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The Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) was first developed by the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University in 2002 when it became clear that performance issues in the medical profession were not due to deficiencies in technical competencies but rather due to a lack of soft skills.

The team developed and evaluated this innovative way to interview and recruit for skills in communication, teamwork, ethical decision-making, interpersonal relations, and professionalism. Between 2004 and 2008, the team published seminal papers describing the characteristics of the MMI. These attracted the interest of medical schools in Canada and the United States, which adopted the MMI as their interview technique. In 2012 the team published a follow-up study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, providing evidence that the MMI could predict performance on the medical licensing exams which took place 5 to 6 years after admission via the MMI (8).

With this proof of effectiveness, the MMI became and continues to be widely used to evaluate applicants to medical schools in Canada, the United States, and Australia.

Today the body of literature regarding the MMI consists of more than 180 publications from international authors in peer-reviewed scientific journals (9). The research confirms that the MMI is a reliable and valid soft skills assessment system that does not disadvantage applicants from under-represented minorities and improves the diversity of the candidates selected.

In 2006 McMaster University licensed the MMI to ProspectHR MMI to commercialize the process and make it available to professions beyond medicine and beyond the admission process of academic institutions. ProspectHR MMI subsequently developed an online platform for the proven MMI to manage the planning, recruiting, interviewing and scoring for this talent acquisition process. The company also brought this innovation to the recruitment of students

in other disciplines as well as to the hiring process for public and private sector employees.

To read the full White Paper please visit https://www.prospecthrmmi.com/whitepaper