I am a fifth-year medical student at Western Sydney University, and I coach applicants through MMI, panel and hybrid interviews.
4
Years coaching applicants
10
Student places per cycle, at most
3
Formats known in depth: MMI, Panel and Hybrid
About Your Tutor
I am in my fifth year of medicine at Western Sydney University. For the last four years I have coached applicants through the interviews for the most competitive medical programs in the country.
I have coached more than 15 applicants. Five of my students are now studying Medicine at Western Sydney University, and at least five more accepted offers from their second or third preference.
Almost everyone who gets an interview is academically strong. The ones who get offers understand what the school is selecting for, and can show it in eight minutes with a stranger watching.
That is a skill, and it can be taught.
Most of my coaching so far was with another provider, so the student feedback from those years stays with them. My work history is on LinkedIn if you want to check it.
View my LinkedIn profile (opens in a new tab)The UCAT is done, the ATAR is on track, and the interview is the one part of this nobody at school can help you with. Most of my students are here.
You were interviewed last cycle and did not get an offer. Before we practise anything, we work out what went wrong. Usually it is one or two things, and they are fixable.
Everything is online, with evening and weekend times across Australian time zones. Where you live makes no difference to what you get.
One-on-one, built around you and the schools you are applying to. MMI, panel and hybrid formats. We work on what you get wrong, and we keep working on it until you get it right.
By the endBy session five we are working on structuring any ethical station inside the two-minute reading time.
Two to four students, six weeks, one evening a week. You practise on each other, you hear how other people answer, and you learn quickly what does and does not land.
By the endBy week six you have run a full peer mock and been scored by two other people as well as me.
Three days, back to back, for students who have just received an invitation and do not have six weeks. Every station type, a full mock on the third day, and a report you can read the night before.
By the endBy Day 3 you have run a full mock at interview timing.
Ninety minutes. The first forty-five are a full run of stations matched to your target university. The second forty-five are the debrief, out loud and then in writing.
By the endYou leave knowing how each station went and the two things to fix before the real one.
For students who get an invitation with under two weeks to go. Each day is two 90-minute blocks online, morning and afternoon, with work set in between. Eighteen or more stations over the three days, a written report, and a follow-up before your interview. I run the days back to back wherever I can.
Day 1
Block 1 · 90 min
Four stations, one of each main type: an ethical scenario, a role-play, a personal question, a situational judgement. I score them against written criteria, the way an interview panel marks. I do not teach yet. I need to see what you do under pressure first.
Block 2 · 90 min
How to build an answer, how to fill the time or stop early, what the rubric rewards. Each idea is tried straight away on a station you struggled with in the morning.
Evening
You get three things to fix, in writing, and two prompts to record and send me before tomorrow.
Day 2
Block 1 · 90 min
Four or five stations in the categories you found hardest on Day 1. Every answer is run twice: once, then again with the correction.
Block 2 · 90 min
Role-play and communication stations, then the questions you will be asked whatever happens. Why medicine. Why here. A time you failed. We keep going until they sound like you.
Evening
A timed station set to record on your own. You review your footage against a checklist before I see it.
Day 3
Block 1 · 90 min
A mock interview in the format and timing of your target university. Where the real interview runs more stations than fit in ninety minutes, we run a representative set at full timing. I do not stop it and I do not explain anything until it is finished.
Block 2 · 90 min
Station-by-station debrief, then one last rework of the two weakest answers. The written report arrives within 24 hours.
Follow-up
Thirty minutes in the days before your interview. Last questions, one more station, and a plan for the morning of.
Pricing
Australian dollars, with no lock-in. The 5-session pack is quoted when you enquire. The $40 intro fee comes off any package you book afterwards.
How long until your interview?
Pick one and I will highlight what usually fits. It is only a guide.
Bank transfer or PayID on invoice, paid before each session starts.
Every station is scored against these. So is every answer you give me. There is no secret rubric; the schools tell you what they want.
01
Do you answer the question that was asked, clearly, at the right length, and can you be understood by someone who is not a doctor?
02
Can you see both sides of a dilemma, name the principle at stake, and reach a decision you can defend?
03
In a role-play, do you notice how the other person feels before you try to solve their problem?
04
When you talk about a failure, is it a real one, and do you know what it taught you?
06
Is your reason yours, is it specific, and does it survive the follow-up question?
How I coach
I do not write your answers. I do not invent experiences for you. I prepare you to present yourself accurately under pressure, which is what the interview is for. If a school asked me what I did with you, I would be happy to tell them.
Every school runs its interview differently, and generic preparation shows. I know the WSU, UNSW and Newcastle formats best.
You are a first-year medical student on a hospital placement. A patient in her seventies tells you, while you are taking her history, that she stopped taking one of her heart medications three months ago because she could not afford it. She asks you not to mention this to the team because she does not want to be a bother.
What do you do, and why?
Opens a timer for this one question. Nothing is recorded and nothing is scored.
What the marker is looking for
What loses marks: lecturing her, agreeing to keep it secret, or reciting four ethical principles without applying any of them. In a session we would run this twice, and the second time you would hear the difference.
How a session runs
You answer each question the way the day runs it, on the clock and without the card in front of you. I take notes as you talk. At the end you get a written plan that is yours to keep.
Simulated student example.
Book Intro Session · $40Thirty minutes. You tell me where you are applying, when the interviews are, and what worries you. I tell you what I think you need. You also fill in a five-question confidence rating, which we repeat after the mock so we can both see what moved.
A short written plan for your target formats. Which stations to work on, in what order, and how many sessions it will probably take.
Stations drawn from past cycles, run to time. I stop you after each one and tell you what I would have marked you down for.
A full run under interview conditions before the real thing.
Review
What you practised since last time, and what today is for. One station type, one skill.
Timed stations
Two or three stations, run to the clock. I give you feedback after each one while it is still fresh.
Rework
You run the weakest answer again with the correction in it. This is the part that changes how you interview.
Plan
What to practise before next time, written down, so you and your parents both have it.
Two recorded prompts
Stations I send you. You record them to time on your phone and send them back.
One written reflection
Half a page on what changed since last session and what still feels wrong.
One reading
Usually your target school’s own published selection criteria. You should know them better than the interviewer does.
About ninety minutes a week
That is the whole of the work between sessions.
In the many years I’ve known Fadi professionally, one thing has always stood out: he treats every student’s interview as seriously as if it were his own. He knows no two medical schools interview alike, and instead of generic advice he prepares each student for the exact format they will face. His feedback is candid, and he will tell you plainly what isn’t working, yet his students come away more confident, not less. I know of several he has coached who went on to receive offers and are now studying Medicine at Western Sydney University. I recommend him without hesitation.
Fadi’s feedback is really clear. He doesn’t just say an answer was good or bad. He tells you exactly what didn’t work and why, then shows you how to fix it step by step. His instructions are easy to follow, so students actually know what to do next time instead of guessing. Over a few sessions you can see their technique improve, and it holds up even on questions they haven’t practised. Highly recommend him to anyone preparing for medical interviews.
Fadi is an empathetic and understanding tutor who I have personally observed lead many students to achieve success in the medical school interview. He dedicates a lot of his time to ensuring students feel supported and confident. His extensive experience in interview preparation has also allowed him to refine an approach that consistently gets results.
Online, all of them, over video call. It is the better way to practise interviews, because you see yourself the way the panel does, and it means I can offer evenings and weekends to students anywhere in Australia. I do not run in-person sessions.
Who your child is working with
A fifth-year medical student at Western Sydney University. I am happy to verify that on request. I hold a current NSW Working With Children Check and the number is given at booking.
Students under 18
A parent or guardian makes the booking and receives the invoice. Session confirmations and written plans are copied to the parent’s email.
Safeguarding
Sessions can be recorded if you ask. I do not contact students privately on social media or messaging apps. For students under 18, all scheduling goes through the parent’s email.
Sitting in
You are welcome in the intro session. Coaching sessions are for the student alone, which is also how the interview will be. Every session ends with a written plan, and you will have it.
Recording
Sessions can be recorded if you ask, and shared privately with the family so answers can be gone over at home. Recordings are deleted within three months of the interview date.
Payment and terms
Invoice by bank transfer or PayID, paid before each session starts. Packages can be split into two payments. No lock-in. The intro fee comes off any package you go on to book.
What I will not promise
An offer. No one can promise that, and you should be careful of anyone who does. What I can do is send your child in knowing what is being marked and how to show it.
The same notes are on a page of their own, if you want to send them on.
After UCAT results in September if you can, six to ten weeks before your interview. If you have been invited and have under two weeks, the intensive is built for that.
UCAT. This is the time to book an intro session and make a plan. It is not the time to drill.
UCAT results. This is when most students start, six to ten weeks out from interviews.
Interview invitations. Weekly individual or group sessions, with a full mock booked before your date.
Interviews. If you are invited with less than two weeks to go, the intensive is for you.
These are typical of recent years and vary by school. Check them against your university's own admissions dates.
If you are confident and have practised a bit already, four to six. If this is your first time, or you froze last cycle, the ten-session pack is usually the right call. It includes a full mock.
Yes, and often especially. The interview does not reward the loudest person in the room. It rewards the one who listens, thinks, and answers the question that was asked.
A laptop with a camera that works, a quiet room, and your list of universities. I bring the rest.
Yes. Stations from past cycles, matched to the formats of the schools you are applying to. Ethics, role-play, personal questions and situational judgement.
Undergraduate-entry programs across Australia, and I know the WSU, UNSW and Newcastle formats best. The list is above. If yours is not on it, ask me.
No. I do interviews and nothing else. That is why I am good at them. The one exception is the UNSW personal statement: I give feedback on drafts, because UNSW shares your application form with your interviewers and it shapes the conversation you will have.
No, neither. They are online tests sat earlier in the application, before interview invitations go out, and preparing for them well is a different job. I take students from the interview invitation onwards.
Mostly undergraduate. If you are applying to a graduate program with an MMI, send me a message and I will tell you straight whether I can help.
More than 24 hours’ notice, we reschedule and nothing is charged. Less than that, 30% of the session price is charged and the rest is credited to a new time. The full terms are in the footer.
No. Nobody honest does. What I can guarantee is that you will know what the interviewers are marking, and that you will have practised it until it holds under pressure.
Get In Touch
Tell me where you are applying, when the interviews are, and what worries you. Thirty minutes is enough to work out a plan.
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