Another FYI: You guys may have seen the Youtube videos that I’ve posted, where each MMI station is enclosed in a separate room and thus you rotate from door to door down one long hallway - The Virginia Tech Carilion video comes easily to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPGuuOZTtSs, Pics: http://medicine.vtc.vt.edu/galleries/2016/feb/03/2016-multiple-mini-interviews/. Also notice, that unlike the VTC video, you will most likely NOT have a clipboard w/pen on hand to write things down when reading and assessing the prompt, as current UMKC students have confirmed this from when they took it.
It won’t be exactly like that at UMKC, even with it being held in the relatively new Student Union building, which as you can imagine, its conference rooms are used for MANY more university purposes & activities than just solely for a med school MMI. You can see here how each floor is divided and there is not one long hallway on any floor of the Student Union with rooms back to back like in the VTC video: http://www.umkc.edu/union/building_map.asp; Pics: https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=UMKC+student+union&go=Submit&qs=bs&form=QBIR.
There is a morning MMI session and an afternoon MMI session, so likely half the group will do the MMI first in the AM, and half will do the MMI in the afternoon. My guess is the half not currently doing the MMI will be completing the Toledo Chemistry exam (bring your calculator!) in the meantime.
So this is how it will work. The group that is currently doing the MMI, in a particular session, will be divided equally into 4 different enclosed rooms with 11 stations that are all set up in that particular room. So yes, you’re concluding correctly, it’s like there will be 4 complete MMI cycles all going on at once in a session (although in different rooms obviously). So once you go inside your particular room, each station will also have its own individual “prep” area for that particular station. This is where you get that 2 minutes to read, digest, and process the prompt (so instead of being in front of a door and reading a prompt on the door, you’ll be at a specific prep area which will have the prompt there for you to read). Remember all of this is timed – the time to read (2 min), the time for interview (6 min), etc.
There will be a pipe and drape separation between that prep area and that actual interview station similar to this: https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=pipe+and+drape&FORM=HDRSC2. If you’ve worked in theater, or been at exhibit conventions, etc. you’ve probably seen these. So once you’ve read and digested the prompt for 2 minutes, you can go inside the interview area by shifting the drape to come in and then closing it behind you. You then get your 6 minutes to discuss as previously mentioned: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/19282647/#Comment_19282647. Once that 6 minutes is done, the station ends, everyone comes out of their respective station, then everyone rotates to the next new station and the same process starts again. All the stations will be reasonably spaced out enough to where you won’t be able to hear other stations and their particular thing going on, or get distracted by them, while you’re at a particular station.
Small detail, no biggie, but I just wanted to make sure you all are aware of the logistics going in, just so that on interview day, you guys aren’t freaking out or thrown off course, just because each station isn’t in a separate room like shown in videos.