MMI question: Role play with an actor
A patient angry about a cost
You work on reception at a dental practice. A patient has just come out of her appointment, where she was told that the tooth she came to have filled now needs a crown and that the cost has gone up. She is at the desk and upset. You have five minutes.
- Category
- Role play with an actor
- Stations that ask you to do
- Suits
- Dentistry
- Topic
- A patient angry about a cost
What this kind of station tests
A scene played with a trained role player, in which the task is almost never the information and almost always the person.
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