MMI question: Empathy and compassion
Compassion under pressure
You are running forty minutes late and the next patient wants to tell you about their week. What do you do?
- Category
- Empathy and compassion
- Stations about you
- Suits
- Medicine and dentistry
- Topic
- Compassion under pressure
What this kind of station tests
Whether the candidate can describe what another person was experiencing without translating it straight back into their own feelings about it.
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.