MMI question: Explaining, and being understood
Explaining to a lay listener
Explain to me, as though I have no scientific background, what a vaccine does. You have three minutes, and I will ask questions.
- Category
- Explaining, and being understood
- Stations that ask you to do
- Suits
- Medicine and dentistry
- Topic
- Explaining to a lay listener
What this kind of station tests
A station whose task is the communication itself: explain a thing, deliver news, handle a complaint, and find out whether it landed.
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.