Leeds Medicine: the interview
A multiple mini interview. For 2024 entry, 40% of interviewees got an offer. Below: the numbers, what the interview looks for, your personal statement and SJT band, and questions to practise.
- interviewed
- 742
- 2024 entry
- offers
- 300
- Home applicants
- of interviewees offered
- 40%
- 2024 entry
- international, offered
- 38%
- 2024 entry
- Format
- Multiple mini interview (MMI)
Share of interviewees offered a place, 2020 to 2024 entry
Offers divided by interviews each year, Home applicants. Hover or tab to a year for the counts.
| Value | Detail | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 entry | 36% | 365 offers from 1,012 interviews |
| 2021 entry | 32% | 300 offers from 931 interviews |
| 2022 entry | 40% | 242 offers from 599 interviews |
| 2023 entry | 49% | 298 offers from 607 interviews |
| 2024 entry | 40% | 300 offers from 742 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 | 2,004 | 1,012 | 50% | 365 | 36% |
| 2021 | 1,980 | 931 | 47% | 300 | 32% |
| 2022 | 2,391 | 599 | 25% | 242 | 40% |
| 2023 | 2,251 | 607 | 27% | 298 | 49% |
| 2024 | 2,117 | 742 | 35% | 300 | 40% |
For 2024 entry 40% of interviewees were offered a place, about 1 in 2, 9 points down on 2023. Across the 5 years shown, 39% of interviewees were offered. International applicants: 12 offers from 32 interviews for 2024 entry, 38%.
We have not added Leeds’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 numerically scored, but it must show commitment, motivation and a realistic understanding of medicine.
It does not count at the interview. No band is rejected. The band feeds the pre-interview total, but Leeds refuses to publish how much it is worth.
Questions to practise
Written by MedOffr in the style of MMI stations. None is taken from Leeds 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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