Glasgow Medicine: the interview
A panel interview. For 2025 entry, 35% of interviewees got an offer. Below: the numbers, what the interview looks for, your personal statement and SJT band, and questions to practise.
- interviewed
- 351
- 2025 entry
- offers
- 123
- rest-of-UK applicants
- of interviewees offered
- 35%
- 2025 entry
- international, offered
- 82%
- 2025 entry
- Format
- Panel interview
- Good to know
- One of the few UK schools still interviewing by panel rather than MMI.
Share of interviewees offered a place, 2022 to 2025 entry
Offers divided by interviews each year, rest-of-UK applicants. Hover or tab to a year for the counts.
| Value | Detail | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 entry | 64% | 93 offers from 145 interviews |
| 2023 entry | 56% | 119 offers from 212 interviews |
| 2024 entry | 60% | 129 offers from 215 interviews |
| 2025 entry | 35% | 123 offers from 351 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 687 | 145 | 21% | 93 | 64% |
| 2023 | 400 | 212 | 53% | 119 | 56% |
| 2024 | 266 | 215 | 81% | 129 | 60% |
| 2025 | 491 | 351 | 71% | 123 | 35% |
For 2025 entry 35% of interviewees were offered a place, about 1 in 3, 25 points down on 2024. Across the 4 years shown, 50% of interviewees were offered. International applicants: 97 offers from 119 interviews for 2025 entry, 82%.
We have not added Glasgow’s own description of what its interview assesses yet. Panel 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
Screened for a clear commitment to medicine before the UCAT ranking; too vague, or written for another course, and the application is likely to be rejected. Not scored.
It does not count at the interview. Band 4 is rejected at the screen; above that the ranking is on the UCAT total.
Questions to practise
Written by MedOffr in the style of a panel interview. None is taken from Glasgow or claimed to have been asked there.
01 · Motivation
Why do you want to be a doctor, and why here?
02 · Your statement
You wrote about volunteering at a care home. What did you learn there about communicating with patients?
03 · Insight
What makes a good doctor? Which of those qualities do you still need to work on?
04 · Resilience
Tell us about a setback and how you dealt with it.
05 · Ethics
Should patients who smoke be treated last for smoking-related illness?
06 · Teamwork
Who else works in a hospital team, and what do they do that a doctor cannot?
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