MMI question: Critical thinking and problem solving
Working backwards
A ward's discharge times have all drifted to after four in the afternoon, which means beds are free too late. Why might that be, and what would you try?
- Category
- Critical thinking and problem solving
- Stations that ask you to do
- Suits
- Medicine and dentistry
- Topic
- Working backwards
What this kind of station tests
A problem with no published answer, where what is marked is the route rather than the destination.
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.