Will the panel ask the same questions as an MMI station?
Often no. A panel spends more time on your path and your examples. Practice both shapes if your schools use both.
Practice theme
Medical school panel
Practice a traditional medical school panel: why medicine, what you have done, and how you think with other people.
What to practice
- Why medicine, in a story rather than a slogan
- What you have actually done, with your part named
- How you think when more than one person is asking
- A hard moment told without attacking anyone
- A question you still want answered about the school
Questions we wrote
Practice questions, not a prediction of the real round.
1. Why medicine, and why now rather than two years ago?
Follow-up: What almost turned you away from this path?
2. Tell us about a time you were responsible for someone else's outcome.
Follow-up: What part of that outcome was not yours?
3. Describe a disagreement on a team where you were not in charge.
Follow-up: What did you say in the moment, and what did you say later?
4. What have you learned from work or service that a classroom did not teach?
Follow-up: Which habit from that setting would you keep?
5. Tell us about a time you were wrong and had to show it.
Follow-up: Who needed to hear the correction first?
6. What do you want to understand about how students are taught here?
Follow-up: What answer would make you hesitate?
A structure to try
- One situation, not a biography
- Your action in verbs
- The other person's stake
- What changed afterward
- Stop before you explain the whole year
Should I prepare a speech about why I want to be a physician?
Prepare a short story with a turn in it. A speech that could fit any applicant is easy to stop listening to.