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Multiple mini interview

concept · in 6 sources (2017–2018)

A medical school interview format made of several short stations.

Sources by year: 2017: 4 · 2018: 2

Also known as: MMI

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Medicine interview (7) · Personal statement (2) · University of Cambridge (3)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2018

  • 2018-01-10 · Euthanasia - Medical Ethics and Law at the end of life — Ali calls an MMI scenario some universities ask, a patient asking the doctor to end his life, mean: it suits final-year students' OSCEs more than medicine applicants. — 00:15:56
    • In an MMI where a patient asks to end his life, Ali would first explore the patient's concerns, then if pressed say he is bound by the law, and explain that palliative care is very good these days. — 00:16:22
  • 2018-02-24 · Breaking Bad News / Death & Dying - Cambridge medical student VLOG #25 — Ali says medical students fear breaking bad news: a breaking-bad-news MMI station scared him as an applicant, and in five years of teaching interviews it is the station every student dreads. — 00:11:37

2017

  • 2017-10-05 · How to prepare for Medicine Interviews — announcement: Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, presents 15 tips from 10 medical students on preparing for medicine interviews, for a panel interview, an MMI or an Oxbridge interview. — 00:00:00
  • 2017-10-24 · 6 tips for Medicine MMIs - Multiple Mini Interviews — Ali says medicine interviews and MMIs overlap so much that any tip for interviews also applies to MMIs, which is why his MMI video is short. — 00:00:00
    • Ali, a final-year Cambridge medical student, presents tips from medical students for the multiple mini interviews (MMIs), which he says most UK medical schools now use. — 00:00:00
    • a guest: A student says MMI preparation and interview preparation are not separate: the skills needed to do well in a medicine interview are exactly those needed in an MMI. — 00:00:29
    • a guest: The same student says an MMI gives the interview in bite-sized chunks of maybe about eight minutes each. (hedged) — 00:00:29
    • a guest: The student advises applicants to universities that use only MMIs not to ignore interview advice, since the many resources for interviews also prepare you for MMIs. — 00:01:09
    • a guest: A student says timing matters in MMIs and advises practising answers under time pressure, about five to eight minutes per answer, which varies by medical school. — 00:01:09
    • a guest: A student says each MMI station is a clean slate, but a mistake at one can crash your performance at the next; applicants who get stressed should work out ways to calm down. — 00:01:38
    • a guest: A student's main MMI advice is to practise speaking aloud with people on any subject: tackle ethics questions with friends and explain odd tasks, such as tying a shoe without hand gestures, to get used to five-minute scenarios. — 00:02:43
    • a guest: The student says MMI interviewers do not expect perfection; they want to see someone who copes under pressure, can try their hand at many things and does generally well across the board. — 00:03:13
  • 2017-11-15 · Medicine Interview Tips - Dealing with Nerves — a guest: A student who loves meeting new people embraced the multiple mini interviews, enjoying having about five minutes to make each stranger like them. — 00:09:05
  • 2017-11-21 · Oxbridge Medicine Interview - Q&A — Ali says his answers on personal-statement detail, recent news and structuring answers apply to all medicine interviews and MMIs, the rest being quite Oxbridge-specific. — video description
  • …and 3 statements more in 2017 — all statements of 2017