MMI question: Role play with an actor
You are a dental student. Mr Hughes is 52. He…
You are a dental student. Mr Hughes is 52. He smokes, his gums bleed when he brushes, and the dentist has found gum disease. The dentist has asked you to give him oral hygiene advice. He tells you he's only here because his wife booked it. You have five minutes.
- Category
- Role play with an actor
- Stations that ask you to do
- Suits
- Dentistry
- Topic
- Hot topic: chairside oral hygiene advice for a patient who isn't interested
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.