We're
technically not allowed to discuss the MMI prompts, but the director at my only MMI school (Cincinnati) said he doesn't care if we do because there's really no way to prepare for MMI. You can read all the ethical questions you want, you still have to get in there and perform coherently in 8-10 minutes, occasionally with an interviewer who is trying to derail and oppose your position. My MMI was 6 months ago and I don't remember all 8 of my prompts, but here's the gist of the ones I do remember.
Question: You and your family are very concerned about your favorite cousin because he has recently started to smoke, drink heavily, and drive recklessly. When you enter the room, your cousin is there
{it's an actor}. You can only talk to your cousin, the interviewer is just an observer.
Answer: This was insanely hard. The actress was
really good and just when I thought I had convinced her to quit smoking and reduce the drinking, she flips out and starts accusing me and the "family" of ganging up on her, then spirals back to her original stance and even started tearing up. I probably did something wrong along the way as I'd hope she didn't give this hard of a time to everyone else, but in my defense, 8 minutes is not enough time to get this done.
Question: An elderly man with a terminal illness is brought into the hospital by a neighbor after a fall. He lives alone and has no contact with his children or family. He wishes to go home to die, claiming he has nothing to live for. Discuss what you would say to the patient.
Answer: This ended up being a role-playing thing. The physician interviewing me pretended to be the patient and I was the doctor. I believe I said something about first treating the injuries from the fall, offering palliative care options, offering to get in contact with family, but ultimately the patient wanted to go home and I didn't push the issue. I thought my stance might have been controversial, but the interviewer seemed pretty pleased with how I handled it?
Question: Should physicians and other healthcare workers be required to have a flu shot in order to be in contact with patients?
Answer: Yes. Supported with reasons. This one was a dud (or a success?) because I guess I succinctly answered the prompt and the interviewer only had a couple follow-up questions. We chatted for the remaining few minutes
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I have to set the stage for the last one I remember: One room, two interviewees, two interviewers. Everyone goes through this scenario twice with two different partners.
Question: You will be given a list of 10 people with their gender, age, and occupation. There's an apocalypse and your underground bunker only has room for 5: you, the other applicant in the room with you, and 3 of the 10 people on this list. You and the other applicant must work together to decide on which 3 to save and begin the new human race.
Answer: So this was slightly awkward. I'm a girl and the 2 people I was paired with were guys, so it was obviously suggested that we would be...starting the human race. Anyway, other than that, it wasn't bad (except for my one partner who just wanted it to be him and 4 females, until I reminded him that our human race would be limited to one generation unless he was okay with incest
). It was a lot less stressful with another applicant in there. FWIW, I remember for one of them we picked the mid-20s female nurse, the mid 40s father of 3, and I believe a late-20s female teacher.
Hope that was helpful! Sorry I don't remember the rest. I was ultimately waitlisted at this school so take my responses with a grain of salt, it might have been what kept me from acceptance.
Also, this might help you out:
http://studentdoctor.net/schools/?view=medical
