There is a lot of overlap in what medical schools ask in their Multiple Mini Interview stations. However, a MMI school does ask more questions related to its mission and what it looks for in its students. For example, there are some medical schools, such as Stanford and Duke, that value innovation and leadership. Therefore, you are more likely to receive leadership-related questions on your MMI interview day.
Here is how to use this blog post:
- Look at the list of MMI schools. We listed the schools in both alphabetical order and by state.
- Read what each MMI school focuses its stations on.*
- Improve your MMI scores; How to Prepare for the MMI Interview with Dr. Rachel Rizal’s online course: Mastering the Multiple Mini Interview.
- Practice through our full-length MMI practice tests. We created sample practice tests based on different schools.
- If you want more practice tests and more MMI practice questions, read our high-yield blog post here: 252 Multiple Mini Interview Practice Questions
*It is important to note that medical schools do not publish their lists of MMI questions. We base each medical school’s focus based on what we know about the school culture, their surrounding communities, and the types of students that get accepted each year.
List of MMI Schools
It’s important to apply the 4 S Framework taught in our Mastering the Multiple Mini Interview course when preparing for your Multiple Mini – Interviews. However, medical schools have different cultures and missions, which is sometimes reflected in the types of scenarios at the MMI interview stations. We give additional tips to prepare for your Multiple Mini Interview for specific schools.
| List of MMI schools (alphabetical order) |
|---|
| Albany Medical College |
| AT Still School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona |
| Central Michigan University School of Medicine |
| Duke |
| Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine [Hybrid: MMI + Traditional] |
| Medical College of Georgia, Augusta |
| Michigan State University [Hybrid: MMI + Traditional] |
| New York Medical College |
| New York University (NYU), Grossman |
| New York University Long Island (NYULI) |
| Oregon Health & Science University |
| Robert Wood Johnson Medical School |
| Stanford University School of Medicine [Hybrid: MMI + Traditional] |
| Tufts - Maine Medical Center (Tufts Maine Track) |
| University of Alabama |
| University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix |
| University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson |
| University of California, Davis |
| University of California, Riverside |
| University of California, San Diego |
| University of Houston |
| University of Massachusetts |
| University of Michigan [Hybrid: MMI + Traditional] |
| University of Minnesota |
| University of North Carolina |
| University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston (UTMB) |
| University of Vermont |
| Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) |
| Virginia Tech Carilion [Hybrid: MMI + Traditional] |
| Wayne State |
| Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell |
List of MMI Schools (organized by State)
Alabama
University of Alabama, Birmingham
Arizona
University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix
University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson
California
Kaiser Permanente [Hybrid: MMI + Traditional Interviews]
Stanford University [Hybrid: MMI + Traditional Interviews]
University of California, Davis (UCD)
University of California, Riverside (UCR)
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
Georgia
Medical College of Georgia at Augusta
Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass)
Michigan
Central Michigan University School of Medicine
Michigan State University College of Medicine [Hybrid: MMI + Traditional Interviews]
University of Michigan Medical School [Hybrid: MMI + Traditional Interviews]
- Wayne State
Minnesota
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Missouri
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
New Jersey
- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New York
Albany Medical College
New York Medical College (NYMC)
New York University, Grossman (NYU Grossman)
New York University Long Island (NYULI)
Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra-Northwell
North Carolina
Duke
University of North Carolina
Ohio
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Oregon
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)
Texas
- University of Houston
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston (UTMB)
Vermont
University of Vermont College of Medicine
Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine [Hybrid: MMI + Traditional Interviews]
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:
- Current event questions
- Team-based interview stations
- Ethical scenario questions
- Traditional interview questions
- 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:
- Structure
- Spirit
- Story
- Stamina
Dr. Rizal will teach you how to incorporate each of these elements into an excellent MMI answer.
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.
Master the Multiple Mini Interview
Learn to Confidently Tackle:
- Situational scenarios
- Team-based scenarios
- Current event scenarios
- Ethical scenarios
School Specific MMI Interview Tips
Albany Medical College MMI Tips
- Albany Medical College MMI Questions: Familiarize Yourself with Medical Ethics through our Cracking Med School Admissions Medical Ethics blog post. Being prepared with medical ethics is something that should definitely be part of your preparation for this type of interview. Being aware of ethical standards in the medical field will help you answer ethical questions the interviewer may ask.
- Prepare for questions that ask how you would approach patient encounters. Don’t forget to ask a patient’s medical history, conduct a physical examination, order relevant tests, and discuss a treatment plan.
- Cracking Med School Admissions Practice Guidance: Do all 252 MMI practice questions except the team questions.
- Do MMI Practice Test #2 below.
AT Still MMI Tips
- Given that AT Still is an osteopathic school, be prepared to answer questions related to holistic medicine during you AT Still MMI. Did you know that AT Still School of Medicine’s MMI is often talked about using the ATSU SOMA MMI?
- Incorporate osteopathic medicine techniques like OMM. Incorporate proper nutrition, exercise, and healthy mental health behaviors into your responses. This holistic approach to health focuses on getting all parts of the body functioning optimally by using an array of healing modalities such as osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) and mental imagery (MI).
- The main principles behind ATSU-SOMA’s osteopathic medicine philosophy are prevention through awareness and education; gentle manual therapy; customized treatment plans; natural healing methods; safe treatments led by an experienced practitioner; collaboration between medical professionals; integration into mainstream medical services where appropriate; usage of imaging technologies if necessary; self-care strategies; lifestyle advice. These same principles will be applied when treating any condition or disease.
- Understand primary care and common primary care scenarios.
- Cracking Med School Admissions Practice Guidance: Focus on patient care MMI scenarios.
- Do MMI Practice Test #2 below.
Central Michigan University MMI Tips
- What is the CMU Multiple Mini Interview? The CMU Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) is a timed assessment consisting of multiple stations, each containing a scenario-based question or ethical dilemma. You’ll be tested on your problem-solving skills, communication abilities, and ethical thought processes. Each station presents different scenarios, so you should prepare for a range of MMI topics, such as patient care values, team-building skills, and personal qualities.
At Central Michigan University College of Medicine’s MMI assessment, expect to see some or all of these topics:
• Ethical decision making – Here you may be presented with a complex situation where you must show that you can consider all available facts before creating a logical course of action.
• Problem solving – Be prepared with solutions to some possible “worst-case scenarios” that might arise in the health care field.
• Working with teams – Demonstrate your strong collaboration and development skills by finding solutions that satisfy both team members in order to make progress more efficiently.
• Patient care evaluation – Show how much attention to detail you pay by outlining possible implications based on given patient information.
- One aspect that is unique to Central Michigan University College of Medicine’s MMI is that you need to know the healthcare issues that affect citizens of Central Michigan.
- Understand healthcare disparities and access to healthcare issues in rural areas.
- Understand primary care and common primary care scenarios.
- Follow-up questions are typically related to the primary question.
- Cracking Med School Admissions Practice Guidance: Do all 252 MMI practice questions including the team, ethics, and patient scenarios.
- Do MMI Practice Test #2 below.
- We cannot emphasize enough how much you should know about the top healthcare issues in Central Michigan! And incorporate your insights into your answer!
Duke MMI Tips
- Duke MMI prompts and station questions could be long. The Duke MMI circuit can also have several difficult situations and questions similar to traditional one-on-one interviews. Make sure that you read each question carefully. While you are under the pressure of two minutes of brainstorming, take your time and read each question carefully. Then think about how you can apply what you already know in order to answer it as completely as possible. You will have to apply ethical principles, current events, and your healthcare knowledge.
- Know current events and be able to articulate opinions about how to improve problems in healthcare. Current event questions may test your problem solving and critical thinking skills. The key to success when it comes to the Duke Multiple Mini Interview is preparation. You’ll want to read up on the topics before heading into the interview so that you’re armed with information. There are no right or wrong answers in this type of interview – it’s just meant to evaluate your thought processes and how you handle yourself during an interview situation.
- Understand how to apply medical ethics to an ethical scenario question during your Duke MMI.
- Read about North Carolina health issues and current events.
- Have ideas about how to improve healthcare specifically in North Carolina during your Duke Medical School MMI answers.
- Prepare for teamwork stations where you are giving instructions or solving a problem with a partner (another application).
- Incorporate many examples from your personal experiences, both medical and non-medical. Similar to the Duke School of Medicine secondary essays, the goal of Duke Multiple Mini Interview is designed around getting a better understanding of who YOU are! So don’t forget amidst all of your preparations that while they do want specifics they also want someone who has a genuine sense of identity and ideas about their future goals (medical related or not!).
- Cracking Med School Admissions Practice Guidance: Download our top 10 current events guide.
- MMI Practice Test #1 below (innovation & leadership)
- We cannot emphasize enough how much you should know about the top healthcare issues in North Carolina! And incorporate them into your answer!
Kaiser MMI Tips
The Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine has both a traditional medical school interview and MMI interview during your interview day.
- Convey ideas you have to change healthcare broadly. Leverage Kaiser’s hospital network and population health data.
- Know Kaiser’s philosophy and strengths. That means, you should know about population health and the importance of preventative health.
- If you have research projects or public health projects, think about how those interests can align with Kaiser’s emphasis on population health, health innovation, and preventative health. Do practice interviews that incorporate how to link your activities with Kaiser’s educational programs & strengths.
- Incorporate your leadership experiences and discuss the impact of your activities, similar to how you would in a one-on-one traditional interviews. Again, the MMI rater is assessing your communication skills, since clear communication is important as a leader.
- Kaiser MMI interviewers will ask follow-up questions related to the main MMI question prompt or follow-up questions related to your response.
- Cracking Med School Admissions Kaiser Multiple Mini – Interview Practice Guidance:
- MMI Practice Test #1 below (innovation & leadership)
Healthcare Current Events Interview Guide
Medical College of Georgia MMI Tips
- Be familiar with healthcare disparities, especially racial disparities. Be able to give examples of healthcare disparities in Georgia. Read our Top 10 Healthcare Current #vents guide, which reviews healthcare disparities.
- Understand how to apply medical ethics.
- Make sure to display empathy. How can applicants do this? While you answer the Medical College of Georgia questions, explain how you are listening to the parties in the scenario. Additionally, walk through the steps in how you would help others solve challenging problems.
- Have ideas about how to improve Georgia’s healthcare system.
- Discuss “Why Georgia” throughout your MMI stations. Read more details about how to discuss “Why Medical College of Georgia” in our MCG application tips!
- Cracking Med School Admissions Practice Guidance: Download our top 10 current events guide.
- Take MMI Practice Test #2
Michigan State University MMI (MSU MMI) Tips
- Know the healthcare issues that affect citizens of Michigan.
- Understand healthcare disparities and access to healthcare issues in rural areas.
- Be extremely knowledgeable about current events, especially how current events affect healthcare. High-yield topics include: gender disparities, healthcare disparities from SES and race.
- Be able to explain why you want to attend Michigan State University College of Human Medicine.
- Follow-up questions are typically related to the primary question.
- There is typically a traditional station. Be prepared for all common questions! We would strongly recommend preparing “Why Medicine” and “Why do you want to be a doctor?” Additionally, you should know how to incorporate “Why Michigan State University.”
- There may be an acting scenario. Make sure you practice the acting scenarios on the Situational Scenario question block! You can also modify each situational question (non-acting) to acting these questions out.
- Cracking Med School Admissions Practice Guidance: Do all 252 MMI practice questions except the team questions. Additionally, look at the “Why Medicine” page and “Why this medical school” blog post to help you craft strong answers!
- Do MMI Practice Test #2 below.
New York Medical College MMI (NYMC MMI) Tips
- Common question types include how you would approach patient encounters, including discussing the cultural context of the patient encounter and how you would approach the physical examination.
- Know local health and social issues around NYMC, and incorporate your insights into your NYMC answers.
- Have ideas about how you want to improve the surrounding NYMC community. Specifically, if you have experiences with working in urban communities or underserved communities, incorporate these examples in your NYMC MMI answers. As Dr. Rizal mentions in her Mastering the Multiple Mini Interview course, talk about current events and personal stories into your MMI answers!
- Interviewers will ask follow-up questions related to the main MMI question prompt.
- Cracking Med School Admissions Practice Guidance: Practice all ethical MMI questions. Do all 252 MMI practice questions.
- Do MMI Practice Test #2 and MMI Practice Test #3 below.
New York University (NYU Grossman) MMI Tips
- NYU MMI questions are asked differently and unique; the NYU MMI questions do not necessarily reflect the questions asked in the NYU secondary essay prompts (i.e. they might not ask you about research or clinical medicine directly). Be prepared for non-standard and creative questions. But, there are still many traditional interview questions.
- Practice your responses to common traditional MMI interview questions.
- Be able to talk about your research projects, academic accomplishments, and other outstanding extracurricular activities into your NYU MMI answers.
- Cracking Med School Admissions Practice Guidance: Practice all creative questions.
- Do MMI Practice Test #3 below.
New York University Long Island MMI (NYULI MMI) Tips
- NYULI is focused primarily on primary care. So, some of the NYULI MMI interview questions surround primary care scenarios. You can read more about both NYU School of Medicine campuses here: How to Get Into NYU Medical School: Tips from Accepted Students
- Be able to incorporate your primary care clinical experiences. We would practice as many MMI patient care scenarios as possible.
- Know common complaints and symptoms addressed by primary care physicians.
- Understand pediatrics and medical ethics around parental consent.
- Know about the Long Island community, including culture, demographics, and healthcare issues.
- Have opinions about how to improve health professions training and primary care in Long Island.
- Cracking Med School Admissions Practice Guidance: Do all 252 MMI practice questions except the team questions.
- Do MMI Practice Test #2 below.
Oregon Health & Science University MMI (OHSU MMI) Tips
- Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) is a public medical school located in Portland, Oregon. It is a fairly new medical school, but it has a long enough track record to convince residency programs that it is a strong school. Since its founding, OHSU has pioneered paths of innovation and discovery in the world of healthcare and continues to lead the revolution in medical education. This innovative spirit and OHSU’s commitment to improving the lives of Oregon residents extend to its Multiple Mini Interviews (MMI), which are integrated into many of their admission processes.
- Read about how social issues affect health outcomes. Be knowledgeable about healthcare disparities in America and in Oregon.
- Know about the effects of the opioid crisis, particularly in Oregon. Increasingly, fentanyl overdoses have been an issue too. Download and study our Top 10 Healthcare Current Events Guide.
- Prepare for questions that ask how you would approach patient encounters.
- Understand how to apply medical ethics to an ethical scenario question.
- In the past, OHSU has had a station with a writing sample. Practice writing out your answers and saying your responses to MMI questions out loud.
- Cracking Med School Admissions Practice Guidance: Do all the practice MMI current events questions and MMI ethics questions.
- Do MMI Practice Test #2 and MMI Practice Test #3 below.
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School MMI (RWJ MMI) Tips
- Understand how to apply medical ethics to an ethical scenario question RWJ MMI questions.
- It is extremely important to know about the health issues of New Jersey. Have ideas about how you want to improve the health of citizens in New Jersey. Ideas to improve the health of New Jersey residents and organizations you want to be involved with at Rutgers as a med student (to improve the health of New Jersey residents) should be included in your Rutgers secondary application too!
- Cracking Med School Admissions Practice Guidance: Read our 4 Pillars of Medical Ethics blog post. Do all the ethics questions in our MMI practice questions blog post.
- Take MMI practice test #2 and MMI practice test #3 below.
Stanford MMI Tips
The Stanford University School of Medicine has both a traditional one-on-one interview and MMI interview during your interview day.
- Incorporate your leadership experiences and discuss the impact of your activities, similar to how you would in a one-on-one personal interview.
- Talk about innovative ideas in your healthcare fields of interests. The innovation MMI questions will test your communication skills about abstract ideas.
- Be able to discuss your major research project as a pre-med. Remember, the interviewer is likely not an individual on the medical school admissions committee. So, you should be able to explain your research to an educated individual who is not familiar with scientific / medical research.
- Study medical ethics and incorporate medical ethics principles in your responses.
- Convey what you want to gain from your medical education at Stanford. Remember, Stanford is an inter-disciplinary school and you may want to pursue opportunities and classes at other graduate schools.
- Interviewers will ask follow-up questions related to the main MMI question prompt or follow-up questions related to your response.
- Bring specific opportunities you want to pursue at Stanford. Reading how to answer “Why this medical school” and the level of specificity is important.
- Follow-up questions are typically related to the primary question.
- Cracking Med School Admissions Practice Guidance: Practice all leadership MMI questions and innovation MMI questions on our MMI Practice Questions blog post. Stanford is many applicants’ dream school. So, it’s important to practice as much as possible to refine your interview skills.
- Take MMI Practice Test #1 below.
- Do a mock interview with Stanford School of Medicine graduate and former Stanford MMI interviewer, Dr. Rachel Rizal. Contact Dr. Rizal below or email info@crackingmedadmissions.com.
Master the Multiple Mini Interview
Learn to Confidently Tackle:
- Situational scenarios
- Team-based scenarios
- Current event scenarios
- Ethical scenarios
Tufts Maine Track MMI Tips
The Tufts Maine track has both traditional medical school interviews and an MMI during your interview day.
- Tufts Maine Track is focused on rural health. Be ready for questions about rural health issues and healthcare issues in Maine.
- If you grew up or worked in the Northeast – specifically Maine – don’t forget to incorporate your life experiences and personal anecdotes into your interview responses.
- Have knowledge about alternative medicine techniques. Alternative medicine is not limited to only homeopathic medications. Many alternative medicine techniques include nutrition, physical therapy, acupuncture, and chiropractor. How would you integrate alternative medicine into your patient treatment plans?
- Understand “western medicines” vs “homeopathic medicines.” Think about a scenario in which a patient comes in asking for your opinion about taking homeopathic medicines. What would you do? Be able to articulate the thought process behind medical decisions.
- Be knowledgeable about medical ethics. Read our 4 Pillars of Medical Ethics blog post. Be able to articulate the thought process behind medical decisions.
- Practice all common questions for the traditional interview portion. Additionally, you should be able to also speak about Northeast health issues.
- Cracking Med School Admissions Practice Guidance: Practice all patient care MMI questions in our MMI Practice Questions blog post.
- Take MMI practice test #2 below.
University of Alabama MMI Tips
- Prepare for questions that ask how you would approach patient encounters. Don’t forget to ask a patient’s medical history, conduct a physical examination, order relevant tests, and discuss a treatment plan.
- Know health issues in Alabama and more generally, Southern United States. Importantly, you should know health issues between urban vs. rural health issues as well as white vs. African-American health outcome.
- Cracking Med School Admissions Practice Guidance: Practice all patient care MMI questions in our MMI Practice Questions blog post.
- Take MMI practice test #2 below.
University of Arizona, Phoenix MMI (UofA MMI) Tips
- Prepare for questions that ask how you would approach patient encounters. Don’t forget to ask a patient’s medical history, conduct a physical examination, order relevant tests, and discuss a treatment plan.
- Know health issues of citizens in Arizona.
- Be extremely knowledgeable about the United States / Mexico border crisis.
- Know the health issues of immigrants, especially from Latin America and Hispanic populations. For opinions about how to improve the health of these populations. Finally, formulate ideas about how we can improve access to care among uninsured immigrants.
- Cracking Med School Admissions Practice Guidance: Practice all patient care sample questions in our MMI Practice Questions blog post. Download our Top 10 Healthcare Current Events.
- Take MMI practice test #2 below.
University of Arizona, Phoenix MMI (Arizona Tucson Med MMI) Tips
- UofA Tucson is different than UofA Phoenix because of its location. It serves less of an urban environment. Therefore, know about Arizona’s rural healthcare issues.
- Prepare for questions that ask how you would approach patient encounters. Don’t forget to ask a patient’s medical history, conduct a physical examination, order relevant tests, and discuss a treatment plan.
- Know health issues of citizens in Arizona for the Arizona Tucson Med MMI.
- Be extremely knowledgeable about the United States / Mexico border crisis.
- Know the health issues of immigrants, especially from Latin America and Hispanic populations. For opinions about how to improve the health of these populations. Finally, formulate ideas about how we can improve access to care among uninsured immigrants.
- Cracking Med School Admissions Practice Guidance: Practice all patient care MMI questions in our MMI Practice Questions blog post. Download our Top 10 Healthcare Current Events.
- Take MMI practice test #2 below.
University of California Davis MMI (UC Davis MMI) Tips
- Study medical ethics and incorporate medical ethics principles in your responses. Common topics touched upon medical ethics types of questions include: patient confidentiality, informed decision making, and end-of-life decisions. Read more about the 4 pillars of medical ethics.
- Have a solid understanding of healthcare issues in Northern California. Northern California includes the rural areas of Northern California (not just SF / Bay Area!)
- Relay ideas about how you want to improve Northern California health.
- Have an answer prepared for why you want to attend UC Davis School of Medicine. Read more about UC Davis
- Prepare for questions that ask how you would approach patient encounters, including how you would respond in a stressful situation.
- Cracking Med School Admissions Practice Guidance: Practice all ethical MMI questions. Do all 252 MMI practice questions.
- Do MMI Practice Test #2 and MMI Practice Test #3 below.
University of California Riverside MMI (UC Riverside MMI) Tips
- Have a solid understanding of healthcare issues in the Inland Empire, including social and healthcare issues of immigrant communities in the Inland Empire.
- Incorporate your commitment and knowledge to the Inland Empire California community. If you volunteered or worked in the Inland Empire, it’s important to include stories from those experiences into your UCR MMI responses.
- Have an answer prepared for why you want to attend UC Riverside School of Medicine.
- Know the health issues of immigrants, especially from Latin America and Hispanic populations. For opinions about how to improve the health of these populations. Finally, formulate ideas about how we can improve access to care among uninsured immigrants.
- Cracking Med School Admissions Practice Guidance: Practice all patient care sample questions in our MMI Practice Questions blog post. Download our Top 10 Healthcare Current Events.
- Take MMI practice test #2 below.
UC San Diego MMI (UCSD MMI) Tips
- Practice traditional interview format questions. Here’s a full list of traditional questions during MMIs.
- Give examples of your research. Be able to explain your research clearly.
- Understand social determinants of health and give ideas about how to reduce healthcare disparities.
- Know healthcare issues in Southern California and social issues among immigrants, especially from Mexico.
- Cracking Med School Admissions Practice Guidance: Do all practice questions in our 252 Practice MMI Questions.
- Take MMI Practice Test #1, MMI Practice Test #2 and MMI Practice Test #3 below.
University of Massachusetts MMI (UMass MMI) Tips
- Convey your interests and knowledge about Massachusetts social issues and healthcare.
- Know healthcare issues in Massachusetts.
- Incorporate your personal experiences and real life patient encounters, particularly with patients from Massachusetts / Northeastern United States.
- Cracking Med School Admissions Practice Guidance: Practice all patient care sample questions in our MMI Practice Questions blog post. Download our Top 10 Healthcare Current Events.
- Take MMI practice test #2 below.
Zucker Hofstra MMI Tips
- A common type of MMI station prompt asks how you would approach patient encounters.
- Cracking Med School Admissions Practice Guidance: Practice all patient care sample questions in our MMI Practice Questions blog post. Download our Top 10 Healthcare Current Events.
- Take MMI practice test #2 below.
Master the Multiple Mini Interview
Learn to Confidently Tackle:
- Situational scenarios
- Team-based scenarios
- Current event scenarios
- Ethical scenarios
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!
- For each question, open the question by pressing the dropdown arrow.
- 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.
- 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.
MMI Practice Test #1 – Focus on Leadership & Innovation
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?
You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud. You can use the timer above.
Talk about a time when you led a team and faced a challenge. How did you solve it? Would you have done anything different if you could do it again?
You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud. You can use the timer above.
What innovations in healthcare excite you the most?
You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud. You can use the timer above.
If you could change the United States healthcare system in one way, what would it be and why?
You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud. You can use the timer above.
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. You can use the timer above.
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?
You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud. You can use the timer above.
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?
You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud. You can use the timer above.
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?
You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud. You can use the timer above.
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?
You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud. You can use the timer above.
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?
You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud. You can use the timer above.
Master the Multiple Mini Interview
Learn to Confidently Tackle:
- Situational scenarios
- Team-based scenarios
- Current event scenarios
- Ethical scenarios
MMI Practice Test #2 – Mixed Bag Questions
More individuals are receiving access and dying from fentanyl overdoses. What can we do to improve this situation?
You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud. You can use the timer above.
Your patient is asking for a treatment that you feel uncomfortable prescribing. 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 can use the timer above.
Can you talk about a time when you had to adapt to a team?
You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud. You can use the timer above.
At our medical school, we want to train culturally-sensitive physicians. What does being a culturally-sensitive physician mean to you? Can you discuss a time when you displayed cultural sensitivity?
You have 2 minutes to prepare for this MMI question and 4 minutes to say your MMI answer out loud. You can use the timer above.
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?
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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?
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How can we build trust with patients who come from a background that has a historical distrust of physicians?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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2023 Current Events Interview Guide
MMI Practice Test #3 – Focus on Patient Care and Ethics
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?
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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?
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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.
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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?
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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?
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How do you plan to balance your time in medical school?
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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?
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Can you name 3 qualities that you think are important to be an excellent physician?
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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?
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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?
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