MMI question: Role play with an actor
Breaking difficult news
You are a medical student on a ward. A patient's daughter has been waiting all afternoon and has just been told her mother will not be going home as planned, and will be moved to a different hospital tonight. Your task is to speak to her. You have five minutes.
- Category
- Role play with an actor
- Stations that ask you to do
- Suits
- Medicine
- Topic
- Breaking difficult news
What this kind of station tests
A scene played with a trained role player, in which the task is almost never the information and almost always the person.
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.