MMI question: Explaining, and being understood
Language barrier
A patient speaks very little English and their teenage son has offered to interpret. What do you do, and why? Three minutes.
- Category
- Explaining, and being understood
- Stations that ask you to do
- Suits
- Medicine and dentistry
- Topic
- Language barrier
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.