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252 MMI Practice Questions by Dr. Rizal: The Ultimate Resource for Medical School Interviews!

The best way to prepare for your upcoming medical school Multiple Mini Interview is to first purchase our Mastering the Multiple Mini Interview course created by Dr. Rachel Rizal herself. She used her experiences as an interviewee for medical schools and residencies as well as her experiences as an interviewer for Stanford School of Medicine’s MMI. After your mock interview, it’s time to do more practice using these MMI practice questions!

These MMI practice questions are HIGH-YIELD, created by Dr. Rachel Rizal. 

There are MMI practice questions organized in the following categories: current events questions; ethical scenarios; team MMI questions; traditional interview questions; situational scenarios & patient care questions; leadership questions; and innovation & creative questions.

PLUS, there are 2 full-length 10 MMI scenario practice tests.

What’s the best way to use these MMI practice questions? Ideally, you should do these MMI practice questions after the Mastering the Multiple Mini Interview course –> do a mock interview with our Cracking Med School Admissions team –> then do more practice questions and the full-length practice tests. We’re excited to work with you! Let’s goooooo! 

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    Rachel Rizal, M.D.

    Undergraduate
    Princeton

    Medical School
    Stanford

    Residency
    Harvard, Emergency Medicine

    Rishi Mediratta, MD, MSc, MA
    Rishi Mediratta, M.D., M.Sc., M.A.

    Undergraduate
    Johns Hopkins

    Medical School
    Stanford

    Residency
    Stanford, Pediatrics

    How to prepare for the MMI Interview

    Our goal is to prepare you to have an excellent interview!

    The BEST way to prepare for your Multiple Mini Interview is by taking our “Mastering the Multiple Mini Interview” online, self-paced course. The course includes a mock interview with the course creators, Dr. Rishi Mediratta and Dr. Rachel Rizal.

    Dr. Rizal was part of the first class of accepted students at Stanford who went through the Stanford MMI interview. She was also an MMI interviewer at Stanford and knows how to stand out in the med school admissions process.

    The Mastering the Multiple Mini Interview course teaches you how to tackle different categories of Multiple Mini Interview questions. These techniques can be used for your traditional one-on-one personal interview and your panel interviews as well!

    Types of MMI questions: 

    1. Current event questions
    2. Team-based interview stations
    3. Ethical questions and scenarios
    4. Traditional medical school interview questions
    5. Situational scenarios
    What The Multiple Mini Interview Course Will Teach You

    We recommends practicing as much as possible for your med school Multiple Mini Interview. Unlike traditional interviews, in which you can predict and prepare for most common questions, applicants will not know the exact questions that appear in their Multiple Mini Interview.

    The Cracking Med School Admissions “Mastering the Multiple Mini Interview” course prepares you on how to tackle ANY type of MMI question and how to give an EXCELLENT answer.

    • Dr. Rizal’s 4 S’s Framework
    • MMI practice questions
    • Sample responses to the MMI practice questions, complete with Dr. Rizal’s analysis of why the responses were good and how students can improve
    • 1 Mock Interview with Dr. Rizal or Dr. Mediratta will help you turn your responses from great to excellent. They have prepared premeds and medical students to ace their multiple mini – interviews. 
     
    What is the Cracking Med School Admissions 4S Framework?

    Each of your responses during an MMI question should incorporate the following:

    1. Structure
    2. Spirit
    3. Story
    4. Stamina

    Dr. Rizal will teach you how to incorporate each of these elements into excellent responses. You are typically given a score from 1-10 on each MMI station. The goal of the course is to ensure you have a strong baseline score. And then, we want to give you ideas on how to incrementally increase your score. Each half-point counts!

    To learn more about our Mastering the Multiple Mini Interview course, including FAQs and access to the course, visit the Mastering the Multiple Mini Interview course page here.

    Is it possible to do multiple practice interviews with your team?

    Yes! We strongly recommend doing multiple practice interviews with our Cracking Med School Admissions team to prepare for your upcoming Multiple Mini Interviews. Some schools, such as Stanford Medical School, have a hybrid traditional + MMI interview day. In these scenarios, applicants who work with us will allocate half their mock interviews to focus on traditional medical school interview questions and half their mock interviews to focus on MMI preparation. The way you allocate the interviews is up to you, and we are flexible! Through multiple mock interviews, students refine their interview skills and see a wider variety of Multiple Mini Interview practice questions.

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    252 MMI Practice questions

    Now that you have mastered how to approach medical school Multiple Mini Interviews, the next step is to practice, practice, practice. We suggest doing some of these practice questions before doing a mock interview with our team, and then doing a ton more practice sample questions after each mock interview! 

    The MMI practice questions are organized by category.

    MMI Prep Tip: Similar to the studying for the MCAT, if you are weak in a particular type of MMI question, you should practice questions from that category!

    MMI Practice questions - Current Events

    Medical schools want students who are aware of healthcare issues. They want to recruit students who care about healthcare current events and who have ideas to improve the problems we have in healthcare.

    To be successful in your MMI interview current event questions, make sure you do the following:

    1. Read up on healthcare current events. We’ve curated a list of HIGH-YIELD current events in our Top 10 current events guide, which you can also download right below.
    2. Be able to articulate the factors that contribute towards a problem
    3. Think about solutions to problems

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    MMI Practice Questions – Current Event Scenarios:
    1. What systemic health and social inequities have exacerbated healthcare disparities throughout the COVID-19 pandemic?
    2. Talk about one healthcare issue during the coronavirus pandemic that interests you.
    3. Misinformation has been an issue throughout the coronavirus pandemic. What are some strategies and solutions to curb health misinformation?
    4. Do you think the spread of health information through the internet has been more of a positive or more of a negative throughout the COVID-19 pandemic? Please discuss your thoughts.
    5. Should there be a COVID vaccine mandate? If so, who’s responsibility is it to create and enforce a vaccine mandate (The national government? State governments? Local governments? Private entities? Hospitals?)?
    6. Some hospitals require all healthcare workers to be fully vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19. Hospitals have asked employees to leave if they refuse. What are your thoughts around this?
    7. Talk about a recent medical discovery that excites you.
    8. What are the pros and cons of our United States healthcare system?
    9. The United States has become more politically divided over the past few years. How do you think we can promote more unity in America?
    10. Some schools in the United States are beginning to install naloxone kits in schools. You can watch the news coverage about Camden County, New Jersey schools. What are the pros and cons of this new initiative? Would you support more schools in the United States to install naloxone kits.
    11. Many patients with rare (orphan) diseases do not have FDA-approved treatment for their conditions. Fortunately, new drug discoveries are paving the way towards new treatments and diagnostics for rare diseases. However, once these drugs come to market, they are often extremely expensive, making them unaffordable or inaccessible to many patients. Do you think drug patents should last for fewer years so that cheaper, generic drugs can be made available?
    12. On September 9, 2021, the FDA said it needed more time to decide whether e-cigarettes and vaping products can remain in the U.S. market. Do you think e-cigarettes should be made available to the public? Should there be restrictions?
    13. Should hospitals be able to fire healthcare workers if they are caught smoking or vaping?
    14. If you could implement one strategy to curb the opioid epidemic in our community, what would it be and why?
    15. Especially because of the coronavirus pandemic, mental health issues – including anxiety and depression – are increasing at a rapid rate in the United States. How do you think we can tackle the mental health epidemic in the United States?
    16. Baby boomers are getting older, and there will be an increasing number of senior citizens in the United States. How can we improve healthcare for this aging population?
    17. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted that there are disparities in access to healthcare among different populations in America. Can you discuss the causes of access to healthcare disparities? What are 1-2 ways we can improve disparities in access to healthcare?
    18. Gun violence and mass shootings are on the rise in the United States. How can we curb this problem?
    19. Since the implementation of online exams during the COVID pandemic, many premed students have been caught cheating and received F’s or “Institutional Actions.” Should universities move away from online exams?
    20. Should soda vending machines be allowed in hospitals?
    21. Discuss ways in which our environment affects our health.
    22. According to the CDC, between 1991 and 2013, US high school students’ participation in school-based physical education classes remained stable, but at a level much lower than the national recommendation of daily physical education. Given the increasing obesity epidemic in the United States, do you think physical education should be required in schools across the nation?
    23. Some law schools have decided to not be included in Law School rankings by newspapers. Should medical schools be ranked?
    24. Many immigrants from South America and Mexico are crossing into border towns. How can we ensure the health of individuals who are crossing the United States border?
    25. You work in a rural town and the closest physician’s office is 50 miles away. How would you improve access to care in your rural town?
    26. What do you think we can do to alleviate the physician shortage problem in America?
    27. What role do you think academic medical centers should play in drug discovery and collaborations with the biopharmaceutical industry?
    28. Discuss the importance of vaccinations to a 30-year-old individual who has limited health literacy.
    29. There is increasing depression and anxiety throughout the United States. How can we tackle this problem and fix it?
    30. There is a new drug on the market that is prescribed to tackle obesity. What would you want to know before you start prescribing the drug to patients?
    31. Do you think drugs against obesity are the best approach to improve the obesity epidemic in America? Why or why not?
    32. The Supreme Court will hear two cases challenging affirmative action as part of race-conscious college admissions. Should race and ethnicity be part of the criteria for acceptance to medical school? Please explain your reasoning.
    33. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, exams were moved online. As a result, many individuals were caught cheating or plagiarizing, receiving disciplinary actions on their official school record. Should medical schools consider disciplinary actions when considering individuals for medical school admissions? Please explain your rationale.
    34. More individuals are receiving access and dying from fentanyl overdoses. What can we do to improve this situation?
    35. Many individuals do not have access to newer, more expensive medications. Pharmaceutical companies justify the high cost of drugs while they are under patent to make up for research & development costs. Do you think the high costs of drugs is justified? Weigh the different stakeholders. What can be done to improve more equity to drug access?
    36. You work for this city’s Public Health Department and one of the biggest issues is homelessness. What factors do you think attribute to homelessness? What solutions do you have to improve this issue?
    37. How can we build trust with patients who come from a background that has a historical distrust of physicians?

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    Stanford, Pediatrics

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    MMI Practice Questions - Ethics

    Ethical questions during your MMI interview can test your knowledge about the 4 pillars of medical ethics and how would would act in day-to-day difficult situations. Convey how you think through ethical decisions in patient scenarios and non-patient scenarios.

    MMI Prep Tip: Be sure to know the principles of medical ethics: Medical School Interview Ethical Questions: How to Answer Them and Practice Questions

    MMI Practice Questions – Ethical Scenarios:
    1. You are a Summer Camp Counselor and you notice that one of your campers seems down. You approach your camper, and he admits that he feels isolated and lonely, having trouble making friends. Your camper admits that he takes illicit substances, but he asks you not to tell any authority figure about this. How would you approach this situation?
    2. You are a Residential Adviser and you learn from one student that several other students on your dorm floor are taking Adderall. How would you approach this situation? Do you feel like you have an obligation to tell the Residential Dean or your superior about this issue?
    3. You are a cancer physician who leads several clinical trials, including a stage IV breast cancer therapy. You see your patient, Mrs. Jordan, whose metastatic breast cancer is unfortunately continuing to spread. After looking at eligibility criteria, you confirm that Mrs. Jordan is eligible for this clinical trial. You know that Mrs. Jordan can potentially benefit significantly if she is in the “treatment” arm of this clinical trial. You ask the patient if she wants to enroll in the study, but she is extremely hesitant. How do you approach this situation?
    4. You are a teacher in a public high school that requires all its students to wear masks at all times except during lunch. While you are teaching Algebra during Period 5, one of your students refuses to wear her mask. She claims that it’s her “personal freedom” to wear whatever she wants. How do you address this situation?
    5. You are volunteering in the Emergency Department and a patient comes in without a pulse. Immediately, the medical team performs CPR. The attending Emergency Room physician tells you to clean the area and put the patient’s belongings in a plastic bag. As you compile all the patient’s clothes, his wallet falls out of his pocket. You notice that his Driver’s License says DNR/DNI. Do you tell the medical team to stop doing CPR?
    6. There is an explosion in a nearby chemical plant. 40 injured individuals are going to come to your Emergency Department. You are the attending physician in charge of the Emergency Department today. Please discuss how you would tackle this situation. How do you allocate your limited resources, including limited medical staff and limited hospital beds?
    7. You are a second-year resident physician. Each month, you are supposed to report the number of hours you worked. Your Residency Director tells the group of residents to explicitly not count certain hours because the program will be cited for violating Resident Duty Hour rules. What do you do in this scenario? Do you report the accurate number of hours you’ve worked, which you know is over the Resident Duty Hour limit?
    8. You have a patient who is an immigrant from another country. He says that if he donates his kidney in his home country, he will receive $20,000. He comes to you in clinic today to discuss whether he should donate his kidney. He reveals that he really needs the money in order to pay for his mother’s hospital bills. What are your thoughts about this situation, taking into account the social and cultural context of this immigrant’s situation?
    9. You are an oncologist and your patient, Mr. Dee, and his 3 children are here today to discuss the next steps of his treatment plan. After conducting a physical examination and looking at his test results, you learn that Mr. Dee has metastatic brain cancer, and he may have up to 3 months to live. He wants to go into palliative care and live the rest of his life pain free. However, his children are vehemently opposed to letting their father die. They want to do everything possible to let him live as long as possible. What do you do in this situation?
    10. A six-year-old pediatric patient has a large brain tumor that can possibly be cured if removed with surgery. However, his parents refuse any medical treatment, including pain medication and surgeries, because of their religious views. All they want to do is pray despite the physician telling them that there may be a bad future outcome. Discuss this ethical dilemma.
    11. A 16-year-old patient comes into your primary care office and asks for contraceptive pills. She requests that you do not tell her parents that she would like a prescription. How would you approach this situation?
    12. A 16-year-old patient comes into your OB/GYN office and says she took a pregnancy test yesterday, which was positive. She states that she wants an abortion. How would you approach this situation?
    13. You are volunteering in a hospice center and you have gotten close to one of the individuals in hospice care, Mr. W. He feels great! He confides in you that he does not want to be in hospice any longer and he felt pressure from his children to agree to hospice in the first place. How would you approach this situation?
    14. You are working as a Medical Assistant in a pediatric primary care office and you notice several bruises on your 2-year-old patient’s body. How would you approach this situation?
    15. What’s a tricky ethical situation you’ve had to navigate? How did you navigate it?
    16. What’s an ethical dilemma you’ve witnessed while shadowing or volunteering in a clinical space?
    17. Can you discuss an ethical problem in healthcare? What are the different viewpoints of this problem?
    18. Can you tell me a situation when you’ve been asked to compromise your beliefs or values?
    19. Can you tell me about a time when you had one ethical stance and something happened that made you change your perspective?
    20. You are working in an ICU that is being flooded with patients who have decreased oxygen saturation levels. How do you determine who should receive oxygen?
    21. You are a PCP and are seeing a new patient, Ms. B. She is elderly and does not speak English, so her daughter is translating for her. When Ms. B steps out for lab work, the daughter pulls you aside and tells you that Ms. B has terminal cancer but is unaware of the diagnosis. The daughter states that she wishes to keep it that way. She says in her culture, children are supposed to carry the burden of their parents’ medical conditions, and her mother would not want to know the diagnosis. Are you obligated to tell your patient about her diagnosis?
    22. Your patient is asking for a treatment that you feel uncomfortable prescribing. How would you approach this situation?
    23. There is a new abortion law into effect. You are working for your county’s Public Health Department. What is the best way to distribute this new abortion law to all medical professionals in your County?
    24. Acting: You have been working intensely on a research project for two years, and your research is about to get published! You speak with the graduate student who has been advising you on this project about the publication. She states that she will be the first author of the publication and you will be the second author. You think it is unfair because it is your project and that you should receive first author. Act out the scenario with the graduate student in the room.
    25. You are working on a new intra-nasal vaccine that will be easier to administer. The pharmaceutical company you are working with wants to do clinical trials among prisoners. What are your thoughts and considerations about this?
    26. You are a medical school student and you are working an overnight shift in the hospital. You get paged by a nurse who has a question. When you see the nurse, you smell alcohol on his breath. How would you approach this situation?
    27. You are stressed about an upcoming medical school final exam. You are studying with your best friend who offers to sell you Ritalin. What would you do in this situation?
    28. You are a doctor who has been taking care of a cancer patient. The patient tells you the pain is too unbearable and wants to end her life. How would you approach this situation?
    29. You are a physician who has been taking care of a cancer patient. The patient no longer wants any more cancer treatments. However, the patient’s adult children adamantly disagree and please with you to continue treating their mom. How would you approach this situation?
    30. A parent wants to enroll her 9-year-old child in a new research study. What are the ethical implications of this situation?
    31. There is a new kidney transplant available. If you have to choose between a 30-year-old homeless drug addict or a 70-year-old former physician to receive the transplant, whom would you choose and why? Give the thought process behind your decision.
    32. You are a genetic counselor who helps families make family planning decisions. A couple comes to you and already had a 5-year-old with autism. They want another child and admits that they would want another child who does not have autism. How would you counsel this couple?
    33. A pharmaceutical company is creating vaccines for Ebola and wants to test it on individuals in Africa, where the average individual lives below the poverty line. What are the ethical considerations of this research study?
    34. You diagnose your diabetic patient with an infection in his right leg. He understands his diagnosis, and says, “Doc, I believe in natural healing, and I don’t want to take Western medications. Thank you for confirming that I have an infection. There are specific herbs from my culture that treats infections.” How do you approach this patient scenario?
    35. You diagnose a new patient with diabetes and high cholesterol. You want to start him on diabetes and cholesterol medications. However, the patient is reluctant to take medications and wants to try behavioral modifications first. How would you approach this patient scenario?

    MMI Practice Questions - Team Scenarios

    Team-based MMI interview questions focus on understanding your interpersonal skills. Teamwork is important in medicine because you are working with other doctors, nurses, physician assistants, social workers, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and other healthcare providers. Plus, patients consider you as part of their medical team, helping them achieve better health! Through your answers, the interviewer can gauge your soft skills, including: teamwork, collaboration, conflict resolution, communication skills, listening, and empathy.

    MMI Scenarios about Teamwork without a Partner

    MMI questions related to teamwork will gauge how you have worked within a team. Be prepared for this type of question by brainstorming challenging situations when you were in a team. Note that you can use the same example for many of these team MMI questions.

    MMI Prep Tip: Learn how to give strong responses to team scenarios through our Mastering the Multiple Mini Interview course!

    1. Talk about a time when you worked on a team.
    2. Describe a conflict you had when you were a part of a team, and your role in the situation.
    3. Talk about a time when you led a team.
    4. Talk about a time when you led a team and you faced a challenge.
    5. You are working on a class project with four team members. One of your team members is not showing up to meetings and has not contributed any content to the project. How would you approach this situation?
    6. You are on one of your med school clinical rotations where there are two students: you and a fellow classmate. After one week, your classmate has been late to morning rounds 3 of the 5 days. How would you approach this situation?
    7. You are on your medical school ICU rotation with one other student. Halfway through your rotation, the other student confides in you that she may fail the rotation. How would you handle this situation?
    8. What strengths do you typically bring to a team, and can you give an example?
    9. Can you talk about a time when you had to adapt to a team?
    10. How do you build and maintain positive relationships with your teammates?
    11. Can you talk about a time when you helped a struggling team member?
    12. How do you handle working on a team that has a tight deadline or is under pressure?
    13. Can you talk about a time when you were on a team and the team had to make a difficult decision. How did the team come to a decision?
    14. You are part of a research team. What skills will you bring to the team, and what skills do you look for in your teammates to complement what you will bring?
    15. Can you talk about a time when you worked on a team and your role and responsibilities were not clear? How did you deal with this situation?
    16. Can you tell us about a time when you worked on a team and had a disagreement with another member? How did you resolve the conflict?
    17. Can you talk about a rewarding team experience?
    18. Why do you think teamwork is important in clinical medicine? Discuss the benefits and disadvantages of working on a team in clinical medicine.
    19. Tell us about a time when you stepped up as a leader although you did not have an official leadership title / position.
    20. Talk about a time when you worked on a team and your team failed to meet its objectives.
    21. Give an example of a time when you were able to successfully persuade somebody to see things your way.
    22. Talk about a time when you led a team and had to have a difficult conversation with a team member or frustrated colleague. Do you think you could have approached the conversationally differently or in a better way?
    MMI Scenarios about Teamwork with a Partner

    These MMI scenarios are designed to test your soft skills and interpersonal skills with another medical school applicant partner. Team MMI stations tend to be stressful situations for many medical school applicants. It is important to stay calm. Even if your partner’s stress level escalates, you need to stay calm. 

    MMI stations with a partner is typically seen in schools with in-person Multiple Mini Interviews days. It is difficult to do team scenarios through Zoom or online. Therefore medical schools started to gauge students through the team interview questions above (without a partner).

    MMI Prep Tip: It is important to have an organized way in giving information. For example, if you are telling your partner to draw a picture, you might want to start from the left side of the picture and work your way to the right side of the picture.

    1. You are shown a drawing and your partner has a blank sheet / screen. Give instructions to your partner on how to draw the picture in front of you.
    2. You are given a picture with 3 shapes: a circle, a triangle, and a square. Each shape has a different design that fills the shape. Your interview partner is given an empty circle, triangle, and square. Give instructions to your partner to fill the shapes so it matches your picture.
    3. [In-person MMI Interview only] You are given a figure of building blocks put together in the shape of a boat. Your partner has blocks (but are not stacked). Give instructions to your partner on how to build the boat figure using the blocks.
    4. You and your partner are judges for the XYZ School of Medicine Scholarship. Discuss how you would decide who will win this scholarship with your partner.
    5. You and your interview partner are on a life raft after a plane crash. There are currently 6 people on the life raft, including you and your interview partner. The raft will sink unless one person jumps off. How do you decide who will stay in the raft and survive?
    6. You are working in a local sandwich shop, and you have been working there for 2 months already. Your partner is a new employee. Teach him how to make a sandwich (you can decide what sandwich to make!).
    7. Teach your partner how to cook your favorite dish (it can be as simple as giving instructions to make a peanut butter & jelly sandwich).
    8. You are stranded on a deserted island with your teammate(s). Your team can choose 5 items to help you survive and get rescued from this deserted island. Discuss with your team what 5 items you would choose.
    9. You and your teammate are part of a new leadership group in our community. We now have the funding to build a new Community Health Center. Come up with some ideas and a plan for what this Community Health Center will offer our community members.
    10. You and your teammate are part of the Healthy Eating Initiative at the medical school. You have to work together to come up with suggestions on how to improve healthy eating among medical school students. Come up with ideas as a team.

    MMI Practice Questions - Traditional Questions

    More MMI questions are being asked during traditional medical school interviews, and more traditional-style questions are getting asked during applicants’ MMI interview days! In fact, some medical schools have 1-2 traditional interview stations during the MMI circuit. Additionally, traditional questions are showing up as a follow-up questions. For example, you may get a patient care scenario or current event prompt, and then the follow-up question would be one of the traditional questions below. 

    Many time, the traditional MMI station is with an individual on the med school admissions committee who has read your application and has questions prepared.

    MMI Prep Tip: The traditional stations tend to ask “Tell me about yourself” and “Why do you want to come to this medical school?” If you are a re-applicant, your interviewer may ask about weaknesses in your application and what you have done since the last time you applied. 

    Our Cracking Med School Admissions interview team urges students to be prepared for traditional stations. 

    MMI Practice Questions – Traditional Interview Questions:
    1. Discuss your journey towards a career as a physician.
    2. Why do you want to come to this medical school?
    3. What is one weakness and one strength of your medical school application?
    4. What is something you would like to tell the postgraduate admissions committee that we cannot tell from your submitted medical school application?
    5. Discuss a time when you displayed cultural sensitivity.
    6. Discuss a time when you failed.
    7. Tell me about a time when you received feedback when you were not meeting expectations?
    8. Can you talk about a time when you had to overcome a challenge?
    9. Can you tell me about one influential or memorable patient encounter you had?
    10. Can you tell me about a time when you faced a challenging patient encounter?
    11. What are you looking for in an ideal medical school? What do you want out of your medical education? 
    12. Talk about a research project you have been involved with.
    13. Re-applicants: What have you done differently between this the last time you applied and this current application cycle?
    14. Re-applicants: Why do you think you were not accepted during your last application cycle?
    15. How do you define happiness?
    16. What do you think will be your biggest challenge in medical school?
    17. Medical school is an extremely competitive process and we have many medical school applicants applying to our medical school. What makes you stand out?
    18. Gap year students: Do you think you will have difficulty in adjusting to a rigorous medical school curriculum after taking several gap years?
    19. Our medical school aims to promote cultural competency among our medical school students. What does being a culturally-competent physician mean to you?
    20. Why is it important for physicians to be culturally-competent?
    21. Can you talk about a time when you received tough feedback?
    22. Can you talk about a time when you had to give another individual feedback?
    23. How do you stay up-to-date with medical and healthcare current events?
    24. Can you give me an example of one of your role models?
    25. What do you look for in a mentor?
    26. Can you tell me how you manage your time and balance your various responsibilities, including academics?
    27. How do you plan to balance your time in medical school?
    28. Medical school will be busy and challenging. How do you expect to study + learn medicine + do other extra-curricular activities?
    29. Talk about one of your most meaningful volunteer activities.
    30. Do you think medical school students should be required to do community service hours in medical school?
    31. What did you do during your gap year? Why did you decide to pursue those activities?
    32. How would your friends describe you?
    33. How would your parents describe you?
    34. How would your mentors describe you?
    35. If you had to choose 3 adjectives to describe yourself, what would they be and why?
    36. Can you tell me about a book that you read recently?
    37. Tell me about a book that has inspired you?
    38. Can you tell me any hobbies that you have?
    39. What do you do in your free time?
    40. What do you like to do for fun?
    41. What was the most challenging part about college for you?
    42. What did you enjoy most about your college experience?
    43. If you could change one thing about your college experience, what would it be and why?
    44. Osteopathic schools MMI Interview: Why do you want to attend an osteopathic medical school?
    45. Osteopathic schools MMI Interview: Did you apply to MD schools? Why?
    46. Talk about a time when you were behind the timeline for a task or when you missed a deadline. How did you react? What did this experience teach you?
    47. Can you tell me about a time when you went above and beyond in your job?
    48. Describe a time when you had to deal with change and adapt to the circumstances.
    49. Talk about a time when you made a mistake in how you handled a situation. If you could do it again, what would you do differently, and how would you handle the situation if you could do it again?
    50. Give an example of a time when you managed numerous responsibilities at the same time. How did you handle this time period?
    51. Tell the interviewer about a time when an unexpected problem derailed your planning. How did you recover?
    52. Tell me about a time you set a long-term goal for yourself. What was the goal and how did you accomplish it?
    53. What is your proudest achievement or accomplishment?
    54. Tell me about a time when you were unsatisfied with a role within an organization or project. What did you do about it?
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    MMI Practice Questions - Situational Questions

    Dr. Rizal has created TONS of situational MMI practice questions for you. Have fun with our numerous patient care sample questions! They include situations with patients, other healthcare staff, and every day interactions.

    Situational MMI scenarios are seen in Multiple Mini Interviews for all medical schools. 

    MMI Prep Tip: Many situational scenarios during your MMI interview day will center around patient care. Be prepared to bring in examples from your own experiences with patients! Learn how to incorporate patient stories through our Mastering the Multiple Mini Interview course + mock interview with Dr. Rizal.

    MMI Practice Questions – Situational Scenarios and Patient Care Questions:
    1. Your best friend calls you and tells you that his girlfriend broke up with him. He is extremely “depressed,” and states that he wants to end his life. How would you approach this situation?
    2. You are excited for your new role as the Teaching Assistant for Chemistry 1. During the first day of class, you meet your 10 new students who you will be teaching for the entire semester. However, as you review the first concept, you realize that students have different levels of basic chemistry knowledge. Some of your students do not know anything about chemical bonds while other students seem bored because they learned the content twice in high school. How would you address this teaching environment?
    3. You are a premed student working in a busy emergency room. You have shadowed multiple doctors and resident physicians before. One day, there is a multi-car accident and there are 5 trauma patients who come at the same time. After the emergency medicine team conduct clinical examinations and stabilizes all the patients, the attending physician asks if you could suture one of the patient’s arms. You’ve been taught how to do laceration repairs before, and you have sutured cuts on pig’s feet. How do you approach this situation?
    4. You are a physician in a primary care clinic and your patient is here to visit you for 3 days of diarrhea and vomiting. He says that his neighbor recommended that he come to the clinic to ask for a prescription of antibiotics. What would you tell your patient and how would you approach this situation?
    5. You are a third-year medical student doing a clinical rotation in an extremely busy emergency department. You enter room #51. Immediately, your patient yells at you and is frustrated that he has been waiting 6 hours before getting a patient room. His stress level is a 10/10. How would you approach this situation?
    6. You are co-presenting your research findings with a co-researcher in front of a live audience at a medical conference. 10 minutes before your presentation, your co-researcher panics. You learn that she has a fear of public speaking. How would you approach this situation?
    7. You are a Teaching Assistant for Physics 101. After the first midterm, one of your students who received an aggregate score resulting in a C- writes a poor review of you publicly on Facebook and “Ratemyteachers.com” stating that you are a bad teacher and did not teach concepts well. The student gave you a bad rating on ratemyteachers.com. Furthermore, the student states that she felt unprepared for the midterm exam due to your poor teaching. What do you do in this scenario?
    8. You have been waiting in line for 3 hours to get an autograph from your favorite music artist. You know that the first 100 people are guaranteed an autograph and the next 100 people in line mightget an autograph if time permits. Suddenly, 3 people join their friend in line right in front of you. What do you do? You are worried that you may not get an autograph.
    9. A 55-year-old patient comes to your clinic to discuss his lab results and findings. After looking at his chart, you see that he has uncontrolled hypertension and diabetes. He has also told you in previous clinic visits that he is a smoker but not an alcoholic. How would you approach this patient?
    10. You are working in the Emergency Department as a medical student when a patient asks to see you. When you enter the room, the elderly patient discusses how she does not feel comfortable with the nurse assigned to her because he has several tattoos. How would you approach this situation?
    11. Can you name 3 qualities that you think are important to be an excellent physician?
    12. Discuss the role of art in medicine and healing.
    13. A 40-year-old individual brings her 70-year-old mother to your primary care clinic where you are the doctor on-staff. The adult child says that the mother has been complaining of uneasiness in her chest area. When you ask your 70-year-old patient, she says, “It’s nothing. I am not worried about this.” How would you approach this situation? How would you make sure this patient makes an informed decision?
    14. You are a physician working in the pediatrics oncology ward and one of your patients is a 13-year-old girl who unfortunately is suffering from terminal cancer. She has failed several rounds of chemotherapy. You have a meeting with her parents who want to place a DNR/DNI on their child. How would you approach this situation? How would you ensure that the parents make an informed decision?
    15. Acting scenario: You are having dinner with your cousin who admits that he has started vaping. He says that he wants to quit but needs help. Act out the scenario (your cousin is in the room).
    16. You are at a family friend gathering when a mother who has a child with autism tells everyone at dinner that autism is caused by vaccinations. She urges everyone at the dinner party to not vaccinate their children. How would you approach this situation?
    17. You are a medical school student. You stay in the hospital late because you are finishing up your patient notes. You overhear your attending physician saying, “Our patient acts that way because she’s black.” How would you approach this situation?
    18. You are in medical school, semester 1. You are taking anatomy class and you received your first exam: 67%, which is considered “Not Passing.” What steps would you take after receiving this grade?
    19. You are a medical resident working a clinical shift. During your lunch break, you overhear nurses complaining about your fellow co-resident, citing that your co-resident does not have great communication skills. How would you approach this situation?
    20. One of your friends confides in you that she is pregnant. What would you do in this situation?
    21. You are a residential college advisor of freshmen who live in doubles (2 freshmen per room). One day, 2 of your residential advisees comes to you visibly stressed. They do not want to live together anymore. How would you approach this situation?
    22. Our medical school and hospital serve a large population of immigrants. What are factors that we must consider when serving an immigrant population?
    23. Acting scenario: Your patient who is currently in the room creates this appointment because he wants to lose weight. Please talk to him and discuss his goals.
    24. When do you think it is appropriate to not follow evidence-based medicine?
    25. You are a physician in a medical clinic and your patient is diagnosed with hypertension that warrants medications to lower his blood pressure. When you discuss the diagnosis and treatment with the patient, the patient is adamant that he does not want to take any medications because of his personal beliefs against Western therapeutics. How would you approach this situation?
    26. What do you think is the role of homeopathic medicine (alternative medicine) in medical care?
    27. One of your friends who is a female biologically and uses they/them pronouns confides in you that they have not felt comfortable in their body and want to transition to become a male. How would you approach this situation?
    28. You are working in a pediatrician’s office and a dad brings his 2-year-old son in for a regular check-up. You smell alcohol on his breath. What would you do in this scenario?
    29. You are a physician in a primary care clinic. A patient comes in with a sore throat and cough for 5 days. She wants antibiotics. How would you address this clinical encounter?
    30. You are working as a physician in the ICU, and you are taking care of a patient who is critically ill. You set up a meeting to discuss end-of-life care and code status. The patient’s spouse asks what would you do if this were your loved one? How would you approach this situation?
    31. Acting scenario: Counsel a patient who smokes but does not want to quit.
    32. Acting scenario: Your friend is in the room and found out that she is pregnant. Talk to her.
    33. Acting scenario: You are working in a clinic and meet a mom whose child was recently diagnosed with autism. She is in the room.
    34. You are on your first rotation as a medical resident, and you are working with a nurse on an overnight shift who refuses to accept the orders that you put into the Electronic Medical Record (EMR). When you speak with the nurse, she tells you, “I don’t trust new residents to be making clinical decisions.” How would you approach this situation?
    35. You are working as a surgical resident, and you meet an Emergency Department attending who wants to escalate a patient case to your attending. Your surgery attending told you specifically not to wake him up unless it’s an emergency. How would you approach this situation?
    36. You are a medical school student on your surgery rotation. The Head Nurse in the Operating Room suddenly stops the procedure and shouts to everyone, “The Med student broke the sterile field!” After the operation, the nurse comes up to you and is angry, saying that you should know how to put on your gloves and gown without breaking a sterile field. She says that you are not cut out for surgery. How would you approach this interaction?
    37. A patient uses the wrong pronouns repeatedly when referring to you. How would you respond? How would you respond if you saw somebody use the wrong pronouns for the patient?
    38. You are the physician working overnight in the Emergency Department. You go into room #12 to see a new patient, and it’s an elderly Caucasian male in his 70s. When you enter the room, he says, “Hello nurse! I am so glad to see you! When do you think my doctor will be here to see me?” What would you do in this scenario?
    39. Acting scenario: You are volunteering in a busy medical clinic in a low-income neighborhood. Suddenly, a patient comes to you angry and starts demanding to see a physician NOW. She claims that she has been waiting for 2 hours in the waiting room to see the doctor. The patient is in the room waiting to talk to you about this situation. Act out this scenario.
    40. You are working as an x-ray tech and you take a picture of an infant to confirm the position of the feeding tube (NG tube) inside of his body. When you look at the x-ray, you see that the position of the NG tube is in the lungs rather than in the stomach. What would you do in this scenario?
    41. You are cooking with your roommate in your college dorm and you accidentally spill a pot of boiling water over his hand. You rush him to the Emergency Department where they diagnose him with second degree burns and is discharged home with information about wound care and follow-up appointments. Unfortunately, your friend is unable to move his hand without severe pain, and midterms are coming up. How would you handle this situation?
    42. You are a volunteer on the surgery ward. A patient who is hospitalized for appendicitis starts becoming aggressive and pulls out his IV. He starts yelling at his nurse. How would you help de-escalate this scenario?
    43. You are a student researcher and learn that a research project you were working on 2 summers ago was published in a journal. You have lost touch with the PI in the past year. You read the paper and do not find your name on the list of authors or acknowledgments. When reading through the research, you feel like you contributed to the research published. What would you do in this scenario?
    44. You are working as a pediatrician and a 12-year-old patient comes in with his mother. His mom states that his guidance counselor recommended you to prescribe him ADHD medications for behavior issues. How would you approach this situation?
    45. It’s your one year job-review check-in with you manager. During the meeting, your manager says you are “Not meeting expectations,” and if you continue to perform lower than expectations, you will be put on probation or laid off. What would you do in this situation?
    46. You visit your cousin who admits that she has been having joint pains, lethargy, and light-headedness. She said she went to an alternative medicine doctor who thinks she has Lyme Disease. Your cousin states that she does not want to put any medications in her body and she is trying several alternative medicine approaches, including yoga, acupuncture, and diet changes as treatment, based on the health practitioner’s recommendation. She states that she has suffered from these symptoms for the past 2 months, and she had to take a medical leave of absence from work. How would you approach this situation?

    MMI Practice Questions - Leadership Questions

    In the past few years, leadership questions are showing up more throughout MMI circuits. Leadership questions are particularly seen in the Multiple Mini Interviews of top medical schools that emphasize leadership, including the Stanford MMI, Duke MMI, and UCSD MMI.

    MMI Prep Tip: Be prepared to talk about at least two leadership experiences from your extra-curricular activities. Also reflect on the type of leader you are.

    Every point and half point counts for your MMI score for top schools. Make sure to contact us and prepare with us today!

    MMI Practice Questions – Leadership Questions:
    1. You are volunteering for your County’s Public Health Corp, and you lead the “Community Health Committee,” which includes you and 5 other members. You learn that your committee has received $100,000 to pilot any initiative that will improve the health of the community.  What initiative will you implement and why?
    2. You are interning for your County’s Health Department and they give you a new social media project. Your goal is to create a social media campaign to increase vaccinations in your County. Discuss how you would approach this task.
    3. You work for the hospital administration team and you are put on a project to re-think the Hospital Cafeteria’s food options. What ideas do you have?
    4. What is your leadership style? Can you give an example that highlights your leadership style?
    5. You are part of a community-based learning class and your project is to help a local 2nd grade class to start a new school garden. How would you approach this project?
    6. You are in medical school and you are part of the Executive Board of the wellness committee. The Medical School’s Dean approaches your committee to bring ideas to improve wellness and mental health among medical school students. What 1-2 initiatives would you recommend to improve the medical school student body’s overall wellness?
    7. You are part of the President’s Task Force to identify an individual to replace Dr. Anthony Fauci, who recently retired in 2022. What criteria do you think is important in choosing the next Director of the NIH?
    8. You are doing a global health internship in the Philippines. You are working with the World Health Organization to improve vaccination rates in Manila, the nation’s capital. In the past 3 years, newborn vaccination rates have decreased from 95% to 88%. How would you approach this task?
    9. Your high schools finds out that you are going to medical school! You join a Task Force that has the goal to improve the health of high school students in your high school. What initiatives would you recommend?
    10. What motivates you?
    11. What gets you up in the morning?
    12. Who inspires you?
    13. What is your vision to improve healthcare?
    14. As a leader, how do you foster a positive and inclusive team culture?
    15. What are your strengths and weaknesses as a leader?
    16. Given that there is a shortage of physicians in America, you have the ability to create a brand-new medical school. What attributes would you like to include in this medical school?
    17. Can you talk about a time when you had to motivate a team?
    18. Can you give an example of a time when you played a role in the development of another individual?
    19. You are the head of a medical clinic, and 2 physicians separately approach you and state that they want to quit, citing burnout as the primary reason. How would you respond to this problem?
    20. You are a chief resident and one of the first-year residents is struggling on his clinical rotations. How would you help out this struggling first-year resident?
    21. Talk about a time when you had to motivate others as a leader.
    22. You are a planning a blood drive at your university. At the first blood drive, 130 students sign up, but only 15 show up to donate blood. What would you do as the leader of this organization that organizes blood drives?
    23. You work for the Public Health Department in one of the towns near Mexico’s border, where there are a lot of immigrants from Mexico & South America crossing. You are part of the new leadership team tasked with making sure the immigrants are safe and healthy. What initiatives would you suggest?
    24. You are part of the United States Healthy Living Task Force and you have the ability to work on any project you want in order to improve the health of Americans. What initiative(s) would you be most interested in working with? Do you have any thoughts about how to accomplish these goals?
    25. You are working with your city government to improve the problem of food deserts in your community. After doing a research analysis, you find out that 25% of the city lives in a food desert. How would you approach solving this problem?
    26. You are the Founder of your university’s “Mental Health & Wellness Club,” and the turnout to your first meeting is only 5 students. What would you do in this situation?
    27. You are the team captain of your soccer team and during the last game, one of your teammates tore her ACL. What would you say to your teammate, and would you take any actions because you are the team captain?
    28. You are part of the freshman orientation planning committee at your college. What orientation events would you include to make freshmen feel informed and welcomed?
    29. Who is somebody who motivates you or inspires you?
    30. If your manager asks you to complete a task that you think is impossible, how would you approach this situation?
    31. Talk about a time when you gave feedback or advice to an individual who wasn’t responsive to your feedback or advice. Why do you think the individual was not responsive? Do you think you could have done anything differently in order to get the individual to listen?
    32. Give an example of a time when you had to think on your feet.
    33. Give an example when you had to lead a diverse group of people. How did you get everyone to achieve a common goal?
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    MMI Practice Questions - Innovation Questions

    MMI Practice Questions – Innovation Questions and Creative Questions:

    Certain medical schools value problem-solving and innovation in applicants. These MMI schools include Stanford, Duke, and UCSD.

    1. You are part of a team that is asked to design a new primary care office. Talk through how you would approach this new task.
    2. You are part of a design team hired by a large, national airline company. They ask you to design an airport terminal catered to senior citizens. What features would you include in this airport terminal?
    3. What innovations in healthcare excite you the most?
    4. If you could create a new mobile app that could improve people’s health, what would it be and why?
    5. Smart watch technology is improving exponentially over time. If you could create one new feature for smart watches related to tracking or monitoring an individual’s health, what would it be and why?
    6. How do you encourage creativity and innovation within your team?
    7. “The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.” – William J. Mayo. What are your thoughts about this quote?
    8. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” —Margaret Thatcher Talk about a time when you did not follow the status quo.
    9. Explain a research project you were involved with to somebody who is 8 years old.
    10. If you can have dinner with somebody dead or alive, who would you have dinner with?
    11. If you could change one thing about your personality in the snap of your fingers, what would it be and why?
    12. Describe a time when you saw a problem and took the initiative to correct it.
    13. If you could create one medication to improve humanity, what would it be and why? What do you think the implications are for creating that new medication?
    14. If you could change the United States healthcare system in one way, what would it be and why?
    15. Tell me about a time when you had to be creative with your work or with a project. How were you creative? What was exciting or difficult about it?
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    Multiple Mini INterview Full Length Practice

    Once students take our Mastering the Multiple Mini Interview Course, our Cracking Med School Admissions team gets asked for even more Multiple Mini Interview example questions. We’ve created Multiple Mini Interview practice tests and made the questions publicly available so all premed applicants can benefit! 

    Instructions for MMI Practice Interviews:

    The best way to utilize these MMI practice interviews is to time yourself. We even built in a timer for you! Emulate your MMI interview day as closely as possible. To go above and beyond,  record yourself and listen to your responses. You can critique your soft skills, including communication. Analyze your interview performance and critique yourself about how you can improve. Remember, your interview score is an important component of the admission decision – so practice, practice, practice!

    1. For each question, open the question by pressing the dropdown arrow. 
    2. You will have two minutes to read the prompt and think about your response to the question. You can have a piece of paper to jot down notes.
    3. After the two minutes are done, you now have four minutes to give your response.* Please say your response out loud.

    *Note: On the real MMI Interview day, you will typically have 6-8 minutes to give a response. However, that time is allocated for follow-up questions and answers. 

    Practice Multiple Mini Interview #1 

    6 Minute Timer
    One current healthcare debate is whether schools should be able to enforce its students to wear masks. Should masks be mandated in schools?
    You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud.
    Talk about a time when you worked in a team.
    You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud.
    You are a Summer Camp Counselor and you notice that one of your campers seems down. You approach your camper, and he admits that he feels isolated and lonely, having trouble making friends. Your camper admits that he takes illicit substances, but he asks you not to tell any authority figure about this. How would you approach this situation?
    You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud.
    You are volunteering in the Emergency Department and a patient comes in without a pulse. Immediately, the medical team performs CPR. The attending physician tells you to clean the area and put the patient’s belongings in a plastic bag. As you compile all the patient’s clothes, his wallet falls out of his pocket. You notice that his Driver’s License says DNR/DNI. Do you tell the medical team to stop doing CPR?
    You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud.
    What will you contribute to our medical school class?
    You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud.
    Discuss a time when you failed.
    You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud.
    Your best friend calls you and tells you that his girlfriend broke up with him. He is extremely “depressed,” and states that he wants to end his life. How would you approach this situation?
    You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud.
    On September 9, 2021, the FDA said it needed more time to decide whether e-cigarettes and vaping products can remain in the U.S. market. Do you think e-cigarettes should be made available to public? Should there be restrictions?
    You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud.
    You are working on a class project with 4 team members. One of your team members is not showing up to meetings and has not contributed any content to the project. How would you approach this situation? You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud.
    You are excited for your new role as the Teaching Assistant for Chemistry 1. During the first day of class, you meet your 10 new students who you will be teaching for the entire semester. However, as you review the first concept, you realize that students have different levels of basic chemistry knowledge. Some of your students do not know anything about chemical bonds while other students seem bored because they learned the content twice in high school. How would you address this teaching environment?
    You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud.

    Practice Multiple Mini Interview #2

    6 Minute Timer
    You are a premed student working in a busy emergency room. You have shadowed multiple doctors and resident physicians before. One day, there is a multi-car accident and there are 5 trauma patients who come at the same time. After the emergency medicine teams stabilize all the patients, the attending physician asks if you could suture one of the patient’s arms. You’ve been taught how to do laceration repairs before, and you have sutured cuts on pig’s feet. How do you approach this situation?
    You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud.
    Can you tell me about one influential or memorable patient encounter you had?
    You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud.

    Talk about a research project you have been involved with.

    You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud.
    Do you think the spread of health information through the internet has been more of a positive or more of a negative throughout the COVID-19 pandemic? Please discuss your thoughts.
    You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud.
    Describe a conflict you had when you were a part of a team, and your role in the situation.
    You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud.
    Especially because of the coronavirus pandemic, mental health issues – including anxiety and depression – are increasing at a rapid rate in the United States. How do you think we can tackle the mental health epidemic in the United States?
    You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud.
    Talk about a time when you led a team.
    You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud.
    You are a cancer physician who leads several clinical trials, including a stage IV breast cancer therapy. You see your patient, Mrs. Jordan, whose metastatic breast cancer is unfortunately continuing to spread. After looking at eligibility criteria, you confirm that Mrs. Jordan is eligible for this clinical trial. You know that Mrs. Jordan can potentially benefit significantly if she is in the “treatment” arm of this clinical trial. You ask the patient if she wants to enroll in the study, but she is extremely hesitant. How do you approach this situation?
    You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud.
    You are a teacher in a public high school that requires all its students to wear masks at all times except during lunch. While you are teaching Algebra during Period 5, one of your students refuses to wear her mask. She claims that it’s her “personal freedom” to wear whatever she wants. How do you address this situation?
    You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud.
    You are a physician in a primary care clinic and your patient is here to visit you for 3 days of diarrhea and vomiting. He says that his neighbor recommends he come to the clinic to ask for a prescription of antibiotics. What would you tell your patient and how would you approach this situation?
    You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud.
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