Lancaster Medicine: the interview
A multiple mini interview (about 10 stations, online). For 2025 entry, 56% of interviewees got an offer. Below: the numbers, what the interview looks for, your personal statement and SJT band, and questions to practise.
- interviewed
- 581
- 2025 entry
- offers
- 325
- UK applicants
- of interviewees offered
- 56%
- 2025 entry
- Format
- Multiple mini interview (MMI) · About 10 stations, online
- In detail
- MMI, online for 2027 entry, held in January and February. Offers are on the MMI; a reserve list runs to the start of term.
Share of interviewees offered a place, 2021 to 2025 entry
Offers divided by interviews each year, UK applicants. Hover or tab to a year for the counts.
| Value | Detail | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 entry | 52% | 268 offers from 513 interviews |
| 2022 entry | 42% | 174 offers from 418 interviews |
| 2023 entry | 49% | 174 offers from 353 interviews |
| 2024 entry | 44% | 261 offers from 587 interviews |
| 2025 entry | 56% | 325 offers from 581 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 727 | 513 | 71% | 268 | 52% |
| 2022 | 894 | 418 | 47% | 174 | 42% |
| 2023 | 1,009 | 353 | 35% | 174 | 49% |
| 2024 | 1,004 | 587 | 58% | 261 | 44% |
| 2025 | 926 | 581 | 63% | 325 | 56% |
For 2025 entry 56% of interviewees were offered a place, about 1 in 2, 11 points up on 2024. Across the 5 years shown, 49% of interviewees were offered. Lancaster gives the interview places available, not interviews attended.
We have not added Lancaster’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 at any stage. Claims of work and voluntary experience are checked at interview.
It does not count at the interview. For 2027 entry Lancaster expects Bands 1 to 3; a Band 4 is not selected.
Questions to practise
Written by MedOffr in the style of MMI stations. None is taken from Lancaster 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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