Imperial College London Medicine Interview (MMI, 2027 Entry).

Imperial's MMI page lists the areas its stations have covered: teamwork and leadership, motivation to study medicine, understanding the role of a doctor, empathy and breaking bad news, ethics and values, and data interpretation. It says interviewers mark how you explain your thinking, and there is often no single right answer.

Imperial's open day guidance tells applicants to read the NHS Constitution and the values-based recruitment (VBR) behaviour framework before interview. The NHS values are: working together for patients; respect and dignity; commitment to quality of care; compassion; improving lives; and everyone counts.

What this means for your answers: Four of the ten marks at every station are for communication. A good idea explained in a muddled way loses marks. Aim for a clear structure, plain words, and a short summary at the end. For the content marks, show you have thought about the patient, the team and fairness, not just the "right" answer.

1. Academic check. Imperial first checks you meet the minimum academic requirements.
2. UCAT shortlisting. UCAT scores (with a minimum situational judgement band) decide who is invited. Contextual applicants have a lower threshold.
3. Invitation. Invitations go out on a rolling basis from December. The email explains how your interview will run.
4. Station 1: commitment to medicine. The interviewer at this station has your personal statement. It carries the same weight as the other stations.
5. The other stations. You move through the remaining stations. Each has its own task or scenario and gives you 5 minutes to answer.
6. Scoring. Each station is marked out of 10 (6 content, 4 communication) and the scores are added up. Contextual applicants may receive an uplift in their interview score.
7. Offers. Decisions are sent through UCAS. The offer threshold changes each year.

Imperial does not publish its stations. Its official list of themes is:

• Commitment to medicine – why medicine, drawing on your personal statement and experiences.
• Understanding the role of a doctor – what doctors actually do, including teamwork with other professions.
• Teamwork and leadership – times you led, followed, or handled disagreement.
• Empathy and breaking bad news – a role-play or scenario where someone is upset or worried.
• Ethics and values – situations involving honesty, consent, confidentiality or fairness.
• Data interpretation – making sense of a table or graph and drawing sensible conclusions.

For the ethics and role-of-a-doctor stations, it helps to know current issues, such as the government's decision to rename physician associates as "physician assistants" and limit their scope after the Leng review (July 2025).

Use specific features from Imperial's course page and link them to yourself:

• A compulsory BSc year. In Year 4, every student completes a BSc with a supervised research project, choosing from areas such as Cardiovascular Sciences, Neuroscience and Mental Health, or Global Health.
• Research and innovation in the early years. Year 2 includes Clinical Research and Innovation and I-Explore.
• Early clinical experience. Year 3 includes three 8-week clinical placements, one in general practice.
• Teaching hospitals across west London. Placements include Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust sites, Chelsea and Westminster, Royal Brompton and Harefield, and West Middlesex University Hospital.

Choose one or two that genuinely match something you have done or want to do.