MMI question: Reading data
Correlation and cause
A study finds that patients who attend regular dental check-ups have fewer heart attacks. A headline says brushing your teeth prevents heart disease. What is wrong here?
- Category
- Reading data
- Stations that ask you to do
- Suits
- Dentistry
- Topic
- Correlation and cause
What this kind of station tests
A table, a graph or a leaflet handed over at the station, where the mark is for what the candidate does with what it does not say.
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.