Free Mock MMI Questions and Advice for MMI Practice

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Hey everyone! One of the best ways you can prepare for your upcoming MMI is by doing interview practice. There are lots of free resources with mock MMI questions and we have compiled a Master List of 200 Questions (resources cited) of the free questions that can be found online. While these are a great place to start, many of these questions are quite outdated. In fact, they are the same questions we used 8 years ago to prep for our MMI interview. When you are practicing with your peers, try to create your own questions based on current events and issues in our healthcare system. 

Outlined below are some realistic practice MMI questions we have created based on our experiences as MMI Interviewers and the real issues we see every day as resident doctors.

Opinion Questions: 

Due to the increasing cases of COVID in Canada, some provinces now require proof of full vaccination in order for people over the age of 12 to be allowed to do non-essential activities such as going to restaurants, bars, concerts, movies and fitness facilities. While some support this as a public health initiative, others feel it unfairly restricts their personal freedom. What is your opinion on this policy? What are some alternatives? 

Behavioural Questions:

You are a 6th grade teacher who is teaching your students a health class. During the lesson, a student raises their hand and asks “What is masturbation”. The other kids start to laugh, some of them look confused, they are all looking to you to answer. What do you say in response?

Communication/Acting Stations:
-You are about to speak with a pediatric patient’s father. His son is 10 years old and has an extremely rare medical condition (prevalence of 1/1,000,000). He is upset as another health care worker spoke to him about getting the COVID vaccine for his son. When he responded with concerns about the risks of adverse events, they replied to him “those are very rare.” He replied, “my son already had an extremely rare condition, and so what is stopping him from getting these rare adverse effects?” Please enter the room and counsel the father. *You do not need to know specific medical knowledge about the COVID vaccine for this station*

Curveball Questions: 

Image Link: https://www.vmcdn.ca/f/files/burnabynow/images/breaking-news/img_0265.JPG;w=960;h=640;bgcolor=000000

Analyze the photo above:

-What is this photo about?

-What message was the photographer trying to convey?

-What are the barriers that Indigenous people face in our society?

-What can we do to address these issues?

Photo credit: https://www.newwestrecord.ca/local-news/new-westminster-memorial-remembers-215-children-found-buried-at-kamloops-residential-school-3826043

Personal Questions: 

-Communication is an important skill for being a physician, and one of CANMEDs Framework components. Please discuss what three experiences have shaped your communication skills?

We hope you find these mock MMI questions helpful for your practice, and if you haven’t started already, practicing with your peers is one of the best ways you can prepare. There are lots of free resources online to help you with your prep, but if you are interested in taking a formal Interview Prep Course or seeking one-on-one coaching from resident physicians who have been through the interview process and had experience as interviewers, email Mdinterviewprep1@gmail.com. 

Best of luck with your 2022 Interviews! 

Master List of Online MMI Questions_.pdf

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Also important to recognize that ethical questions may not be straightforward, and that the ethical principles may need to be applied to opinion, acting or behavioural questions. Here is an example:

You are a family doctor working in a family medicine practice. A 13 year old female patient with Down Syndrome presents to your clinic with her mother. Down syndrome is a genetic condition caused by an extra chromosome. This causes physical and mental developmental delays and disabilities. Her mom leaves to go to the bathroom, and while alone, she asks if you could prescribe her a birth control pill, but not say anything to her mom. As you start to talk to her the mom enters the room and asks what is happening. What do you do?