Medicine at Edge Hill Medical School & Interview Questions 2024

Key Aspects

🎓 Edge Hill Medicine Interview Questions & Topics 2024

The interview will take the form of Mini Multiple Interviews (MMI) which will assess the following (mapped onto good medical practice):

• Understanding and motivation for wanting to join the MBChB programme at Edge Hill University.

• Verbal communication skills.

• Integrity/probity.

• Teamwork/leadership.

• Empathy and compassion.

• Awareness of current health challenges.

• Ethical awareness.

• Awareness of self and others.

• Prioritisation/decision making.

• Interpretation of data.

💯 Edge Hill Medical Interview Questions Scoring 2024

A score will be given for performance at each MMI station and individual scores combined. Applicants will be ranked according to their overall MMI score and offers made to the top students.

Offers will be made to candidates who have the highest combined scores subject to satisfactory references. The personal statement and reference will be used to allow us to distinguish between borderline applicants.

❓ Edge Hill Medical Interview Past Questions 2024 & Likely Topics

Please find below a list of suggested questions that could come up at your interview this year, created by our team to help guide your preparation. 

Motivation to study medicine

1. Why medicine?

2. Why Edge Hill?

3. What did you learn from your work experience?

4. What qualities of a doctor did you see from your work experience?

5. What do you know about the Edge Hill Medicine course? How is it taught?

6. Why do you think you will be well suited to this course?

7. Why medicine and not dentistry or nursing?

8. Tell us about your volunteering

9. What are your hobbies?

10. What are the negatives of a career in medicine?

11. What other subjects other than medicine does a doctor need to be proficient at?

12. How will you contribute to Edge Hill medical school?

13. Edge Hill is a relatively new medical school, is this a good thing?

Personal Insight

1. Why should patients trust you?

2. What are your best qualities?

3. How do you manage stress?

4. Can you provide us with an example of a time when you demonstrated resilience?

5. Give us an example of a time when you demonstrated teamwork.

6. What are your strengths and weaknesses?

7. What are the key strengths and weaknesses of doctors?

8. How would your friends describe you?

9. Why is diversity important in the medical profession?

10. Tell us about an article that you have recently read.

11. What is the training pathway of a doctor after studying at Edge Hill medical school?

NHS & Local Area

1. What are the NHS values and why are they important?

2. What is it like to be a doctor?

3. How do you deal with overpopulation?

4. What do you know about the local area here in Edge Hill?

5. What are the main challenges that face the NHS?

6. How has COVID changed the way the NHS operates?

7. What do you think are going to be the long-term consequences of COVID on the NHS?

8. 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. If you notice that a colleague has turned up to work drunk, what would you do?

6. Who can you escalate concerns to within a hospital?

7. What is the role of empathy in medicine?

8. Should the NHS fund IVF treatment?

9. What do you believe about euthanasia?

Other Stations

1. Tell us about an article that you have recently read

2. Role play: Interacting with an upset patient

3. Role play: breaking bad news

4. Role play: explain to someone how to draw this picture

🗣️ Edge Hill Medicine Interview Tips 2024

1. Have examples ready to use: many of the questions asked at Edge Hill are 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.

2. Read the MMI 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.

3. MMI Stations - remember that each MMI station at Edge Hill is independent of the other. Therefore it is paramount that you try to treat them as such, if you have a bad station, try to forget about it and reset for the next station, this gives you the best chance of scoring well overall. Read our ultimate guide to preparing for medicine MMIs here.

4. Reflect Well - the Edge Hill 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 benefitted 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.

5. Practice Role Plays: Role plays are unique to medicine MMI interviews as they do not tend to occur in panel interviews. The only way to ace these stations is to practice! There are so many different medicine role-play scenarios that can come up, such as breaking bad news in the medicine interview, it is paramount that you read about tips for answering role-play scenarios and practice MMI calculation stations. You might want to also consider practising this with a medicine interview tutor, or booking a 1-1 online mock interview.

6. Know the local area - Edge Hill is a diverse region situated in England, with a number of local factors and diseases that is different from the rest of the UK. Ensure that you research both communicable and non-communicable diseases in the area. How might this impact healthcare provision in the area?

7. Know the Edge Hill Course - Edge Hill has a unique course, make sure that you know what is unique about it, and how this might help you become an even better medical student. As a new university, Edge hill has aspects of its course that are specific to it, like the method of early integration with clinical exposure, and the new buildings - knowing about these will help augment your interview answers.

8. Data interpretation - make sure that you practice these questions, as they come up every year at Edge Hill. Make sure that you are familiar with reading graphs and tables, and are able to relate them to clinical medicine, with an explanation of the consequences of the statistics shown. We have worked examples to data interpretation questions here.

9. 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.

10. Learn about the non-academic societies at Edge Hill - 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 Edge Hill University.

11. Learn Medical Ethics & NHS Hot Topics - it is extremely likely that you will be asked about medical ethics at a medicine interview at Edge Hill, 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 200+ medicine interview questions.

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 - Edge Hill 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.