In fact, the study found extroversion is the only personality type associated with better performance in the MMI process, and reasoned this could potentially lead to medical school classes dominated by a single personality attribute.
“A range of thoughts and styles is important in any institutional setting,” said Anthony Jerant, a professor in the UC Davis Department of Family and Community Medicine and lead author of the study. “Having a dominant personality type in medicine is a particular concern, since the field has many specialties and, within each, unique and important roles to fill.”
Pioneered by McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, the MMI process involves approximately 10 different mini-interviews that last approximately 10 minutes, as opposed to the traditional 45 minute interview.
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