How to prepare for MMI 1 month out

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hello

I have an MMI interview coming up in about a month. Where do I start my prep? I've heard I should just skim with the UW bioethics page and then straight into the 150 questions of Shemassian Consulting MMI questions while recording myself. Also, can I trust the SDN school-specific Interview Feedback Summary questions as practice as well? If I do, should I be doing a mix of Shemassian and the SDN questions? My first cycle im kinda getting overwhelmed already haha!

I'm also studying simultaneously for my MCAT retake (on my uglobe phase rn) so I only have limited time in the evening to study.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

hello

I have an MMI interview coming up in about a month. Where do I start my prep? I've heard I should just skim with the UW bioethics page and then straight into the 150 questions of Shemassian Consulting MMI questions while recording myself. Also, can I trust the SDN school-specific Interview Feedback Summary questions as practice as well? If I do, should I be doing a mix of Shemassian and the SDN questions? My first cycle im kinda getting overwhelmed already haha!

I'm also studying simultaneously for my MCAT retake (on my uglobe phase rn) so I only have limited time in the evening to study.

Try a little practice with the Casper/SJT/PREview practice scenarios.

Your interview day should have information about what to expect with your MMI stations. Hopefully others have put information into the Interview Feedback database; if not, make sure you do. Every school runs MMI differently, so there's no way to say how to prepare. But make sure you know how to cogently answer your questions effectively.

We include MMI practice for anyone who enrolls in Becoming a Student Doctor. It also includes more topics than the UW bioethics page that you should know about for your future.

 

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Try a little practice with the Casper/SJT/PREview practice scenarios.

Your interview day should have information about what to expect with your MMI stations. Hopefully others have put information into the Interview Feedback database; if not, make sure you do. Every school runs MMI differently, so there's no way to say how to prepare. But make sure you know how to cogently answer your questions effectively.

We include MMI practice for anyone who enrolls in Becoming a Student Doctor. It also includes more topics than the UW bioethics page that you should know about for your future.

ok that sounds good. tbh its been a while since my CASPER so i lowkey kinda forgot everything soo should I still read up a bit on bioethics?

 

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ok that sounds good. tbh its been a while since my CASPER so i lowkey kinda forgot everything soo should I still read up a bit on bioethics?

It won't hurt. Interviewers want to know if you have a heart, a brain, and some common professional sense.

 

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I tried to treat MMI prep like it was an assignment, like you're planning to do. I felt I got really caught up with trying to just memorize what the "correct" answers to these questions were. On interview day, you're already nervous to the point of borderline dissociating... There was just no way I was going to memorize 100+ questions AND have an eloquent 5-minute assessment on each, pretty much on-demand.

SJT frameworks/strategies felt unnatural for me. I would be so nervous I wouldn't remember my place, which often felt worse than just expressing what I was thinking directly.

When I actually went on interviews, I was disappointed to realize schools will also create their own scenarios that may or may not have been a question you memorized. So even trying to memorize anything backfired for me in the sense that the response at the top of your mind might not necessarily fit the prompt, but because it's what you remember, you end up trying to reverse engineer a bridge to deliver that response anyway. This process confuses both you and your interviewer.

The only thing that felt the most like I was actually getting practice was asking ChatGPT Voice to give me situational questions and I'd just answer them, aiming to give a detailed response of roughly 3-4 minutes. It worked better than the list because I got to give a good college try before hearing the ideal response. Also, because of the limitations of ChatGPT Voice, you kind of have to keep talking or else it will stop your microphone and start responding, which made it clear which parts of responding were tripping me up. At the end of the day, the whole conversation is transcribed, so you can even physically see how often you see filler words (uh, um, like, basically, etc.). You can also see how often you buy time by prefacing every question with "What a wonderful question..."

For me, I preferred to do it stream-of-consciousness as opposed to giving myself "thinking time" like you might get in a real interview. Just my preference... but you could practice that way too, by just muting your microphone before saying anything and then unmuting when you're ready.

If I'm honest, this method was even more helpful than actual mock interviews I had with professionals.