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Details you need to know about MMI and Panel interviews

Multiple Mini Interviews (MMIs) are short assessments and structured interview stations some medical colleges/schools conduct to assess the thinking process of medical students. MMIs aim to accurately analyze a student’s overall personality, so they can be the most difficult, challenging yet beneficial parts for you as an applicant, and Panel interviews are very different and easier in comparison with MMI. This article will give you tips for your MMI preparation and Panel Interview preparation to help you perform effectively during these.

As both the interviews aim to reveal your thought process, your ability to work in a team, character traits, strengths, weaknesses, etc., you have to prepare for it strategically.

Basics about MMI and Panel interview

 Basic structure

For MMI, you need to know the entire process like the duration of interviews, hardest MMI questions, pattern, how it’s evaluated, number of stations, members, etc. You can’t prepare for every MMI question and answers, but you can have a strategy and strong framework for evaluating any situation. 

The judgment process:

The very first process of the MMI Preparation is practicing the situational judgmental process (SJT). It is designed to evaluate the soft skills, communications skills, ethical awareness, and professionalism of students. To successfully pass the stage, you might need assistance from a medical school admission expert who can give you unbiased feedback and guide you in your MMI Preparation.

Scale for every performance

During an MMI, you have to go through several successive stations (mostly up to 10) in a series of one-on-one interviews with various people, and with a fixed amount of time to answer and complete a task, during which your performance would be rated on a scale of 1-10 at every station.

As it's a one-on-one interview with various people, it minimizes any biases; each interview is independent of the other. There are many platforms where you can practice mock interviews for the MMI Preparation. 

The topics of MMI questions asked in Prompt

One of the most significant tips that you have to keep in mind during an MMI preparation is the wide variety of questions that are asked including personal, acting based, ethical dilemma, scenario-based, teamwork tasks, empathized situational based, current events, critical thinking, etc and you have to practice such questions with a perspective of What would this be like? Or how would you have done it?

Types of questions-

Station 1- Motivation or Medicine

Question- Why did you choose medicine? 

Station 2- Ethical dilemma

Question – A 14-year-old requests birth control pills and not to tell her parents! What would you do?

Station 3- Character development

Question-Think of an instance when you made a mistake?

Station 4- Creativity and Imagination

Question- How much does a mountain weigh?

Station 5- Empathy 

Question- Which is more important in medicine? Being empathetic or being sympathetic?

Station 6- Teamwork

Question- Give an example of a time you worked and failed?

Station 7- Personal insight

Question- How do you cope with failure?

Station 8- Work experience

Question- What medical work experience have you carried out?

Station 9- Acting scenarios

Question- You will be given a situation and an actor to enact with.

Station 10- Hot or current topics

Question- You will be asked about any current topic that would be going on currently to check how far you keep yourself updated with the world.

*NOTE- The order of stations might change during your interview. This is just for your reference.

Duration of interviews

MMI usually takes about 2 hours; each station will take 7-10 minutes. Most universities will have around 4-8 MMI stations and at every station, you will be given 2 minutes to read and make up your answer before entering the station.

How to give perfect answers

  • To give a perfect answer in MMI, you just have to keep these factors in mind-
  • Create a structure for your answer
  • Explore a situation from a different perspective (like the patient’s, his family, doctors, or   hospital)
  • Be positive while answering
  • Be energetic and sound confident
  • Use your personal experiences

Panel Interview Preparation

A panel interview  is easier if distinguished from MMI. The panel interview preparation demands you to do your homework first about the course and the university. Having a thorough knowledge of the field would help you excel in the same. 

While your Panel Interview Preparation, learn and practice to be confident and optimistic when you enter the room and learn to be confident in front of the panel members. Make it sound like a conversation rather than an interrogation. Try to answer every question with confidence no matter who from the panel throws the question at you and connect with the interviewers.

Duration of Panel interview

A panel interview is very different from MMI and it takes about ½ or 1 hour and is taken by 3-4 interviewers from the admission committee. You have to answer mostly in-depth long questions.

Panel interview questions-

  • Why did you choose this course or college?
  • What is your greatest strength and weaknesses?
  • What makes you unique?

These are the very basic important and detailed points to remember while MMI and panel interview Preparation for more you can contact GoToUniversity which is a leading platform in the field of education and have an experience of more than a decade of sending students overseas for higher education at top universities around the globe.

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