MMI question: Ethical reasoning
Dental neglect and safeguarding
A 6 year old comes for his first ever check-up with several badly decayed teeth. His mum says he's had toothache on and off for months. What are you thinking, and what would you do?
- Category
- Ethical reasoning
- Stations about what you think
- Suits
- Dentistry
- Topic
- Dental neglect and safeguarding
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.