Medical School Interview / Queen's University Belfast
Queen's University Belfast medicine interview: the MMI and QUB's own sample stations
Four competencies chosen by patients and academics, and three sample stations published by the school itself, from a classmate at a bus stop to a grandfather's ten-per-cent-risk operation.
Updated September 2026Queen's University Belfast uses a Multiple Mini Interview as the second stage of its medicine selection, to assess what it calls non-cognitive performance; your personal statement is considered within the process. For 2026 entry, home applicants interviewed in person at Queen's and international applicants online, between mid-December and March. QUB's candidate guidance describes a home circuit of twelve stations (nine with an interviewer and three rest stations) and a seven-station international circuit, lasting over an hour. The four competencies, identified by patients and academic staff, are empathy, problem-solving, moral reasoning and communication skills. Unusually, QUB publishes three sample stations in full: comforting an upset classmate at a bus stop (with a role-player), deciding what to do about neighbours complaining about noise from your student house, and mediating between a mother and a 70-year-old grandfather who wants a procedure with a ten per cent mortality risk. You get one minute to consider each scenario before the station, and every station carries equal marks.
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Merra: practise it out loud before it counts
Merra's Queen's Belfast practice is a spoken, MMI-style mock built on QUB's four competencies and its published sample stations: five questions, one follow-up each, about fifteen minutes, then spoken feedback and a written report. The role-player station is practised as a talk-through; there is no actor, no rest stations and no twelve-station circuit.
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Practise the Queen's Belfast medicine interview2 free coaching sessions · available until used · no card needed · no subscriptionThe interview process
- 1Stage one is academic and UCAT; stage two is the MMI, used to determine non-cognitive performance. The personal statement is considered within the process.
- 2For 2026 entry, home applicants interviewed in person at Queen's and international applicants online. Interviews run from mid-December to March.
- 3QUB's candidate guidance describes the home circuit as twelve stations (nine interviewer stations and three rest stations) and the international circuit as seven stations, taking over an hour. You get one minute to consider each scenario before entering.
- 4The four competencies assessed, identified by patients and academic staff: empathy; problem-solving; moral reasoning; communication skills. Every station carries equal marks.
- 5QUB's three published sample stations: (1) a role-player plays a classmate at a bus stop who looks upset, and you approach them (communication, empathy); (2) neighbours complain about noise from your student house and the assessor asks what your options are (problem solving, communication); (3) semi-structured: your mother rings about your 70-year-old grandfather, diagnosed with a condition that will kill him within five years, who wants a corrective procedure with a ten per cent mortality risk that she opposes, and asks how you would help mediate (sensitivity to others, a patient's right to be involved in decisions, resolving emotionally clouded situations, knowing the limits of your knowledge).
- 6QUB's advice: look at the competencies and think how you would demonstrate each; work out which competency a scenario is testing; talk through your options with the assessor.
Interview questions
Three of the questions below are QUB's own published sample stations, marked (published by QUB), rewritten as spoken talk-throughs. The rest are Merra practice questions written to QUB's four competencies; they are not QUB's.
“You're a first-year medical student at a bus stop. A classmate nearby looks upset. Talk to them: what do you say, word for word?”
“You live in a student house and the neighbours have complained about noise. Talk me through your options and what you'd do first.”
“Your mother rings. Your 70-year-old grandfather has a condition that will kill him within five years; a procedure could fix it but carries a ten per cent risk of death. He wants it, she doesn't. How would you help them?”
“A patient on a ward hasn't had a visitor all week and mentions it in passing. What do you do?”
“Tell me about a time you got someone's feelings wrong. How did you find out?”
“You're volunteering and the person in charge doesn't turn up. Twenty people are waiting. What do you do?”
“Is it wrong to lie to a patient to stop them worrying? Give me a case where it might be, and a case where it might not.”
“A friend asks you to share your notes from a placement that patients were identifiable in. What do you say?”
“Explain to a patient why their test results take a week, when they think it should take a day.”
“QUB says to talk through your options with the assessor. So think aloud: a patient asks you a question you don't know the answer to. What are your options?”
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FAQs
What does the QUB medicine MMI assess?
Four competencies identified by patients and academic staff: empathy, problem-solving, moral reasoning and communication skills. Every station carries equal marks.
How many stations are in the Queen's Belfast MMI?
QUB's candidate guidance describes twelve stations for home applicants (nine with an interviewer and three rest stations) and seven for international applicants, taking over an hour, with one minute to consider each scenario.
Does QUB publish sample MMI stations?
Yes, three: an upset classmate at a bus stop (with a role-player), neighbours complaining about noise from your student house, and mediating between your mother and your grandfather over a risky procedure.
Is the QUB medicine interview in person or online?
For 2026 entry, home applicants interviewed in person at Queen's and international applicants online, from mid-December to March.
Is my personal statement used at QUB?
QUB says the personal statement is considered within the MMI process, which is the second stage after academic and UCAT screening.
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