MMI Interview Prep 2025 – Complete Guide &
Sample Questions
public health campaigns ANSWER ✔✨---- raise awareness of issues such as the dangers of smoking
- example = think FAST for strokes, COVID-19 - STAY HOME, PROTECT THE NHS, SAVE LIVES
- promote healthier lifestyle, reduce disease
- encouraging behavioural changes
- prompted to think about their current lifestyle. it gives the public the opportunity to make informed
decisions about their behaviour and prompts change to improve their quality of life. furthermore, in an
over-stretched and underfunded NHS, prevention of diseases is a way that NHS resources can be saved.
should doctors be allowed to strike? ANSWER ✔✨---- current in media, doctor srike 2nd october
to 5th, 118026 appointments rescheduled
- 2 sides to the story
- any worker providing public service has a legal right to strike, don't feel they are being compensated
well enough or working condition not to mark
- doctors are striking for patient safety. striking now can prevent long-term harm befalling patients due
to unsafe staffing levels and a tired, burnt-out workforce with significant mental health struggles.
- impacts on patients = beneficience and non maleficience
- staff = beneficience working in conditions that harm them
- other staff have to cover workload = stressful
- striking action should be kept to a minimum and in safest way possible
,- doctors must take prompt action if they think that patient safety, dignity, or comfort is being
compromised (paragraph 25 of Good medical practice).
- a crippling cost-of-living crisis, burnout and well below inflation pay rises are driving hard working
doctors out of their profession, at a time when we need them more than ever.
- junior doctors can be paid just £14.09 per hour - less than the £14.10 per hour that workers at coffee
and sandwich shop Pret a Manger earn. They are also likely to have significant amounts of student debt,
which can range from around £50,000 for English students to almost £200,000 for international students
- plus living costs.
- argue that low pay leads to low staffing and morale, and dangerous understaffing levels endanger
patient safety. It is important to remedy this.
organ donations and ethics ANSWER ✔✨---- beneficence = do well for all patients but not possible
in this case
- justice = thinking in fairest way possible who to give it to
- check time frames
- elderly man = others may gain from more years of life
- drug user = need to change habits otherwise need another transplant in future, addictive nature
- 8 month pregnant of child bearing age, many years of life gained for her and the child so give it to her.
- all adults in England are now considered to have agreed to be an organ donor when they die unless
they have recorded a decision not to donate or are in one of the excluded groups.
most important person in mdt meetings ANSWER ✔✨---- believe no single person is more
important than another
- purpose of mdt is to bring everyone together = surgeon, nurses, radiology
- carrying out a shared decision, making decision that is most holistic, to reach an outcome for patients
- requirement to keep the focus on the most important member of the multidisciplinary team: the
patient. To listen to their priorities and concerns and use those to guide the team's decision-making and
inform the care you provide.
should nhs fine missed appointments? ANSWER ✔✨---- rishi sunak potentially wants to fine £10
for missed appointments
- reduces appointments missed, free up slots for patients who need appointment
- helps with funding, good source of funding for providing better treatments
,- not very equitable, goes against justice, wealthy patients don't mind booking several appointments,
lower socioeconomic patients struggle to find slots evoking non maleficence.
- other groups of patients struggle with mobility, memory (dementia or alzheimer's) have massive bills
when no fault of theirs.
- fines could put patients off booking appointments in the future...running the risk of a patient's health
and wellbeing deteriorating further before they receive any intervention, causing greater impact on
both the patient and healthcare services in the longer term
- deter making appointments
- life is unpredictable
- each GP appointment costs £30, did not attends cost the NHS approximately £216 million a year, which
cover the
patient wants to take herbal medicine instead of prescribed medicine while u are a medical student
ANSWER ✔✨---- im not qualified to give firm medical advice
- ask if tis alright for me to talk to med team about this
- might not be happy = autonomy
- beneficence and nonmaleficence = we want to give prescribed med in best interest, talk to med team
about it as evidence based medicine
- herbal medicine in non maleficence cause harm such as st john's wort, would make the other medicine
less effective or cause the other medicine to trigger unexpected side effects, may experience a bad
reaction or side effects after taking a herbal medicine.
- people believe that products labeled "natural" are always safe and good for them, can help treat
depression and other medical conditions, can cause agitation and anxiety, dizziness, diarrhea,
constipation, dry mouth, fatigue and insomnia, headache, photosensitivity
- being "natural" doesn't necessarily mean they're safe for you to take.
informed consent ANSWER ✔✨---- consent that is gained from patient who is in full possession of
risks and benefits associated w procedures or mediation, allowed them to make decision in their sound
mind.
- if we don't do that, patient exposed to negative outcomes they were not aware of before they sign
forms or give verbal consent
- harm / unhappy = sued
- should always be sought
- dementia / down syndrome / infection causing delirium = unable to retain info and make a decision
, - lasting power of attorney or parent / guardian for a child can make a decision
or if a patients left an advanced directive in a legal format, stating wishes if a certain situation arises
- emergency procedures life saving treatment needs to be given, no time to consent is a reason you
might go ahead without informed consent
- some conditions such as mental health conditions which are covered by the mental health act,
practitioners and clinicians can actually go ahead with certain treatments without informed consent
- something we should try to seek out when we can.
where you want to practice med after qualification ANSWER ✔✨---i am open to exploring various
opportunities and contributing to healthcare in different settings
- my primary goal is to become a skilled and compassionate healthcare professional
- i am interested in neurosurgery
role of doctor besides providing healthcare to patients ^^^^^^^^^^^^1111 ANSWER ✔✨----
promote health and prevent illness through educating public
- involved in medical research
- lead and uphold ethical standards
- respond in crisis
what surgery you want to observe? ANSWER ✔✨---- heart surgery
- complex, life saving, fascinating
- give anaesthesia, incision in chest along sternum, direct access to heart and major blood vessels, use of
cardiopulmonary bypass machine, use of solution cardioplegia to stop heart temporarily, opening of
chambers, replacements and repairs, close chest, clean.
- unique insight to cardiac anatomy
traits of a doctor ANSWER ✔✨---empathy, communication skills, expertise and competence,
approachability, professionalism, problem solving.
why would u choose law over medicine? ANSWER ✔✨---- problem solving
- advocacy and justice
Sample Questions
public health campaigns ANSWER ✔✨---- raise awareness of issues such as the dangers of smoking
- example = think FAST for strokes, COVID-19 - STAY HOME, PROTECT THE NHS, SAVE LIVES
- promote healthier lifestyle, reduce disease
- encouraging behavioural changes
- prompted to think about their current lifestyle. it gives the public the opportunity to make informed
decisions about their behaviour and prompts change to improve their quality of life. furthermore, in an
over-stretched and underfunded NHS, prevention of diseases is a way that NHS resources can be saved.
should doctors be allowed to strike? ANSWER ✔✨---- current in media, doctor srike 2nd october
to 5th, 118026 appointments rescheduled
- 2 sides to the story
- any worker providing public service has a legal right to strike, don't feel they are being compensated
well enough or working condition not to mark
- doctors are striking for patient safety. striking now can prevent long-term harm befalling patients due
to unsafe staffing levels and a tired, burnt-out workforce with significant mental health struggles.
- impacts on patients = beneficience and non maleficience
- staff = beneficience working in conditions that harm them
- other staff have to cover workload = stressful
- striking action should be kept to a minimum and in safest way possible
,- doctors must take prompt action if they think that patient safety, dignity, or comfort is being
compromised (paragraph 25 of Good medical practice).
- a crippling cost-of-living crisis, burnout and well below inflation pay rises are driving hard working
doctors out of their profession, at a time when we need them more than ever.
- junior doctors can be paid just £14.09 per hour - less than the £14.10 per hour that workers at coffee
and sandwich shop Pret a Manger earn. They are also likely to have significant amounts of student debt,
which can range from around £50,000 for English students to almost £200,000 for international students
- plus living costs.
- argue that low pay leads to low staffing and morale, and dangerous understaffing levels endanger
patient safety. It is important to remedy this.
organ donations and ethics ANSWER ✔✨---- beneficence = do well for all patients but not possible
in this case
- justice = thinking in fairest way possible who to give it to
- check time frames
- elderly man = others may gain from more years of life
- drug user = need to change habits otherwise need another transplant in future, addictive nature
- 8 month pregnant of child bearing age, many years of life gained for her and the child so give it to her.
- all adults in England are now considered to have agreed to be an organ donor when they die unless
they have recorded a decision not to donate or are in one of the excluded groups.
most important person in mdt meetings ANSWER ✔✨---- believe no single person is more
important than another
- purpose of mdt is to bring everyone together = surgeon, nurses, radiology
- carrying out a shared decision, making decision that is most holistic, to reach an outcome for patients
- requirement to keep the focus on the most important member of the multidisciplinary team: the
patient. To listen to their priorities and concerns and use those to guide the team's decision-making and
inform the care you provide.
should nhs fine missed appointments? ANSWER ✔✨---- rishi sunak potentially wants to fine £10
for missed appointments
- reduces appointments missed, free up slots for patients who need appointment
- helps with funding, good source of funding for providing better treatments
,- not very equitable, goes against justice, wealthy patients don't mind booking several appointments,
lower socioeconomic patients struggle to find slots evoking non maleficence.
- other groups of patients struggle with mobility, memory (dementia or alzheimer's) have massive bills
when no fault of theirs.
- fines could put patients off booking appointments in the future...running the risk of a patient's health
and wellbeing deteriorating further before they receive any intervention, causing greater impact on
both the patient and healthcare services in the longer term
- deter making appointments
- life is unpredictable
- each GP appointment costs £30, did not attends cost the NHS approximately £216 million a year, which
cover the
patient wants to take herbal medicine instead of prescribed medicine while u are a medical student
ANSWER ✔✨---- im not qualified to give firm medical advice
- ask if tis alright for me to talk to med team about this
- might not be happy = autonomy
- beneficence and nonmaleficence = we want to give prescribed med in best interest, talk to med team
about it as evidence based medicine
- herbal medicine in non maleficence cause harm such as st john's wort, would make the other medicine
less effective or cause the other medicine to trigger unexpected side effects, may experience a bad
reaction or side effects after taking a herbal medicine.
- people believe that products labeled "natural" are always safe and good for them, can help treat
depression and other medical conditions, can cause agitation and anxiety, dizziness, diarrhea,
constipation, dry mouth, fatigue and insomnia, headache, photosensitivity
- being "natural" doesn't necessarily mean they're safe for you to take.
informed consent ANSWER ✔✨---- consent that is gained from patient who is in full possession of
risks and benefits associated w procedures or mediation, allowed them to make decision in their sound
mind.
- if we don't do that, patient exposed to negative outcomes they were not aware of before they sign
forms or give verbal consent
- harm / unhappy = sued
- should always be sought
- dementia / down syndrome / infection causing delirium = unable to retain info and make a decision
, - lasting power of attorney or parent / guardian for a child can make a decision
or if a patients left an advanced directive in a legal format, stating wishes if a certain situation arises
- emergency procedures life saving treatment needs to be given, no time to consent is a reason you
might go ahead without informed consent
- some conditions such as mental health conditions which are covered by the mental health act,
practitioners and clinicians can actually go ahead with certain treatments without informed consent
- something we should try to seek out when we can.
where you want to practice med after qualification ANSWER ✔✨---i am open to exploring various
opportunities and contributing to healthcare in different settings
- my primary goal is to become a skilled and compassionate healthcare professional
- i am interested in neurosurgery
role of doctor besides providing healthcare to patients ^^^^^^^^^^^^1111 ANSWER ✔✨----
promote health and prevent illness through educating public
- involved in medical research
- lead and uphold ethical standards
- respond in crisis
what surgery you want to observe? ANSWER ✔✨---- heart surgery
- complex, life saving, fascinating
- give anaesthesia, incision in chest along sternum, direct access to heart and major blood vessels, use of
cardiopulmonary bypass machine, use of solution cardioplegia to stop heart temporarily, opening of
chambers, replacements and repairs, close chest, clean.
- unique insight to cardiac anatomy
traits of a doctor ANSWER ✔✨---empathy, communication skills, expertise and competence,
approachability, professionalism, problem solving.
why would u choose law over medicine? ANSWER ✔✨---- problem solving
- advocacy and justice
