Different Types of MMI Questions You Need to Know in 2023
An MMI question bank should offer a range of focused, realistic and topical questions for you to practise with. BlackStone Tutors’ question bank and interview courses will both provide you with a detailed grounding in the exact types of questions that you will face in MMIs. MMI Interview questions that you are likely to face include, categorised:
Motivation for Medicine, Understanding of Current Issues
- Why do you want to be a doctor?
- What are the most difficult aspects of a medical career?
- Why are you interested in becoming a doctor rather than a nurse, occupational therapist or other allied healthcare professional?
- How can you illustrate that you have the resilience required to deal with a medical degree, and the subsequent career?
Communication, Team-working and Soft Skills
- Tell us about a time when you demonstrated your ability to lead others.
- What makes a good team player? Do you possess those qualities?
- What makes a good leader? Do you fit this description?
- Tell us about a time when you were part of a team that succeeded against the odds.
- What kind of challenging situations have you found yourself in, where communication was difficult? This may have been an emotional situation, or a stressful situation.
Ethics
- What medical issues have you read about recently?
- Should recreational drugs be legalised in the UK?
- Should junior doctors be allowed to go on strike?
Empathy and Caring
- What do you understand the term empathy to mean?
- How would you differentiate between empathy and sympathy?
- Tell us about a time when you dealt with an angry customer, patient or peer at school.
- Should doctors admit their mistakes?
- Tell us about a time when you supported a friend through a difficult time.
- Tell us about your volunteering work, or other experience in a caring role.
Work Experience
- Tell us about your work experience.
- What surprised you about the medical profession during your work experience?
Interests and Activities
- Tell us about your proudest achievement outside of academia.
- Why are outside interests so important for doctors?
- How will you contribute to student life at our university?
- What activities help you deal best with stress?
- Are you more interested in team or individual sports?
Learning Style
- Tell us about your learning style.
- What motivates you to learn?
- Do you learn well in groups?
- How have you thought about and reflected on your learning style, and applied this to your schoolwork?
- Tell us about an academic challenge – like an essay writing competition – that you took on, above and beyond the standard school curriculum.
An MMI question bank must be consistently updated – the BlackStone tutors offering is a best-in-class product delivered in conjunction with doctors, medical school assessors, and medical students from leading universities.
