Free taster session
Free
Wednesday 18 November 2026, 18:00 UK time
A live online taster of the Interview Intensive, for students applying to medicine and their parents. Ask the doctors your questions.
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Interview Intensive, 2027 entry
£495
2 to 12 December 2026
For students who applied this October: four live evening sessions and a six-station mock MMI circuit on Saturday 12 December, with written feedback from every station. A January mock date will follow.
Join the Intensive waitlistFull programme, 2028 entry
£940
February to December 2027
Ten live evening sessions timed to your admissions year, written feedback on a draft of your personal statement and a mock MMI circuit before your interviews.
Join the programme waitlistInterview Intensive for 2027 entry
Applied to medicine by 15 October 2026? The interview module runs early for this year's applicants: four live sessions on Wednesday 2, Thursday 3, Wednesday 9 and Thursday 10 December, then a six-station mock MMI circuit on Saturday 12 December, where each student books a one-hour slot between 10:00 and 14:00 UK time, with written feedback from every station afterwards. A second mock circuit in January, for interviews later in the season, will follow, date to be confirmed. Start with the free taster session on Wednesday 18 November.
Evening sessions at 18:00 UK time (22:00 UAE); the mock circuit runs 10:00 to 14:00 UK (14:00 to 18:00 UAE), with more slots added if numbers need them. Fee £495; the taster session is free.
The programme
Five modules of two live sessions, each module running in the months it matters, with individual feedback on your personal statement and a mock MMI circuit. Open a module to see its sessions.
Module 1Choosing medicine and choosing schoolsFebruary to March 2027
A life in medicine, and how UK admissions work
Training from medical school to consultant or GP, then UCAS, the UCAT, academic requirements, contextual offers, graduate entry and applying from outside the UK.
Picking your four schools and planning your year
Course styles and how each school weighs grades, the UCAT, your statement and the interview. You leave with a month-by-month plan built around your own schools.
Module 2Work experience, volunteering and your CVApril to May 2027
What medical schools mean by work experience
What the Medical Schools Council's guidance asks for, why months of volunteering or caring beat a one-week placement, and the reflective log you keep all year.
Maximising your CV
Leadership, teamwork, an EPQ, essay competitions and wider reading, and the values medical schools select for, without box-ticking.
Module 3The UCATJune to July 2027
How the UCAT works: Verbal Reasoning and Decision Making
The four sections, how scoring works and how your schools use it, then methods for both sections, worked through timed questions together.
Quantitative Reasoning, Situational Judgement and test day
Fast arithmetic and the shortcuts that save seconds, thinking like a doctor when the answer is a judgement call, and a revision plan for the summer.
Module 4Your UCAS applicationAugust to September 2027
The new personal statement
UCAS's three questions and the 4,000-character limit, how admissions tutors read them, and writing about motivation without the lines every tutor has read a thousand times.
Case examples and the rest of the form
Strong and weak statements annotated line by line, then references, predicted grades, the October deadline and the final checks.
Plus written feedback on a draft of your own personal statement.
Module 5InterviewsOctober to December 2027
MMI and panel interviews, and medical ethics
Which schools use which format and how stations are marked, then consent, confidentiality, capacity and fairness, worked through real-style cases.
The NHS, role play and teamwork stations
Medicine in the news without reciting headlines, and practice for the stations that are hardest to prepare for alone.
Plus a mock MMI circuit with individual feedback.
25,770 people applied to study medicine in the UK for 2026 entry, each choosing up to four medical schools. Source: UCAS, 29 October 2025.
How it works
- Taught live
- Every session is taught live online by practising doctors or current medical students, at 18:00 UK time (21:00 or 22:00 in the Gulf). You can ask questions in every one.
- Recordings
- Miss a session and the recording is there the next day.
- Individual feedback
- Written feedback on a draft of your personal statement, and a mock MMI circuit before your interviews, with written feedback from every station.
- Practice between sessions
- Short questions after each session, and UCAT question sets in the UCAT module.
- Fees
- £940 for the full programme and £495 for the Interview Intensive. The taster session is free. Places with full or partial fee support are available.
- Certificate
- A certificate of completion. It is not a qualification and carries no UCAS tariff points.
A station like the ones you will practise
Multiple mini interviews (MMIs) start with a card on the door. Here is one, and what the interviewers inside are listening for.
Station 4: ethics
Reading time 2 minutes. Station 7 minutes.
You are a junior doctor on a medical ward. Mr Rahman, 78, has just been diagnosed with lung cancer. Before you see him, his daughter stops you in the corridor. “Please don’t tell him,” she says. “It would destroy him. In our family we don’t talk about these things.” The interviewer will play the daughter. Talk to her.
What the interviewers are listening for
- Kindness towards the daughter, and curiosity about why she is frightened
- That Mr Rahman has the right to know about his own diagnosis, and to decide how much he wants to hear
- Asking him, sensitively, how much he wants to know and who he wants involved
- Respect for the family's culture without assuming what Mr Rahman himself believes
- Not sharing his details with her without his agreement
- Knowing when to involve a senior colleague, and not promising what you cannot do
Who teaches it
Led by Tom Cosker and Sherief Elsayed, who founded Professional Medical Education (PME) in 2006 and have taught thousands of medical students over the years. They are joined by practising doctors and by current medical students, who sat the UCAT and wrote their statements recently and lead some sessions. The full faculty will be named here before enrolment opens.
Professor Tom Cosker
Course Director
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford. Associate Professor and Director of Surgical Anatomy at the University of Oxford, and Anatomy tutor at Balliol College, where he teaches Oxford medical students. College Assessor for the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Mr Sherief Elsayed
Course Director
UK-trained Consultant Spinal Surgeon (FRCS Tr & Orth). Former Lead Clinician for Spinal Surgery at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals, International Editor of Miller's Review of Orthopaedics, and co-founder of PM Diplomas and NSpine.
For parents
It will not get anyone in by itself
Medical schools select students, not the courses they have paid for, and we advise against listing this programme on a UCAS application. What it gives your child is a plan, honest feedback and doctors they can question.
Safeguarding
Teaching sessions are webinars: students' cameras and microphones stay off and questions go through a moderated chat. In the mock interview circuit, every station has two adults present: the interviewer and a second member of the team. Everyone who teaches or interviews is DBS checked before their first session.
Fee support
Places with full or partial fee support for students who meet widening participation criteria, such as free school meals or being the first in the family to go to university.
Applying from abroad
The programme covers international applicants: places, fees, entry requirements, sitting the UCAT outside the UK and interviewing online.
Questions
Who is it for?
Students applying to UK medical schools in October 2027 for 2028 entry: Year 12 in England and Wales, S5 in Scotland, Year 13 in Northern Ireland, and the equivalent year for international students. Gap-year and graduate applicants are welcome too.
I applied this October. Is it too late?
Not for most interviews. The Interview Intensive runs the interview module early, from 2 to 12 December 2026, for students applying for 2027 entry: four evening sessions and an online mock MMI circuit on Saturday 12 December, with a free taster session on Wednesday 18 November. It suits interviews from mid-December onwards, when most medical schools interview. If yours is earlier, tell us the date when you register and we will tell you honestly whether the Intensive can still help.
Do I have to attend live?
Live is best, because you can ask questions. Every session is recorded, so a missed week can be caught up.
How much does it cost?
The full programme is £940 and the Interview Intensive £495. Places with full or partial fee support are available for students who meet widening participation criteria.
Does the programme count towards my application?
No. It is a preparation course, not a qualification, and carries no UCAS tariff points. Use what you learn; do not list the course itself.
Is it connected to UCAS, the UCAT or a medical school?
No. It is independent, and not affiliated with or endorsed by UCAS, the UCAT Consortium, the Medical Schools Council or any medical school.
Does it cover graduate entry?
The first session covers graduate-entry routes and the admissions tests they use. Most of the programme applies to every applicant.
Register interest
Tell us who you are and what you are interested in. We will email you the joining details for the free taster session on Wednesday 18 November, and let you know as soon as enrolment opens. We only contact you about this programme.