Anxiety relief - advice needed

This may be a bit premature of me (as I have just sent my application off) but do any med students/previous applicants have some advice for lowering your anxiety before a med school interview? I want to start working on it now during my early prep because it is quite a big problem for me. I've had a lot of experience in healthcare and I know I'm really good at communicating with patients and healthcare professionals, including really senior ones and in high-pressured situations, so I'd like to think its not a case of 'the interview weeds out those who cant handle it' - I'm also quite chilled out about exams, but the thought of a medicine interview makes me so anxious, partly because I want it so much. Unfortunately it is a necessary evil for med school ha! Its just very frustrating because I know I'm a people person and reasonably intelligent, but as soon as I'm in that specific interview environment I get horribly nervous to the point where I stutter and make myself look like a fool. I'm applying to loads of jobs in the nhs and hoping I get some interviews, then maybe I can use these as experience to better myself..I'm also planning on setting up some mock interviews with academic staff.. but I don't know about what else to do! The thought that I would fall at this hurdle just due to nerves is really horrible and feeding my anxiety even more! I know that it is something that a lot of us struggle with, some (far) more than others, but does anyone have any tips, preferably...
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