MMI question: Ethical reasoning
Consent and Gillick competence
A 14 year old comes to the practice alone with toothache. She asks for the tooth to be treated today and does not want her parents to know she came. What do you do?
- Category
- Ethical reasoning
- Stations about what you think
- Suits
- Dentistry
- Topic
- Consent and Gillick competence
What this kind of station tests
A situation with two defensible answers, marked on the reasoning between them and not on which one the candidate lands on.
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.