MMI question: Ethical reasoning
Is it ever right to lie to a patient? Take…
Is it ever right to lie to a patient? Take somebody with dementia asking where their late husband is.
- 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.