University of Hertfordshire Medical School Interview Questions for 2027 Entry

19 Oct

Hertfordshire Medical School welcomed its very first medical students in September 2026. That makes it one of the newest medical schools in the United Kingdom (UK), and the first one Hertfordshire has ever had.

Being new is exciting, but it creates a problem for applicants. There are no older students to ask, no years of interview stories on forums, and no published admissions statistics to study. If you've applied for 2027 entry, you're walking into an interview that only one group of applicants has ever sat.

This guide fills that gap. We've worked through the university's own admissions pages and its Medical Schools Council listing to explain how Hertfordshire shortlists applicants, how its online Multiple Mini Interviews (MMIs) work, and what the interviewers are looking for. Then we've written 50 practice questions in MMI style, including ten you're only likely to meet at Hertfordshire. 💙

🌍 Before you read on: for 2027 entry, the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) at Hertfordshire is open to international students only. UK "home" fee-paying students can't apply this year.

🏥 An Introduction to Hertfordshire Medical School

Hertfordshire Medical School sits within the University of Hertfordshire (known as "Herts") and its School of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, on the College Lane campus in Hatfield. It runs a single course: a five-year MBBS, with the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) course code A100 and institution code H36.

The course is delivered with support from City St George's, University of London, one of the UK's long-established medical schools. Clinical placements are provided by local National Health Service (NHS) partners, including East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust and a network of local General Practitioner (GP) practices.

The school takes up to 70 students a year. Its first cohort arrived for induction in September 2026, with students travelling from countries including Australia, Canada, the United States, the United Arab Emirates and Zimbabwe, and teaching began on 5 October.

🌍 Who can apply for 2027 entry?

International applicants and European Union (EU) applicants without pre-settled or settled status in the UK can apply.
UK home applicants can't apply yet. The university says it will open the course to home students once government funding for extra medical school places is secured, following the same phased approach used by other recently opened medical schools.
If you're studying at a UK sixth form but would be classed as an international fee payer, you can apply. If you're unsure of your fee status, check with the university before you do anything else.
You must be at least 18 by the start of the course. That's stricter than many UK medical schools, which accept 17-year-olds, so check your date of birth against a September 2027 start.
Graduates are welcome with at least a 2:1 honours degree in any subject, or a master's or doctorate.

🎓 What about General Medical Council approval?

Every new UK medical school goes through the same process. The General Medical Council (GMC), which regulates doctors, reviews the school every year, following its first cohort from Year 1 to graduation. Only at the end of that cycle can the school be approved to award UK medical degrees in its own right.

That's normal, not a warning sign. Hertfordshire also has a safety net in place: if it didn't receive GMC approval, students would transfer to City St George's to finish their studies, so anyone who passes their assessments still graduates with a recognised UK medical qualification. Graduates can apply to the UK Foundation Programme, and like every UK medical student, they'll sit the Medical Licensing Assessment (MLA) before joining the medical register.

It's worth understanding this properly, because a thoughtful interviewer may well ask you about it.

⭐ How Does Hertfordshire Stand Out From Other UK Medical Schools?

🩺 You meet patients in your first year

Plenty of medical schools promise "early clinical exposure". Hertfordshire puts numbers on it. Students become patient-facing from the second term of Year 1, and the placement time grows steadily:

Year 1: about 2 weeks
Year 2: about 4 weeks
Year 3: about 15 weeks
Year 4: about 40 weeks
Year 5: about 35 weeks, including student-selected components

By the final year, around three-quarters of your time is spent on placement in hospitals, community services and GP practices. Placements run mainly across Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire, covering both urban hospitals and rural practices, and some may involve evenings, nights or weekends.

🤝 You learn alongside other healthcare students

Interprofessional learning is one of the course's defining features. You'll train alongside students of nursing, paramedic science, occupational therapy, radiography and radiotherapy, among others. Herts already has a strong reputation in these subjects, with several healthcare courses ranked in the UK top 10 in the Guardian University Guide 2026.

🧬 The facilities are built for modern medicine

The medical school building has been refurbished specifically for medicine. It includes an Anatomage table for detailed virtual dissection, human plastinates and anatomical models, a life-like simulated hospital ward with high-fidelity mannequins, and immersive virtual reality and augmented reality technology. Artificial intelligence (AI) software is also built into team-based learning.

🏛️ A curriculum with a proven backbone

Because the course is delivered with City St George's support, its shape will look familiar if you've read about St George's:

Years 1 and 2: core science (anatomy, physiology, biochemistry) taught through case-based learning under three themes: Basic Clinical Sciences, Professional Skills, and Patients, Populations and Society.
Year 3 (the "Transition Year"): blocks of problem-based learning (PBL) alternating with clinical blocks.
Year 4: specialist attachments including cardiology, geriatrics, surgery, neurology, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics and palliative care.
Year 5: assistantships in medicine, surgery and general practice, plus emergency medicine, anaesthetics and critical care, all preparing you for the MLA and your first job as a doctor.

You can also intercalate (take an extra year to earn an additional degree) once you've passed Years 1 to 3.

🏡 A small cohort, guaranteed housing and London on the doorstep

With up to 70 students, you won't be lost in a year group of 300. Medical students are guaranteed on-campus accommodation for all five years (subject to meeting deadlines), with every hall within a 10-minute walk of teaching. Hatfield is about 25 minutes by train from London King's Cross, so you get easy access to the capital without paying London rent.

🏆 University of Hertfordshire Rankings and Student Experience

Herts is on a strong run in the league tables, and the student experience scores are particularly impressive.

🇬🇧 UK league tables

Guardian University Guide 2027: 37th in the UK, up 12 places and the university's highest-ever position.
The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2027: 59th in the UK, up eight places.
Complete University Guide 2027: 70th out of 130, up 12 places, and sixth in the East of England.

🌍 Worldwide rankings

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings 2027: in the 851–900 band.
Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2026: in the 601–800 band.
QS Stars: rated 5 Stars overall.

Global rankings lean heavily on research volume and reputation, so a teaching-focused modern university will usually sit lower on them than on UK tables that measure the student experience. For a medical applicant, the UK tables and student satisfaction scores tell you more about what life there will feel like.

😊 Student experience ratings

National Student Survey (NSS) 2026: 14th out of 123 UK universities for overall student satisfaction, with a positivity score of 87%, and the top-rated university in the East of England.
The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2027: 13th out of 130 for student experience.
Medical sciences: ranked 12th in the UK in the NSS 2025.
Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) 2023: Silver.
Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021: in the top 25% of UK universities for research impact.

📉 What about the medicine league tables?

Hertfordshire won't appear in medicine subject rankings for a while. Those tables use data such as student satisfaction and graduate outcomes for each course, and a school that opened in 2026 simply doesn't have that data yet. Don't read anything into its absence.

Once your score gets you the interview

Your UCAT gets you the interview. The interview gets you the offer.

A mid-range score can win offers when your interview is strong, and even a high one can fall short without preparation. Our interview course is taught in small groups by NHS doctors, with realistic MMI practice and feedback on every station.

See the medical interview course Add a mock MMI circuit

🎯 How Does Hertfordshire Decide Who to Call for an Interview?

Hertfordshire uses a clear, three-stage process. Understanding it properly will tell you exactly where your effort should go.

Stage 1: Academic screening

Every application is checked against the minimum academic requirements. For 2027 entry, you'll need:

A Levels: AAA, including Chemistry and Biology (or Human Biology), taken in one sitting over no more than two years. The third subject can be anything except General Studies, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills and Global Perspectives, and the university actively encourages arts and humanities choices.
International Baccalaureate (IB): 36 points, with 6 at Higher Level in Chemistry or Biology, and 5 at Higher Level in a second science (Chemistry, Biology or Physics) or Maths.
General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE): five subjects at grade 6 or above, including English, Maths and Double or Triple Science (or equivalent).
English language: International English Language Testing System (IELTS) 7.0 overall with 7.0 in every component, or an accepted equivalent. Nationals of majority English-speaking countries are exempt.
Graduates: a 2:1 honours degree in any subject, or a master's or doctorate.
Recent study: your highest qualification should have been taken within five academic years of applying.

Hertfordshire also lists accepted equivalents for dozens of national qualifications, from Canada and India to Malaysia and Sri Lanka. Check your own country carefully, because some school-leaving qualifications aren't accepted on their own. Pakistan's Intermediate and Higher Secondary Certificate, for example, isn't accepted without further study at degree level.

Predicted grades count at this stage, so you need to be predicted at or above the standard offer.

Stage 2: Your UCAT score ranks you

Everyone who passes Stage 1 is ranked by their University Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT) score. A set number of the highest scorers are invited to interview. More on that in the next section.

Stage 3: The interview

Shortlisted applicants are invited to an online MMI. Your interview performance then decides whether you receive an offer.

📝 Does Hertfordshire use your personal statement?

Not to decide who gets an interview. Hertfordshire says it doesn't directly use your personal statement in selection, but you should be ready to discuss it. The Medical Schools Council listing adds that statements are checked after the interview, before offers are made.

In other words, your statement won't win you an interview here, but anything you've written in it is fair game on the day. Re-read it.

🔬 Work experience is compulsory, in some form

Hertfordshire expects every applicant to have researched the realities of healthcare work, through actual work experience, virtual work experience, or both. You'll be expected to talk about it at interview and show what it taught you about the knowledge, skills and qualities a doctor needs.

That's good news for international applicants who couldn't get hospital placements: virtual experience is explicitly accepted. What matters is what you learned, not where you went.

🧮 How Is the UCAT Used at Hertfordshire?

At Hertfordshire, the UCAT does one very important job: it decides who gets interviewed.

You must sit the UCAT in the summer before you apply. For 2027 entry, that meant sitting it in 2026.
Once you meet the academic requirements, applicants are ranked by UCAT score, and the top-ranked applicants are invited to interview until the places are filled.
There's no fixed cut-off. The score needed will vary from year to year depending on how many people apply and how well they do, so the university won't say in advance what score you'll need.
According to the Medical Schools Council, the Situational Judgement Test (SJT) band isn't part of the ranking. Only your total score from the three cognitive subtests counts.

Why this matters more here than at most schools

Many medical schools blend your UCAT with grades, personal statement scores or contextual factors. Hertfordshire doesn't. Once you've cleared the academic bar, your UCAT score is the only thing separating you from the next applicant. A strong score carries more weight at Herts than almost anywhere else.

A note on the new UCAT scale

The UCAT dropped its Abstract Reasoning section from 2025 onwards, so the cognitive total now runs from 900 to 2,700, not the old maximum of 3,600. Hertfordshire has only ever recruited on the new scale, so there's no older Herts data to compare against. If you see a "Hertfordshire UCAT cut-off" quoted anywhere using the old 3,600 scale, ignore it. It isn't real, and it can't be compared.

The university hasn't published the interview threshold from its first cycle either. Treat any number you see online as a guess.

💻 How Does Hertfordshire Interview? Style, Structure and Delivery

The interview style: Multiple Mini Interviews

Hertfordshire uses MMIs for every shortlisted applicant. Instead of one long interview with a panel, you move through a series of short, separate "stations". Each station tests something different, and each is usually scored on its own, so one shaky answer doesn't drag down the rest.

The university says its MMIs assess three things in particular: your motivation, your communication skills and your problem-solving ability. You'll also be expected to discuss your work experience.

Delivery: online

Hertfordshire's MMIs are held online. That's ideal for international applicants, who can interview from home rather than flying to the UK.

Structure and timings

Here's the honest position: Hertfordshire hasn't published how many stations it uses, how long each lasts, or which video platform it runs on. Your invitation will give the details.

What we do know is how online MMIs generally work. The Medical Schools Council's guidance describes online MMIs as typically having six to eight stations. Some schools move you between virtual rooms with a different interviewer at each station; others use a single panel who take you through every station in turn; a few use pre-recorded questions that you answer on camera. Most stations run for around five to eight minutes, often with a short reading time first.

What to have ready on the day

A laptop or desktop on mains power, with a working webcam and microphone
A quiet, well-lit room with a plain background
Photo identification (ID), such as your passport
A stable internet connection, ideally wired, and a phone hotspot as a back-up
The interview time converted correctly into your own time zone

📅 When Are Hertfordshire Interviews Held?

For 2027 entry, Hertfordshire's MMIs run from November 2026 to April 2027. That's a long window, so don't panic if friends hear back before you do. When you're invited usually tells you nothing about how strong your application is.

⏰ Missed the 15 October deadline?

The UCAS deadline for 2027 medicine applications closed at 6pm on 15 October 2026. But Hertfordshire also accepts direct applications from international students through its own online form, linked from the course page.

The university doesn't publish a closing date for direct applications, so if you're still thinking about applying, email the admissions team (MBBSadmissions@herts.ac.uk) straight away to confirm whether the route is still open. You'll still need a UCAT score from the 2026 test.

🗂️ What Topics Are Covered in the Hertfordshire Interview?

Hertfordshire names motivation, communication and problem-solving as its focus, with work experience and your personal statement also open for discussion.

The course itself is built around the GMC's Good Medical Practice (2024), and students are assessed partly on a domain called "Becoming a Doctor". So it's sensible to expect stations that test professional values too. Across a full circuit, you're likely to meet a mix of:

💡 Motivation for medicine and realistic insight into the career
🔍 Reflection on work experience (in person or virtual)
🗣️ Communication, including role play with an actor or interviewer
🧩 Problem-solving, prioritisation and data interpretation
⚖️ Ethics and professionalism
🤝 Teamwork and working with other professions
💪 Resilience, self-awareness and wellbeing
🏥 Understanding of the NHS and healthcare in the UK
🏫 Why Hertfordshire, and why a brand-new medical school

📊 How Many Applicants Are Interviewed, and How Many Get Offers?

This is the question everyone wants answered, and right now nobody outside the university can answer it.

Hertfordshire hasn't published how many people applied, were interviewed or received offers in its first cycle. What we do know is that there are up to 70 places a year. With a small cohort and a worldwide applicant pool, competition is real, but because Herts is new, it may not yet be on every international applicant's radar.

Be wary of any figures you see quoted online. We'll update this article as soon as official numbers are published.

🏅 What Is the Interview Scoring Method?

Hertfordshire hasn't published its MMI mark scheme, so nobody outside the admissions team knows exactly how stations are weighted.

At UK medical schools that use MMIs, the usual approach is that each station is marked separately by a trained assessor against set criteria, often with a numerical score and an overall judgement of your performance. The station scores are then added together and applicants are ranked. The Medical Schools Council's own guide to running mock MMIs uses this kind of station-by-station mark scheme.

Three things follow for you:

No single station decides your fate. If one goes badly, reset and go again.
Consistency beats brilliance. Solid, thoughtful answers at every station will usually outscore a couple of excellent ones and several weak ones.
Your personal statement still matters at the end. It's checked before offers are made, so anything in it needs to be true and something you can talk about confidently.

📬 When Are Offers Released?

Hertfordshire doesn't publish fixed offer dates. The university simply says you'll receive its decision after your interview. With interviews running from November to April, expect decisions to arrive in stages through the cycle rather than all on one day.

If you applied through UCAS, the outcome will appear in your UCAS Hub. Direct applicants will hear from the university.

Every offer comes with conditions beyond your grades:

A satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
An occupational health check
For students who need a visa, a £10,000 tuition fee deposit before the university issues your Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies (CAS)

Tuition fees for 2027/28 are £47,500 a year for international students, rising each year in line with inflation, by no more than 10% a year. Budget for placement travel too: the university estimates up to about £1,000 a year, depending on where you're placed.

💬 50 Hertfordshire Medical School Interview Questions for 2027 Entry

Hertfordshire hasn't released any of its real stations, and you should be sceptical of anyone claiming to have them. The questions below are written in MMI format: one question, task or role play per station. They're grouped by the topics Hertfordshire says it assesses, followed by the wider professional themes you're likely to meet.

Set a timer for six minutes per station. Answer out loud, ideally to a webcam, because that's how you'll be doing it for real. Don't script your answers.

💡 Motivation for medicine

Hertfordshire names this directly. They want reasons, not enthusiasm.

Why do you want to be a doctor rather than a nurse, paramedic or physician associate? You'll be training alongside all three at Hertfordshire.
Tell us about the moment you became sure medicine was right for you. Has there ever been a moment when you doubted it?
What do you think will be the hardest part of being a doctor, and why doesn't that put you off?
A friend says doctors only choose medicine for the salary and status. How would you respond?
Where do you see yourself ten years after graduating, and what might change that plan?
What have you done to test whether medicine really suits you, rather than assuming it does?

💡 A strong answer names something specific you saw, did or read, and then says what it taught you. "I want to help people" on its own won't score.

🗣️ Communication skills

Talk to the person, not about the situation.

Role play. Candidate brief: You're a first-year medical student on a ward placement. Mr Okafor's son has just learnt that his father's hip operation has been cancelled for the second time. He's angry and asks to speak to someone. Speak to him.
Role play. Candidate brief: Your flatmate, also a first-year medical student, has failed their first anatomy test and says they want to drop out. Have that conversation.
Explain to a nine-year-old, played by the interviewer, why they need a vaccination. Don't use any medical words.
Communication task. Describe the image on your screen so that the interviewer, who can't see it, can draw it accurately.
Role play. Candidate brief: A patient has been waiting 90 minutes for a GP appointment and needs to get back to work. You're on reception duty as part of a placement. Explain the delay.

💡 Online role plays feel strange at first. Look at the camera, not the screen, slow down, and leave pauses. The actor will often give you more information if you give them space to talk.

🧩 Problem-solving

There's rarely one right answer. They're marking how you think.

Data station. You're shown a graph of Accident and Emergency (A&E) waiting times over five years. Talk the interviewer through what it shows and what might explain the trend.
You have one evening and three commitments: a lab report due tomorrow, a shift at your part-time job, and a friend who has asked for your help preparing for an important interview. How do you decide what to do?
A headline claims that drinking coffee cuts the risk of dementia by a third. What would you want to know before believing it?
A new treatment worked in 18 out of 20 patients in a small trial. Would you recommend it? What else would you want to know?
A GP surgery has a high number of missed appointments. What would you try first to fix it, and how would you know whether it had worked?

🔍 Work experience and insight into medicine

Hertfordshire says it will ask about this. It's testing what you took from it, not where you went.

Tell us about something from your work experience, in person or virtual, that changed how you think about being a doctor.
Describe a patient interaction you observed. What did the clinician do well, and what might you have done differently?
Much of your experience was virtual. What did you learn from it, and what couldn't it teach you?
Which member of the healthcare team, other than the doctors, impressed you most during your experience, and why?
What qualities does a good doctor need? Which one do you most need to develop?

⚖️ Ethics and professionalism

Argue both sides before you land anywhere. Then land.

A 15-year-old asks her GP for contraception and asks that her parents aren't told. What issues does this raise?
A classmate posts a selfie from a hospital placement on social media, and a patient's details are visible in the background. What do you do?
An adult patient with full capacity refuses a blood transfusion that could save their life. Should the doctors respect that decision?
Should patients who smoke be given lower priority for some operations?
During an online assessment, a friend messages you an answer. What do you do?
A grateful patient offers you a £50 gift voucher at the end of your placement. Should you accept it?
England uses an opt-out system for organ donation. What are the arguments for and against it?

💡 The four pillars of medical ethics (autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice) are a useful framework, but don't recite them like a list. Use them to weigh up the situation in front of you.

🤝 Teamwork and working with other professions

Tell us about a time a team you were part of disagreed. What did you do?
What could a doctor learn from a nurse, a pharmacist or a paramedic? Give a specific example.
A senior nurse questions a junior doctor's decision in front of a patient. How should the doctor respond?

💪 Resilience, reflection and wellbeing

Tell us about a time you failed at something. What did you actually change afterwards?
Describe some feedback you didn't enjoy receiving. What did you do with it?
Medicine is demanding. How do you look after your wellbeing, and how would you know if you weren't coping?
Halfway through your first year, you realise you're falling behind. What do you do?

🏥 The NHS and healthcare in the UK

International applicants often under-prepare here. Don't.

How is the NHS funded, and how does it compare with the healthcare system in the country where you grew up?
What's the biggest challenge facing the NHS right now, and what would you do about it?
What does the term "health inequalities" mean? Give an example from the UK or your home country.
The GMC's Good Medical Practice sets out the standards expected of every UK doctor. What do you know about it?
How do you think artificial intelligence will change a doctor's job over the next ten years?

💡 You don't need to be an NHS policy expert. You do need to know the basics: how it's funded, who works in it, the main pressures it faces, and how it differs from the system you know best.

🏫 Questions Specific to Hertfordshire Medical School

Every medical school wants to know you chose it on purpose. At a brand-new school, that question carries extra weight, because the interviewers know you're taking a chance on something without a track record. Prepare these properly.

Why have you applied to Hertfordshire, rather than a medical school that has been training doctors for decades?
You'd be joining one of the first cohorts at a brand-new medical school. What are the advantages and the risks, and what would you contribute to shaping it?
Our course is delivered with support from City St George's, and the GMC will review the school every year until the first students graduate. What did you think about before applying to a school in that position?
You'd be patient-facing from your first year. What do you hope to gain from early clinical contact, and what worries you about it?
At Hertfordshire you'll learn alongside student nurses, paramedics, occupational therapists and radiographers. Why do you think the course is designed this way?
Our facilities include a digital dissection table, virtual reality and a simulated hospital ward. Can technology ever replace learning from real patients?
In Year 3 you'll move to problem-based learning, which is much more self-directed. How do you learn best, and how would you adapt?
Placements run across Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire, from busy hospitals to rural GP practices. How might the health needs of a rural community differ from those of a large town?
Moving to another country to study medicine is a big step. What will you bring to our cohort, and how will you cope with being far from home?
Some placements involve early starts, evenings or weekends, plus travel. How will you manage that alongside your studies and the rest of your life?

💡 For question 43, don't be defensive. Show you've done your homework: you know new schools are monitored by the GMC every year, you know there's a contingency arrangement with City St George's, and you've weighed that against the benefits of a small, new cohort. Interviewers will respect an applicant who has thought about it clearly.

🗣️ What Students and Applicants Say

Hertfordshire has run just one interview cycle, so there isn't yet a large body of applicant feedback to draw on. The themes below reflect what applicants commonly report about online MMIs at new UK medical schools. They're paraphrased rather than quoted, so treat them as flavour, not fact.

"Online doesn't mean easier." Talking to a webcam takes practice. Applicants regularly say the lack of nods and smiles threw them at first, and that those who had rehearsed on camera felt far calmer.

"The 'why this school' question is coming." At a brand-new school, interviewers are especially keen to know you've chosen them deliberately. Vague answers about "a great opportunity" tend to fall flat; specific reasons tied to the course land well.

"They dug into my work experience." A list of placements isn't enough. Applicants find that interviewers want to know what you noticed, what surprised you and how it changed your thinking, whether the experience was in person or virtual.

"Check your time zone twice." International applicants often interview early in the morning or late at night their time. Those who did a full test run, at the same time of day, say it made a real difference.

"Role plays reward listening." The applicants who felt a role play had gone well usually say they listened, acknowledged the person's frustration and apologised where appropriate, rather than rushing to solve the problem.

"It felt more like a conversation than an exam." Many applicants describe online MMI interviewers as friendly and encouraging. It still pays to stay professional throughout, because every station is being scored.

🚀 Top Tips to Succeed at the Hertfordshire Interview

Know exactly why you want Hertfordshire. Early patient contact, interprofessional learning, a small cohort, City St George's support, modern facilities and placements across Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire. Pick the two or three that genuinely matter to you and explain why.

Understand the "new school" story. Know how GMC approval works for new schools and what the contingency arrangement with City St George's means. If it comes up, you'll sound informed rather than surprised.

Learn the basics of the NHS. International applicants are sometimes caught out by simple questions about how the NHS is funded or organised. Spend a few hours on it, and be ready to compare it with the healthcare system you know best.

Read Good Medical Practice. Hertfordshire builds its course around it. You don't need to memorise it, but knowing its four areas (knowledge and skills, working with patients, working with colleagues, and trust and professionalism) will strengthen your ethics and teamwork answers.

Reflect on your work experience properly. For each experience, be ready to say what happened, what you learned and how it shapes the doctor you want to be. Virtual experience is fine, as long as you can show genuine insight.

Re-read your personal statement. It won't get you an interview at Herts, but it's checked before offers are made, and you may be asked about anything in it.

Practise on camera. Record yourself answering questions on a laptop, watch it back and fix the two things that make you wince most. It's uncomfortable, and it works.

Prepare your technology and your time zone. Test your camera, microphone, internet and lighting the day before, at the same time of day as your interview. Have a back-up connection ready.

Treat every station as a fresh start. If one station goes badly, let it go. The next assessor won't know, and the next station is a new chance to score.

Speak clearly and steadily. Hertfordshire asks for IELTS 7.0 in every component for a reason: clear communication is central to safe medicine. Slow down, keep your sentences simple and check the interviewer has understood you.

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📌 Key Facts at a Glance

💙 Medical school: Hertfordshire Medical School, University of Hertfordshire (College Lane campus, Hatfield)

💙 Course: MBBS Medicine, five years full time · UCAS code A100 · institution code H36

💙 Delivered with support from: City St George's, University of London

💙 Who can apply for 2027 entry: international students and EU students without pre-settled or settled status. Not open to UK home students yet.

💙 Places: up to 70 a year

💙 First cohort: started September 2026

💙 How to apply: through UCAS (deadline 15 October 2026, 6pm UK time) or directly to the university

💙 A Level requirement: AAA, including Chemistry and Biology (or Human Biology), in one sitting

💙 IB requirement: 36 points, including Higher Level 6 in Chemistry or Biology and Higher Level 5 in a second science or Maths

💙 GCSE requirement: five subjects at grade 6 or above, including English, Maths and Science

💙 English language: IELTS 7.0 with 7.0 in every component (or equivalent)

💙 Minimum age: 18 by the start of the course

💙 UCAT: required. Applicants are ranked by score, with no fixed cut-off, and the SJT band isn't used in the ranking

💙 Personal statement: not used to decide interviews, but checked before offers are made

💙 Interview type: Multiple Mini Interviews, held online

💙 Interview window: November 2026 to April 2027

💙 What's assessed: motivation, communication and problem-solving, plus your work experience

💙 Offer conditions: academic grades, Enhanced DBS check, occupational health check, and a £10,000 deposit before CAS for visa students

💙 Tuition fees (2027/28): £47,500 a year

💙 Accommodation: guaranteed on campus for all five years (subject to deadlines)

💙 Clinical placements: from Year 1, mainly across Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire

💙 Rankings: 37th in the UK (Guardian University Guide 2027) · 59th (The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2027) · 70th (Complete University Guide 2027) · QS World University Rankings 2027: 851–900 · THE World University Rankings 2026: 601–800

💙 Admissions contact: MBBSadmissions@herts.ac.uk

Good luck. Being among the first students at a new medical school takes a bit of courage, and the interviewers know that. Show them you've thought it through, and you'll stand out. 💙

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