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A circuit: a scenario on a door, 2 minutes to read it, 8 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
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.
Where are you applying?
Both are in this plan. They are not the same room, so the clock and the number of follow-ups change with your answer.
Practice by program
See everything for this programPractice by school
By school
Every Canadian MD program designs its own interview day. The station count and the clock are the difference between rehearsing your interview and rehearsing somebody else's.
Medical school
Most Canadian medical schools interview by MMI. Stations are often everyday dilemmas rather than clinical ones, and many put a standardized actor in the room with the assessor.
Most Canadian schools also require Casper, which is a separate test with no interviewer. Practice it in the Casper section.
Practice default. Each school sets and rarely publishes its own timing. We practice at 2 and 8 minutes because your program does not publish a clock. Use whatever it tells you.
Two follow-ups. Schools rarely publish a number, so this is our practice default.
How the result reaches you: Set by the school. Most fold the MMI into a composite with your file.
When it runs: Interviews run from November into the winter, and each school sets its own dates. Casper sittings for the same cycle run from the summer to February. (School admissions pages and Acuity's published 2026-27 Casper schedule.)
What the examiner fills in
CanMEDS scoresheet
The CanMEDS roles the station targets.
Our practice default. Schools do not publish their sheets.
This circuit puts an actor in at least one room. Practice the role-play stations, not only the discussion ones. They are the ones people freeze in.
This pathway usually needs Casper too8 stations back to back, the way the platform 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 80 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.