1 to 1 Pears Cumbria medicine mock interview in the online mmi format, run by a current student or offer holder. Recording and written feedback, £69.
Pears Cumbria Medicine Interview Format 2027
Pears Cumbria is a four year graduate entry course awarded by Imperial College London, and its MMI can run as a blended format, with in person stations plus asynchronous online stations recorded in your own time. Stations look at motivation, what you would contribute to Cumbria, teamwork, leadership, ethics, empathy and resilience. Shortlisting uses a minimum threshold rather than a pure ranking: the most recently published figures were a Home UCAT minimum of 1,960 out of 2,700, 1,910 contextual, or GAMSAT 59 and 53 contextual, and the SJT is not used. You need a bioscience or allied healthcare degree at 2:1, overseas applicants are not eligible, and there are no deferrals or transfers. Our mock covers both the live and the recorded halves of the day.
How Pears Cumbria Selects for Interview
A 4-year graduate-entry MBBS (A102) in Carlisle delivered by the University of Cumbria with Imperial College London, awarding an Imperial MBBS. Interview selection is based on meeting a minimum UCAT or GAMSAT threshold. Home fee status only.
2026 entry: home minimum UCAT 1960/2700, contextual minimum 1910/2700. GAMSAT alternative: home minimum 59, contextual 53. The SJT is not used.
Typical academic offer: Not applicable - graduate entry only (2027 entry data).
Pears Cumbria Medicine Interview: What to Watch Out For
Home applicants only
Only 58 places
Requires a relevant Biosciences/Allied Healthcare degree
New programme with a short track record
What Does Pears Cumbria Assess at Interview?
Live stations plus recorded asynchronous stations in one blended day
What you would contribute to healthcare in Cumbria specifically
Graduate level reflection, teamwork, leadership and resilience
Ethics and empathy under time pressure
Common Pears Cumbria Medicine Interview Mistakes
You prepare thoroughly for the live stations but treat the asynchronous recorded stations as a formality, giving a shorter or less polished answer once there is no interviewer present. Why it happens: candidates equate a real time human audience with real stakes, forgetting the recorded half of the day is scored exactly like the live half.
You answer what you would contribute to healthcare generally, rather than to Cumbria specifically, missing a named assessment point about local contribution. Why it happens: candidates with a strong general motivation answer assume it covers the location specific question too, without adapting it to the rural and underserved context Cumbria actually asks about.
You give leadership examples from a workplace or society but frame them the way an undergraduate applicant would, without the graduate level reflection on what you would do differently that is expected here. Why it happens: graduate entry candidates often keep the same story bank from their first degree application without re-analysing it at the depth a graduate course requires.
You do not mention your bioscience or allied healthcare degree when explaining your motivation, even though entry depends on that background at 2:1 or above. Why it happens: candidates focus preparation on generic medicine motivation and forget to connect their specific degree and clinical exposure to why they are ready for graduate entry now.
Pears Cumbria Medicine Interview Questions
What are the biggest challenges in delivering healthcare across a rural county? Why it matters: this graduate course is built specifically around rural practice, so a weak answer gives generic NHS pressures instead of rural specific ones.
How has your degree prepared you for an accelerated, graduate entry course? Why it matters: a strong answer draws a direct line from your degree to clinical reasoning, a weak one just states the degree title.
Describe a time you led a team through a setback. Why it matters: as a graduate course, Pears Cumbria expects evidence of leadership already shown, not aspiration to lead in future.
Why Cumbria, and would you consider staying to work here after training? Why it matters: a strong answer shows genuine interest in rural and remote care, a weak one treats Cumbria as a backup option.
How to Prepare for a Pears Cumbria Medicine Interview
The session reproduces the mmi circuit Pears Cumbria School of Medicine uses, so the pacing, pressure and thinking being tested match the real day.
Blended mock with live and recorded stations. We run both live conversation stations and a self recorded station, matching Pears Cumbria's blended day exactly.
Cumbria and rural healthcare context station. A tutor led discussion on rural and remote care delivery, since generic urban NHS answers do not fit here.
Graduate specific reflection coaching. We work on answers that draw clearly on your first degree and prior experience, as expected of graduate applicants.
Feedback on live and recorded delivery. Thirty minutes covering both your live conversational style and your presence on the recorded station.
What your mock includes
One hour 1 to 1 mock in the MMI circuit format
Interviewer who is a current student or recent offer holder at Pears Cumbria
Recording of the session
Written and verbal feedback scored against the domains Pears Cumbria marks