Nobody should faila medicine interviewbecause of who they know.

Medicine interviews in the UK test ethics. Applicants with a doctor in the family, or with private tuition, arrive having had it all explained. Everyone else searches the night before and finds forum threads and summaries that are years out of date.

medethics.uk gives every applicant the same explanations, free, written by the AlphaMED Team.

For teachers

Who gets into medicine is still decided early.

5%

Of every 100 students who started medicine in England in 2021, 75 came from the most advantaged backgrounds and 5 from the poorest.Sutton Trust and UCL, 2025

Most advantagedPoorestEveryone else

1.5×

Applicants from independent schools were 1.5 times as likely to get an offer as applicants from non selective state schools. The gap remained after taking grades into account.Sutton Trust and UCL, 2025

Half

of UK secondary schools sent nobody to apply for medicine over three years.Medical Schools Council, Selecting for Excellence, 2014

Grades get an applicant to the interview. The interview then asks about things school does not teach: when a 15 year old can consent to treatment, what a doctor owes a patient after a mistake, and why a public inquiry matters.

Why the AlphaMED Team built it

1

Good teaching sat behind a fee

Clear, accurate teaching on medical ethics has mostly lived inside interview courses and private tuition. A family that could not pay got whatever turned up in a search.

2

The free material was poor

Most free ethics material for applicants is forum posts and lists copied from other lists. Much of it was written before the inquiries and court cases that interviewers now ask about.

3

So the team published theirs

The AlphaMED Team coach applicants to a 93% offer rate. They wrote the ethics they teach into a free library of 38 case studies and 127 terms.

4

medethics.uk became the front door

medethics.uk began in 2024 as free ethics notes under the line "knowledge should be free". It now sends every reader to the library on alphamedicine.uk, where a full team keeps it current.

  • Free to read.
  • No sign up.
  • Sources on every page.
  • Updated as the news changes.

medethics.uk and the AlphaMED Team hold every page of the library to these. None of it carries adverts or sits behind a login.

For teachers and careers leads

If a student tells you they want to study medicine, send them the link. The library covers what interviewers ask about: the four pillars, consent and capacity, and the cases from the news that come up in MMI stations, from Lucy Letby to the resident doctor strikes.

Share the link rather than a printout. A printed page goes out of date the day an inquiry reports or a court rules. The link always opens the current version, with the date it was last checked and the sources behind it, so a student can go on to read the judgment or the report itself.

Every term is explained from the start, for students who are the first in their family to apply. Nothing needs a login, so it opens on a school network or a phone.

When reading is not enough, the AlphaMED Team coach.

  • 93%offer rate for AlphaMED students, every cycle since 2022.
  • 31%national offer rate for all UK medicine applicants.
  • 26universities in five countries where AlphaMED students have received medicine offers.

The library gives every applicant the knowledge. Saying it well, against the clock, to an interviewer who pushes back, takes practice with someone who has sat on the other side of the table. The AlphaMED Team coach a small number of applicants each year, and they only take on applicants they can genuinely help.

See the interview course See the full results

38 case studies and 127 terms, free.