MMI question: Ethical reasoning
A patient wants an antibiotic they do not need…
A patient wants an antibiotic they do not need and will be unhappy if they do not get one. What do you do?
- Category
- Ethical reasoning
- Stations about what you think
- Suits
- Medicine and dentistry
- Topic
- Autonomy against doing good
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.