MMI question: Prioritisation, organisation and decision making
Five jobs and time for three
You are a student helping on a ward. You have been asked to do five things: take a form to the lab, sit with a patient who is distressed, fetch notes for the ward round in twenty minutes, tidy the store cupboard, and ring a relative back who has been waiting since this morning. You have half an hour. What order, and why?
- Category
- Prioritisation, organisation and decision making
- Stations that ask you to do
- Suits
- Medicine and dentistry
- Topic
- Five jobs and time for three
What this kind of station tests
Five things and time for three. The mark is for the ordering rule and for saying what happens to the things that were dropped.
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.