Medical School Interview Guide for Applicants

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At Lancaster Medical School, we will deliver our medicine Multiple Mini Interviews (MMIs) online using Microsoft Teams. Applicants will complete a number of different ‘stations’ which assess some of the skills, values, and attributes required to study and practice medicine successfully.

Each station is assessed by trained interviewers, including university staff, NHS clinicians, public representatives, and medical students. Your performance is scored against clear criteria, combined into an overall score, and applicants are ranked accordingly. We are only able to consider applicants that have attended an MMI interview.

This webpage contains important instructions about how to prepare for your interview. Please read it fully and carefully to be as prepared as possible for your MMI.

To do before your interview

There are a few things that you must do before your interview to ensure that you are prepared on the day and have everything that you need. Scroll down for more detailed information about each of these steps.

1. Complete your RSVP form (including your confidentiality agreement)

This confirms your attendance and agreement to the interview conditions. Without this we cannot proceed with your interview. You will also be asked if you would like a 5-minute Tech Check session for additional support.

2. Complete the Work Experience Survey

Your response will enable us to verify the work and/or voluntary experiences you have referenced in your personal statement.

3. Read the guidance document on Using Microsoft Teams for remote MMI interviews

This will help you become familiar with the platform and avoid technical issues that could disrupt your interview.

4. Submit any evidence for meeting our Widening Participation criteria

Providing evidence of any criteria you meet will allow us to consider your application fairly and ensure eligible applicants receive contextually lowered offers.

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Evidencing Widening Participation

Please review our Evidencing Widening Participation Criteria page for guidance on providing additional contextual information with your application. This will help determine who may be eligible for a contextually lowered offer.

Widening Participation Evidence Collection

Guidance for Using Microsoft Teams

Read our guidance for using Microsoft Teams to ensure you're ready for your online interview. This includes instructions for checking your microphone, camera, and other settings essential for your interview.

Download our Teams guidance document

Fitness to Practice: Student Agreement

As a medical student you will study for a university degree that (in the absence of Fitness to Practise concerns) automatically allows you to register with the General Medical Council (GMC) and work as a Foundation Year doctor. During your student years, your training will take place in a medical environment. It is therefore essential that you can fulfil the requirements based on Achieving good medical practice: guidance for medical students (GMC, 2016).

This year’s agreement will be online, and you will be sent a link to complete this at registration.

Download the example Student Agreement document

Prior to your interview, we would also invite you to make sure that you have read and understand our privacy notice. This provides information about how we will collect, store and use your personal data.

View Privacy Notice Here

What happens next?

After the MMI, we may seek to verify the claims made in your personal statement by contacting those named on your work & voluntary experience form. To ensure that this process goes as smoothly as possible, please make sure that your references are aware that we may be in contact.

We interview until mid-February and no offers are made until all interviews are finished. The outcome of your application will be communicated via UCAS Track and this usually happens toward the end of March/early April.

Applicants have the right to complain if they believe that the admissions process has not met the appropriate standard or if they believe that a procedural irregularity has affected the outcome of their application. The procedure can be found on this webpage.