Queen’s Belfast Medicine: the interview
A multiple mini interview. For 2023 entry, 43% of interviewees got an offer. Below: the numbers, what the interview looks for, your personal statement and SJT band, and questions to practise.
- interviewed
- 775
- 2023 entry
- offers
- 333
- all applicants
- of interviewees offered
- 43%
- 2023 entry
- Format
- Multiple mini interview (MMI)
- From interview to offer
- A ranked reserve list runs into September: in 2024 offers reached the 739th-ranked applicant, in 2025 and 2026 the 677th.
| Entry year | Applications | Interviewed | Share interviewed | Offers | Offers per interview |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | — | 775 | — | 333 | 43% |
For 2023 entry 43% of interviewees were offered a place, about 1 in 2. Queen's has not released application numbers.
We have not added Queen’s Belfast’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.
Not scored
Not scored.
It does not count at the interview. No band is rejected. The band decides borderline cases twice: among applicants tied on the pre-interview score, and among those tied at interview.
Questions to practise
Written by MedOffr in the style of MMI stations. None is taken from Queen’s Belfast 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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