Queen’s University Belfast Medicine Interview Questions
General Interview Information
MMI Queen’s University Belfast Interview Format
Queen’s University Belfast uses Multiple-mini interviews to test for the desired competencies for entry into their MBBS programme. The interview has nine stations in total, with three of these as ‘rest’ stations. You are given one minute to prepare for the station and five minutes at the station itself to complete the task/answer questions. The stations focus on the following non-cognitive competencies:
Queen’s University Belfast uses Multiple-mini interviews to test for the desired competencies for entry into their MBBS programme. The interview has nine stations in total, with three of these as ‘rest’ stations. You are given one minute to prepare for the station and five minutes at the station itself to complete the task/answer questions. The stations focus on the following non-cognitive competencies:
- Empathy
- Problem-solving
- Moral reasoning
- Communication Skills
MMI Queen’s Belfast Key Dates
Interviews take place between January and March.
Before the Interview
- Know your personal statement well and be prepared to discuss any aspect of it in detail.
- Know the curriculum of the course well and how it will benefit you as a prospective student.
- Do thorough research on the medical school itself and know what makes you want to spend the next five years living and studying there, for example, the early clinical experiences in years 1 and 2, living cost etc.
- Review the four pillars of medical ethics! These will help you think of both ‘for’ and ‘against’ arguments for many scenarios.
- Practice discussing ethical scenarios with friends, family and MMI specialists.
During the Interview
- As with any interview, it is all about managing the interviewer’s perception of you and painting yourself in the best light possible. You will be given one minute outside the interview room to read the instructions and consider how you will approach the scenario. Ask yourself what competencies the scenario might be trying to test. If it is a problem you are faced with, ask yourself what steps you would take to solve the problem, your available options. Discuss these with the assessor so that they can appreciate your decision-making processes.
- Remember that each station carries equal marks and that if you under perform in one station, you have lots of others in which to make up marks.
Recent MMI Queen’s belfast Stations
General/Personal Statement Station: This station will focus on aspects of your personal statement and background. Assume that your assessor has not read your personal statement and that you will need to give them an account of what it contains as well as other typical medicine interview questions. Questions may be as follows:
- Why Queens University Belfast?
- Why medicine?
- Tell me what you learned from your work experience at…
- Give the advantages of disadvantages of working in a group or individually. Which do you prefer? And why?
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