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Monash Medicine Interview
MED INTERVIEWS — MONASH
What the MMI Actually Looks Like
Around 650 interview offers. 234 domestic places. This is where the outcome is decided.
If you have received a Monash interview offer, the hard part is not over — it has changed shape. Getting to this stage means your UCAT and ATAR did their job. From here, the selection is about how you communicate, reason, and hold yourself under pressure.
THE COMPETITION
Monash sends out roughly 650 interview offers for 234 domestic places.
That is about 2.8 interviewees per available seat. Reaching the interview is not the same as receiving an offer.
What is an MMI?
An MMI — Multiple Mini Interview — replaces the single long panel interview with a series of short, independent stations. Each station has its own scenario, its own interviewer, and its own score. You are marked fresh at every station.
That structure works in your favour. A station that goes badly does not follow you into the next one. Students who struggle at Monash are usually the ones who carry a bad station forward and let it contaminate the rest of the circuit.
The Monash format
Eight minutes is a long speaking window. Many students prepare a strong two-minute answer and then run out of material with five minutes left on the clock. Depth matters more here than at universities running shorter stations.
What they are assessing
Monash stations are built around seven attributes. Every scenario is a vehicle for one or more of them.
- Advocacy — recognising when someone in the scenario has no voice, and acting for them.
- Collaboration — working with a difficult colleague rather than around them.
- Critical thinking — weighing options aloud instead of jumping to a verdict.
- Empathy — naming the other person's emotion before you start solving anything.
- Ethical reasoning — identifying the competing principles and explaining how you balance them.
- Motivation — why medicine, backed by something you actually did, not something you feel.
- Resilience — a real setback, what you changed, and what you would do differently.
Using the two minutes of reading time
Two minutes is enough for a plan, not a script. Identify who the stakeholders are, what the central tension is, and pick three points you want to land. Write them on paper if you have it. Students who try to draft full sentences in the reading window end up reciting instead of conversing.
The online element
Because the interview runs on Zoom, a portion of your impression is technical. Test your camera height so you are looking into the lens rather than down at it. Sit against a plain wall in a room where you will not be interrupted. Have a wired connection if you can, and a phone hotspot ready as a backup.
Online interviews flatten body language, so your voice has to carry more. Slow down. Pause at the end of a point rather than filling the gap. Silence sounds far longer to you than it does to the interviewer.
How to prepare
Reading about MMIs does very little. The gains come from speaking out loud, on camera, to a person who will interrupt you and push back. Build a bank of your own experiences first — work, volunteering, sport, family responsibility, academic failure — then practise mapping those experiences onto whatever scenario appears.
Run full circuits, not single questions. Six stations back to back is a stamina exercise, and stamina is the thing you cannot fake on the day.
The UCAT opened the door. The interview decides whether you walk through it.
Figures above reflect a recent Monash admissions cycle and vary year to year. Always confirm current format and numbers with Monash directly before you sit.
MED ANZ
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