MMI question: Explaining, and being understood
Explaining a procedure to an anxious patient
A patient who has avoided the dentist for years because of fear needs a small filling. Explain to her what will happen today, as you would at the start of the appointment. You have five minutes.
- Category
- Explaining, and being understood
- Stations that ask you to do
- Suits
- Dentistry
- Topic
- Explaining a procedure to an anxious patient
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.