Multiple Mini Interview (MMI): Winning Strategies From Admissions Faculty

by Samir Desai

To make a strong favorable impression on your interviewer, be sure to maintain eye contact, display good posture, and avoid distracting behaviors.

comfortable degree of eye contact, head nodding, forward lean, and more direct body orientation with uncrossed arms and legs is viewed positively by patients.

If a patient expresses an emotion, it should be acknowledged and further explored.

One potential bias deserves further mention because applicants actually have some control over it. This bias has to do with the power of first impressions.

Your eye contact, posture, smile, attire, and handshake are major determinants of the first impression you will make on the interviewer.

After you’ve taken a stance and offered reasons for your position, you may find that your interviewer disagrees with you. Don’t be surprised by this. Go into every interview expecting to be challenged.

What are your thoughts about the role of the pharmaceutical industry in medical practice? How would you handle a case of witnessed medical negligence by a colleague? Have you thought about the ethics of end-of-life care?