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A comprehensive guide and FAQ for the Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) to give you all the information you need to prepare, including 250 sample questions!

Due to the unpredictable nature of MMI interview questions, it can sometimes feel like no matter what you do to prepare, it's never enough. So, we devised a 4-step plan for handling MMI interview questions when you know nothing. The trick is - you know more than you think you do! That may be hard to believe, so we'll cover a sample MMI interview question and go over some tips you can use in case you're in this situation. 

Ethical dilemmas, all-time lows, the intricacies of healthcare policy, patient interactions, and the freakishly sought-after skill of foresight are all fair game for you to tackle at your MMI interviews. What can you do to avoid being stumped? How can you prevent yourself from launching into a ramble? Here is a sample of head-scratching MMI sample prompts and tips on how best to answer these questions. 

The unpredictability of the MMI interview is what makes it so challenging and nerve-racking. Past applicants have told us about prompts that asked them about establishing a colony on Mars, so anything goes. However, there are common types of MMI interview questions that are most likely to be asked, so you’ll want to understand and practice them leading up to your MMI. The bad news: the actual content of the MMI questions will be impossible to predict. The good news: each type of MMI question has strategies and formulas that you can apply no matter what the content happens to be.

F. Scott Fitzgerald once said: “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still function.”Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) secondaries test pre-meds for Fitzgerald’s version of intelligence by presenting an ethical dilemma, which involves competing ethical priorities at odds with one another.