Midwifery interview guidance
Preparing for your interview
Observe the world around you
What stories and events are currently influencing healthcare? What’s your opinion on the latest news?
Do your research
Could you meet the expectations? Use this exercise as a chance to reflect on your own character. Remember this might not be a career with regular hours!
Familiarise yourself with the NHS
The NHS values underpin the key attributes of all healthcare professionals. Consider your previous relevant experience and think about how you can demonstrate them. Read the NHS constitution.
What are you going to wear?
Try to dress smartly. We want to see that you appreciate and respect that you’ll have to adhere to a dress code both on placement and once you enter the workplace as a qualified professional.
Course specific information
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BSc Midwifery
For the BSc Midwifery course, you will be offered an interview using a virtual platform called SAMMI. Once you have selected a convenient date, you will be sent a link and unique login details to record your interview within the 7 day period that you have selected. During this week, you can record the answer to the interview questions at a day and time to suit you.
You will be asked a series of pre-recorded questions, each of which has a four minute response time. Your recorded answers will be marked following your interview by various members of the Birmingham City University community. Please allow yourself up to an hour to complete the whole interview process. For further information regarding the SAMMI- Select interview platform please review the following Instructional Video >
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MSc Midwifery
For the MSc Midwifery course you will book your slot for an online interview via our applicant portal, details of which will be in your email from admissions offering you an interview.
Remember practice makes perfect, so think about asking someone you trust to give you a ‘mock’ interview. This will be a live interview so ensure that you have any documents ready that you might need to show, they will be listed in your email from admissions. Make sure you have them to hand and familiarise yourself again with the answers you gave to your personal statement questions on your UCAS form! Also, you may want to use this to plan some questions to ask us to find out more about us and the course before you start.
Smile and relax, this is about presenting your strengths as a future student and a potential midwife.