King's College London Medicine Interview (MMI, 2027 Entry).

King's entry requirements page lists five things the interview assesses:

• Communication skills
• Ethical reasoning
• Understanding of current healthcare issues
• Motivation for studying medicine
• Overall suitability for the programme and the profession

The course page describes the doctors King's aims to train: critical scientific thinkers, collaborative leaders and innovators, patient-centred clinicians, team players, lifelong learners, and resilient and adaptable professionals. The GKT School of Medical Education sums this up as doctors who are "compassionate, critical thinkers, making a positive difference across society" (GKT information event).

What this means for your answers: King's is one of the few medical schools that names "current healthcare issues" as something it assesses. You need to follow NHS news, understand the main arguments on each side, and say what an issue means for patients. Interviewers have no prior knowledge of you and use standard marking criteria, so every answer has to stand on its own.

1. Shortlisting. King's ranks applicants on UCAT, GCSEs and widening participation indicators, then checks the top-ranked applicants' grades, personal statement and reference.
2. Invitation. Invitations go out on a rolling basis, usually from December. You must be available for interview.
3. Set up for a remote interview. Interviews in the current cycle are remote. Use a quiet room, test your camera, microphone and connection, and keep your screen free of distractions.
4. The stations. You move through the MMI stations, each with a different interviewer asking one question or task.
5. Fit to sit. King's runs a "fit-to-sit" policy. If you take part, you are declaring you are well enough, and mitigating circumstances are not considered for interview performance afterwards.
6. Waiting. King's does not give a final decision straight after interview. Expect to wait until the cycle ends, with all decisions by the end of May.

King's does not publish its stations. Based on the five areas it assesses, expect:

• Motivation for medicine – why medicine, what you have seen of the job, and what you find hard about it.
• Ethical reasoning – consent, confidentiality, honesty, and decisions with no perfect answer.
• Current healthcare issues. Topics worth understanding include:
  • the government's 10 Year Health Plan (July 2025) and its three shifts: hospital to community, analogue to digital, sickness to prevention;
  • the Leng review (July 2025), after which physician associates are being renamed physician assistants, with limits on seeing undiagnosed patients;
  • assisted dying – the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill completed Lords committee stage in April 2026 but ran out of time when the parliamentary session ended on 29 April 2026.
• Communication – explaining something clearly, or responding to someone who is upset.
• Suitability – teamwork, resilience, and how you handle pressure and mistakes.

Use specific features from the course page and link them to yourself:

• Major London teaching hospitals. King's works with Guy's, St Thomas' and King's College Hospital, across the Guy's and Denmark Hill campuses.
• Following patients over time. Stage 2 is organised around the human life-cycle and includes following patients over long periods.
• Practical skills for modern practice. Stage 3 includes quality improvement projects, interprofessional training with other healthcare students, simulation and an optional elective abroad.
• Projects throughout, and an optional intercalated degree between Years 3 and 4.
• A clear mission. GKT's aim of training doctors who make "a positive difference across society" is a strong link if your experience involves community or volunteering work.

Choose one or two and explain why they matter to you.