This evening I had the fun and freaky opportunity to learn how to interview applicants to our medical school. Our school uses the Multiple Mini-Interview (MMI) format which allows for students to sometimes participate in interviewing the applicants for future classes. Each interviewee completes eight, six-minute interviews on any of a number of usually ethical prompts with members of the school's academic community. This MMI system reduces bias and has been shown to be a fairer and truer judge of communication skills and predictor of clinical excellence than the old one-on-one long-form interviews. It was a nice break from dealing with our own comparatively petty second-year problems, to remember how stressful it was interviewing for the privilege of having our current problems.
TIL: When giving an oral patient summary, it's just as important to give pertinent negative diagnostic findings as pertinent positive ones. On the flip-side, it's important to omit positive as well as negative findings when they are not pertinent to the case at hand. The trick with this being that you have to know what is and is not likely to be pertinent, accepting your medical inexpertise as compared to the person to whom you are presenting the patient. Of course if your mentor wants to know any information that you didn't report, they can always ask.
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