MMI question: Calculation under time
Dose by weight
A medicine is given at 15 mg per kilogram. The child weighs 18 kg. The bottle contains 120 mg in every 5 ml. How many millilitres do you give? Talk me through it.
- Category
- Calculation under time
- Stations that ask you to do
- Suits
- Medicine
- Topic
- Dose by weight
What this kind of station tests
Arithmetic done out loud, correctly, while being watched. The station is as much about what the candidate does when unsure as about the number.
Written by MedAdmit. No UK medical or dental school publishes the questions it asks at interview, so this is not presented as one a school asks. The model answers, and the follow-up questions an interviewer asks, are part of the interview programme.