MMI interview questions Flashcards
Give Instructions
The interviewer is sitting across from you, and on the table there’s a wrapped up box.
You’re asked to instruct the interviewer on how to unwrap and open the box, without helping them or using your hands.
Role Play
An actor hands you a card, telling you that in this role play station you are a close friend of theirs. You have been house-sitting whilst ‘your friend’ has been on holiday and you have to explain to them that you broke their favourite ornament. When informed, the actor becomes hysterical and very angry.
Prioritisation
You’re told that this weekend you’re going on a camping trip. In front of you is a table of random objects.
You have 20 seconds to pick five objects that you deem to be of the most importance and value, and explain.
Ethics Knowledge
What ethical principle of medicine would you consider to be most important?
Empathy
You are faced with an actor playing a 65-year-old man who has just been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
He is coming to his GP for advice on how to cope with his diagnosis, as he has heard a lot of stigma over the years about dementia and its burden on both his family and the healthcare service.
Whilst talking to you, he breaks down into tears.
Role play
You’re told that you are entering a hospital staff room prior to performing surgery with Dr ‘X’.
As you enter, you see Dr X take a swig of a clear drink from a bottle, which you suspect is alcohol, and then quickly close their locker.
Over the course of the conversation, Dr X begins to forget things and slur their words.
You have five minutes to speak to Dr X.
Communication
On the table, there is a diagram which shows the layout of a building.
The interviewer asks you to give them directions from the entrance of the building to Room A. After you have given your answer, the interviewer asks why you think you are being asked this question.
Confidentiality
An actor hands you a card which states that you are playing the role of a GP and they are a 16-year-old girl who has come to ask for information about getting tested for STIs, but is worried about her parents finding out.
Data Interpretation
On the table, there’s a graph which shows the plasma insulin levels of several patients over the course of one day, with the times that meals were consumed indicated.
The interviewer asks you to describe the graph for Patient 1.
You are then asked to provide an explanation for the changes in insulin levels at different times of the day.
Communication Skills
An actor hands you a card which states that you are playing the role of a surgeon and they are a patient on whom you recently performed a hip replacement.
You must inform them that some nerve damage occurred during surgery, which means they may not regain full use of their leg.
Communication Skills
The interviewer tells you that you have four minutes to explain the process/purpose of vaccination to them, speaking as you would to any competent adult.
When you have finished, they give you another four minutes to explain the same thing as if you were speaking to a young child who is about to be vaccinated.
This time, you may use a whiteboard and marker to support your explanation if you choose.
Ethics
Four people need a liver and they all have an equal chance of success.
One has only two weeks left to live without, one is the sole carer for their father, one is a pregnant lady who would otherwise only have a couple of months with her newborn, and one has taken a large Paracetamol overdose.
Assuming there was nothing to medically differentiate the patients, and considering only the ethical aspects, who would you give the liver to?
