MMI interview questions
MMI interview questions for medicine and dentistry
259 practice questions, filed under the 21 categories below. Each one has its own page. Every question was written by MedAdmit: no UK medical or dental school publishes the questions it asks at interview, so none of these is presented as one a school asks.
Stations about you: 86 questions
Motivation for the course 10 questions
Insight into the career 23 questions
- What the job is really like
- Who else is in the room
- The hardest part
- Specialty choice
- A doctor you watched
- Training pathway
- Insight into dentistry
- Tell me about something a doctor cannot fix.
- What has changed
- Direct access and the dental team
- NHS and private practice side by side
- Dental foundation training
- The dental nurse
- The dental hygienist
- The dental therapist and children's care
- The dental technician
- The orthodontic therapist
- Clinical dental technicians and dentures
- The practice manager
- Associate or practice owner
- Manual dexterity
- The hardest part of dentistry
- An area of dentistry you are drawn to
Resilience and coping under pressure 10 questions
Awareness of self and others 9 questions
Working in a team 12 questions
Empathy and compassion 10 questions
Knowledge of the course and the profession 7 questions
Contribution beyond the grades 5 questions
Stations that ask you to do: 79 questions
Role play with an actor 21 questions
- Breaking difficult news
- A colleague's mistake
- An angry parent
- Persuading somebody to seek help
- Explaining a delay
- A request you must refuse
- Giving instructions
- Somebody who will not engage
- Apologising for something that was your fault
- A gift
- Disagreement with a peer
- Somebody who wants a decision you cannot make
- Cross infection and a colleague cutting corners
- A patient angry about a cost
- A colleague who may be burning out
- Telling a patient a tooth must come out
- A frightened child
- Hot topic: a parent refusing fluoride varnish
- A complaint about treatment
- Oral hygiene for a teenager with braces
- You are a dental student. Mr Hughes is 52. He…
Explaining, and being understood 11 questions
Reading data 7 questions
Calculation under time 6 questions
Prioritisation, organisation and decision making 9 questions
Critical thinking and problem solving 9 questions
Observed group task 6 questions
Prepared task or presentation 4 questions
Questions from your own application 6 questions
Stations about what you think: 94 questions
Ethical reasoning 32 questions
- A patient refuses an operation that would…
- What makes consent valid, and where does it…
- A patient with dementia agrees to an operation…
- A fifteen year old asks for treatment and does…
- Somebody is brought in unconscious after an…
- Why does confidentiality matter, given that…
- A patient tells you they have continued driving…
- A patient's husband rings and asks how she is…
- You recognise a patient on a ward as your…
- A patient wants an antibiotic they do not need…
- Should a smoker be treated the same as a…
- Is it ever right to lie to a patient? Take…
- There is one bed and two patients who need it…
- A drug costs three hundred thousand pounds a…
- Should people be able to pay to get treated…
- Who should get a donated liver: the person who…
- What are the strongest arguments for and…
- Is there a difference between withdrawing a…
- A family insists that everything possible is…
- A mistake has been made and the patient has not…
- How much should a patient be told about a poor…
- A trial gives half the participants a dummy…
- Is it acceptable to run a trial in a poorer…
- Parents refuse a treatment their child needs…
- You notice something on placement that makes…
- An adult patient is being made to attend…
- Cosmetic treatment for a young person
- Consent and Gillick competence
- A patient refusing radiographs
- Treatment a patient cannot afford
- Cosmetic treatment abroad
- Dental neglect and safeguarding
The NHS and how care is organised 21 questions
- Founding principles
- NHS core values
- Funding
- Primary care
- Prevention
- Health inequality
- Why do hospitals talk about social care so much?
- Targets
- Workforce
- NHS dentistry
- Four systems, not one
- Rationing
- What the service is for
- Hot topic: how NHS dentists are paid
- Getting an NHS dentist
- Dental charges
- A tie-in to the NHS for new dentists
- Dental deserts
- Why dentists leave NHS work
- Overseas-qualified dentists
- If you were designing the next NHS dental…
Current issues in health 22 questions
- Artificial intelligence
- Why is antibiotic resistance hard to solve?
- Obesity and public health
- Industrial action
- Why is more screening not always better?
- Vaccine hesitancy
- Is climate change a health issue?
- Digital access
- Trust in the profession
- An issue in dentistry
- Reading the news critically
- An issue you have changed your mind about
- Hot topic: water fluoridation
- Oral health inequalities
- Tooth decay is one of the commonest reasons…
- Mouth cancer checks
- Hot topic: the sugar levy
- AI in dentistry
- Vaping and oral health
- Tooth whitening outside dentistry
- The government is funding supervised…
- Which current issue in dentistry interests you…
Professionalism, integrity and probity 19 questions
- What professionalism is
- Raising a concern
- Social media
- A patient asks to add you on social media. What…
- Honesty about your own limits
- Conflicts of interest
- Integrity and probity
- Impairment in a colleague
- Personal beliefs
- Good medical practice
- Duty of candour
- Values based recruitment
- When the rules and the right thing diverge
- The nine principles of the dental team
- Raising a concern in the dental team
- Social media and patient photographs
- Financial incentives and private treatment
- Dentistry as a business
- Complaints in a dental practice
What is on these pages, and what is not
Each page has the question, the category it is filed under, the course it suits and related questions. The model answers, and the follow-up questions an interviewer asks when an answer runs dry, are part of the interview programme.