UCL Medicine Interview Questions

UCL Medical Interviews

For 2026 entry, UCL Medicine interviews will run from December 2025 through to March 2026. Specific interview dates can be found on their admissions page here.

To shortlist candidates for interview, all applications are first checked to ensure that they meet the minimum academic score (e.g. 6 in Mathematics and English Language GCSE). The typical A-Level offer is A*AA to include Biology and Chemistry, one of which must be A*. 

For 2026 entry, those who pass this minimum requirement will then be ranked based on their UCAT score. For 2025 entry, the minimum scores invited to interview were 2800 for Home applicants, and 3060 for International applicants. With the removal of the Abstract Reasoning section for 2026 entry, it is difficult to predict the cut off score for this year. 

Further details on the shortlisting process for 2026 entry can be accessed here.

At UCL, they typically receive over 3,000 applications for the 334 available spaces. They send interview invitations via email on a rolling basis from December onwards, usually with a minimum of one week’s notice.

How Is UCL Interviewing For 2026 Entry Medicine?

UCL has historically used a 20-minute panel interview. For 2026 entry, it will use MMIs (Multiple Mini Interviews) for its Medicine interviews.

UCL has confirmed that the MMIs will be face-to-face at the Bloomsbury campus for home students.

For international students, the interviews will run online. As this is a new interviewing format, there are no details on the number or length of stations yet. UCL recommends that candidates visit the Medical Schools Council website while preparing for their interviews.

Common Medicine Interview Question Topics At UCL

The following topics are often covered in UCL Medicine interview questions:

• Academic curiosity and interest in healthcare
• Motivation for Medicine (including robustness for course)
• Problem-solving and reasoning ability
• Professional attitudes and values (flexibility, integrity, empathy, honesty, conscientiousness and compassion)
• Teamwork, leadership, resilience and individual strengths
• Communication skills (verbal ability, listening skills, eye contact)

Sample questions might include:

• How will you cope with a tough course such as Medicine?
• Tell me about a time you were in a challenging situation and how you overcame it.
• Is teamwork or leadership more important in Medicine?
• What is your biggest weakness?
• What have you done to show your interest in Medicine?

Tips For Answering UCL Interview Questions

1. Know your Personal Statement like the back of your hand.

At some point in your UCL Medicine interview, you will be asked to talk through your Personal Statement. So make sure you can talk about what’s detailed there, especially work experience and extracurricular activities.

To prepare, print off your Personal Statement and try to work out the areas that you might be asked to expand on.

2. Keep calm.

There might be times when you get grilled, or asked a question that you really do not have an answer to.

If this happens, stay calm: interviewers want to see how you deal under pressure, which is one of the key skills of being a Doctor.

Ask them to rephrase the question, take some time, and answer it as best you can. If you really don’t know, just tell them that.

How Are Interviews At UCL Assessed?

All offers will be based on performance at interview.

UCL aims to send out post-interview offers as soon as possible after the interview date. Occasionally candidates may need to wait longer for a response, as UCL may need to wait to review the scores of more candidates before making final decisions.

Decisions will be communicated via UCAS Track and the UCL Applicant Portal.