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Confidentiality: Good Practice in Handling Patient Information
General Medical Council
Confidentiality dilemmas — driving, safeguarding, infectious disease, a teenager's secret — are staple interview stations. The key is showing confidentiality is a strong default with defined exceptions.
Decision Making and Consent
General Medical Council
Consent is one of the most common ethics themes at interview. Knowing that it is a two-way process — not a signature on a form — is a key marker of insight.
Good Medical Practice (2024)
General Medical Council
Interviewers expect applicants to know that medicine is a regulated profession with explicit standards. Referring accurately to GMP shows you understand the doctor's role goes beyond clinical knowledge.
Outcomes for Graduates (2018)
General Medical Council
It explains why medical schools select for qualities like teamwork, communication and handling uncertainty — they are required outcomes, not optional extras.
Assisted Dying in the UK: Where the Debate Stands
Summary drawn from House of Commons Library and parliamentary records
One of the most likely ethics debate questions. A current, accurate picture — and fair presentation of both sides — shows maturity.
Fit for the Future: The 10 Year Health Plan for England (2025)
Department of Health and Social Care
It frames most current NHS debates. Knowing the three shifts lets you place any hot topic — AI, prevention, GP access — in context.
How the NHS in England Is Organised — and How It Is Changing
Summary drawn from DHSC, House of Commons Library and Institute for Government
Applicants are often asked how the NHS is structured or what recent reforms mean. Accurate, current understanding sets you apart from answers based on out-of-date diagrams.
Gillick Competence and the Fraser Guidelines
Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech AHA [1985], House of Lords
Confidentiality and consent involving teenagers is a very common MMI station. Knowing Gillick and Fraser lets you balance autonomy, safeguarding and best interests accurately.
Mental Capacity Act 2005 (England and Wales)
UK Parliament
Capacity underpins almost every consent and refusal scenario. Knowing the functional test — understand, retain, weigh, communicate — lets you reason precisely instead of guessing.
Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board (2015)
UK Supreme Court [2015] UKSC 11
The landmark case on informed consent in the UK. Citing it accurately signals a mature understanding of patient autonomy.
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande
A thoughtful book on end-of-life care, autonomy and the limits of medicine — ideal for ethics, communication and 'what have you read?' questions.
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
Henry Marsh
An honest account of error, uncertainty and responsibility — perfect for questions on mistakes, humility and the emotional side of medicine.
Principles of Biomedical Ethics
Tom Beauchamp and James Childress
It is the origin of the Four Pillars. Knowing that the principles must be weighed — and knowing their limitations — lets you use them intelligently.
The Francis Report: Mid Staffordshire Public Inquiry (2013)
Sir Robert Francis QC
The defining case study of what happens when organisations lose sight of patients. It underpins questions on candour, raising concerns, culture and compassion.
Opt-out Organ Donation in the UK
UK and devolved legislation; NHS Blood and Transplant
Tests how you weigh autonomy against the benefit to others and how defaults shape behaviour — a common MMI ethics debate.
This Is Going to Hurt
Adam Kay
A widely read portrait of junior doctor life. It opens questions about burnout, wellbeing, support and the realities of the job — and about confidentiality in storytelling.