 What is up guys Karma medic here and welcome back to another dose if you guys don't know who I am My name is Nasser. I'm a second year medical student at King's College London And I make these youtube videos to try and help you guys through the application process Been a little while since we talked about something personal I want to know how you guys have been how did the b-mat go? Have you guys gotten any interviews? Are you preparing for your interviews? Let me know in a comment down below a little bit about your progression through the medical school application As for me, I just wrote my first progress test at King's College University So progress test is the kind of test that we write in our second third fourth and fifth years Progress tests are basically where you get a hundred questions on material that you have covered and material that you have not covered So for example now we've done one semester of my second year So we've covered about 12.5 of the material between now and the end of third year So for example on our progress test yesterday We had a hundred multiple choice questions and there were only seven questions on material we had covered So literally for the other 90 plus questions I was just guessing entirely and that's because we haven't learned that material yet That's material that we're going to learn in our second year and in our third year And we basically do a very similar test six times over second and third year And each time you're supposed to improve because you will have learned more of the material Now don't ask me why kings and other medical schools use progress tests It doesn't make much sense to me. I was basically guessing more than 80 questions on that exam But apparently it works. Apparently there's some evidence behind it and that's why they use it And that's also why I'm wearing this hoodie. It's actually my good luck hoodie that I wear to all of my exams Shout out to the motorbike outside right now. I wear it to every single exam I have throughout all of my undergrad and I'm going to continue doing it at medical school But anyway, let's get into the video that you guys are actually here for I'm continuing the MMI series looking at more questions for the MMI So today the MMI question that I'm going to cover is how do you describe a picture or how do you communicate a process? And this is often a question that gets asked at MMI's Basically, you'll be asked to instruct someone or tell someone how to do something or they'll show you a picture It can be clinical like a wound or let's say a fracture in a bone Or it can be something totally random and you'll be asked to communicate and explain what it is So this question 100 tests your communication skills The interviewers want to see that you're able to communicate the idea of the image or communicate How to go through a process to another person in a very simple, efficient and understandable way And the reason that that's important is that because as a doctor you're going to be constantly explaining extremely complicated medical things In lay terms in simple terms, of course when a patient walks into your hospital They might not know all the medical terms and jargon that we as doctors will use And so you're going to need to find a simple and easy way to explain it to them So this kind of processing skill is very valuable if you've done any teaching experience in the past any tutoring Any leading group work things like that then this is the time to use those skills in the MMI interview So i'm going to tackle two main things in this video The first is communicating a process and the second is describing a picture So starting off with communicating a process an example of how this question can come up in interview Is the interviewer asking you explain to me how to tie my shoelace without me seeing my shoelace or without you looking at my shoes Or they might give you a box that's tied up with a ribbon and say can you tell me how to open this box? Or they will show you a map and they'll ask you to say how do I get from point a to point b on this map? Describe it to me So I love these questions because it's super logical You just break it down and step one step two step three But there's definitely a couple things that you want to do along the way to make sure you score all those points in the interview Okay, so let's go for example with the example of a map and how you get from point a to point b I'll put up a picture somewhere here so that I can describe it as I go along Okay, so the first thing that you want to do is ask for consent and make sure the person is okay With what you are about to say and do to them. So you're going to start by saying okay. Good morning I want to describe to you how to get from point a to point b on this map Is that okay with you something along those lines just to make sure that they're ready for what's coming and they know the overall goal and overall Mission of what you're about to do with them. So once they said yes, okay, please tell me how You want to start off by describing the big things you want to start big start general and move towards specifics At any point in the communication process, you want to make sure that the person you're communicating to is following you They're understanding you and they know what's going on and a really good way to keep bringing this back up in the question Is to say, um, were you able to follow that? Have you reached this point? Um, is that okay? Do you understand what I'm saying? Is it making sense any kind of questions like that as you go along just makes it seem like you're engaging with the person You're not being a robot and just saying go up go left go right go down go left go up You know, you want to make this a communication and interaction so back to the beginning You want to ask for consent and then you want to explain what is going on? So i'm going to take you through the map from point a to point b and you want to start off general So you want to say we're going to be moving from the bottom right of the map to the top left in a north West direction So you want to start off general and give an idea of what it is that you're doing where it is that you're going And then you want to move into specifics. So you want to say for example between let's look at the map that I brought up This is a map of Bath I want to say yeah bath map. I think if I'm wrong don't get mad at me if this is your hometown by any chance Anyway, this is a picture of a map. It doesn't matter what the map is And let's say we're trying to move from the bottom right where there's a j to the top left Where there is the intersection of upper Bristol road and more lane So i'm going to say that if the map is an a4 piece of paper held in landscape mode We're going to be moving from approximately the right most edge of the paper in the middle to The top left corner approximately in that direction Do you understand the person will say yeah, and we're like, okay great after that I'm going to say that generally we're going to be walking through some very large roads past some green spaces With what appears to be let's say forest or parks and then we're going to enter a city And that's going to be a little bit more complicated with smaller routes before we reach our final destination Does that make sense? Is that okay blah, blah, blah, blah the person's going to agree always and just say yeah Yeah, you also want to say to the interviewer at some point if I explain something in a way that doesn't make sense to you Or you don't understand what is i'm saying. Please feel free to ask me to repeat it I can say it again or I can say in a different way And that's a really good way to show that you're caring you're listening you want to explain it And you're just being nice in the interaction. So slowly slowly you would describe, you know There's going to be three different paths for you to take from j you want to first take let's say The one most westward to you. Let's say you're facing north you want to take the westmost road from you So the closest one to the point of j you're going to travel down along that road along hill along widcomb And then you're going to reach an intersection You're going to take your first right followed by your first left. Is that okay? Does that make sense? Are you following where I am on the path? Have you reached you on the map? You want to keep on saying these things to make sure that they're following what you're following There's no point in you saying Okay, just go through hill and widcomb and then go right then go left Then go straight once you hit the town make a left and then a right Don't do that remain calm. It doesn't even matter if you make it to the end or not That's another important point. It doesn't matter if you finish tying the shoelace Doesn't matter if you finish opening the box Doesn't matter if you make it to the end destination on the map What matters is the process along there how you communicate it and how you explain What it is that you're doing and where it is that you're going All right. I'm getting a little bit sidetracked Let me return to my notes to make sure I'm telling you guys all the important info that I actually want to tell you So, yeah, I've written have very basic communication be really simple calm patient and understanding An interviewer might throw in something in there and be like, oh, I'm sorry. Like I don't understand or how do I get there? Wait, where am I? You just want to be calm don't get mad at the interview Obviously just explain everything simply backtrack backtrack step by step work backwards until you're in the same place And then move forwards again. Yeah, never get frustrated always repeat things if they don't understand go through it twice Three times whatever it is and just keep explaining it and doing it in a different way until they can follow Okay, apparently there's a nursery outside my window with a lot of kids screaming So I'm going to close the door and I'll be right back The next thing that I want to say is do not be a robot It is so easy to just get frustrated and stuck for shoelaces that say you can't just say make or not You can't say tie it in the middle. What does that mean to someone who's never tied shoelaces before? You have to really explain the process, you know Hold the rope in your left hand using your right hand grab the other end of the rope and make a small loop And close it in between your thumb and your pointing finger Then take your right hand grab the shoelace and pass it in the middle Whatever the process is also reward instructions that are carried out. Well, you can always say things like oh great Well done. Like I'm happy you found that part because it was a bit difficult I'm happy you managed to get there because it was kind of complicated Any of these small phrases just make you less of a robot more of a person and show how good you are at communication and interpersonal skills Okay, I think that's all I'm going to say for communicating a process I'm going to go on to describing a picture now. These things are quite related They're quite similar and a lot of the tips for describing a process will apply to describing a picture and vice versa Keep in mind. They can give you any picture So the interviewer will just hand you a picture and say describe this picture to me as if I was not in the room Describe this picture to me as if I'd never seen it before Okay, so I'm going to pull up a pretty random picture right now. I'm going to choose a Busy shopping mall. So for this shopping mall for describing a picture You want to start off really general big picture? What it is that what is it that you see? What is this a picture of so how do you describe this picture? You say, okay This is a picture of what appears to be an indoor shopping mall Okay, and big picture things general things you want to say in this picture I can see two floors the picture is taken from the perspective of someone on the second floor And the camera is looking straight ahead, but you can see both the bottom and the top floors You can say that there are shops on both the left and right side of the picture You can see two big columns Going from the first floor to from the ground floor to the second floor But basically for these big picture things you want to say date time time of day um What is the picture about what is it that you're seeing general general general big picture things to paint an image in the person's head Okay, and then you want to move on to specifics a super bad thing to do in this case would be to say um There is a fragrance shop and a timpson and a Three store and there is a person wearing a red jumper and next to him a person wearing a black jumper This is not what you want to do you want to start off big start off general and then work your way down So once we've said the date the time the place the big picture What is this we can move on some of the smaller details So we can say for example that we see a lot of people if I was to make a quick estimate I would say that there are about maybe somewhere between 25 and 35 people in this picture There are families with children. There are people walking alone both male and female You can see that people are wearing jumpers and jackets. So it might be winter time It might be cold outside You can say that on the ground floor on the right hand side starting from closest to the person who took the picture There is a fragrance shop then a timpson and then a shop with a red neon sign on the left hand side There is a three store. You want to be super systematic super simple Oh, of course, I didn't even mention right in the middle of the ground floor There is a small smaller shop selling what appears to be jewelry And its decorations reach up through the center of the room into the ceiling Whatever you get the point you can start describing more specific and more smaller things in the picture A great way that I practiced for this was to just walk around my house and sort of stand in a perspective And say, okay, this is what I see in front of me and then describe it as if someone wasn't there You want to close your eyes and be able to imagine what the person is describing to you? So, yeah, be super clear and descriptive. Do not get bogged down in the details You want to start off by setting big lines, you know, like we did with first floor second floor a column You know decorations here. Don't forget to describe things like color shapes texture items You know, what is it? What is in this photo? All right, guys, I think that's where I'm going to wrap it up for this question We've gone through communicating a process or describing a process and then also describing a picture These are two common things that come up in mmi interviews They're a really good way for interviewers to assess and interview these communication skills and personal skills And just how good they are at explaining something. So, yeah, guys, let me know how you guys find that Let me know if you found it useful If you guys want me to cover any other specific videos in the future Do let me know as well. For example, mmi questions covering ethics, mmi questions covering work experience Whatever it is. Thank you guys so much for the support If you like this video, make sure to leave a like on the video subscribe to my channel Follow me on instagram and all the rest of it and I'll see you guys in the next video. Peace