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InterviewStation-based
Swansea University
Stations3
Time per station20 or 30 min
InterviewersTrained panel
WhenEarly in the New Year
Key dates
- The assessment day is held early in the New Year.
How the interview works
- You will attend an assessment day with three face-to-face stations.
- Each station lasts 20 or 30 minutes.
- A station may be an interview.
- A station may be a presentation.
- A station may be a role-play scenario.
- You may be asked about your personal statement in one or more stations.
- Stations are run by a trained panel of clinicians, academics, medical students and members of the public.
- Station formats and competencies can change between cycles without notice.
What they assess
- Communication
- Problem solving
- Coping with pressure
- Insight and integrity
- Passion for medicine and resilience
- Organisation and research
- Ethics and values
How it's scored and how offers are made
- Offers are based solely on your performance at the assessment day.
- Admissions test scores are not used after interview selection.
- Only the highest-scoring candidates are offered a place.
- Offers depend on occupational health, fitness-to-practise and enhanced DBS checks.