The topics of the MMI stations in previous years have been focused on the following areas:
General/Personal Statement Station: This includes discussion of information on your UCAS form, your ability to self-evaluate and may lead to questions such as:
- Give us an example of when you have had to take responsibility (or show leadership) and deal with a difficult situation.
- Tell us what you did to find out about medicine.
- Why should we take you?
- Why Leeds Medical School?
- What are your strengths and weaknesses?
- What have you learnt from your voluntary work?
Role play Station: This may involve interactions with a trained actor, or medical school student as well as an observer. For effective ways to navigate this type of station review BlackStone Tutors “6 Stages of MMI Role Play” as well as the MMI Question Bank for a range of role play stations to practice.
Motivation & Insight into Medicine: This station is designed to explore both how well informed a candidate is regarding the role of a doctor, and how much they have reflected on a career in medicine.
- Why do you want a career as a doctor rather than another health-related profession?
- How do you think that healthcare professionals deal with stress at work? How will you cope with the stress of a career in medicine?
Ethical Dilemma: This station may present you with a scenario or a question related to professional issues that you must discuss with the interviewer. This may also be in the form of a situational judgement, where you must decide if a particular response to a situation is appropriate, very appropriate, inappropriate or very inappropriate. For example:
- You are a foundation doctor on a ward, and one of your peers is asking you to cover them regularly so that they can attend doctor’s appointments. What issues does this raise? What would influence how you dealt with it?
- A famous person is admitted to the hospital. You are a doctor and notice that a colleague has tweeted this information and put it on their Facebook page. What issues does this raise? What would be your reaction/ actions?
- What would you do if you gave a patient a double dose of drugs by accident?