St Andrews Medicine: the interview
A multiple mini interview. Below: the numbers, what the interview looks for, your personal statement and SJT band, and questions to practise.
- Format
- Multiple mini interview (MMI)
- From interview to offer
- Offers are decided on the interview score and the route applied for; where interview scores tie, the UCAT total separates them.
Offers are decided on the interview score and the route applied for; where interview scores tie, the UCAT total separates them.
We have not added St Andrews’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
Read with the reference as a hurdle (motivation, work experience), not scored or weighted in the ranking.
It does not count at the interview. The SJT band is not looked at; the ranking is the UCAT total.
Questions to practise
Written by MedOffr in the style of MMI stations. None is taken from St Andrews 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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