University of Calgary

The MMIs happened very quick! I was nervous, but relaxed a bit as they went on. I was pleasantly surprised that the interviewers were friendly and gave good feedback such as nodding, smiling and commenting. I wasn't expecting that!

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The students were very friendly!

went to mock MMIs, read websites, newspaper articles, took a bioethics course

I had a good time. I loved the interview. I found that I liked the school a lot more than I expected. After the first couple of MMI stations, I started to enjoy myself rather than being stressed out.

I didn't like the on-site essays

The students seemed really happy. They were also very enthusiastic. The interview experience was great. I loved the MMI format - I felt it was a lot of fun and more ''objective'' than the traditional interview format.

My feelings on this interview are mixed. The MMI format does not allow the interviewers to get to know you at all. Someone with no social skills would have soared through this interview! Unless they have discovered some secret way to truly analyze what should be analyzed in a med interview then I would say that it doesn't give them any indication of how you will behave as a physician. All you need to do is read the scenario and talk about every aspect you can think of - all common sense. I'm almost sure that every single person would have given the same response to these questions. The only difference would be word choice and the sequence they come out in.

That I wouldn't leave feeling like calgary is an amazing school - I interviewed last year at UWO and when i left I wanted nothing more than go to that school. I wasn't sold on UofC at all!

The curriculum setup: 3 jam packed years with two 2 week holidays a year. The presenter at info session: a med student who spoke quite unprofessionally. The fact that you are not really informed about exactly how the MMI works and what is going to happen AND THE ESSAYS- worst experience of my entire life, so stressful! I couldn't even hear the guy giving instructions at the front of the room and all of a sudden about 100 people start typing as fast as possible and i didn't even understand one of the questions, I almost was in tears by the end.

The med students lounge is awsome! Air hockey, pool, the whole bit...

Read the news, used this website, read my application and info on the school, prepared answers for common questions (huge waste of time!) I did everything I could think of to prepare and none of it helped me in the slightest! MMI's are very odd.

Overall, very positive; but it is difficult to assess your performance in an MMI.

Everyone in the med school class was extremely friendly.

Read a few articles about MMIs, quizzed by friends.

it was good...not really sure how I did. it went by quite quickly, as the MMI was very much like a bell ringer. i felt a lot more stressful than I felt I should have. the essays were really weird (2x25min essays post-mmi)...good experience, have no idea how it went though...very difficult to tell

how different the MMI was than a regular interview...would have prepped totally differently...some of the most random scenarios

the MMI format was wierd, i hadn't seen or heard enough about it beforehand to really be comfortable with it. also, close-file interviews didn't with specific stock scenarios made it difficult to incorporate all of my experiences into the interview

the facilities are incredible...one of the benefits of having the premier of the richest province in the country live in your city. the students really loved the school as well