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Edge Hill Medicine Interview Questions (2027 Entry)
How Edge Hill University Medical School runs its multiple mini interviews (MMIs) at its Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre in Ormskirk, what it has and has not published for 2027 entry, and 57 practice questions grouped by the ten areas Edge Hill says it assesses, with model answers.
Reviewed by Dr Akash Gandhi, NHS GP and a Cambridge and UCL graduate (GMC register) · Checked against Edge Hill's official pages: 24 October 2026
Edge Hill medicine interviews, 2027 entry
Edge Hill medicine interviews are multiple mini interviews (MMIs). In the last round they were in person on the Ormskirk campus: five to eight stations, including one rest station, of about seven minutes each, with interviews running until the end of January. Edge Hill has not published 2027 entry dates. For 2023 entry, 28% of interviewees received an offer.
- When
- Not yet published for 2027 entry: the course page lists the interview stage as details to be confirmed. In the last round, interviews ran until the end of JanuaryNot published by the universityEdge Hill University, Medicine MBChB (A100) course page (2027 entry (closed to 2027 applications; interview stage marked details to be confirmed))
- Delivery
- In person at the Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre, Edge Hill campus, Ormskirk (last round)Last cycle, not yet confirmed for 2027Edge Hill University, Interview guidance: MBChB Medicine and MBChB Medicine with Foundation Year (no entry year stated; last round (2026 entry), adjustments deadline 13 December 2025; page updated October 2026)
- Stations
- 5 to 8 stations, including 1 rest station, each typically 7 minutes, with 2 minutes' reading time before each and 1 minute to move on (last round)Last cycle, not yet confirmed for 2027Edge Hill University, Interview guidance: MBChB Medicine and MBChB Medicine with Foundation Year (no entry year stated; last round (2026 entry), adjustments deadline 13 December 2025; page updated October 2026)
- Length of the day
- Allow about 2.5 hours (last round)Last cycle, not yet confirmed for 2027Edge Hill University, Interview guidance: MBChB Medicine and MBChB Medicine with Foundation Year (no entry year stated; last round (2026 entry), adjustments deadline 13 December 2025; page updated October 2026)
- What is assessed
- Ten areas, from motivation for Edge Hill to interpretation of data, mapped onto the NHS Constitution values and Edge Hill's own valuesUniversity's usual pattern, no year givenEdge Hill University Medical School, MBChB and MBChB with Foundation Year Admissions and Selection Supplement (PDF) (October 2023, no entry year stated; still the policy linked from the course page)
- Before the day
- Complete the online Non-Disclosure Agreement form; without it the interview cannot go ahead (last round)Last cycle, not yet confirmed for 2027Edge Hill University, Interview guidance: MBChB Medicine and MBChB Medicine with Foundation Year (no entry year stated; last round (2026 entry), adjustments deadline 13 December 2025; page updated October 2026)
- How offers are made
- Ranked on overall MMI score; the personal statement and reference only separate applicants who tie at the thresholdUniversity's usual pattern, no year givenEdge Hill University Medical School, MBChB and MBChB with Foundation Year Admissions and Selection Supplement (PDF) (October 2023, no entry year stated; still the policy linked from the course page)
- International applicants
- Not currently eligible: applicants assessed as international for fees are told Edge Hill cannot take themUniversity's usual pattern, no year givenEdge Hill University Medical School, MBChB and MBChB with Foundation Year Admissions and Selection Supplement (PDF) (October 2023, no entry year stated; still the policy linked from the course page)
- Post-interview success, home, 2023 entry
- 28% (32 offers from 115 interviewed)Published admissions figuresAdmissions statistics as published on our Edge Hill profile (Edge Hill does not publish interview figures on its own site) (2023 entry)
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How does Edge Hill interview for medicine?
Edge Hill University Medical School interviews with multiple mini interviews (MMIs), and no offers are made without an interview. Edge Hill says the aim is to explore your non-academic skills and personal attributes and to encourage you to talk naturally about yourself, your studies and your experiences. It describes the interview as formal but friendly.
In the last round, interviews were held in person at the Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre on the Edge Hill campus near Ormskirk. There were five to eight stations, including one rest station, each typically seven minutes long. Before each station you had two minutes to read and consider the scenario, then one minute to move to the next, so each station took ten minutes in all. Your starting station is chosen at random, and at each one you discuss a scenario or factors relevant to studying medicine.
What is published for 2027 entry
Edge Hill's course page lists the interview and scoring stages for this cycle as details to be confirmed. The format above comes from its applicant interview guidance from the last round, which was still live in October 2026. Treat it as the most recent published format and check your invitation for the 2027 details.
New to the MMI format? Our MMI preparation guide covers the circuit and how stations are marked, so this page stays on what is specific to Edge Hill.
Source: Edge Hill University, Interview guidance: MBChB Medicine and MBChB Medicine with Foundation Year (no entry year stated; last round (2026 entry), adjustments deadline 13 December 2025; page updated October 2026); Edge Hill University, Medicine MBChB (A100) course page (2027 entry (closed to 2027 applications; interview stage marked details to be confirmed)); Edge Hill University Medical School, MBChB and MBChB with Foundation Year Admissions and Selection Supplement (PDF) (October 2023, no entry year stated; still the policy linked from the course page)
When are Edge Hill medicine interviews for 2027 entry?
| Cycle | When | Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| 2027 entry | Not yet published (details to be confirmed) | Not yet published |
| Last round (2026 entry) | Until the end of January; adjustment requests were due by 13 December 2025 | In person, Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre, Ormskirk |
Edge Hill does not publish interview dates or a date for invitations in advance. In the last round, invited applicants received an email invitation, could see the date and time of their interview in UCAS, and had to confirm attendance through UCAS Hub. Edge Hill said it was interviewing until the end of January, and that decisions would follow once every interview had been completed, reviewed and ranked.
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Source: Edge Hill University, Medicine MBChB (A100) course page (2027 entry (closed to 2027 applications; interview stage marked details to be confirmed)); Edge Hill University, Interview guidance: MBChB Medicine and MBChB Medicine with Foundation Year (no entry year stated; last round (2026 entry), adjustments deadline 13 December 2025; page updated October 2026)
How does Edge Hill decide who to interview?
Applicants who meet the academic criteria are ranked on their total UCAT score, and a threshold is set each year from the number of interviews to be held; it is extended for applicants who meet specific widening participation criteria or completed Edge Hill's Widening Access to Medicine Programme, and an SJT band 4 is automatically rejected. Past thresholds and the widening participation criteria are on our Edge Hill medical school profile, which is the page for that question.
Personal statements and references are not routinely used in selection for interview. After the MMI, applicants are ranked on their overall MMI score and offers go to the top-ranking applicants.
Source: Edge Hill University, Medicine MBChB (A100) course page (2027 entry (closed to 2027 applications; interview stage marked details to be confirmed)); Edge Hill University Medical School, MBChB and MBChB with Foundation Year Admissions and Selection Supplement (PDF) (October 2023, no entry year stated; still the policy linked from the course page)
What does Edge Hill assess at interview?
Edge Hill says its admissions process follows values-based recruitment, and that its MMIs assess a range of skills and attributes mapped onto the NHS Constitution values and Edge Hill's own vision and values. Its interview guidance lists these areas and says the assessment will include many of them:
- Motivation for wanting to study medicine, with specific reference to Edge Hill University.
- Communication skills.
- Integrity and probity.
- Teamwork and leadership.
- Empathy and compassion.
- Awareness of current health challenges.
- Ethical awareness.
- Awareness of self and others.
- Prioritisation and decision making.
- Interpretation of data.
Before the day, Edge Hill also tells candidates to familiarise themselves with the NHS core values. The seven themes below group those ten areas. The questions are practice questions written by TheUKCATPeople from Edge Hill's published guidance. They are not real or leaked Edge Hill questions, and nothing here comes from students reporting what they were asked.
Source: Edge Hill University, Interview guidance: MBChB Medicine and MBChB Medicine with Foundation Year (no entry year stated; last round (2026 entry), adjustments deadline 13 December 2025; page updated October 2026); Edge Hill University Medical School, MBChB and MBChB with Foundation Year Admissions and Selection Supplement (PDF) (October 2023, no entry year stated; still the policy linked from the course page)
Edge Hill medicine interview questions, by theme
Grouped by what Edge Hill says it assesses. Each question has a note on what a strong answer covers, and the Edge Hill-specific ones have a full model answer. These are practice questions written by TheUKCATPeople from Edge Hill's published guidance, not real or leaked questions.
- Motivation for medicine, and for Edge Hill (1 to 9)
- Communication, empathy and compassion (10 to 17)
- Integrity and probity (18 to 25)
- Teamwork, leadership and awareness of self and others (26 to 33)
- Ethical awareness (34 to 41)
- Awareness of current health challenges (42 to 49)
- Prioritisation, decision making and interpreting data (50 to 57)
Motivation for medicine, and for Edge Hill
What Edge Hill says: Edge Hill assesses motivation for wanting to study medicine with specific reference to Edge Hill University. Edge Hill University, Interview guidance: MBChB Medicine and MBChB Medicine with Foundation Year
Edge Hill asks for motivation with specific reference to itself, so a general answer about medicine is only half of what is marked. Know what its course actually does: a hybrid of case-based and team-based learning in the first two years, early placements with a focus on community and mental health settings, a year-by-year theme from the person and the community to preparedness for practice, and placements across the North West.
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Why do you want to study medicine, and what have you done to test that decision?
What to cover: Give your starting point briefly, then spend most of the answer on how you checked it: what you saw, read or did that could have put you off and did not.
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Why Edge Hill?
What to cover: Choose two things Edge Hill's course does, such as early placements in community and mental health settings or its focus on local communities, and say why they suit you. Mentioning that it is close to home is fine, but it cannot be the whole answer.
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Edge Hill teaches the first two years through a hybrid of case-based and team-based learning. How do you think that will suit you?
What to cover: Describe how you learn best with an example from school, and link it to learning science through a patient's case and in a team. Mention one thing you might find harder. Our teaching styles guide explains the models.
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Edge Hill's early placements focus on community and mental healthcare settings. What do you expect to learn there that a hospital ward would not teach you?
What to cover: Think about seeing people in their own lives, long-term conditions, and how much care happens outside hospital. Link it to something you saw on work experience or volunteering.
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Year 1 at Edge Hill is called "The Person and the Community". What does that title tell you about the course?
What to cover: Show you understand that health is shaped by where and how people live, not only by disease. Give an example from your own area.
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Edge Hill says its graduates will understand the needs of the local communities they serve. What are the health needs of the community you know best?
What to cover: Pick one or two needs you have seen for yourself, such as mental health or access to a GP, and say why they matter. You do not need statistics.
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Year 5 at Edge Hill is an apprentice year with assistantships and a focus on acute medicine. Why do you think a medical school would end the course that way?
What to cover: Talk about the step from student to foundation doctor and why practising with supervised responsibility helps. Our guide to the medical training pathway explains what comes next.
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Edge Hill is a newer medical school; its first medicine students graduated in July 2025. What might be good about joining a young medical school?
What to cover: Think about a course built recently around current GMC outcomes, and a chance to help shape the school. Be fair: a newer school has a shorter track record, and you can say how you weighed that.
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If you are not offered a place this year, what will you do?
What to cover: Give a realistic plan that keeps medicine as the goal. Edge Hill welcomes reapplications from unsuccessful candidates who meet the criteria, so improving your application and reapplying is a reasonable answer.
Model answer
Why Edge Hill?
The first reason is where the early placements are. Edge Hill focuses its early clinical experience on community and mental health settings. My volunteering was at a day centre for adults with long-term mental illness, and the thing I learned most was how much of people's health depended on what happened between appointments. I want a course that starts there.
The second is the teaching. In the first two years Edge Hill mixes case-based and team-based learning. In my chemistry revision group I found I understood things best when I had to explain them to someone else and hear how they saw it, and team-based learning builds the course around that.
And I like that Edge Hill talks about the local communities its graduates serve. I grew up in the North West and I can see the difference in health between my town and the next. Training on placements across the region, with patients like the people I grew up with, is exactly what I want.
Go deeper: How to answer "Why medicine?"
Communication, empathy and compassion
What Edge Hill says: Edge Hill lists communication skills and empathy and compassion among the areas its MMI assesses, and says candidates need to show the interpersonal skills important for a medical career. Edge Hill University, Interview guidance: MBChB Medicine and MBChB Medicine with Foundation Year
Some Edge Hill stations are likely to ask you to talk to someone, and you have two minutes outside to read the scenario first. Use them to decide what the person probably needs and what you must not promise. Empathy shows in what you do: listening to the end, naming the feeling, and offering something practical.
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A patient's daughter is upset because nobody has told her what is happening with her father. Talk to her.
What to cover: Let her speak, acknowledge the worry and stay calm. As a student you cannot share his information without his consent, so offer to find the nurse or doctor who can.
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Your friend on the course has failed an exam and says they want to leave medicine. Talk to them.
What to cover: Listen before you advise, ask what happened and how they feel, check they are safe, and point them to their personal tutor. Avoid telling them what to decide.
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Explain to an older neighbour how to take a new medicine that the leaflet makes confusing.
What to cover: Ask what they already understand, explain in plain words and ask them to tell it back. If anything is beyond you, suggest the pharmacist and offer to go with them.
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You have to tell a customer that the item they came to collect was sold by mistake. Go ahead.
What to cover: Say it early and plainly, apologise once, let them react, then move to what you can do. The SPIKES framework follows the same order.
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What is the difference between empathy and sympathy, and why does it matter to patients?
What to cover: Empathy is understanding someone's situation from their side; sympathy is feeling sorry for them. Our empathy and sympathy guide shows how the difference sounds.
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Tell me about a time you supported someone who was struggling. How did you know what they needed?
What to cover: Show that you asked and listened before acting. The detail of what they said back to you is what makes the answer believable.
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How would you speak to a patient whose first language is not English about a test result?
What to cover: Use a professional interpreter, short sentences and checks of understanding. Explain why a family member is a poor substitute when the news is serious.
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What does compassion look like on a busy ward when there is no time to sit with anyone?
What to cover: Small things that take seconds: using someone's name, explaining what you are about to do, coming back when you said you would.
Model answer
A patient's daughter is upset because nobody has told her what is happening with her father. Talk to her.
"I'm sorry, it sounds really frightening not knowing what's going on. I'm one of the medical students on the ward. Would you like to sit down and tell me what's happened so far?" I would let her finish, because she probably needs to say it before she can listen.
Then I would be clear about what I can do. "I'm not able to share details about your dad's care myself, because that has to come from his team and with his agreement. But I can find the nurse looking after him now and ask them to come and speak to you, and I'll come back and tell you how long that will be."
I would go and do that straight away, and I would not blame anyone or guess at what is wrong. If she was angry about the communication, I would tell her she could raise it with the ward manager or the patient advice service, and I would pass on what she had told me so the team knew how she felt.
Go deeper: MMI role-play stations
Integrity and probity
What Edge Hill says: Edge Hill lists integrity and probity among the areas its MMI assesses, and says applicants must be of good character and open about anything that could affect their practice. Edge Hill University, Interview guidance: MBChB Medicine and MBChB Medicine with Foundation Year
Probity means being trustworthy when nobody is checking. Edge Hill takes it seriously before you even reach a station: you sign a non-disclosure agreement, prompts and AI are not allowed during the interview, and it can withdraw an offer over behaviour or comments at interview whatever your score. Expect scenarios where the easy option is to stay quiet.
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A friend who is interviewing at Edge Hill next week asks you what your stations were about. What do you do?
What to cover: Decline kindly and explain why. Edge Hill asks candidates not to share interview questions and says anyone found doing so will have any offer withdrawn.
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You realise you gave a patient the wrong information on placement yesterday. Nobody has noticed. What do you do?
What to cover: Tell your supervisor today, make sure the patient is corrected with an apology, and work out why it happened. The mistake can be forgiven; hiding it cannot.
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A coursemate asks you to sign them in to a teaching session they are skipping. What do you say?
What to cover: Say no without a lecture, explain that it creates a false record and could lead to fitness to practise concerns for you both, and ask whether something is wrong.
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A fellow student posts a photo from a placement with a patient's notes visible in the background. What do you do?
What to cover: Treat it as a confidentiality breach whatever they meant. Ask them to remove it at once and escalate if they refuse. Our confidentiality guide covers where the line sits.
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What does probity mean, and why does the GMC expect it from medical students?
What to cover: Explain it as being trustworthy in everything you do, including outside placements, because patients rely on what doctors tell them and write down.
- 23
You smell alcohol on a doctor's breath before a ward round. What do you do?
What to cover: Patient safety comes first, so act today: tell your supervisor or another senior person promptly. Our whistleblowing guide covers raising concerns.
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Edge Hill does not allow notes or AI during its interview. Why do you think that rule matters?
What to cover: Talk about fairness to other candidates and about the interview showing how you think in the moment, which is what you will need on a ward.
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Is it ever acceptable for a doctor not to tell a patient the whole truth?
What to cover: Distinguish lying from pacing difficult news for a patient who does not want every detail at once. Reason it through, then give a clear view.
Model answer
A friend who is interviewing at Edge Hill next week asks you what your stations were about. What do you do?
I would tell them no, kindly, and explain why. Edge Hill asks every candidate not to share interview questions, and it says anyone found doing so will have any offer withdrawn. That settles it for me, but I also think the rule is right.
The MMI only works if everyone meets the same stations without warning. If I told my friend, I would be giving them an advantage over people who do not happen to know someone who went earlier, and one of those people might lose a place because of it. A doctor has to treat everyone by the same standard, and this is the same idea.
I would offer to help in a fair way instead. We could practise general questions together, I could tell them how I prepared and what the day felt like, and I could remind them to bring their certificates and photo ID. The station content would not help them much anyway, because what is marked is how you think on the day.
Go deeper: The GMC guide for medicine interviews
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Teamwork, leadership and awareness of self and others
What Edge Hill says: Edge Hill assesses teamwork and leadership, and awareness of self and others, at its MMI. Edge Hill University, Interview guidance: MBChB Medicine and MBChB Medicine with Foundation Year
Edge Hill's course is built around teams: team-based learning in the early years, a Year 3 theme of integrative care within multidisciplinary teams, and teaching from pharmacists, nurses, psychologists and service users as well as doctors. Prepare two or three real stories you can adapt: a team that worked, one that did not, and a time you learned something about yourself.
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Tell me about a team you were in that did not work well. What part did you play?
What to cover: Own some of it, identify what went wrong, such as unclear roles, and say what you would do now. Blaming others uses up the time.
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Describe a time you led a group. What did you learn about leading?
What to cover: Show leadership as helping others do their part, with a real decision and how the group reacted. Include something you got wrong.
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Edge Hill's third year is themed around care within multidisciplinary teams. Who else looks after a patient with a long-term condition, and what do they do?
What to cover: Go beyond doctors and nurses: pharmacists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, social workers and carers. Show that the patient depends on all of them.
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What is a weakness that could matter for you as a medical student, and what do you do about it?
What to cover: Name a real one and describe what you actually do to manage it. Awareness of yourself is what Edge Hill names, and a disguised strength does not show it.
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How do you think other people see you, and where might they be wrong?
What to cover: Give a trait people notice and an example of a gap between that impression and how you feel. Noticing the gap is the awareness being tested.
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In team-based learning, one member of your team never prepares. What do you do?
What to cover: Find out why before judging, agree clear tasks, and involve a tutor only if it carries on. Be fair and direct together.
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You are the most junior person in a team and you think the plan is unsafe. What do you do?
What to cover: Ask a question first and give your reason, accept a good answer, and escalate if a patient could be harmed. Rank should not stop a safety concern.
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How do you look after yourself under pressure, and how do you know when you are not coping?
What to cover: Name your own warning signs and what you do about them. Edge Hill's course builds in resilience, and asking for help early is a professional duty. Our NHS mental health guide covers the wider picture.
Model answer
What is a weakness that could matter for you as a medical student, and what do you do about it?
I find it hard to ask for help. If I am stuck I tend to keep going on my own for too long, because I do not want to look as though I cannot cope. In Year 12 I spent most of a weekend stuck on one chemistry problem that my teacher explained in five minutes on Monday.
In medicine that habit could be dangerous, because a student or junior doctor who does not ask can make a mistake that harms a patient. So I have started setting myself a rule: if I have been stuck for twenty minutes, I ask someone. At my volunteering placement I made a point of checking with the coordinator whenever I was unsure, and nobody thought less of me for it.
I know it will be tested on placements, when everyone around me is busy. That is partly why team-based learning appeals to me: it makes asking each other a normal part of the day.
Go deeper: The multidisciplinary team explained
Ethical awareness
What Edge Hill says: Ethical awareness is one of the areas Edge Hill says its MMI assesses. Edge Hill University, Interview guidance: MBChB Medicine and MBChB Medicine with Foundation Year
An ethics station gives you a scenario and two minutes to think. Use them to name whose interests are at stake and what you would need to know. Then reason out loud: what matters, what you would do, and what would change your mind. Our guide to answering ethics questions gives you a structure.
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A patient with capacity refuses a treatment that would probably save their life. What should happen?
What to cover: Check capacity and understanding, explore their reasons, offer alternatives and record it. Then respect the decision; our guide to autonomy explains why.
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A 15-year-old asks a GP for contraception and does not want her parents told. What are the issues?
What to cover: Consider whether she can understand the decision, her right to confidentiality and any signs of risk. Our Gillick competence guide sets out the test.
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A patient asks you not to tell their family about their diagnosis, and the family keep asking. What do you do?
What to cover: The patient's wishes come first, so do not share. Be kind to the family and gently encourage the patient to think about who they want to know.
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Should people who smoke wait longer for some operations?
What to cover: Separate the clinical argument about surgical risk from the moral one about blame. Discuss fairness and addiction, then give a reasoned view. Our guide to justice in medical ethics helps.
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An older patient wants to go home, but the team thinks it is unsafe. What matters in deciding what happens?
What to cover: Start with whether they have capacity for this decision, then look for ways to make home safer, involving the patient, family and wider team.
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England uses an opt-out system for organ donation. Is that right?
What to cover: Set out the case for and against, mention that families are still consulted, and come to your own view. Our organ donation guide has the background.
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A friend asks you to look up their relative's results on the hospital system. What do you say?
What to cover: Say no, kindly and at once. Viewing records with no clinical reason breaches confidentiality and the law, so help them ask through the proper route.
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Should doctors ever treat members of their own family?
What to cover: Explain why the GMC advises against it except in emergencies: objectivity, confidentiality and the patient's freedom to speak openly.
Model answer
An older patient wants to go home, but the team thinks it is unsafe. What matters in deciding what happens?
The first question is whether she has capacity to make this decision. That means checking she can understand the information about the risks, remember it long enough, weigh it up and tell us her choice. If she can, the decision is hers, even if the team thinks it is unwise.
Then I would want to understand why she wants to go home and what the team is worried about. If the worry is falls, perhaps an occupational therapy assessment, equipment, a care package or a family member staying could make home safe enough. Often the answer is not hospital or home but home with support.
If she lacks capacity, the team must act in her best interests, which still means listening to her wishes and talking to her family. Either way, I would want the whole team involved, including social workers, because this is exactly the kind of decision Edge Hill's course teaches as multidisciplinary care.
Go deeper: The four pillars of medical ethics
Awareness of current health challenges
What Edge Hill says: Awareness of current health challenges is one of the areas Edge Hill says its MMI assesses. Edge Hill University, Interview guidance: MBChB Medicine and MBChB Medicine with Foundation Year
Pick three or four current issues and know them well: what is happening, why it matters to patients, and what a doctor can do. Edge Hill's course leans towards public health, prevention and care in the community, and its early placements focus on mental health settings, so those are natural places to start.
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Which health challenge in the news recently caught your attention, and why does it matter to doctors?
What to cover: Choose one story you can explain in depth, give the facts accurately and link it to patients. If you cannot go beyond the headline, choose another.
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Why do people in the poorest areas spend fewer years in good health, and what can a doctor do?
What to cover: Explain the social causes, such as income, housing and education, then a doctor's part. Our health inequalities guide covers the Marmot evidence.
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Why is mental health care under so much pressure, and what is a GP's role?
What to cover: Talk about demand, waiting times and the link with physical health, then what a GP does: assessment, treatment, referral and follow-up. Our mental health guide has the background.
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Why do some patients stay in hospital after they are well enough to leave?
What to cover: Many are waiting for social care or a care home place. Explain what that means for them and for A&E; our guide to the ageing population and social care helps.
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The NHS wants to shift care from hospitals into the community and from treatment to prevention. What would that look like in practice?
What to cover: Give one concrete example of each shift and one difficulty, such as staffing. Our guide to the 10 Year Health Plan explains the three shifts.
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Why is antibiotic resistance a problem, and what can a new doctor do?
What to cover: Explain how resistance develops and why few new antibiotics are coming, then prescribing only when needed and explaining why to patients. See our antimicrobial resistance guide.
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What are the benefits and risks of artificial intelligence in the NHS?
What to cover: Give one real benefit, such as faster scan reading, and one real risk, such as bias or unclear responsibility. Our AI in medicine guide has examples.
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Why are some resident doctors leaving the NHS?
What to cover: Talk about pay, rotas, training bottlenecks and burnout, with some balance, then what might help. Our resident doctors guide sets out the evidence.
Model answer
Why is mental health care under so much pressure, and what is a GP's role?
More people are asking for help with their mental health than there are services to see them quickly, especially young people. Waiting lists for talking therapies and for children's services can be long, and when people cannot get help early, more of them end up in crisis, in A&E or admitted to hospital far from home.
Mental and physical health are also tied together. People with serious mental illness die younger, often from heart and lung disease, partly because their physical health gets less attention. So the pressure is not only on mental health services.
The GP is often the first and most regular contact. They can assess, start treatment, refer to talking therapies, check physical health, and keep seeing the person while they wait. At the day centre where I volunteered, the people who coped best were the ones with a GP who knew them. That is one reason Edge Hill's early placements in mental health settings appeal to me.
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Prioritisation, decision making and interpreting data
What Edge Hill says: Edge Hill lists prioritisation and decision making, and interpretation of data, among the areas its MMI assesses. Edge Hill University, Interview guidance: MBChB Medicine and MBChB Medicine with Foundation Year
Few schools name interpretation of data, so expect a station with a chart, a table or a calculation as well as one that asks you to put tasks in order. You get two minutes to read first. Talk the interviewer through your reasoning as you go, because a clear method with a small slip scores better than a right answer nobody can follow.
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You are volunteering on a ward. A call bell is ringing, a patient wants water, a visitor is lost and a nurse asks you to fetch a form. What do you do first?
What to cover: Rank by risk to patients, so the call bell comes first, and say who you would ask to help with the rest. Our prioritisation stations guide has more examples.
- 51
This chart shows A&E attendances rising over five years. What does it tell you, and what does it not?
What to cover: Describe the trend with its units, then the limits: it does not show why people came, how ill they were, or how the population changed.
- 52
A table shows that a town's GP practices have fewer GPs per 10,000 patients than the national average. What questions would you ask before drawing a conclusion?
What to cover: Ask about the age and health of the population, other staff such as nurses and pharmacists, and how recent the data is. Our guide to the GP shortage has the context.
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Without a calculator: a child weighs 18 kg and needs 10 mg per kg of a medicine. The liquid has 120 mg in 5 ml. How many ml?
What to cover: The dose is 18 × 10 = 180 mg. The liquid has 24 mg per ml, so 180 ÷ 24 = 7.5 ml. Our MMI calculation guide has more.
- 54
A new treatment cuts the risk of a stroke from 4% to 3%. How would you explain that to a patient?
What to cover: Say it in plain numbers: of 100 people like them, about 4 would have a stroke without it and about 3 with it. Mention side effects and what matters to them.
- 55
You have three deadlines in one week and then fall ill. What do you do?
What to cover: Prioritise by deadline and weight, tell your tutor early, and use the university's process for extensions. Hiding the problem is the answer that loses marks.
- 56
Two treatments for the same condition: one works slightly better but costs ten times as much. How should the NHS decide?
What to cover: Weigh how much better it is, what else the money could buy, and whether some patients gain much more. Then give a view and what would change it.
- 57
Your train to a 9am placement is cancelled. What do you do?
What to cover: Tell the placement early, find the next route and give an accurate arrival time. Edge Hill's placements are across the North West and you pay your own travel, so planning for disruption is part of the job.
Model answer
A new treatment cuts the risk of a stroke from 4% to 3%. How would you explain that to a patient?
I would avoid saying it "cuts your risk by a quarter", because that sounds bigger than it is. Instead I would say: "If we took 100 people like you and didn't treat them, about 4 would have a stroke in the next few years. If all 100 took this medicine, about 3 would. So for most people it makes no difference, but for about 1 in 100 it prevents a stroke."
Then I would talk about the other side: side effects, how often they would need to take it, any monitoring, and the cost to them in time or effort. I would ask what matters most to them, because someone who has watched a parent live with a stroke may weigh that 1 in 100 very differently from someone who hates taking tablets.
Finally I would check they had understood by asking them to tell me in their own words, and make sure they knew they did not have to decide on the spot.
Go deeper: Data interpretation stations
How is the Edge Hill MMI scored?
At the end of each station the interviewer assesses your performance against standardised criteria, and interviewers do not see your scores from other stations. The station scores are combined, every candidate is ranked on their overall MMI score, and offers go to the top-ranking applicants. Your personal statement and reference may be used only to separate applicants whose scores tie at the threshold.
Edge Hill also keeps the right not to offer a place if there are concerns about a candidate's behaviour or comments at interview, whatever their overall score. People involved in selection come from health, clinical, academic and lay backgrounds, and all are trained before they take part.
Source: Edge Hill University, Interview guidance: MBChB Medicine and MBChB Medicine with Foundation Year (no entry year stated; last round (2026 entry), adjustments deadline 13 December 2025; page updated October 2026); Edge Hill University Medical School, MBChB and MBChB with Foundation Year Admissions and Selection Supplement (PDF) (October 2023, no entry year stated; still the policy linked from the course page)
What happens on the day, and what should I bring?
This is the last round's guidance; check your invitation for the 2027 details.
- Before the day: confirm your attendance through UCAS Hub, complete the online Non-Disclosure Agreement form (you cannot interview without it), and familiarise yourself with the NHS core values.
- Arrival: report to the University's Main Reception, building 1 on the campus map, where you are directed to registration and your qualifications are checked. If you drive, validate your parking at Main Reception and allow time, because the car parks get busy.
- The day: an introduction and overview, the MMI circuit, then a candidate evaluation of the day. Allow about 2.5 hours.
- Bring your original A level (or equivalent) and GCSE certificates, photocopies of them, and original photo ID (a valid passport or photocard driving licence). Without photo ID you cannot interview; without certificates, any offer is held until they are verified.
- No prompts: notes, instructors and AI are not allowed during the interview, other than anything pre-agreed as a reasonable adjustment.
- Family and friends can wait in a designated area for the length of the MMI.
- Reasonable adjustments: email the Admissions Team with evidence by the date in your invitation (in the last round, 13 December 2025).
- Mitigating circumstances: tell the Medical School before the interview. Edge Hill does not normally accept them afterwards.
Source: Edge Hill University, Interview guidance: MBChB Medicine and MBChB Medicine with Foundation Year (no entry year stated; last round (2026 entry), adjustments deadline 13 December 2025; page updated October 2026); Edge Hill University Medical School, MBChB and MBChB with Foundation Year Admissions and Selection Supplement (PDF) (October 2023, no entry year stated; still the policy linked from the course page)
Does the Foundation Year interview differently?
No. Edge Hill's selection processes for MBChB Medicine with Foundation Year and MBChB Medicine are aligned, and its current interview guidance covers both. The six-year Foundation Year route is a widening participation programme for students who have lived in the North West of England for at least a year and meet Edge Hill's school, area or household criteria; international students are not eligible. Edge Hill's older Foundation Year interview page describes a slightly longer day of about three hours, with a student-led campus tour.
Source: Edge Hill University Medical School, MBChB and MBChB with Foundation Year Admissions and Selection Supplement (PDF) (October 2023, no entry year stated; still the policy linked from the course page); Edge Hill University, Interview guidance: MBChB Medicine and MBChB Medicine with Foundation Year (no entry year stated; last round (2026 entry), adjustments deadline 13 December 2025; page updated October 2026); Edge Hill University, MBChB Medicine with Foundation Year course page (2027 entry (closed to 2027 applications)); Edge Hill University, Essential preparation for your interview: MBChB Medicine with Foundation Year (no year stated; page updated March 2026)
What happens after the Edge Hill interview?
Edge Hill does not publish a decision date. In the last round it said decisions would come once all interviews, running until the end of January, had been completed, reviewed and ranked; its admissions supplement says top-ranking applicants are made offers soon after the interviews, decisions may be slightly delayed for a few applicants, and reserve lists may be used. Offers are conditional on your qualifications, health screening, fitness to practise clearance, an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.
Edge Hill does not give individual feedback on interview performance or release station scores. For 2023 entry, 32 of the 115 home applicants interviewed received an offer (28%). Unsuccessful applicants are welcome to reapply the following year, and Edge Hill does not offer deferred entry: deferring means reapplying, including a new interview.
Source: Edge Hill University, Interview guidance: MBChB Medicine and MBChB Medicine with Foundation Year (no entry year stated; last round (2026 entry), adjustments deadline 13 December 2025; page updated October 2026); Edge Hill University Medical School, MBChB and MBChB with Foundation Year Admissions and Selection Supplement (PDF) (October 2023, no entry year stated; still the policy linked from the course page); Admissions statistics as published on our Edge Hill profile (Edge Hill does not publish interview figures on its own site) (2023 entry)
Practise a Edge Hill-style interview
A timed mock in the format Edge Hill uses, built from the themes Edge Hill publishes. Record yourself, then mark it against the pointers above.
Common mistakes at the Edge Hill interview
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Forgetting the Non-Disclosure Agreement
In the last round, Edge Hill said you could not proceed with your interview until the online Non-Disclosure Agreement form was completed. Do it as soon as the invitation arrives.
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Leaving certificates or ID at home
Without original photo ID you cannot interview, and without your original certificates any offer is held until they are checked. Pack them, and photocopies, the night before.
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A "Why Edge Hill?" answer that could fit any school
Edge Hill assesses motivation with specific reference to itself. Know its early community and mental health placements, its team-based learning and its focus on local communities.
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Skipping data practice
Interpretation of data is one of Edge Hill's ten areas. Practise reading a chart and doing a simple dose calculation out loud.
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Relying on your personal statement
Edge Hill does not routinely use it to select for interview, and uses it after interview only to break ties. What counts is what you say at each station.
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Sharing or asking for station content
Edge Hill says anyone found revealing interview questions, including on social media, will have any offer withdrawn. Do not post about your stations or ask for anyone else's.
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Raising problems after the interview
Edge Hill does not normally accept mitigating circumstances after the event. If something is affecting you, tell the Medical School before the day.
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Edge Hill medicine interview: common questions
Does Edge Hill interview for medicine?
Yes. Edge Hill makes no medicine offers without an interview, and every applicant who passes the UCAT ranking stage is invited to a multiple mini interview (MMI).
The same selection process applies to MBChB Medicine and MBChB Medicine with Foundation Year. Offers go to the applicants with the highest overall MMI scores.
When are Edge Hill medicine interviews for 2027 entry?
Edge Hill has not published its 2027 entry interview dates: its course page lists the interview stage as details to be confirmed.
In the last round, interviews ran until the end of January, and requests for reasonable adjustments were due by 13 December 2025. Compare other schools in our interview dates table.
When will I hear whether I have an Edge Hill medicine interview?
Edge Hill does not publish a date for interview invitations.
In the last round, invitations came by email and the date and time of each interview appeared in UCAS, where applicants confirmed their attendance through UCAS Hub. If you think an invitation has not reached you, email the Admissions Team.
Are Edge Hill medicine interviews online or in person?
In person: in the last round, Edge Hill invited applicants to in-person interviews at its Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre on the campus near Ormskirk.
Edge Hill has not yet published the 2027 entry format, so check your invitation.
How many stations are in the Edge Hill MMI, and how long is it?
In the last round there were five to eight stations, including one rest station, each typically seven minutes long, and Edge Hill asked candidates to allow about 2.5 hours for the day.
You get two minutes to read the scenario before each station and one minute to move on, so each station takes ten minutes. Your starting station is chosen at random.
What does Edge Hill look for at interview?
Edge Hill assesses ten areas: motivation for medicine at Edge Hill, communication, integrity and probity, teamwork and leadership, empathy and compassion, awareness of current health challenges, ethical awareness, awareness of self and others, prioritisation and decision making, and interpretation of data.
They are mapped onto the NHS Constitution values, and Edge Hill asks candidates to familiarise themselves with the NHS core values before the day.
How does Edge Hill choose who to interview for medicine?
Edge Hill ranks applicants who meet its academic criteria on their total UCAT score and invites those above a threshold set each year from the number of interviews to be held, extending it for applicants who meet its widening participation criteria; an SJT band 4 is automatically rejected. The criteria and past thresholds are on our Edge Hill medical school profile.
How competitive is the Edge Hill medicine interview?
For 2023 entry, 28% of home applicants interviewed at Edge Hill received an offer (32 offers from 115 interviewed).
Edge Hill ranks everyone it interviews on their overall MMI score and makes offers from the top, and it may use reserve lists. These figures are from our Edge Hill profile.
Are international applicants interviewed at Edge Hill?
No: Edge Hill does not currently accept international applicants for medicine, and applicants assessed as international for fees are told it cannot take them.
EU, EEA and Swiss students with settled or pre-settled status, and Irish nationals, may be eligible for the UK fee rate, so check your status with Edge Hill before you apply.
When will I hear from Edge Hill after my interview?
Not until every interview has been completed and ranked: in the last round, Edge Hill interviewed until the end of January and said decisions would follow once all interviews had been reviewed and ranked.
Edge Hill does not publish a decision date, may use reserve lists, and does not give individual interview feedback or release station scores.
Can I reschedule an Edge Hill medicine interview?
Edge Hill does not publish a rescheduling policy for medicine interviews, so contact the Admissions Team as soon as you know you cannot attend.
If something may affect your performance, tell the Medical School before the interview: Edge Hill does not normally accept mitigating circumstances afterwards.
Do Edge Hill interviewers read my personal statement?
Not routinely: Edge Hill says personal statements and references are not routinely used in selection for interview, and may be used only to separate applicants whose MMI scores tie at the threshold.
Does the Edge Hill Foundation Year interview differently?
No. Selection for MBChB Medicine with Foundation Year is aligned with MBChB Medicine, including the MMI, and Edge Hill's current interview guidance covers both. The Foundation Year is open only to students from the North West of England who meet its widening participation criteria.
Where these facts come from
- Edge Hill University, Interview guidance: MBChB Medicine and MBChB Medicine with Foundation Year (no entry year stated; last round (2026 entry), adjustments deadline 13 December 2025; page updated October 2026)
- Edge Hill University, Essential preparation for your interview: MBChB Medicine with Foundation Year (no year stated; page updated March 2026)
- Edge Hill University, Medicine MBChB (A100) course page (2027 entry (closed to 2027 applications; interview stage marked details to be confirmed))
- Edge Hill University, MBChB Medicine with Foundation Year course page (2027 entry (closed to 2027 applications))
- Edge Hill University Medical School, MBChB and MBChB with Foundation Year Admissions and Selection Supplement (PDF) (October 2023, no entry year stated; still the policy linked from the course page)
- Admissions statistics as published on our Edge Hill profile (Edge Hill does not publish interview figures on its own site) (2023 entry)
Last checked: 24 October 2026. Universities change interview arrangements during the cycle, so confirm on Edge Hill's own page before you travel or book. The questions above are practice questions written by TheUKCATPeople from Edge Hill's published guidance; they are not real or leaked interview questions.
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