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A circuit: a scenario on a door, 3 minutes to read it, 6 minutes in a room with one interviewer who will push on your answer. Read this page once, then go and stand at a door.
Scenarios
Stations per circuit
Minutes to answer
CanMEDS roles marked
Every station runs on the real clock, with a follow-up probe and a written report against your exam's own scoresheet, so you see what an interviewer would have written down.
BC CAP
A one-day Multiple Mini Interview of 10 cases, roughly 90 minutes with no breaks. A different physician examiner scores each station on the CanMEDS roles.
Selection into the MMI runs on MCCQE Part I and the file review. For 2026 UBC removed the NAC from that selection.
These timings are the exam's own. Source: UBC IMG office.
Usually one follow-up, right at the end. Finish early and you can get a second. Talk until the bell and you get none, which costs you the marks the follow-up carries.
How the result reaches you: A percentage plus a quartile against the rest of the cohort. Not pass or fail.
When it runs: Applications close 25 August. The MMI is one day in the autumn, and the result reaches CaRMS before the match. (UBC IMG office, 2026-27 application timeline.)
What the examiner fills in
CAP station scoresheet
Communication skills displayed during the station. Ability to address the objectives of the case. Overall performance.
UBC IMG office (per-station scale modeled)
The real exam runs on Kira Talent. Exam day here is built to match it: an orientation, a waiting room, and the platform moving you from one room to the next.
10 stations back to back, the way Kira Talent runs them: an orientation, a waiting room, and then you are moved from one room to the next with no choosing, no pausing and no marks until the last door closes. About 90 minutes.
Your walkthrough from Dr. Cres
A short welcome and a run through the whole day, start to finish. It is being filmed. Until it lands, the walkthrough below covers the same ground.
You are given a candidate number and shown to the start of the circuit. Everyone starts at a different station, so the person beside you is not on the same one you are.
A different test entirely
No interviewer, no probing, no room. A scenario, two questions, and a timer: 60 seconds a question spoken, or 3.5 minutes shared across a typed pair. Most Canadian medical schools require it and many residency programs do too.
A standardized patient withholds until you ask. An interviewer does the opposite: they listen, then they press on the thinnest part of what you said. Every candidate on a scenario meets the same two follow-ups, at the same point on the clock.
Professional. Communicator. Collaborator. Leader. Health Advocate. Scholar. Each rating has to quote the line in your transcript that decided it.
Hesitation, pace and accent take no part in the mark, and the marker is told so explicitly. What you said is what counts.