UCL Medicine Interview (MMI, 2027 Entry).

UCL's selection procedure lists six areas interviewers score:

1. Academic curiosity and interest in healthcare.
2. Motivation for, and understanding of, a medical career.
3. Problem-solving and reasoning.
4. Professional attitudes and values – flexibility, integrity, empathy, honesty, conscientiousness and compassion.
5. Teamwork, leadership, resilience and individual strengths.
6. Communication – including speaking clearly, listening and eye contact.

The interviews page says answers are framed around NHS values, such as putting patients first, respect and dignity, compassion and "everyone counts" (see the NHS Constitution). The course page adds compassion, personal organisation and resilience, and notes that reflections on work experience may be assessed.

What this means for your answers: Each station is scored against these six areas, so every answer should show at least one of them clearly. When you describe an experience, say what you learned and how it changed what you do. UCL lists eye contact under communication – in person, look at the interviewer; online, look at the camera.

1. Invitation. You get an email through UCL's Select system, usually with at least a week's notice. Confirm within 5 calendar days. There is no advantage to an early or late slot.
2. Arrive early. For in-person interviews, arrive 30 minutes before your slot for sign-in and a short briefing. Bring photo ID (passport or driving licence). Family and friends cannot wait on site.
3. Morning or afternoon session. Interviews run on weekday mornings or afternoons.
4. Read the instructions. Before each station you have one minute to read what the task is.
5. Answer at the station. Each station lasts 5 minutes. The interviewer asks 2–3 questions and scores you on an iPad.
6. Move on. You rotate through up to 8 stations, about 50 minutes in total. You can carry a water bottle around the circuit.
7. Optional tour. Afterwards, there is an optional campus tour of about 45–50 minutes with a medical student.
8. Outcome. Results appear on UCAS and the UCL Applicant Portal. The first offers come in February, with most at the end of March.

UCL does not publish its stations. Based on the six areas it scores, expect:

• Interest in healthcare – something in medicine or science that you have followed or read about, and why it interests you.
• Motivation and insight – why medicine, and what you have learned about the job from work experience or volunteering.
• Problem-solving – a practical or reasoning task where you talk through your thinking.
• Professional values – honesty, confidentiality and fairness in everyday scenarios.
• Teamwork and resilience – working with others, handling setbacks, and knowing your own strengths.
• Communication – explaining something clearly, or responding to someone who is worried or upset.
• The NHS today – for example, the 10 Year Health Plan and its shift from "analogue to digital", and what that means for patients who are less confident online.

Use real features from UCL's course page and link them to your own interests:

• An intercalated BSc for everyone. Year 3 is a full BSc year (except for students who already have a UK degree).
• Patient contact from Year 1. The early systems-based years include contact with patients from the start.
• Long clinical placements. Years 4 and 5 are each made up of three 12-week placement modules (Clinical Care, then Lifecycle).
• Major teaching hospitals. Teaching sites include the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead and the Whittington Hospital in Archway, with other NHS providers in and around London.
• Preparation for work. Year 6 includes two assistantships, an elective, and the Medical Licensing Assessment.

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