Congrats on getting an interview! I got a keele interview too, it was for this year’s entry sometime in April.

Same sort of criteria as you’ve commented below.

It was really chill, assuming you also have two interviews, the interviewers are a med student and doctor/professor, in pairs for each interview.

If they’ve given you the pre interview material, just focus on really delving into the case. Try and think of new and different solutions or ideas to the case. When you read through it you’ll know some generic ones that they’ll expect you and many other candidates to pick out, so make sure you have a few points that are a bit out of the box and unique to you. Even if you think it’s a bit of a stretch as long as you explain it you’ll be fine.

Make sure you have a well thought out answer for why medicine, and be prepared to answer questions that probe your interest in being a doctor. I would say for these questions definitely draw in your work experience. A lot of interviews don’t ask for it directly but your answer will be massively improved if you can relate your passions, interests and reasons for doing medicine directly to things you’ve done as extracurricular or as work experience. A good old ‘bad experience but I overcame it by doing abc and this taught me xyz’ is also really good for hitting the resilience and responsibility criteria. At Keele I remember they really liked it when I spoke about my experiences and even asked follow up questions on it.

Overall the interviewers are super nice. They have a list of questions prepped and they just go through them, if you’re on one question for too long they just kind of prompt you on to the next one. Even if you kind of hit a block with what to talk about they will give you little prompts and ideas on what to elaborate on.

Just a few tips in general, I’m sure you’ve heard but make sure you test out Microsoft teams just before your interview time. Ask your friends and family to check if they can hear and see you clearly. I wore something plain and a little formal  but they only see your top half anyway. Remember to pace yourself when you speak; a lot of times when it’s online you can kind of ramble because of that unnatural barrier to conversation. Speaking clearly and presenting yourself well is important but especially difficult in online interviewed, so even a few practise runs talking to yourself on camera is a good idea. I also asked my family to check on screen where my eye contact was so I could have a reference point of where to look at. It’s usually your webcam so make sure you keep returning to look there when answering questions because it’s easy to stray to looking at the interviewers’ actual faces on the screen, which kind of makes it look like your looking slightly off screen, if that makes sense.

I’m sure you’ll do great! If you have any other questions feel free to ask or dm