Leeds medicine uses an MMI

The University of Leeds interviews medicine applicants through Multiple Mini Interviews. For 2027 entry, its MBChB course page lists face-to-face interviews on 4, 5 and 6 January 2027, with overseas interviews online.

Use the official Medicine and Surgery course page for cycle-specific arrangements. The school's separate MMI preparation page describes eight stations, six minutes inside each station and two minutes of reading time. That preparation page isn't clearly labelled for 2027, so confirm the timings in your invitation. Its stated assessment examples include communication, ethical reasoning and problem solving, rather than clinical or scientific knowledge.

Confetto is independent of the University of Leeds. The exercises here are ours, not questions obtained from the school's interviews.

Use reading time to understand what you're being asked

Practise with a two-minute reading period, using the published preparation guidance as a training reference. Write a few words about the decision the prompt requires. Don't prepare a speech on the broad topic before you know the task.

Our fictional prompt: You help organise a student project. One member wants the group to remove a person's name from the final submission because that person missed several meetings. You haven't heard from the absent member. What would you do?

Use your reading time to separate the facts from the assumptions. Missed meetings are given. A refusal to contribute isn't given. You also don't know what contribution was agreed, whether work was completed outside meetings or why the person was absent.

State the first step you'd take: establish what happened before deciding the consequence.
Explain how you'd hear both accounts without discussing the concern unnecessarily with others.
Consider the project rules and your authority to change the submission.
Explain what you'd do if the deadline arrives before the disagreement is resolved.

Don't hide behind “I'd communicate.” Say who you'd speak to and what you'd ask. Don't promise an outcome you don't control. You can propose a fair process without guaranteeing that everyone will agree.

Rehearse an answer that leaves room for follow-ups

For our drill, give a one-minute opening answer to that prompt. Ask your partner to follow up for the rest of a six-minute session. These are rehearsal choices; they don't reproduce a current Leeds station script.

Have your partner change one fact. The absent member says they submitted work, but another member says it wasn't usable. Now the issue involves the quality of a contribution as well as attendance. Explain what you'd need to compare before accepting either account.

In another round, the project has a written rule for missed deadlines. Read the rule your partner invents for the exercise and explain how it affects your approach. You should be able to adjust an answer without treating the earlier version as something you must defend.

After recording the session, check whether you answered each follow-up. A polished paragraph about fairness can still avoid the specific question. Rewrite the first sentence of a weak response so it states the action you're proposing.

Make your application examples easy to question

Leeds' preparation guidance recommends knowing your personal statement and what you've done to prepare for medical school. Build an example sheet from the application you submitted.

For each experience, identify your actual responsibility and a moment when you needed help. Then write a follow-up that would make the example harder: what would you do differently, what did you misunderstand, or how do you know the outcome improved?

Choose a true event you can explain without revealing personal details. If you observed someone else handle a situation, describe what you noticed rather than claiming their action as yours. Reflection doesn't require you to have been the person in charge.

Research the course rather than collect impressive names

The Leeds course page describes active learning and clinical placements from the start of year one. It also says the course is currently under curricular review, so some details may change. Use details published there when preparing your reasons for applying, and check for updates rather than treating a module list as permanent.

Connect one feature to something you know about how you learn. If practical experience helps you understand a topic, explain an occasion when that happened and how you'd prepare before applying knowledge in a new setting. Interest in early contact should come with awareness that you're a learner who needs supervision.

Original prompts for another practice round

These are our questions, not recalled Leeds station content.

A person corrects your explanation in front of a group. How would you respond before you know whether they're right?
Describe a time when asking for help improved your work.
What would make you change your mind about the student-project scenario?
Which published feature of Leeds' course fits your learning needs, and where would you need to develop?

Keep your preparation separate from the actual interview. Leeds' code of conduct prohibits recording the interview, sharing its content or receiving advice during it.

For practice beforehand, Confetto's AI MMI practice offers mock interviews with follow-up questions and rubric-based feedback. Use a round to identify where your answer became vague, then rehearse that response again in your own words.

Also applying elsewhere in the UK? See our new interview guide to Newcastle University School of Medicine (an on-campus MMI).