Interviews for Medical School: Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) Practice

✍ Scribed by Thanthullu Vasu, Shreya Shyam, RISE Foundation Leicestershire

• Publisher: TFM Publishing
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 657
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

INTERVIEWS FOR MEDICAL SCHOOL
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Contributors
Section 1: Medical ethics
Introduction to medical ethics
Q1 Patient confidentiality: disclosing personal information to close family members
Q2 Patient confidentiality: a partner’s request not to tell the diagnosis
Q3 Patient confidentiality: a teenager asking for testing for STDs
Q4 Patient confidentiality: a partner refusing to disclose HIV status
Q5 Ethical issues: a Jehovah’s Witness patient for preoperative preparation
Q6 Ethical issues: parents not allowing treatment for a child
Q7 Ethical issues: euthanasia
Q8 Ethical issues: rationing cancer treatment funding
Q9 Ethical issues: abortion
Q10 Organ donation: opt in or opt out
Q11 Refusal of treatment: discussion
Q12 A patient with depression refusing treatment for suicidal ideas
Q13 A colleague prescribes the wrong dose of medicine
Q14 Should psychoactive drugs be banned?
Q15 A patient coming in for elective surgery: is it OK to tell them all the risks?
Q16 A teenager asking for oral contraceptive pills
Q17 Intervention without patient consent in a near-death scenario
Q18 Non-accidental bruising in a young child
Q19 A patient with alcoholism consuming hand sanitiser
Q20 A patient requesting syringes and needles
Q21 A colleague offering a placebo to a patient
Q22 A patient travelling abroad for assisted suicide
Q23 A patient demanding painkillers
Q24 A mother refusing blood transfusion for a child
Q25 Relatives refusing to stop intensive care treatment
Section 2: General ethics
Introduction to general ethics
Q26 Is it OK for doctors to strike?
Q27 Problems with social media
Q28 Posting photographs of patients or specimens on a public forum
Q29 Communicating with patients on social media
Q30 Should the healthcare system fund weight loss surgery?
Q31 Should the NHS fund smoking cessation treatments?
Q32 Should the NHS/social care fund holidays for patients with depression?
Q33 A parent requesting circumcision for a child
Q34 Patient confidentiality and misattributed paternity
Q35 Probity issues: a student asking for an illness note
Q36 A friend who is cheating as they have learning difficulties
Q37 A patient failing to disclose information to their landlord
Q38 A friend asking you to sign for their attendance
Section 3: Communication — medical scenarios
Introduction to communication
Q39 Delivering a diagnosis: showing empathy
Q40 Breaking bad news: terminal illness
Q41 An angry relative: their mother was not treated properly
Q42 A blood sample is missing: inform the patient
Q43 An angry patient: a long wait in A&E
Q44 A mother with anxiety about the COVID vaccine
Q45 Patient concern: not meeting dietary requirements
Q46 Eliciting a history from a patient
Q47 Dealing with an intoxicated colleague
Q48 Breaking bad news: explaining postoperative complications
Q49 Explaining to a patient that you gave a wrong diagnosis
Q50 A patient taking herbal medicines
Q51 An anxious mother: her child is in pain
Q52 Anxiety for a blood test
Q53 Vaccination in a teenager: an anxious parent
Section 4: Communication – general scenarios
Introduction to non-medical communication
Q54 Damaged a friend’s iPad
Q55 Checking on a friend whose mood has recently changed
Q56 Talking to a friend who is a drink-driver
Q57 A friend who is googling symptoms and is getting anxious
Q58 Talking to a friend who has a phobia of flying in aeroplanes
Q59 A friend’s parents object to her having a pet
Q60 Communication with an individual who has a learning disability
Q61 Teaching an actor to tie shoelaces
Q62 Picture-based communication station
Q63 Video-based communication station
Q64 Task-based communication station
Q65 Map-based communication station
Q66 Describing the way to your school
Section 5: Medical framework/medical school
Introduction to medical framework/medical school
Q67 NHS framework and structure
Q68 The role of the MDT and allied healthcare professionals
Q69 The GMC code of conduct for doctors
Q70 If you are the lead for the health service...
Q71 Ethnic inequalities among patients
Q72 Equality and diversity inclusiveness
Q73 Problem-based versus traditional learning
Q74 Teacher-assessed grades
Q75 Compulsory working in rural areas for doctors
Q76 Pharmaceutical industry sponsoring lunch
Q77 Ethics of charging patients
Section 6: Personal qualities
Introduction to personal qualities
Q78 Personal statement questions
Q79 Work experience-based questions
Q80 Teamwork and its importance
Q81 Improving teamwork
Q82 Leader versus follower
Q83 Probity: a medical student stealing equipment
Q84 Clinical error: a probity issue
Q85 A patient complains that she does not like you
Q86 Motivation to do medicine
Q87 A positive attitude
Q88 A patient that inspired you
Q89 Enhancing learning when the clinical supervisor is late
Q90 A mistake that you did and what you learnt
Q91 What are your weaknesses?
Q92 Book or movie
Q93 Empathy versus sympathy
Q94 Making a positive difference
Q95 Maintaining a work-life balance
Q96 Supporting a friend who has an eating disorder
Q97 Coping with sleep difficulties in your career
Q98 Coping with a high intellectual environment
Q99 A patient is unwell whilst the doctor is away on holiday
Section 7: Health and clinical topics
Introduction to health and clinical topics
Q100 COVID disease and the pandemic
Q101 The UK Government’s response to the COVID pandemic
Q102 Clinical examination of non-accidental injuries in a child
Q103 Timing of introduction of COVID vaccination
Q104 A sportsperson missing a tournament due to the vaccine
Q105 Monkeypox disease and prevention
Q106 Managing obesity in young children
Q107 Smoking cessation
Q108 Triaging: the scene of a bomb blast
Q109 Triaging: a liver transplant recipient
Section 8: Data and mathematical calculations
Introduction to data and mathematical calculations
Q110 Comparing a graph of two painkillers
Q111 A graph of COVID incidence
Q112 A graph of COVID vaccination
Q113 A graph of coronavirus deaths in varying deprived areas
Q114 Obesity versus calorie intake
Q115 A graph of diurnal variation of hormones
Q116 A pain chart and its interpretation
Q117 Microgram versus milligram calculation
Q118 Calculation to ml/hour based on body weight
Q119 Drug dose calculations
Q120 Calculation of an inhaler dose
Q121 Calculation of calories needed
Q122 Mean, median and standard deviation
Q123 Insulin calculation
Q124 Calculation based on a Venn diagram
Section 9: Other topics
Introduction to other topics
Q125 Conflict with superiors and how to deal with it
Q126 Writing a letter to yourself when you were 12 years old
Q127 Knowing about the university, curriculum and city
Q128 Stuck on an island
Q129 Creative thinking: why are schools needed for children?
Q130 Desert island: one person that can join you
Q131 Asking 20 questions with a yes or no answer
Q132 If you could have a superpower
Q133 Explaining to a 6-year-old boy how an aeroplane flies
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