Medicine @ Emmanuel, Cambridge in 2017

Interview format

2x interviews (30 mins)

Interview content

Medical issues, medical practice, graph interpretation

Best preparation

Online resources, mock interviews

Final thoughts

Nope

Remember this advice isn't official. There is no guarantee it will reflect your experience because university applications can change between years. Check the official Cambridge and Oxford websites for more accurate information on this year's application format and the required tests.

Also, someone else's experience may not reflect your own. Most interviews are more like conversations than tests and like, any conversation, they are quite interactive.

Interview Format

I had two interviews at 9 and 11 in the morning. I was escorted to both by second years. They both lasted about half an hour and had two interviewers in each. They were both talking/discussion interviews. One of the interviewers was a Dr at the NHS, the other three were college fellows

What happened in your interview? How did you feel?

The topics are hard to remember: we talked about viruses and blood pressure & the ways to treat related issues. Some statistics questions based on a graph and questions about medicine in practice.

How did you prepare?

Read around medical subjects, look at news (I used BBC science), practice interviews

Looking back, what advice would you give to your past self?

Nope!