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Chester Medicine Interview Questions (2027 Entry)
How Chester Medical School interviews for its four-year graduate entry MBChB: six multiple mini interview (MMI) stations over about an hour and a half, two assessors at each, built on the GMC's Good Medical Practice. What Chester does and does not publish, and 48 practice questions drawn from its own values and course, with model answers.
Reviewed by Dr Akash Gandhi, NHS GP and a Cambridge and UCL graduate (GMC register) · Checked against Chester's official pages: 26 October 2026
Chester medicine interviews, 2027 entry
Chester medicine interviews for 2027 entry are multiple mini interviews (MMIs): six stations over about one and a half hours, each observed and scored by two trained assessors and designed around the GMC's Good Medical Practice. Chester interviews everyone who meets its academic criteria and test standard, but publishes no dates, delivery mode or post-interview success rate.
- Dates
- Not published for 2027 entry; Chester says further details come on shortlistingNot published by the universityUniversity of Chester, Graduate Entry Medicine MBChB (A101) course page (September 2027 entry (applications now closed))
- Format
- Multiple mini interviews (MMIs): six stationsConfirmed for 2027 entryUniversity of Chester, Graduate Entry Medicine MBChB (A101) course page (September 2027 entry (applications now closed))
- Length
- About one and a half hoursConfirmed for 2027 entryUniversity of Chester, Graduate Entry Medicine MBChB (A101) course page (September 2027 entry (applications now closed))
- Assessors
- Two trained assessors at every station: medical professionals, academics, current students and lay people with an interest in medical educationConfirmed for 2027 entryUniversity of Chester, Graduate Entry Medicine MBChB (A101) course page (September 2027 entry (applications now closed))
- What stations assess
- Station content changes each year; every station is designed to assess against the GMC's Good Medical PracticeConfirmed for 2027 entryUniversity of Chester, Graduate Entry Medicine MBChB (A101) course page (September 2027 entry (applications now closed))
- Delivery
- Not published: Chester does not say whether interviews are online or in personNot published by the universityUniversity of Chester, Graduate Entry Medicine MBChB (A101) course page (September 2027 entry (applications now closed))
- Who is interviewed
- Every applicant who meets the academic criteria and entry test standard; no place is offered without an interviewConfirmed for 2027 entryUniversity of Chester, Graduate Entry Medicine MBChB (A101) course page (September 2027 entry (applications now closed))
- How offers are made
- Each candidate's score profile is reviewed after the MMI; no individual feedback is givenConfirmed for 2027 entryUniversity of Chester, Graduate Entry Medicine MBChB (A101) course page (September 2027 entry (applications now closed))
- Post-interview success rate
- Not published: Chester publishes no interviewed countNot published by the universityAdmissions statistics on our Chester profile (none held; Chester publishes no interviewed count) (no figures held)
Entry requirements, test scores and fees are on our Chester graduate entry medicine guide.
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How does Chester interview for medicine?
Chester Medical School interviews with multiple mini interviews (MMIs). Its course page says the interview process lasts approximately one and a half hours and takes the form of six MMI stations. At each station you are observed and scored by two trained assessors, drawn from medical professionals, academics, current students and lay people with an interest in medical education.
The detail of the stations changes each year, but Chester says every station is designed to assess against the General Medical Council's Good Medical Practice, the GMC's core guidance on the standards expected of doctors. Read it before your interview; Chester names it, and it is the one document every station is built on.
Two assessors, one station
With two assessors watching, one may ask the questions while the other observes, and one may be a lay person, not a doctor. Speak to both, explain your reasoning in plain words and do not assume medical knowledge. Our MMI preparation guide explains how MMI circuits work in general.
Chester does not publish the time per station, any reading time, the station types (role play, discussion or task), or whether the MMI is held online or in person. Its international applicants page says further details are available on shortlisting.
Source: University of Chester, Graduate Entry Medicine MBChB (A101) course page (September 2027 entry (applications now closed)); University of Chester, Application Information for Graduate Entry Medicine (international applicants) (no year stated)
When are Chester medicine interviews for 2027 entry?
Chester has not published interview dates for 2027 entry, and its course and international pages give no month or window. Applications for September 2027 entry are now closed to home and international applicants, so the next step for anyone who applied is shortlisting, after which Chester says further details are given.
Because no window is published, keep your other interview dates in view and reply to Chester's invitation quickly when it comes. Our UK medical school interview dates table is updated when schools publish.
Source: University of Chester, Graduate Entry Medicine MBChB (A101) course page (September 2027 entry (applications now closed)); University of Chester, Application Information for Graduate Entry Medicine (international applicants) (no year stated)
Who does Chester interview?
Chester invites every applicant who meets its academic criteria and the entry test standard, and no place is offered without an interview. The degree rules, the UCAT, GAMSAT or MCAT threshold and the 70-hour work experience requirement are on our Chester graduate entry medicine guide, which is the page for that question.
Source: University of Chester, Graduate Entry Medicine MBChB (A101) course page (September 2027 entry (applications now closed)); University of Chester, Application Information for Graduate Entry Medicine (international applicants) (no year stated)
What does Chester look for at interview?
Chester's only published statement on what the MMI assesses is that every station is designed to assess against the GMC's Good Medical Practice. It does not publish station themes or marking criteria. What it does publish is a clear picture of the doctors it wants to train:
- Service to the community and compassion, part of the founding ethos the Medical School says it is built on.
- A medical school "for and in the community", whose students learn, stay and contribute locally, developing a sense of place and sensitive to population healthcare needs.
- A Professionalism and Personal Development strand running through all four years: teamworking; managing change and uncertainty; managing complexity; patient safety, including understanding how medical errors occur; leadership and management; time management and task prioritisation; becoming an effective teacher; managing your own wellbeing and developing resilience to stress; reflective thinking; and learning to learn effectively.
- Case-based learning in small tutor-led groups, and learning with, alongside and about other health professionals from Year 1.
The six themes below follow that material. The questions are practice questions written by TheUKCATPeople from Chester's own pages. They are not real or leaked Chester questions, and nothing here comes from students reporting what they were asked. For a wider bank, see our 280 practice interview questions.
Source: University of Chester, Graduate Entry Medicine MBChB (A101) course page (September 2027 entry (applications now closed)); University of Chester, Chester Medical School (no year stated)
Chester medicine interview questions, by theme
Grouped by what Chester says it assesses. Each question has a note on what a strong answer covers, and the Chester-specific ones have a full model answer. These are practice questions written by TheUKCATPeople from Chester's published guidance, not real or leaked questions.
- Motivation, your first degree and why Chester (1 to 8)
- Compassion and service to the community (9 to 16)
- Good Medical Practice: patient safety, honesty and standards (17 to 24)
- Teamworking, leadership and learning with others (25 to 32)
- Managing uncertainty, complexity and priorities (33 to 40)
- Wellbeing, resilience and reflective thinking (41 to 48)
Motivation, your first degree and why Chester
What Chester says: Chester's course is open to graduates of any discipline and welcomes people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just science or allied health. The Medical School says its founding ethos includes the education and training of those with a vocation. University of Chester, Graduate Entry Medicine MBChB (A101) course page
Every Chester applicant already has a degree, and many have worked, so the panel will expect a more developed answer to "why medicine" than a school leaver gives. Know what your first degree and any jobs gave you, and know the Chester course: case-based learning, a spiral curriculum, patients from early on, and placements across the region.
- 1
Why do you want to become a doctor, and why now?
What to cover: Give the reason and the moment it became a decision. Show how you tested it through care work or experience before applying.
- 2
Chester welcomes graduates in the arts, humanities and languages. What does your first degree bring to medicine?
What to cover: Name one or two skills from your degree, such as analysing evidence, writing clearly or understanding people, and show each working in a real example.
- 3
Why Chester?
What to cover: Choose two things Chester actually does: case-based learning in small groups, patients from early in the course, community and primary care placements across the region, or its aim to train doctors who stay and work locally.
- 4
Chester is a new medical school still going through the GMC's approval stages. Does that concern you?
What to cover: Show you understand the process: new schools are approved in stages, and Chester has Warwick Medical School as its contingency partner to protect students. Then say what attracts you to a new school.
- 5
Chester Medical School's ethos includes the education of those with a vocation. Do you see medicine as a vocation?
What to cover: Say what vocation means to you, and balance it with realism: a vocation still needs rest, boundaries and support.
- 6
Tell me about the experience of caring for people that taught you most about patients.
What to cover: Choose hands-on care if you have it. Describe one patient (anonymously), what you did and what it changed in how you think.
- 7
What will you find hardest about returning to full-time study on an accelerated four-year course?
What to cover: Be specific: money, the pace, being a student again, or learning science you have not studied for years. Then give your plan.
- 8
If you are not offered a place this year, what will you do?
What to cover: A realistic plan that keeps medicine as the goal, shows you would learn from the result and recognises what your current career offers in the meantime.
Model answer
Chester welcomes graduates in the arts, humanities and languages. What does your first degree bring to medicine?
I studied history, and the most useful thing it taught me is how to weigh evidence. A historian has to read sources that disagree, work out who wrote them and why, and reach a conclusion that is open about what we cannot know. That is close to what a doctor does with a patient's history, test results and research that does not always point the same way.
It also taught me to listen to people's stories carefully. My dissertation used oral history interviews with former miners, and I learned to let people talk, to notice what they left out and to check I had understood before I wrote anything down.
I know I will have to work hard at the science, and I have started already. But Chester's case-based learning starts from patients' stories and builds the science around them, and I think my degree has prepared me well for learning that way.
Go deeper: How to answer "Why medicine?"
Compassion and service to the community
What Chester says: Chester Medical School says it is built on the University's founding principles and ethos, which include service to the community and compassion, and that it will be a medical school for and in the community, focused on learning, staying and contributing locally, developing a sense of place and sensitive to population healthcare needs. University of Chester, Chester Medical School
"For and in the community" is Chester's own phrase, and "service to the community and compassion" is part of the ethos it names. Be ready to say what those words mean in practice. Chester places students in community, primary care and hospital settings across its region, with partner hospitals including the Countess of Chester, Warrington and Halton, Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt, and Leighton.
- 9
Chester describes itself as a medical school "for and in the community". What do you think that means?
What to cover: Training that is shaped by local health needs, placements in local practices and hospitals, and graduates who stay and serve the area. Give an example of what that could change for patients.
- 10
What does it mean for a doctor to be sensitive to the health needs of a local population?
What to cover: Knowing who lives there, what illnesses are common, what stops people getting care and what local services exist. Show you would find out, not assume.
- 11
Chester hopes its students will learn, stay and contribute locally. Why does it matter where doctors train?
What to cover: Doctors often settle near where they train, and local knowledge helps them serve patients. Mention areas that struggle to recruit.
- 12
Tell me about a time you contributed to your community.
What to cover: Describe what you did, who it helped and what you learned about the people you served. Small and sustained beats large and brief.
- 13
How might the health needs of a city centre, a market town and a rural village differ?
What to cover: Think about age, work, transport, isolation and access to services. Avoid stereotypes and say how you would find out.
- 14
How can a GP practice reach people who rarely come to see a doctor?
What to cover: Outreach, working with community groups and pharmacies, flexible appointments and building trust. Name a group that is often missed.
- 15
What is compassion, and how do you show it to someone you have just met?
What to cover: Noticing suffering and wanting to act on it. Show it through attention, small practical help and treating the person with dignity.
- 16
Why do people in poorer areas often have worse health, and what can a doctor do about it?
What to cover: Explain the social causes, such as income, housing and education, and then the doctor's part: referral, advocacy and fair access.
Model answer
Chester describes itself as a medical school "for and in the community". What do you think that means?
I think it means the school is shaped by the people it serves. Chester says its focus is to learn, stay and contribute locally and to be sensitive to the health needs of the population. So students would learn in the region's own GP practices and hospitals, with its own patients, and the course would pay attention to the illnesses and difficulties that are common there.
"In the community" also means learning outside hospital. Most care happens in general practice and community services, and a student who only sees hospital wards gets a narrow view of medicine.
And "for" the community means the aim is doctors who stay. Areas that struggle to recruit doctors benefit most from people who trained there and know the place. I like that idea, because when I volunteered at a food bank I saw how much it helped when the people giving advice knew the local services by name.
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Good Medical Practice: patient safety, honesty and standards
What Chester says: Chester says every MMI station is designed to assess against the GMC's Good Medical Practice. Its Professionalism and Personal Development strand includes patient safety, including understanding how medical errors occur, and its admissions guidance states that dishonesty is incompatible with training regulated by the General Medical Council. University of Chester, Graduate Entry Medicine MBChB (A101) course page
Good Medical Practice is the one document Chester names, so read it before the interview and think about how its standards apply to a student. Chester's own words point at two things in particular: patient safety, including how errors happen, and honesty.
- 17
What is Good Medical Practice, and why should it matter to a medical student?
What to cover: The GMC's guidance on the standards expected of doctors. Students work towards it from day one, and Chester builds every station on it.
- 18
Why do medical errors happen, and what makes them less likely?
What to cover: Talk about tiredness, poor handovers, similar-looking drugs and busy systems, then checklists, a culture where people speak up and learning from incidents. Chester teaches how errors occur.
- 19
You notice that a senior colleague has prescribed a drug that the patient's notes say they are allergic to. What do you do?
What to cover: Raise it straight away with the prescriber, politely and clearly, before the drug is given. Patient safety outweighs any awkwardness.
- 20
Chester says dishonesty is incompatible with training regulated by the GMC. Why does the GMC take dishonesty so seriously, even outside clinical work?
What to cover: Patients and colleagues must be able to rely on what a doctor says and writes. Dishonesty anywhere raises doubts about it everywhere.
- 21
You notice a mistake on your placement assessment form that gives you a higher mark than you earned. What do you do?
What to cover: Point it out to the assessor. Integrity matters most when it costs you something.
- 22
A coursemate posts about an unusual patient on social media without naming them. Is that acceptable?
What to cover: No: patients can be identified from details, and it breaches confidentiality and trust. Talk to them first and ask them to remove it; escalate if they refuse.
- 23
What should a doctor do if they think a colleague is not safe to practise?
What to cover: Patient safety comes first: raise it with a senior or the appropriate person, and follow local procedures. Our whistleblowing guide explains the routes.
- 24
When should a doctor tell a patient that something has gone wrong in their care?
What to cover: As soon as possible: explain what happened, apologise, say what will be done and support them. Openness after harm is a professional duty.
Model answer
Why do medical errors happen, and what makes them less likely?
Most errors are not caused by one careless person. They usually happen when ordinary people work in a system with weak points: a rushed handover, two drugs with similar names, a tired doctor at the end of a long shift, or a junior who did not feel able to question a senior.
So making errors less likely is mostly about the system. Checklists, such as the surgical safety checklist, catch things before they cause harm. Clear handovers matter. And so does a culture where anyone, including a student, can say "stop, I'm worried about this" without being dismissed.
When errors do happen, reporting them and learning from them stops the same thing happening to the next patient. I like that Chester teaches how medical errors occur as part of professionalism, because a doctor who understands why errors happen is more likely to spot the next one coming.
Go deeper: The GMC guide for interviews
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Teamworking, leadership and learning with others
What Chester says: Chester's Professionalism and Personal Development strand includes teamworking, leadership and management, and becoming an effective teacher. In Year 1 students learn with, alongside and about other health professionals, and case-based learning is designed to develop team-working, communication and professional skills. University of Chester, Graduate Entry Medicine MBChB (A101) course page
Case-based learning runs through all four years at Chester in small groups led by a tutor, so the team you work with most will be your own group. Graduates often have team experience from work: use it, and be ready to talk about teaching and about following as well as leading.
- 25
Tell me about a team you were part of at work or university. What was your role, and how did you know it was working?
What to cover: Describe the team, your part and one sign of success or failure. Be fair about your own contribution.
- 26
In Year 1 at Chester you learn with, alongside and about other health professionals. What can doctors learn from other professions?
What to cover: Give an example: a nurse's knowledge of the patient overnight, a pharmacist catching an interaction, a physiotherapist's view of what a patient can do at home.
- 27
What would you bring to a small case-based learning group?
What to cover: How you prepare, share and question, with an example of learning in a group. Mention helping quieter members contribute.
- 28
Tell me about a time you taught someone something. What made it work?
What to cover: Chester teaches students to become effective teachers. Describe how you explained, let them try, and checked.
- 29
Describe a time you helped a team through a change.
What to cover: Chester names managing change in its strand. Show how you explained the change, listened to concerns and kept people working together.
- 30
One member of your case-based learning group dominates every session. What do you do?
What to cover: Talk to them privately and kindly; suggest a structure that gives everyone a turn, and involve the tutor if it continues.
- 31
Is the doctor always the leader of a healthcare team?
What to cover: No: leadership depends on the task. A nurse may lead a ward round on patient flow, a pharmacist on medicines. Doctors need to follow well too.
- 32
Tell me about a disagreement in a team and how it was resolved.
What to cover: Focus on what you did to understand the other view and reach a decision. Avoid making yourself the hero.
Model answer
Is the doctor always the leader of a healthcare team?
No. The doctor often carries responsibility for diagnosis and the medical plan, but leadership depends on the task. On a ward, the nurse in charge may lead on staffing and on which patient is seen first; in a cardiac arrest, the person running the call might be an experienced nurse or a doctor; in discharge planning, an occupational therapist may know best what a patient needs at home.
In my job as a healthcare assistant I saw a junior doctor do this well. She asked the senior nurse what she thought before making a plan for a confused patient, because the nurse had known him for a week. Nobody thought less of her for it.
So I think a good doctor needs to be able to lead, take decisions and own them, and also to follow someone else's lead without fuss. Chester teaches leadership and teamworking side by side, and I think that reflects how teams actually work.
Go deeper: The multidisciplinary team
Managing uncertainty, complexity and priorities
What Chester says: Chester's Professionalism and Personal Development strand includes managing change and uncertainty, managing complexity, and time management and task prioritisation. University of Chester, Graduate Entry Medicine MBChB (A101) course page
Chester names uncertainty, complexity and prioritisation as skills it teaches, not as things to avoid. In a station, show your reasoning out loud: what is most urgent, what is risky, who you would ask and what would change your mind.
- 33
Tell me about a time you had to act without knowing the full picture.
What to cover: Describe what you knew, what you did not, how you decided and how you checked afterwards. Show you balanced caution with getting on with it.
- 34
How comfortable are you with uncertainty? Give an example.
What to cover: Be truthful about how it feels, then show a strategy: gathering what information you can, asking for help and making a safe plan.
- 35
You are a student on placement. In the next half hour a patient asks for help to the toilet, a relative wants to talk, your supervisor asks you to fetch results, and your teaching session is about to start. What do you do?
What to cover: Rank by risk and need: help the patient or get someone who can, tell the others what you are doing, and let your tutor know if you will be late. Explain as you go.
- 36
Many patients have several long-term conditions at once. Why does that make their care more complex?
What to cover: Several specialists, many medicines that can interact, competing priorities and appointments. Mention the patient's own goals and the GP's role in coordinating.
- 37
How do you prioritise when everything seems urgent?
What to cover: Give your method and a real example from work or study. Show you tell people when you cannot do something straight away.
- 38
Tell me about a time a plan changed at the last minute. How did you adapt?
What to cover: Chester teaches managing change. Show calm, quick re-planning and clear communication with the people affected.
- 39
A patient asks you a question you cannot answer. What do you say?
What to cover: Say you do not know, that you will find out or find someone who does, and then do it. Never guess.
- 40
How would you balance study, placements and the rest of your life on an accelerated course?
What to cover: Describe how you plan your time now and protect rest. Chester names time management among its taught skills.
Go deeper: MMI prioritisation stations
Wellbeing, resilience and reflective thinking
What Chester says: Chester's Professionalism and Personal Development strand includes managing your own wellbeing and developing resilience to stress, reflective thinking, and learning to learn effectively. University of Chester, Graduate Entry Medicine MBChB (A101) course page
Graduates have usually had a few years of adult life to reflect on: a degree, jobs, setbacks. Chester teaches reflection and resilience as skills, so show that you already practise them and know your own warning signs.
- 41
How do you look after your own wellbeing, and why does it matter for patients?
What to cover: Give real habits, then link them to safety: exhausted or unwell doctors make more mistakes.
- 42
Tell me about a stressful period and how you managed it.
What to cover: Describe what made it stressful, what you did, who helped and what you would do differently.
- 43
What does reflective thinking mean to you? Give an example of reflection changing what you did.
What to cover: Reflection is looking back, understanding why and changing what you do next. The example should end in a specific change.
- 44
Chester teaches students how to learn to learn effectively. How do you learn best, and how might that need to change at medical school?
What to cover: Describe your methods truthfully, then how case-based learning and a heavy workload might push you to adapt.
- 45
Tell me about feedback that was hard to hear. What did you do with it?
What to cover: Show you listened, did not get defensive and acted on it, with a result.
- 46
What would you do if you realised you were struggling during the course?
What to cover: Ask for help early: a tutor, student support or your GP. Show you understand that asking is a strength.
- 47
Why do some doctors burn out, and what protects against it?
What to cover: Workload, rotas, little control and emotional strain; protection from good teams, rest, supervision and support.
- 48
What have you learned about yourself from your first degree or your job?
What to cover: One clear insight with an example, and how it will help you as a medical student.
Model answer
What does reflective thinking mean to you? Give an example of reflection changing what you did.
To me it means looking back at something that happened, working out why it happened the way it did, and changing what I do next time. The last part matters most, because reflection that does not change anything is just remembering.
In my job I ran training sessions for new staff. After one session, a new starter made an error with a process I had covered, and my first thought was that she had not listened. When I thought about it properly, I realised I had covered that step in two minutes at the end, when everyone was tired, and never checked anyone could do it.
Since then I teach the hardest steps first and finish every session by asking people to show me, not tell me. It is a small change, but it came from asking what my part in the problem was. Chester teaches reflective thinking throughout the course, and I want to keep doing it as a doctor.
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What happens after the Chester MMI?
On completion of the MMI, Chester says each candidate's score profile is carefully reviewed to decide who is made an offer. It does not publish when decisions are made, how scores are combined or whether there is a waiting list, and it states that it cannot give individual feedback from its selection centre process.
Offers are followed by checks: every successful applicant must declare any past or current health, welfare and conduct issues that may affect fitness to study and practise medicine, and apply for an enhanced DBS check, which the applicant pays for. Chester asks applicants to be truthful in the online health questionnaire and warns that dishonesty may lead to a fitness to practise referral.
Chester does not publish how many applicants it interviews or how many receive offers, so no post-interview success rate can be given.
Source: University of Chester, Graduate Entry Medicine MBChB (A101) course page (September 2027 entry (applications now closed)); University of Chester, Application Information for Graduate Entry Medicine (international applicants) (no year stated)
What Chester does not publish about its interview
- Interview dates, or even a month, for 2027 entry.
- Whether the MMI is held online or in person, and where.
- The time allowed at each station, or any reading time between stations.
- The station types or topics, which Chester says change each year.
- What to bring on the day, how scores are combined, a decision date or a rescheduling policy.
- How many applicants are interviewed or receive offers.
Chester's international page says further details are available on shortlisting, so read your invitation carefully. If anything is unclear, ask Chester's admissions team in writing.
Source: University of Chester, Graduate Entry Medicine MBChB (A101) course page (September 2027 entry (applications now closed)); University of Chester, Application Information for Graduate Entry Medicine (international applicants) (no year stated)
Practise a Chester-style interview
A timed mock in the format Chester uses, built from the themes Chester publishes. Record yourself, then mark it against the pointers above.
Common mistakes at the Chester interview
- 1
Not reading Good Medical Practice
Chester says every station is built on it. Read it before the day and think about how its standards apply to a student.
- 2
Talking only to the assessor who asks the questions
Two assessors score every station, and one may be a lay person. Make your reasoning clear to both, in plain words.
- 3
A generic answer to "why Chester"
Chester describes itself as a school for and in the community, built on service and compassion, with case-based learning and early patient contact. Use what Chester actually says about itself.
- 4
Hiding your first degree or career
Chester welcomes graduates of any subject. Show what your background brings, instead of apologising for it.
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Treating honesty as a minor point
Chester states that dishonesty is incompatible with GMC-regulated training. In any integrity scenario, choose the truthful course even when it costs you.
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Expecting feedback if unsuccessful
Chester says it cannot give individual feedback from its selection process. Keep your own notes straight after the interview while you remember it.
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Chester medicine interview: common questions
Does Chester interview for medicine?
Yes: Chester interviews every applicant who meets its academic criteria and entry test standard, and no place is offered without an interview. The interview is a six-station multiple mini interview (MMI) lasting about one and a half hours.
When are Chester medicine interviews for 2027 entry?
Chester has not published interview dates for 2027 entry, and gives no month or window on its course or international pages.
Applications for September 2027 entry are now closed. Chester says further details come on shortlisting; we add dates to our interview dates table when schools publish them.
When will I hear whether I have a Chester medicine interview?
Chester does not publish a date for interview invitations.
Its international applicants page says further details of the interview are available upon shortlisting, so watch your email after the October deadline.
Are Chester medicine interviews online or in person?
Chester does not publish whether its medicine interviews are online or in person.
Chester's international page says further details are given on shortlisting, so your invitation should say.
How many stations are in the Chester MMI, and how long is it?
The Chester MMI has six stations and lasts about one and a half hours.
Two trained assessors observe and score you at each station. Chester does not publish the time per station.
What does Chester look for at interview?
Chester says every MMI station is designed to assess against the GMC's Good Medical Practice; it does not publish station themes or marking criteria.
The Medical School's ethos of service to the community and compassion, and its Professionalism and Personal Development strand, show the qualities it values, and the themes on this page follow them.
How does Chester choose who to interview for medicine?
Chester interviews every applicant who meets its academic criteria and the entry test threshold. The degree rules, test threshold and work experience requirement are on our Chester graduate entry medicine guide.
How competitive is the Chester medicine interview?
Chester does not publish how many applicants it interviews or makes offers to, so no post-interview success rate can be given.
What Chester does state is that each candidate's score profile is reviewed after the MMI to decide who receives an offer.
Are international applicants interviewed differently at Chester?
No: Chester describes the same MMI for international applicants and publishes no separate format.
Its international page confirms that no place is offered without an interview and that details are given on shortlisting.
When will I hear from Chester after my interview?
Chester does not publish a decision date.
It says each candidate's score profile is reviewed once the MMI process is complete, and that it cannot give individual feedback from its selection centre.
Can I reschedule a Chester medicine interview?
Chester does not publish a rescheduling policy for medicine interviews.
Contact the admissions team as soon as you know you cannot attend, and keep your invitation to hand.
Is Chester medicine only for graduates?
Yes: Chester's only medicine course is the four-year Graduate Entry Medicine MBChB (A101), open to graduates of any discipline.
Entry requirements are on our Chester graduate entry medicine guide.
Where these facts come from
- University of Chester, Graduate Entry Medicine MBChB (A101) course page (September 2027 entry (applications now closed))
- University of Chester, Application Information for Graduate Entry Medicine (international applicants) (no year stated)
- University of Chester, Chester Medical School (no year stated)
- Admissions statistics on our Chester profile (none held; Chester publishes no interviewed count) (no figures held)
Last checked: 26 October 2026. Universities change interview arrangements during the cycle, so confirm on Chester's own page before you travel or book. The questions above are practice questions written by TheUKCATPeople from Chester's published guidance; they are not real or leaked interview questions.
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