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A100 Keele Medicine 2026 entry

Hey guys, i just wanted to talk to people who have applied to keele medicine :smile:

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Reply 1

hey guys!! has anyone heard anything from their keele application. also does anyone know when interviews are sent out?

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by bigmonster2005
hey guys!! has anyone heard anything from their keele application. also does anyone know when interviews are sent out?

On the portal it said that the 2nd week of December would be interviews for people who have done those widening participation programmes and also internationals. So for the rest of us I don’t think we’ll hear back for a while

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by Saiuhcasd
On the portal it said that the 2nd week of December would be interviews for people who have done those widening participation programmes and also internationals. So for the rest of us I don’t think we’ll hear back for a while


oh that makes sense, thank you!!

Reply 4

Heyy, any update on keele interviews? Have you guys got any??

Reply 5

I didn't receive anything

Reply 6

yeah i haven’t received anything either

Reply 7

neither🥲

Reply 8

N.B. For all this years A100 applicants, Keele have historically began giving the bulk of their interview offers from late Jan to early April. WP applicants have received them mid December so don’t worry if you haven’t heard anything since the portal opened. Try enjoy Christmas and NYE celebrations worry free 🙌🏾

(Kind regards, First Year UG Medic at Keele also postgrad)

Reply 9

Also from the point of interview offer there was for most people only 3 days or sometimes a week max till the interview date so don’t expect you will have ample time to interview prep inbetween x

Happy to answer questions here re the course structure, style of teaching, and the surrounding area/emphasis on the Keele difference re „pre clinical years“. Good luck in advance to everyone applying hopefully see you next year 👏🏾😁

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by Kingsley7601
N.B. For all this years A100 applicants, Keele have historically began giving the bulk of their interview offers from late Jan to early April. WP applicants have received them mid December so don’t worry if you haven’t heard anything since the portal opened. Try enjoy Christmas and NYE celebrations worry free 🙌🏾
(Kind regards, First Year UG Medic at Keele also postgrad)


hello, does WP include contextual applicants or just those who completed an Access course? thanms

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by apply_medicine
hello, does WP include contextual applicants or just those who completed an Access course? thanms


Access course, you get free additional points as a contextual applicant in the personal and UCAT ranking for interview shortlisting
Hi there,
I've moved this to a more relevant subforum :smile:

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by Kingsley7601
Also from the point of interview offer there was for most people only 3 days or sometimes a week max till the interview date so don’t expect you will have ample time to interview prep inbetween x
Happy to answer questions here re the course structure, style of teaching, and the surrounding area/emphasis on the Keele difference re „pre clinical years“. Good luck in advance to everyone applying hopefully see you next year 👏🏾😁

Hi Ive just got a few questions about Keele?
Could you explain in a bit of detail:
1) How the pre clinical years are structured day to day (problem based teaching, balance of lectures vs small group learning, independent study)
2) How early patient contact actually works in practice in Years 1–2 (GP placements, frequency, expectations of students).
3) What you think genuinely sets Keele apart from other med schools once you’re actually on the course, not just what’s on the website.
4) How the surrounding area / campus setup impacts student life and learning in the pre-clinical years.
Thank you

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by Luba123I
Hi Ive just got a few questions about Keele?
Could you explain in a bit of detail:
1) How the pre clinical years are structured day to day (problem based teaching, balance of lectures vs small group learning, independent study)
2) How early patient contact actually works in practice in Years 1–2 (GP placements, frequency, expectations of students).
3) What you think genuinely sets Keele apart from other med schools once you’re actually on the course, not just what’s on the website.
4) How the surrounding area / campus setup impacts student life and learning in the pre-clinical years.
Thank you


1) There’s a new PBL case every week. In year 1 You open it (discuss in a small group) on the Monday and close it (with the same PBL group) on the following Monday. The cases you cover will have 8-14 intended learning outcomes which will map out the medicine curriculum you need to cover where you go away and make your notes answering the ILO questions.
There’s cadaver dissections every week in the same PBL groups which are typically themed around the PBL cases. The PBL cases also touch on lecture content in the week.
My PBL group did a Secret Santa over Christmas but others went bowling n golfing etc so you really get to know your PBL group in the year.
There’s notes to make for lectures, there’s notes to make for the PBL ILOs, prework and notes to do for the anatomy and histology sessions each week.

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by Luba123I
Hi Ive just got a few questions about Keele?
Could you explain in a bit of detail:
1) How the pre clinical years are structured day to day (problem based teaching, balance of lectures vs small group learning, independent study)
2) How early patient contact actually works in practice in Years 1–2 (GP placements, frequency, expectations of students).
3) What you think genuinely sets Keele apart from other med schools once you’re actually on the course, not just what’s on the website.
4) How the surrounding area / campus setup impacts student life and learning in the pre-clinical years.
Thank you


2) In year 1 we have three afternoon in person community placements and three afternoon GP placements where we practice taking histories. The format of placements vary slightly from each provider but the jist is the same. In first semester there’s three months of practice of communication skills and they hire patient actors for us the practice taking histories from which different ailments and reactions. The placements themselves are not long 3-4 hours but give a nice exposure to face to face interaction with patients so you’re not inept on the ward.

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by Luba123I
Hi Ive just got a few questions about Keele?
Could you explain in a bit of detail:
1) How the pre clinical years are structured day to day (problem based teaching, balance of lectures vs small group learning, independent study)
2) How early patient contact actually works in practice in Years 1–2 (GP placements, frequency, expectations of students).
3) What you think genuinely sets Keele apart from other med schools once you’re actually on the course, not just what’s on the website.
4) How the surrounding area / campus setup impacts student life and learning in the pre-clinical years.
Thank you


3) Keele do the MLA in fourth year than fifth like other medical schools. It’s also a small year group so everyone knows eachother and the tutors, anatomist and lecturers also you can get to know well too. Keele are one of the few handful medical schools that do cadaveric dissection. The teaching hospital Royal Stoke Hospital is a major trauma centre has the second busiest ED in the UK receiving North Wales, North Midlands, Staffordshire and Peak District trauma by helicopter. The Netflix/Channel5 TV show 999:Critical Condition is filmed at the Royal Stoke Emergency Department where we do placement if you want to see what it’s like. There’s also a big emphasis on rural medicine as Keele is in the middle of nowhere. Pre Clinical there’s three summative knowledge exams through the year than just one at the end of each year. There’s mock OCSEs at the end of yr1 and real OCSEs every year after then, with yr 1&2 having formative knowledge exams in November. Keele uses the exact same software for every knowledge exam as the one everyone uses for the MLA so you’re familiar with the system.

Reply 17

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by Luba123I
Hi Ive just got a few questions about Keele?
Could you explain in a bit of detail:
1) How the pre clinical years are structured day to day (problem based teaching, balance of lectures vs small group learning, independent study)
2) How early patient contact actually works in practice in Years 1–2 (GP placements, frequency, expectations of students).
3) What you think genuinely sets Keele apart from other med schools once you’re actually on the course, not just what’s on the website.
4) How the surrounding area / campus setup impacts student life and learning in the pre-clinical years.
Thank you


4) As Keele is in the middle of nowhere most people most medics live on Campus next to the school in year 1&2 then in houses in town they’ll be doing placement in the clinical years. There’s beautiful greenery, lakes and forests around Keele which are great for destressing when learning.

Reply 18

has anyone done their keele interview?

Reply 19

Has anyone received any interviews?

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