If given a scenario in an interview and I am confronted with something I have never come across before, how do I respond to the interviewer?

Many scenarios and stations in medical school interviews are deliberately set up with situations that the interviewer will not expect you to have come across. This is completely normal and is no reason to panic, everyone else will have experienced the same as you. To deal with these situations, it is important to remember why the medical school could be asking you to respond to an unknown scenario. As a doctor, you will not always come across cases that match what you have read in a textbook or learnt in a lecture- they want to see how you deal with difficulties. Developing techniques to formulate comprehensive, intelligent responses to these scenarios allow you to give an informed answers and help highlight your suitability to deal with unpredictable situations.