Alhamdulillah, he asked a very simple question- naming an isomer.

Well, I don't know if any of you guys ever did this/have experienced this, but I actually cried during the interview. Come to think of it, it was absolutely embarassing. I honestly didn't see that coming.

Why? How, aye? Well, he sort of asked a question that requires a really personal answer. I mean, I could not think of any professional, fabricated answer! In the end, I told him the truth about the reason why I didnt apply to UK and literally, I mean LITERALLY cried spot on. I was being too emotional, trust me, I'm blaming 100% for my PMS. Turns out I had my period that noon. Haih... I'm afraid he'd sense me as someone incompetent, too vulnerable to be in the robust, rigorous field. This makes me as someone that's not going to fit, not gonna survive the medicine world, thus there's a high chance I might not pass the interview. Sigh..

To be honest, this thing has been haunting me long before the interview. I mean, I have always been thinking of the possibilities that I might have to spill the beans. What will happen if the interviewer know about my current family's history? What if? Will it affect? Does that show that I'm not a promising prospective medicine student? How should I run away from telling?

I don't know. Semua yang berlaku, Allah yang tentukan. And it just so happen yg I nangis. & it was not a fake one. Let's just hope for the best result, in three weeks.


Sincerely, Intan.









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