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Medical school interviews are usually MMIs, a circuit of short timed stations, each with its own assessor and its own task, which might be an ethical scenario, a role-play with an actor or a straight question about why you want to do medicine. Preparation is practice at the format, because the format itself is what most candidates find hardest.
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Read the medicine guideAn MMI usually gives you seven to ten stations of three to ten minutes each. There is no time to build rapport, you start from nothing at every station, and a station that goes badly is over quickly, which is a mercy, and which candidates find hard to believe in the moment.
A panel interview is longer, more conversational, and more likely to follow your personal statement in depth.
Ethical reasoning, usually with no correct answer, marked on whether you recognise the competing principles and can hold both. Communication, often through a role-play where an actor is upset or has misunderstood something. Motivation, where "I want to help people" is not enough. And your understanding of the NHS and of what the job is actually like day to day.
Work experience gets asked about for what you noticed rather than for what you did.
It can make the format ordinary, give you a structure for ethical questions, and stop the timer being a shock. It cannot supply a script, and assessors are well practised at hearing one.
Applicants should also expect to be asked about a recent healthcare story and about their own weaknesses, both of which reward having thought about them once beforehand rather than having rehearsed a line.
A Multiple Mini Interview: a circuit of short stations, each with its own assessor and task, scored independently of one another.
Two or three full circuits is enough for most people. The first is where nearly all the learning is.
Not in detail, but you should be able to talk about a recent healthcare story and what you make of it. Depth of thought beats breadth of headlines.
On reasoning rather than on the conclusion. Recognising the competing principles (autonomy, beneficence, confidentiality, capacity) and weighing them out loud is the point.
From November through to March, varying by school. UCAT scores usually decide who is invited.
Many do; the UCAT is listed separately on tutor profiles, and most medicine interview tutors here sat both.
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