Medicine at the University of Warwick Medical School & Interview Questions in 2026

Warwick Medical School’s accelerated graduate-entry MB ChB programme is the largest graduate-entry course in the UK and is challenging but extremely rewarding programme. It’s designed to help students become highly competent, compassionate and strongly motivated doctors. The course has an intake of 193 graduates each year.

Across all four years, the educational activities will include case-based learning, lectures, small group sessions, experiential learning, clinical skills and e-learning.

Warwick Medicine Course structure consists of four years.

Year One:In the first year, students will experience a blend of university-based teaching and integrated clinical exposure. Learning will be organised into small groups of around ten students from diverse backgrounds, enhancing the learning experience through peer interactions. The year is structured into five blocks of five weeks each, covering essential clinical and professional competencies.

Key components include:

• Term 1: Welcome Week, Health, Metabolism, and Homeostasis, Blood, Lungs, and Heart
• Term 2: Brain and Behaviour, Locomotion
• Term 3: Reproduction and Child Health
  

Anatomy teaching utilises plastinated specimens and 3D imaging. Clinical skills are developed through supervised work with patients in hospital and community settings within Coventry and Warwickshire.

Year Two: The second year builds on the first, with increased time spent in healthcare settings. By mid-year, students will be immersed in community and hospital-based clinical teaching, experiencing a range of patient contacts in secondary care, community care, mental health, and regional General Practices.

The year includes:

• Academic Block
• Core Clinical Education
• Student Selected Component

Year Three: Learning focuses on specialist clinical blocks, enhancing knowledge and developing professional skills. Most learning occurs in GP practices and hospitals through partner trusts. The curriculum includes:

• Student Selected Component
• Advanced Cases 2
• Specialist Clinical Placements

Year Four: The final year continues to be based in community and hospital settings, preparing students for practice as a Foundation Year I (FY1) doctor. A six-week elective allows observation of medical practice in different settings, including international environments. The curriculum includes:

• Assistantship
• Elective
• Advanced Clinical Cases
• Specialist Clinical Placements

This structure ensures a comprehensive education, integrating theoretical knowledge with practical clinical experience.

Universities revise entry requirements between cycles, usually in August and September. Always confirm with the university before you apply.

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At least 70 hours of health or social care related work experience in the last three years is required, spanning at least two different organisations and at least two roles or professions.

Your UCAS personal statement will be checked for plagiarism but its content will not be considered in our admissions process.

Note: from 2026 entry, UCAS replaced the single free-text personal statement with three structured questions: why you want to study the course, how your studies have prepared you, and what else you have done to prepare. Any guidance above still applies; it is simply spread across those questions. For worked examples and a review of your own statement, see our medicine personal statement examples and review service.

See our medicine personal statement examples: model statements in the new UCAS format, each with commentary on what works and why.

Warwick runs a four-year graduate entry course. The full requirements, interview format and dates are on our Warwick graduate entry medicine page.

The University of Warwick assesses applicants to its graduate-entry Medicine (MB ChB) course using a Multiple Mini Interview (MMI). Warwick's own admissions guidance states the MMI consists of six stations of approximately ten minutes each, with candidates observed and scored at each station by trained assessors drawn from medical professionals, academics, current students and lay people.

For 2027 entry the MMIs are held in person at Warwick (15-18 December 2026), with an online option (delivered via Amazon Chime) offered only to international applicants who meet Warwick's published online-interview criteria (13 January 2027). Invitations to the selection centre are based on academic achievement and UCAT score, and Warwick places a high emphasis on assessing candidate values rather than knowledge, encouraging applicants to reflect on the NHS values and Warwick's own Doctor Values.

Qualities explored across the stations typically include communication, empathy, team working, insight and resilience.

Comparing this against your other choices? Every UK medical school's interview window is in one table, checked against each university's own website, in our UK medical school interview dates guide.

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Warwick Medical School
University of Warwick
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Tel: 024 7652 8101
Email: pgteam4@warwick.ac.uk

Website: www.warwick.ac.uk/go/wms/study

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