Medicine at University of St George's Medical School & Interview Questions 2026

Minimum age requirements

Applicants must be 18 before they can attend placements or interact with patients (required from Year 1); under-18s at the start are deferred to the following year by default.

🎓 University of St. George’s Medicine Interview Questions & Topics for 2026 (2026 entry)

These are the main topics that will be asked about:

• Reasoning for choosing medicine as a career
• The skills you possess to prove that you will be a good candidate to be a part of the healthcare system
• Your commitment towards helping others and improving their quality of care.
• How good a team worker are you.
• Your knowledge surrounding topics such as research programmes and government policies on healthcare.

The NEW Interview Format

• The interview is conducted using SAMMI® (Scalable Automated Multiple Mini Interviews) software. You will be asked a series of pre-recorded questions created by the City St George’s, University of London community
• You will record your answers in response. Your recordings will then be reviewed and scored by trained interviewers. You will be given a timeframe to complete your interview.
• Each question will be read aloud and also displayed on screen.
• The remote interview consists of six questions, each lasting around five minutes (including the time taken for the question to be read aloud). You will have a 60-second break between each question, and each response is assessed separately and independently.

❓ St. George's Medical Interview Questions 2026 & Likely Topics

These are suggested practice questions based on publicly available information and past trends. They are not official questions from the University and may not appear in your interview. Use them as part of a broader preparation strategy.

Motivation to study medicine

1. Why medicine?
2. Why St. George's? Why have you applied here?
3. What did you learn from your work experience?
4. Have you ever doubted whether you want to do medicine?
5. What qualities of a doctor did you see from your work experience?
6. What do you know about the St. George's Medicine course? How is it taught?
7. Why do you think you will be well suited to this course?
8. Why medicine and not dentistry or nursing?
9. Tell us about your volunteering
10. What are your hobbies?
11. What do you understand about what a career in medicine entails? How will the St. George's course help you towards this?
12. What are the negatives of a career in medicine? How did you overcome these thoughts?

Personal Insight

1. Why should patients trust you?
2. What are your best qualities?
3. How do you manage stress?
4. What are the qualities of a good doctor?
5. Can you provide us with an example of a time when you demonstrated resilience?
6. Give us an example of a time when you demonstrated teamwork.
7. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
8. How would your friends describe you?
9. Tell us about an article that you have recently read.
10. Are you a good teacher?

NHS & Local Area

1. What changes would you make to the NHS if you could?
2. What are the NHS values and why are they important?
3. What is it like to be a doctor?
4. How do you deal with overpopulation?
5. What do you know about the local area here in St. George's?
6. Why is it important to be aware of cultural differences when treating patients?
7. What are the main challenges that face the NHS?
8. How has COVID changed the way the NHS operates?
9. What do you think are going to be the long-term consequences of COVID on the NHS?
10. How does the healthcare system differ here compared to other areas in the UK?

Ethical Scenarios

1. Understanding of the four ethical principles
2. Understanding of the GMC’s good medical practice
3. What is the debate surrounding euthanasia, should it be legalised?
4. Who would you give this organ to? [Prioritisation]
5. How might you persuade someone to take a medicine that they dont want to take?
6. If you notice that a colleague has turned up to work drunk, what would you do?
7. Who can you escalate concerns to within a hospital?
8. Your friends have already completed their St Georges Medical School Interview and are talking about it in the playground - what do you do?
9. Should doctors be paid to go to pharmaceutical conferences?

Other Stations

1. Discuss the pros and cons of assisted dying. What is the difference between assisted dying and assisted suicide? Reflect on your performance in the group in front of everyone.
2. Discuss the pros and cons of a sugar tax. Each person must summarise their position at the end.
3. Antibiotic resistance. What would happen if they were banned tomorrow?
4. Advantages and disadvantages of free Wi-Fi in schools for 15-16 year olds
5. Understanding of communication techniques needed for different people
6. Data interpretation: explain this graph
7. Talk us through this article
8. Analysis of a newspaper article about medical news, what are your thoughts on it

🗣️ St. George's Medicine Interview Tips

1. New SAMMI Select Interview - Given that SGUL St. George's now uses the online SAMMI-select interview format, you will have a fixed time for each question with no follow up questions. It is paramount that you practice speaking for this amount of time (approximately 4.5-5mins) for every question. Ensure that you do not waffle in your responses - having a good structure will be key for this. Remember, there won't be anyone giving you 'live' feedback, this can make it quite daunting!
2. Learn Medical Ethics & NHS Hot Topics - you may well get asked about medical ethics at a medicine interview at St. George's, so there is no excuse not to brush up on your knowledge on these topics, especially the four pillars of medical ethics. Learn how to provide a balanced argument on this. Check out some of our free articles on NHS Hot Topics here. It is good if you have an opinion on them, as long as you present a balanced and well-reasoned argument; ultimately, which side you choose does not matter, but is helpful to have. Check out our bank of 420+ medicine interview questions.
3. Have examples ready to use: questions asked at St. George's can be example-based, ie, they require you to draw on certain examples from your personal life, medical work experience and medical volunteering to help make key points that the selectors are looking for. As such, it is paramount that you spend time learning about these examples and thinking about different scenarios that you can use at the interview. It is helpful if these scenarios are malleable and can be applied to a number of different questions e.g. being a football captain, deputy head girl or playing in the school orchestra.
4. Personal Attributes - St. George's is very likely to ask you about personal attributes during their vMMI interview. As such, it is paramount that you go through and learn these.
5. Know the doctor training pathway: this is useful to mention in answers to show awareness about the career in medicine - and demonstrates that you have a considered approach, fortunately, we have a guide to the NHS and the doctor’s training pathway.
6. Read the SAMMI Select instructions carefully - you get enough time to read the instructions provided before the MMI station. Make sure that you don’t miss anything from this. Try and plan how you will structure your answer thereafter in the reading time that you get. Therefore it is really important that you practice MMI questions and ensure that you think about your structure for as many questions as possible before your interview.
7. Know the St. George's Course - we would always recommend doing this for every university that you plan to apply to. It is paramount that you know about the different topics covered each year. How does this differ from other universities? Remember there is very early clinical exposure at St. George's - this can be an advantage!
8. Know the local area - St. George's is in a diverse region of England, with a number of local factors and diseases that differentiate the midlands from the rest of the UK. Ensure that you research both communicable and non-communicable diseases in the area. They have a number of services here including St. George's university medical centre to support students. How might this impact healthcare provision in the area?
9. Reflect Well - the St. George's Medicine selectors love reflection, make sure that you are good at not just stating what you have learnt, but also how this helped and what you benefited from, and what you will carry forward about this at medical school and in clinical medicine. This is especially true when reflecting on your medical work experience during the medicine interview.
10. Don’t over-rehearse - this is a common theme amongst interview students and is very obvious to a trained examiner. As such, we would recommend focusing on the structure of your answer, and then naturally letting it flow when speaking to the answers, concentrating on the delivery of your interview answers. Read about our top tips for medicine interviews here. If you are struggling with this, consider booking sessions with an expert medicine interview tutor.
11. Learn about the non-academic societies at St. George's - this is really important and might augment your Why Medicine question as well as help you formulate an answer to how you will contribute to life at St. George's University. Spend time on their website, or looking at their Instagram for ideas about societies that you could think about joining.
12. Learn the NHS Core Values - This can be drawn into different answers about personal qualities or qualities of a doctor, which has formed a feature of stations in the past, and a good understanding of these core values will help you stand out against others. It is important to know about the NHS in general for your medical interviews - read our article here on this.
13. Good Medical Practice - St. George's also puts emphasis on knowing the values and qualities of a good doctor, which can be found in this document and are likely to come up at the interview in the MMI stations. This is universal to many universities, and something that we always recommend students cover during their medicine interview preparation.