MMI question: Role play with an actor
A frightened child
You are a dental student. Ellie, who is 9, is in the chair for a check-up. Her dad is sitting beside her. She is close to tears and won't open her mouth. Talk to Ellie. You have five minutes.
- Category
- Role play with an actor
- Stations that ask you to do
- Suits
- Dentistry
- Topic
- A frightened child
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.
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.