MMI Info [Monash 2011]

[slothpomba]

Monash has put more info on its website about the MMI(Well info i havent seen before anyway):

Multiple Mini Interview

The Multiple Mini interview will consist of 8 sequential ‘stations’ plus 1 rest station. In each station the applicant will be interviewed by 1 interviewer for 8 minutes followed by 2 minutes for scoring/changeover (i.e. 10 minutes per station). Each ‘circuit’ of 9 stations will take 90 minutes to complete.

The interview station scenarios and associated questions have been designed to determine which applicants have the relevant personal qualities such as leadership ability and motivation to succeed in the medical course.

More information on the MMI process will be released later in 2010 as the structure and content of the interview are currently under review.

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I remember seeing a thread somewhere about this topic... dont know where it went..

[luken93]

haha i dont wanna read any of this, it sounds scarier and scarier everytime i see the application process to med...

[the.watchman]

Sounds interesting, thanks for posting!
I'm looking forward to seeing more information about it later

[luken93]

Sounds interesting, thanks for posting!
I'm looking forward to seeing more information about it later

what do you want to do???

[slothpomba]

Medicine im guessing

[the.watchman]

Still no idea, but science is definitely the field, med would be nice (if I can get in

[slothpomba]

Its not as hard as people make it sound to be honest, you dont need a 99.95 enter like people go around saying. Anywhere in the 90's and you still have a decent chance, some people ive talked to, both here and in real life, know a couple people that got in with sub 90 enters.

The interview and the umat all take place even before the enter is released, so the enter isnt really the problem and the umat requires no study per se so its not terrible either.

I cant remember the point i was trying to make but yeah... not hard as people say

[the.watchman]

Its not as hard as people make it sound to be honest, you dont need a 99.95 enter like people go around saying. Anywhere in the 90's and you still have a decent chance, some people ive talked to, both here and in real life, know a couple people that got in with sub 90 enters.

The interview and the umat all take place even before the enter is released, so the enter isnt really the problem and the umat requires no study per se so its not terrible either.

I cant remember the point i was trying to make but yeah... not hard as people say

I understand, but it really boils down to the UMAT and the interview, both of which I am likely to fail
Not that I really want to do med, I'm still not sure yet

[slothpomba]

Yeah, i went through a lot of changes up untill now too scientist -> chemist -> IT -> Medicine -> Hoe . It's a process, anyway med isnt such a great thing like everyone makes it out to be...

[luken93]

as you can see by my sig, i feel the same way as you guys.

like watchman says, the UMAT is essentially the biggest hurdle, because if you dont do well you can pretty well say goodbye to med.

in saying that, if i did well on UMAT, med here i come haha

[vexx]

Its not as hard as people make it sound to be honest, you dont need a 99.95 enter like people go around saying. Anywhere in the 90's and you still have a decent chance, some people ive talked to, both here and in real life, know a couple people that got in with sub 90 enters.

The interview and the umat all take place even before the enter is released, so the enter isnt really the problem and the umat requires no study per se so its not terrible either.

I cant remember the point i was trying to make but yeah... not hard as people say

im not sure about you, but medicine is ridiculously hard to get into:( that makes me sadddd, since i'd love to have that same passion for law or pretty much most other degrees as they are definitely easier... and you generally need 99+ and a solid umat score and a fantastic interview to get into monash, there was statistics released somewhere that way over 90% of people getting into monash had enters in 99's, they are looking for the best. and yes it's possible to get into medicine with less than that, but it's certainly harder since you're up against a reallly high achieving group. but smashing the interview and umat will help you get in with a less than 99.

Yeah, i went through a lot of changes up untill now too scientist -> chemist -> IT -> Medicine -> Hoe . It's a process, anyway med isnt such a great thing like everyone makes it out to be...

if it's not such a great thing, why do you want to do it?
med seems amazing to me, it's why i want to do it so bad .__.

[slothpomba]

As in, its not such a great thing as other people think it is, looking from the outside.

It's a lot of hard work and long hours and people dieing on you really changes you, things like that. People ive seen more often than not build med up to be some easy high status cash cow without really paying attention to things like this. That's more than what i meant.  ( I talked a bit more about it here http://vcenotes.com/forum/index.php/topic,24661.msg251187.html#msg251187 , not really looking for a debate though)

Yeah, im not really sure about your 99+ thing..

[vexx]

As in, its not such a great thing as other people think it is, looking from the outside.

It's a lot of hard work and long hours and people dieing on you really changes you, things like that. People ive seen more often than not build med up to be some easy high status cash cow without really paying attention to things like this. That's more than what i meant.  ( I talked a bit more about it here http://vcenotes.com/forum/index.php/topic,24661.msg251187.html#msg251187 , not really looking for a debate though)

Yeah, im not really sure about your 99+ thing..

nahh that's true.
the only evidence i have from them though is that the requirement is "high 90s" even though it is pretty is the least important of the three (umat decides interview and interview is weighted more then both of enter and umat) with a minimum of 90 taking into rural schemes and bonded places into account. i have an email from them to confirm that along with other things.

so why do you want to do medicine then?

[shinny]

I don't see why anyone would do Med for the money. Go go Dent if you want money. It's even easier to get into. You earn more and you start raking it in immediately after you graduate; not bloody like 10 years after you do.

[slothpomba]

Could you paste that email? Im just interested in reading.

We'll i *love* biology especially the human side, so i thought, how can i apply this to a job, now my uncle was a biochemist and one of the biology teachers (not mine) was involved in research and i talked to them. I dont really want to sit around in a lab all day or things like that, im more of a people person. So, that kind of led me to medicine.

Of course, the cliche answer almost everyone else gives, i want to help people.

And you?