ArticleBMC medical education2018
Multiple mini interviews: revealing similarities across institutions.
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- Insights into undergraduate medical student selection tools: a systematic review and meta-analysisJournal of educational evaluation for health professions · 2024Pooled it
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- Piloting Virtual Multiple Mini Interviews (MMI) on Undergraduate Medical Students: A Multisource Feedback Analysis.Advances in medical education and practice · 2025Article
- Leveling the playing field: evaluating measurement equivalence in MMIs between genders.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Investigating the internal structure of multiple mini interviews-A perspective from Pakistan.PloS one · 2024Article
- Multiple mini-interviews is a predictor of students' academic achievements in early undergraduate medical years: a retrospective study.BMC medical education · 2023Article
- Are different station formats assessing different dimensions in multiple mini-interviews? Findings from the Canadian integrated French multiple mini-interviews.BMC medical education · 2022Article
- Selecting top candidates for medical school selection interviews- a non-compensatory approach.BMC medical education · 2020Article
- Employing Multiple Mini Interviews in Selection Processes for Psychology Professional Training Programs: Ten Tips for Effective Implementation.MedEdPublish (2016) · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundAcross the globe multiple mini interviews (MMIs) have rapidly replaced the use of panel interviews in the selection of medical students and other health professionals. MMIs typically demonstrate better reliability and validity than panel interviews but there is limited research on whether these different types of interview process measure the same or different constructs. Our research aims to ascertain if MMIs are multidimensional or unidimensional, and whether MMIs conducted at different institutions assess the same or different constructs to each other or to panel interviews.
methodsParticipants were applicants to medical degrees who were shortlisted for interviews at three different institutions in 2013 (n = 165) and 2014 (n = 128). Two institutions used a bespoke MMI developed independently from each other and the third used a panel interview. Stations scores and overall (mean) interview scores were examined.
resultsExploratory principal components analysis and confirmatory factor analysis showed similar results in both years' data, supporting a unidimensional model. The two overall MMI scores were more strongly correlated to each other (r = .56 and .64 in 2013 and 2014 respectively) than either were to the panel interview scores (r = .07 and .15 in 2013; .39 and .48 in 2014).
conclusionsIt appears that both MMIs panel interviews tap a single latent construct, but not the same construct. We suggest that the MMI methodology might allow the measurement of an emergent construct such as adaptability.
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