Medical interviews

Introduction

If your initial application is accepted, you will be sent a letter and/or email with details of the location, date and time of your interview.

A tour of the School of Medical Sciences (pre-clinical departments) will usually be arranged as part of your visit to Bristol, followed by a coach tour to a hall of residence and the Students’ Union. This will last between one and two hours.

The morning tour is for applicants attending interview in the afternoon. To join the tour, please report to the Porters’ Lodge at the main entrance to the School of Medical Sciences in University Walk by 10.30 am. You will be directed to the Students’ Common Room, where you will be met by a current medical student who will show you around the building.

The afternoon tour is for applicants attending interview in the morning. To join the tour, please report to the Porters’ Lodge at the main entrance to the School of Medical Sciences in University Walk by 1.45 pm. At the end of the afternoon tour, the coach will make two stops, one in the University precinct at the Hawthorns and the other at Temple Meads Station, arriving between 4 pm and 4.30 pm.

Please note that it is not possible to change the time of your tour.

The interview

This short video is designed to give you an insight into what an interview for studying Medicine at the University of Bristol is all about.

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The interview will usually take about 15 minutes. Please remember that the interviewers do not intend to catch you out or make you nervous, but are genuinely interested in you and your application. Among other things, they will ask you about your reasons for wanting to study Medicine, and make sure that you are aware of what is involved in a course and career in Medicine. They will also be assessing your ability to communicate and cope with stress.

You will find more information on what admissions tutors are looking for in the Application and Selection section of the entry profile for Medicine via the UCAS course search facility.

After the interview

After the interviews on each date have been completed, the interviewers’ assessment forms are collated and the top-scoring applicants are offered a place. In some cases, borderline applications are held until later in the cycle, when more interviews have been completed and comparisons can be made with a larger pool of applicants. In most cases, you can expect to hear the outcome of your interview in two to three weeks. You can use UCAS track to find out quickly when we have sent our decisions to UCAS.