Medicine Interview Hot Topics Webinars

Session 1: Ethical Debates – Assisted Dying Bill and Reproductive Medicine

10th November, 2025 (19:00 GMT)

This session focuses on ethical debates in healthcare, giving you the chance to practice answering questions on sensitive, real-world scenarios commonly seen in medical school interviews. You’ll explore the Assisted Dying Bill, including balancing patient autonomy with the duty to preserve life, essential safeguards, family objections, and the impact on the doctor–patient relationship, as well as moral distinctions in end-of-life care. The session also covers reproductive medicine, including gene editing, IVF, and access to fertility treatments, helping you develop thoughtful responses on equity, consent, ethical boundaries, and societal implications of new medical technologies. Practising these questions will build your confidence in discussing complex ethical topics clearly and respectfully during interviews.

Session 2: AI in Medicine

13th November, 2025 (19:00 GMT)

This session focuses on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare and helps you practice answering questions about its role in modern medicine. You’ll explore topics like whether AI could replace doctors, ethical concerns, patient consent, and accountability for AI-driven decisions. The session also covers practical scenarios, such as dealing with AI errors or explaining AI involvement in patient care, helping you develop clear, thoughtful responses.

You’ll also discuss the advantages and disadvantages of integrating AI into the NHS, including triage systems, predictive tools, and data usage. By the end of the session, you’ll feel confident discussing how AI impacts patient care, safety, and professional responsibilities, key topics that often appear in medical school interviews.

Session 3: Data Interpretation Related to NHS Hot Topics

17th November, 2025 (19:00 GMT)

You’ll practise tackling data-based interview questions just like those used in real MMIs. Using graphs, charts, and tables on key NHS issues from A&E waiting times and mental health trends to obesity, antibiotic resistance, and climate change, you’ll learn how to analyse data quickly, draw logical conclusions, and explain your reasoning clearly.

You’ll also explore how to link statistics to real-world healthcare challenges, such as health inequalities, digital transformation, and NHS funding pressures. This session helps you develop the skills to think critically, discuss evidence confidently, and give structured, insightful answers that are essential for performing strongly in data interpretation interview stations.

Session 4: Weight Loss Medication

20th November, 2025 (19:00 GMT)

Explore the growing use of weight-loss injections like semaglutide (Ozempic) and liraglutide, and the ethical and medical debates surrounding them. Through roleplay scenarios, you’ll practise how to talk to patients who want these treatments, including those seeking them for cosmetic reasons or facing side effects. You’ll also learn how to handle tricky conversations involving parent–child disagreements, consent, and patient safety.

You’ll practise real NHS-style questions about fair access, funding decisions, and the role of doctors in responding to social media trends and public demand. The session helps you understand how doctors balance autonomy, ethics, and limited NHS resources while practising confident, structured interview answers. It is the perfect preparation for medical school MMIs.

Session 5: Mental Health and Use of Social Media as Doctors

24th November, 2025 (19:00 GMT)

This session helps you practise MMI-style mental health questions, focusing on realistic clinical, ethical, and communication scenarios that future doctors are likely to face. Participants will tackle roleplays on anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder, developing empathy, professionalism, and strong consultation skills while learning to balance autonomy, confidentiality, and safeguarding.

Students will also engage with ethical questions, exploring key issues such as rising mental health referrals, online therapy, suicide prevention, and the impact of social media on wellbeing. The session equips you to discuss mental health policy, access inequalities, and evidence-based care with confidence — ensuring you can deliver thoughtful, compassionate, and informed responses in medical school interviews.

Session 6: NHS Fit for the future plan

27th November, 2025 (19:00 GMT)

You’ll practise answering interview questions on the NHS Fit for the Future Plan, exploring how the health service is preparing to meet future challenges. Through realistic MMI-style scenarios, you’ll discuss key themes such as workforce development, digital innovation, preventive care, and sustainable funding.

You’ll also examine how the plan aims to tackle health inequalities, improve access, and support a more resilient and patient-centred NHS. This session helps you develop clear, evidence-based answers that show strong awareness of current NHS priorities—essential for performing confidently in interviews.

Session 7: Alternative Professions and Overlapping Roles in Patient Care

1st December, 2025 (19:00 GMT)

This engaging session focuses on practice interview questions exploring how Physician Associates (PAs), Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANPs), and Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs) are reshaping modern healthcare delivery. You will practice topics such as role clarity, accountability, workforce shortages, and pay equity, developing strong, balanced answers for medical school interviews. The session encourages critical thinking around collaboration, patient safety, and the evolving role of multidisciplinary teams in the NHS.

Through realistic interview-style questions, you will explore how workforce pressures, recruitment challenges, and reforms are influencing the future of healthcare. By practising responses to these complex NHS issues, you will learn how to articulate insightful views on team-based care, professional boundaries, and system sustainability.

Session 8: Medico-Legal Cases and Whistleblowing

4th December, 2025 (19:00 GMT)

This interactive webinar focuses on practice interview questions designed around real-life medico-legal and ethical challenges within the NHS. You will explore scenarios inspired by cases like the Indi Gregory Case and Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, tackling issues such as accountability, medical negligence, and systemic failings. Each question helps you develop structured, confident answers to MMI and panel interview questions that commonly appear in medical school interviews.

Participants will also practise questions on whistleblowing, patient safety, and professional integrity, gaining confidence in handling complex ethical dilemmas under pressure. This session is a great opportunity to sharpen your critical thinking, refine your communication style, and prepare for the kinds of NHS hot topic questions that distinguish successful candidates.

Session 9: Important Cases

8th December, 2025 (19:00 GMT)

You’ll explore important ethical and real-world cases that have shaped modern UK healthcare, including Andrew Wakefield and the MMR scandal, the Shropshire Maternity Review, Martha’s Rule, and the Yaser Jabbar case. Through realistic interview-style questions, you’ll discuss themes of patient safety, accountability, public trust, and professional integrity.

This session helps you develop confident, well-structured answers on how these important cases continue to influence medical practice, ethics, and NHS policy— vital knowledge for medical school interviews.

Session 10: Conscientious Objections & Healthcare Reforms and Structural Changes

11th December, 2025 (19:00 GMT)

You’ll explore conscientious objection in medicine and the ethical challenges it raises around professional duty, patient rights, and moral integrity. Through real-world scenarios, you’ll consider when doctors can refuse to participate in certain procedures and how to balance personal beliefs with patient care.

This session also covers questions about NHS reforms, structural changes, and healthcare policy. Topics include Integrated Care Systems, the 10-Year Health Plan, workforce schemes, and the role of professional bodies like the GMC. You’ll learn to discuss the challenges and opportunities in making the NHS more efficient, equitable, and patient-focused.

You’ll also explore financial pressures, data-driven decisions, and lessons from COVID-19, helping you give well-reasoned answers about real-world healthcare challenges. By the end of the session, you’ll be confident discussing how reforms impact patient care, workforce planning, and the future of the NHS; key areas often explored in medical school interviews.

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