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Bookings for subject selection, school fete volunteers, uniform. Olivier picard is the managing director of isc medical, the uks leading company for preparing candidates for medical interviews. This book is dedicated to the hundreds of medical students and medical school appli cants who. The recent shift in the medicine and dentistry interview process has been towards mulitple mini interviews mmi. Register now for our medical school interview course. Medical school interview questions royal college of surgeons.
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