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MMI question: Prioritisation, organisation and decision making

Two seniors, two instructions

Two people more senior than you each ask you to do something urgent, at the same time, and each thinks theirs comes first. What do you do?
Category
Prioritisation, organisation and decision making
Stations that ask you to do
Suits
Medicine and dentistry
Topic
Two seniors, two instructions

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.

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