Lancashire Medicine: the interview
A multiple mini interview (in person or online). For 2025 entry, 39% of interviewees got an offer. Below: the numbers, what the interview looks for, your personal statement and SJT band, and questions to practise.
- interviewed
- 230
- 2025 entry
- offers
- 89
- Home applicants
- of interviewees offered
- 39%
- 2025 entry
- international, offered
- 51%
- 2025 entry
- Format
- Multiple mini interview (MMI) · In person or online
- Good to know
- Interviewees fill in a transferable skills form about their work experience, which is discussed at interview. Offers are made on interview performance alone.
Share of interviewees offered a place, 2023 to 2025 entry
Offers divided by interviews each year, Home applicants. Hover or tab to a year for the counts.
| Value | Detail | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 entry | 22% | 17 offers from 79 interviews |
| 2024 entry | 76% | 64 offers from 84 interviews |
| 2025 entry | 39% | 89 offers from 230 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 589 | 79 | 13% | 17 | 22% |
| 2024 | 378 | 84 | 22% | 64 | 76% |
| 2025 | 646 | 230 | 36% | 89 | 39% |
For 2025 entry 39% of interviewees were offered a place, about 1 in 3, 37 points down on 2024. Across the 3 years shown, 43% of interviewees were offered. International applicants: 398 offers from 786 interviews for 2025 entry, 51%. For 56 Home places.
We have not added Lancashire’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.
Used at interview
Not scored before interview, its FOI response says, but you need one for the interview. Its applicant guide says statements and references are scored, so answer the guide's three questions anyway.
It does not count at the interview. Band 4 is rejected; Bands 1 to 3 are accepted, and its FOI response gives no other use of the band.
Questions to practise
Written by MedOffr in the style of MMI stations. None is taken from Lancashire 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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