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MMI question: Explaining, and being understood

Bad news that is not clinical

You must tell a group of volunteers that the service they work on is closing in six weeks. Three minutes.
Category
Explaining, and being understood
Stations that ask you to do
Suits
Medicine and dentistry
Topic
Bad news that is not clinical

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.

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