Admissions Selection Workshop: Clinical interviews in Medicine and Veterinary Medicine (Online workshop) Prerequisites
This workshop is for Clinical interviews in Medicine and Veterinary Medicine interviewers
The Senior Tutors' Committee expects those involved in the undergraduate admissions selection process to receive appropriate training. What is appropriate will vary, depending on whether you are an experienced interviewer (who might be new to the online format, or just wanting a refresher) or someone new to admissions interviewing in Cambridge.
Experienced interviewers
Experienced interviewers should study the refresher information in the 'Experienced Interviewers' section of the online Moodle course, although are welcome to sign-up for a workshop if additional training would be beneficial.
New interviewers
These workshops for new interviewers cover the entire selection process as well as interviewing techniques. Led by Admissions Tutors, they are designed to help you make your contribution to the admissions selection process as effective as possible. They include opportunities to practise by interviewing current first-year undergraduates, using authentic paperwork, and they explain how interviews and admissions decisions relate to the University’s Access and Participation Plan agreed with the Office for Students (OfS).
The workshop will focus on mock interviews, with first-year undergraduates in related disciplines, and on discussion with an Admissions Tutor.
This workshop is for Clinical interviews in Medicine and Veterinary Medicine interviewers
- Those with responsibility for conducting admissions interviews
- Those with any responsibility for admissions selection
- This workshop is for clinical interviews in medicine and veterinary medicine groups.
There are further subject specific workshops scheduled as follows:
- Maths-based interviewing
- Interviewing for the Mathematics Tripos;
- Interviewing for Computer Science;
- Interviewing with visual sources in sciences;
- Interviewing with visual sources in arts;
- Language interviewers;
- Text-based Arts, Humanities and Social Science interviews;
- interviews in Medicine and Veterinary Medicine.
Completion of Pre-Workshop Online Materials
- Before the workshop, you are asked to study the online module on Moodle.
- Further information, link to the Moodle site, and a Zoom invite will be contained in the Booking Confirmation email.
- The module includes a link to 'Information for Admissions Interviewers', and you are asked to read this document with care
This course will be facilitated online via Zoom so please ensure you have access.
Number of sessions: 1
| # | Date | Time | Venue | Trainers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mon 17 Nov 2025 17:00 - 19:00 | 17:00 - 19:00 | Online | Dr Liz Hook, David Bainbridge, Dr Robert Abayasekara |
- to be aware of ways of addressing challenges associated with interviews for admissions purposes, in order to make them more consistent and effective
- to understand how interviews and admissions decisions relate to the University’s agreement with the Office for Students (OfS)
- to understand the equal opportunities and widening participation issues connected to the admissions process
- to identify ways of personally enhancing the quality of interviews
- Workshops have been targeted at interviewers in particular groups of subjects
- If you have difficulties completing your booking, please contact: cctlenq@admin.cam.ac.uk
One session of 2 hours
- Admissions Selection Workshop: Languages (Online workshop)
- Admissions Selection Workshop: Text-based Arts, Humanities and Social Science (In-person)
- Admissions Selection Workshop: Interviewing with visual sources in science (Online workshop)
- Admissions Selection Workshop: Maths-based (Online workshop)
- Admissions Selection Workshop: Interviewing for the Mathematic Tripos (Online workshop)
- Admissions Selection Workshop: Interviewing with visual sources in arts (Online workshop)
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