AAMC SITUATIONAL JUDGMENT TEST
PRACTICE EXAM
I ANSWER During class, your professor observes you
participating in a role-play exercise with one of your
classmates. You are acting as a doctor, and your classmate is
acting as an angry patient. The role-play is tense but stays on
course. You think you performed well, but, after class, your
classmate gives you unexpected negative feedback that you
missed several opportunities to comfort the patient and calm
the situation. You are now expected to attend a debriefing
session with your professor.
Tell your classmate that only the professor is qualified to
provide feedback.
VE ANSWER During class, your professor observes you
participating in a role-play exercise with one of your
classmates. You are acting as a doctor, and your classmate is
acting as an angry patient. The role-play is tense but stays on
course. You think you performed well, but, after class, your
classmate gives you unexpected negative feedback that you
missed several opportunities to comfort the patient and calm
the situation. You are now expected to attend a debriefing
session with your professor.
Explain to your professor that you understand you missed
some opportunities during the exercise and discuss how to
improve.
VI ANSWER During class, your professor observes you
participating in a role-play exercise with one of your
,classmates. You are acting as a doctor, and your classmate is
acting as an angry patient. The role-play is tense but stays on
course. You think you performed well, but, after class, your
classmate gives you unexpected negative feedback that you
missed several opportunities to comfort the patient and calm
the situation. You are now expected to attend a debriefing
session with your professor.
Skip the debriefing session because you have already received
feedback.
VE ANSWER During class, your professor observes you
participating in a role-play exercise with one of your
classmates. You are acting as a doctor, and your classmate is
acting as an angry patient. The role-play is tense but stays on
course. You think you performed well, but, after class, your
classmate gives you unexpected negative feedback that you
missed several opportunities to comfort the patient and calm
the situation. You are now expected to attend a debriefing
session with your professor.
Ask your classmate how you could improve your performance
in the future.
I ANSWER During class, your professor observes you
participating in a role-play exercise with one of your
classmates. You are acting as a doctor, and your classmate is
acting as an angry patient. The role-play is tense but stays on
course. You think you performed well, but, after class, your
classmate gives you unexpected negative feedback that you
missed several opportunities to comfort the patient and calm
the situation. You are now expected to attend a debriefing
session with your professor.
Explain to your professor why you were satisfied with your
performance.
,VE ANSWER During class, your professor observes you
participating in a role-play exercise with one of your
classmates. You are acting as a doctor, and your classmate is
acting as an angry patient. The role-play is tense but stays on
course. You think you performed well, but, after class, your
classmate gives you unexpected negative feedback that you
missed several opportunities to comfort the patient and calm
the situation. You are now expected to attend a debriefing
session with your professor.
Ask your classmate if they would be willing to practice role
playing in advance of your next exercise.
VI ANSWER During class, your professor observes you
participating in a role-play exercise with one of your
classmates. You are acting as a doctor, and your classmate is
acting as an angry patient. The role-play is tense but stays on
course. You think you performed well, but, after class, your
classmate gives you unexpected negative feedback that you
missed several opportunities to comfort the patient and calm
the situation. You are now expected to attend a debriefing
session with your professor.
Ask your classmate not to bring up the negative feedback
during your debriefing session.
E ANSWER During class, your professor observes you
participating in a role-play exercise with one of your
classmates. You are acting as a doctor, and your classmate is
acting as an angry patient. The role-play is tense but stays on
course. You think you performed well, but, after class, your
classmate gives you unexpected negative feedback that you
missed several opportunities to comfort the patient and calm
the situation. You are now expected to attend a debriefing
session with your professor.
Confirm your classmate's feedback with your professor.
, VI ANSWER You are pursuing a two-week volunteer
opportunity at a well-regarded local clinic. When you receive
your course schedule, you realize the volunteer opportunity
would conflict with your weekly required lab. This is the only
time that the lab is offered this semester, so you are not able to
make up the lab. Participation in the lab will count toward your
grade.
Skip your lab for two weeks to attend the volunteer opportunity.
I ANSWER You are pursuing a two-week volunteer opportunity
at a well-regarded local clinic. When you receive your course
schedule, you realize the volunteer opportunity would conflict
with your weekly required lab. This is the only time that the lab
is offered this semester, so you are not able to make up the lab.
Participation in the lab will count toward your grade.
Ask your lab instructor to identify a solution that will allow you to
attend both.
E ANSWER You are pursuing a two-week volunteer opportunity
at a well-regarded local clinic. When you receive your course
schedule, you realize the volunteer opportunity would conflict
with your weekly required lab. This is the only time that the lab
is offered this semester, so you are not able to make up the lab.
Participation in the lab will count toward your grade.
Stop pursuing the volunteer opportunity so that you can attend
the required lab.
VI ANSWER You are pursuing a two-week volunteer
opportunity at a well-regarded local clinic. When you receive
your course schedule, you realize the volunteer opportunity
would conflict with your weekly required lab. This is the only
time that the lab is offered this semester, so you are not able to
