Edinburgh Medicine: the interview
A multiple mini interview (assessment Day: three scored stations). For 2024 entry, 68% of interviewees got an offer. Below: the numbers, what the interview looks for, your personal statement and SJT band, and questions to practise.
- interviewed
- 237
- 2024 entry
- offers
- 160
- rest-of-UK applicants
- of interviewees offered
- 68%
- 2024 entry
- Format
- Multiple mini interview (MMI) · Assessment Day: three scored stations
- In detail
- Three stations, each scored independently by one selector; ordinarily a half-day in person at Edinburgh Medical School, likely virtual for applicants outside the UK and Ireland.
- From interview to offer
- The Assessment Day is 50% of the final ranking, with academics 25%, the UCAT decile 17.5% and the SJT band 7.5%.
Share of interviewees offered a place, 2020 to 2024 entry
Offers divided by interviews each year, rest-of-UK applicants. Hover or tab to a year for the counts.
| Value | Detail | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 entry | 150% | 293 offers from 195 interviews |
| 2021 entry | 78% | 159 offers from 204 interviews |
| 2022 entry | 75% | 104 offers from 138 interviews |
| 2023 entry | 55% | 166 offers from 300 interviews |
| 2024 entry | 68% | 160 offers from 237 interviews |
Offers outnumber places, because not everyone offered accepts or meets the conditions; this is the share offered, not the share who get a place.
| Entry year | Applications | Interviewed | Share interviewed | Offers | Offers per interview |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 833 | 195 | 23% | 293 | 150% |
| 2021 | 1,388 | 204 | 15% | 159 | 78% |
| 2022 | 1,239 | 138 | 11% | 104 | 75% |
| 2023 | 837 | 300 | 36% | 166 | 55% |
| 2024 | 521 | 237 | 45% | 160 | 68% |
For 2024 entry 68% of interviewees were offered a place, 12 points up on 2023. Across the 5 years shown, 82% of interviewees were offered. In 2020 entry, the pandemic cycle, Edinburgh made more offers than it gave interviews.
We have not added Edinburgh’s own description of what its interview assesses yet. MMI interviews generally test motivation for medicine, communication, ethical reasoning, teamwork and what you learnt from work experience; the questions below cover each.
Read with the application
Not formally assessed. It may guide the admissions team when shortlisting for Assessment Days and is essential preparation for the day itself.
It counts at or after the interview. Band 4 is rejected. The band is scored separately from the UCAT total in the ranking for the Assessment Day, and is 7.5% of the final ranking after it.
Questions to practise
Written by MedOffr in the style of MMI stations. None is taken from Edinburgh or claimed to have been asked there.
01 · Motivation
Why medicine, rather than nursing, pharmacy or becoming a physician associate?
02 · Ethics
A 15-year-old asks a GP for contraception and does not want her parents told. What should the GP weigh up?
03 · Role play
You borrowed a friend's laptop and it has stopped working. The actor is your friend: tell them.
04 · Data
This table shows A&E waiting times at two hospitals over a year. What can and can't you conclude from it?
05 · Teamwork
Tell us about a time a group you were part of was not working well. What did you do, and what would you change?
06 · Work experience
What did you see on your work experience that surprised you about a doctor's job?
07 · The NHS
What is one pressure on the NHS at the moment, and what would you do about it?
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