Medical School Interview Courses overview

The medical school interview: it’s where you can make a lasting impression. It's also the deciding factor as to whether or not you begin your med school career. So, make sure you’re ready to ace the medical school interview with our full-day medical school interview preparation course, where we help you improve your interview techniques. Students who have attended our medical school interview course are being offered places at some of the top medical schools in the UK such as Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial College London and more. 

Over the last 5 years, we have an incredible 98.5% success rate. 98.5% of the students who attend our Interview Courses and MMI Circuits have received an offer after their medical school interview. Follow in their footsteps and get into the medical school you want! 

Our full-day medical interview courses are facilitated by both experienced medical doctors and senior medical students, who have the benefit of recent medical school interview experience. Additionally, 8 of our facilitators have sat or are currently on interview panels at medical schools around the UK.

In our full day medical school interview course, we coach you on how to approach all different types of questions and MMI stations. It's not lecture based - it’s a full-day practice where you are taught techniques, strategies, and how to structure your answers. It gives you real interview experience and helps you improve your abilities throughout the day.

What to expect

• Small class sizes: With a maximum of 12 students per class and 2 facilitators, the small group size and interactive nature mean our students get opportunities to practice all day delivering answers and receive individual feedback. 
• Up-to-date information: The medical school interview course is updated each year, and thus the most up-to-date hot topics in healthcare that are relevant to your medical school interview will also be covered. 
• All interview types: Each course is tailored to the group of 12 students of the day. We start by covering the marking schemes and question types at the medical school the students on that day are applying to and then delve into structure and practice for the rest of the day.
• MMI preparation: For the 2019/2020 season, we have improved our course structure so each student who attends can now practice a minimum of between 6 to 8 MMI stations during the course + a group task. During their timed practice, they will be videoed and be able to take the recording home of their practice and feedback, along with the marking schemes. 
• theMSAG Workbook: You are also provided with theMSAG workbook on the day of your course which includes how to approach the most common interview questions.
• Included access to our Award-Winning Online Interview Course and NHS Hot Topics Series 1 (RRP £25): Before the course, you will be provided access to our award winning online interview course that features videos to help you prepare for answering questions on the course day. 

Course timetable

Course availability

Our courses can be quite oversubscribed, as such we try to make additional courses available in the same location. If there is an additional course, you’ll see it labelled as “Room 2” or “Room 3”. Each room is taught the same material and will have the same number of facilitators.

Course Timing

AM COURSE - 9 am to 1 pm
PM COURSE - 2 pm to 6 pm

MMI Interview Circuit overview

Along with your personal statement, the interview is an integral part of the admissions process. You will encounter multiple interview types for med school, but the MMI differs from the traditional interviews. It’s designed to demonstrate communication skills, a fundamental part of medicine. 

As a doctor, you will rely on your communication skills every day for patient care and working with your medical team. Don’t get caught flat-footed: get ready to ace your interview by taking the MSAG’s MMI crash course!

Our MMI preparation course is a half-day mock MMI circuit, tailored to each applicant’s needs. You’ll complete 10 full stations with questions from the schools you’re applying for, then observe another 10 full stations. 

What is it like to participate in Multiple Mini Interviews (MMI)

Each medical school is different but the MMI traditionally consists of up to 10 stations, including rest station(s). Each station is a mini-interview around 8-10 minutes long. Before each station, the student will be given a real question or scenario and time to prepare and formulate their answer. 

Next, you’ll sit and discuss your response with the interviewer. Our interview room will feature up to 20 sample MMI stations and offers 10 MMI stations personalised for each applicant. To provide you with authentic MMI questions, our mock interview questions are based on real UK University questions.

Common MMI interview stations

• Personal stations: engineered to determine if medicine is the right profession for you. 
• Teamwork stations: stations asking about teamwork and how you have worked with a team in the past. 
• Medical ethics stations: how you would handle situations or challenges in the medical profession, such as ethical scenarios.
• Roleplay stations: uses real actors and real-life scenarios that the applicant will need to talk through to show how he or she would handle the situation. 
• Calculation/Problem-solving stations: you are given information and you will need to calculate the data and provide solutions. 
• Hot topics stations: asks you questions based on recent health care related subjects such as the NHS. 
• Photo stations: you are asked to review a photo and then interpret what you think is happening. 

What to expect?

Our interview room will feature up to 20 sample MMI stations and offers 10 MMI stations personalised for each applicant. Our MMI questions are based off interview questions previously used by universities in the UK, to provide you with an authentic MMI interview.

Our interview course has a 98% success rate for last year’s students that attended our MMI and interview courses, with some students being offered a place at some of the top medical schools in the UK such as Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial College London and more.  The half-day course is led by experienced doctors, senior medical students and medical education professionals that apply their knowledge and experience from getting into medical school themselves. 

At the end of the circuit, you will receive a video copy of your performance as well as the feedback provided by our facilitators. In addition to this, you’ll receive a written copy of your performance marked against a mark scheme.

Medical School Interview Coaching overview

Your medical school interview is on the horizon: are you ready? Whether you’re feeling shy talking to examiners or just struggling to tackle tough ethics questions, we can help. Our 1-on-1 medical school interview coaching sessions are all delivered by experienced doctors and medical students. Each tailored session will teach interview techniques to improve your confidence before the big day. 

Before your first session, we’ll ask you for a copy of your personal statement and find out which areas YOU want to focus on. During the first session, your guide will assess your interview strengths and weaknesses. Each session afterward will include a mock interview element reflecting the schools that you’re applying to. These can be traditional interview formats or MMI interviews. 

If you’ve attended our Medical School Interview Preparation Course or MMICourse, our coaching is the next step to prepare you for interviews.We partner you with an experienced MSAG guide, a current doctor or medical student. All of our guides have over 3 years of experience coaching medical school applicants. Many of our guides have sat on interview panels or Multiple Mini Interviews at medical schools in the UK, such as the University of Birmingham, University of Bristol, Imperial College London, King’s College London and the University of Nottingham. 

What to expect

• Work alongside highly trained coaches: Our medical school interview tutors have gained experience by delivering our Medical School Interview Courses, MMI Circuits and designing our Online Interview Course. We make sure every coach undergoes extensive training to ensure they’re able to deliver consistent, high-quality feedback. Many of our guides have also sat on interview panels or MMI's at medical schools in the UK such as the University of Birmingham, University of Bristol, Imperial College London, King’s College London and the University of Nottingham. 
• We cover all topics: The sessions will cover important topics such as hot topics in healthcare, the NHS, medical ethics, role-plays and much more. Our tutoring will prepare you for interview panel or MMI format interview questions. Throughout each session you will be provided detailed feedback from the medical school tutor. 
• Prepare from anywhere: We have interview coaches across the UK so you can choose to meet in person or sessions can take place over Skype, Google Hangouts or in person, depending on availability and locations.
• Tailored just for you: Each one-to-one medical school interview coaching session is tailored to meet your specific needs. We can help you to improve your interview technique, improve your communication skills and develop your confidence. Our tutoring will prepare you for an interview panel or MMI format interview questions. Throughout each session, you will be provided detailed feedback from the medical school tutor.

The Essentials of Medical Ethics Online Course 

When preparing for the medical school interviews it’s helpful to understand which topics you should focus on. A particularly common topic includes questions regarding ethical principles, issues and your stance on these sensitive subjects. Questions will arise concerning abortion, assisted reproduction, euthanasia and the basic principles of ethics. In other instances, scenarios are given that can have ethical implications and you must make a medical decision. 

We’ll help you become fully informed before attempting to answer these complicated questions. This course will cover the 4 pillars of health care ethics (the principles of Autonomy, Justice, Beneficence and Non-Maleficence) as well as the “3 C’s” (Confidentiality, Capacity and Consent). We’ll dive into each section and discuss ethical dilemmas, examples and how they apply to a good medical practice. We also highlight key legal cases and discuss related factors, followed by mock interviews. Here, we ask sample questions and give examples of great answers. Our hope is that our answers guide your preparation, leaving you more confident with structuring your answer and delivering under pressure.

What to expect

• Professionally filmed for a better learning experience
• Hours of interactive footage featuring high quality videos ~20 minutes long
• Created by real doctors and interview experts with over 15 years of experience
• Fully mobile and tablet responsive, so you can access the videos from anywhere
• Set your own goals along the way

Ethical questions in medical school interviews covered:

• Autonomy
• The Ethical Pillar of Autonomy and in-depth analysis of the Hippocratic Oath
• Case report: Slater vs Baker and Stapleton (1767)
• What do we mean by a patient's autonomy?
• Factors influencing a patient's autonomy
• Jehovah's Witnesses
• When does Autonomy become a moral dilemma?
• Case report: T vs Court of Appeal (1993)

• Beneficence
• The Ethical Pillar of Beneficence
• Beneficence and Jehovah's Witnesses
• Would you transfuse a Jehovah's Witness?
• The history of Beneficence
• Physician assisted suicide: Harmful or Beneficent?
• Is it harmful or beneficial to help a competent patient who has requested hastened death?
• Social Beneficence: Organ Donation

• Non-maleficence
• The Ethical Pillar of Non-Maleficence
• Non-Maleficence and Beneficence: The Weighing Scale
• Case report: Mr Bolam and Clinical Negligence
• Case report: Patrick Bolitho (1996)
• The Principal of Medical Futility and The Trisomy 18 Disorder
• Other scenarios you might encounter

• Justice
• The Ethical Pillar of Justice
• Deciphering Justice: The Clinical Angle
• Factors influencing the same level of care
• Unequal access health care for unequal patients
• Allocation of resources at a population level
• Can we refuse to perform cardiac surgery on a smoker?

• Confidentiality
• The 3Cs: Confidentiality
• The Origins of Confidentiality and the Hippocratic Oath
• The impact of breaching confidentiality
• The Data Protection Act (1998)
• Confidentiality: It's importance on the doctor-patient relationship
• When can confidentiality be breached?
• Case report: Dr Robert Browne vs The General Medical Council (1971)
• Case report: Prosenjit Poddar (1967)

• Capacity
• The 3Cs: Capacity
• The Mental Capacity Act (2005)
• Assessing patients' capacity
• Define: Power of Attorney
• The case that led to the Mental Capacity Act (2005)
• Further cases related to the Mental Capacity Act (2005)
• Capacity: Children's perspective

• Consent
• The 3Cs: Consent
• How can we take Consent?
• Case report: Nadine Montgomery

• Abortion and pregnancy
• The Pro-choice Argument
• Does an unborn foetus have the right to Autonomy?
• Case report: Roe vs Wade (1973), a game changer
• Non-Maleficence and Beneficence in Abortion
• The Abortion Act (1976) and global perspective
• Justice in Abortion
• Should fathers have a say in Abortions?

• Assisted Reproduction
• Assisted Reproduction: Arguments in favour
• Assisted Reproduction: Arguments against
• The History of Assisted Reproduction
• Should donor eggs or sperm be used?

Who is this course designed for?

This online medical ethics course is designed for students preparing for their medicine interviews. We help you focus on the topics that matter so you can go into your interview confident. This course will prepare you for commonly asked questions regarding medical ethics. We will cover the essentials to medical ethics, including the 4 pillars of medical ethics as well as the 3 C's. This course will cover commonly asked questions and give you to the tools you need to answer appropriately during your medicine interviews! 

Our guarantee 

Essential content: We have separated the videos into important topics that we feel are fundamental to interview success. We begin by teaching you how to structure your answers. We go through the common types of interview questions that you may come across. Extra quizzes and info will also become available for you to put your knowledge into practice.

Interactive features: Being interactive is the key to our teaching success! So, you will find our team members asking you questions and asking you to pause the video. We may ask you to write something down. Or we may recommend that you look up some extra info to enhance your learning.  

Unlimited playbacks and mobile responsive: Each module offers unlimited replays with flexible playback features. This allows you to learn at your own pace and track your progress, to make it a more personalised learning experience.