General/Personal Statement Station – In this station expect any aspect of your personal statement/background to be elaborated on, including questions such as:
- How do you relax/deal with stress?
- Why have you chosen Nottingham?
- What can you bring to the university?
- Define ‘friend’
- What are your interests/hobbies?
- Tell me about your work experience.
- How would your friends describe you?
- What qualities do you possess that will make you a good doctor?
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Motivation and Insight into Medicine – This station examines how your realistic desire to pursue a career in medicine is. The questions asked in this station may include:
- Why do you want to be a doctor?
- Why not chose another career path?
- Medicine can be emotionally demanding, how would you remain detached?
- What is it specifically that really makes you want to do medicine?
- How will you manage your time i.e. work/life balance?
- What makes a good doctor?
- What are the challenges facing modern healthcare?
- What about the medicine course at Nottingham appeals to you?
- Medically related current affairs e.g. 7-day NHS, NHS and Brexit Â
- Why have you applied to medicine despite all the negativity towards the NHS in the news?
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Ethical Scenarios– Ethical scenarios may be of a medical and/or non-medical nature.  Remember to consider multiple viewpoints/possibilities and that there are often no right or wrong answers. Review the ‘2 Sorts, 2 Sides’ approach for Medicine Ethical Scenarios. Examples of recently asked ethical scenarios include: Â
1. During an A-level examination, you saw your friend cheating.
- What would you do after the exam?
- What if he tells you that he is did this because he wants to meet his grades in order to get into medicine?
- What would happen to the relationship between you and your friend as a result?
2. Discuss the ethics around your patient refusing further treatment. Â
3. Additional MMI Ethical Scenarios with Model Answers can be found in the MMI Question Bank.
Role Play Scenarios – Nottingham has two role-play stations. These scenarios often want you to demonstrate key attributes such as empathy, caring, being non-judgemental etc.  One station involves interacting with a trained actor where you will be asked to complete a task with, or for them. The second station is with a fourth year medical student where you will be expected to enter into dialogue with them; this may involve discussing topical medical issues or a hypothetical clinical scenario. In order to succeed in these stations, ensure that you review and implement ‘The 6 Stages of MMI Role Play’.