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.