Communication
Explain conditions, interventions or transfers in a way that is clear, compassionate and appropriate for children and families.
Specialty Training
Prepare for the Paediatrics ST1 interview out loud.
Practise family conversations, clinical reasoning, career motivation and reflection aloud, with follow-up that helps you explain your thinking clearly.
Full paid Interview programmes are coming soon. Try one free practice per account across interview routes, with follow-ups and saved feedback on typed or dictated answers.
Prepare across the four Paediatrics ST1 domains
Focused preparation across the interview domains that matter most for Paediatrics ST1.
Career motivation
Use a selected set of achievements and experiences to demonstrate informed commitment to paediatrics.
Clinical reasoning
Work from presenting information to safe assessment, differential diagnosis, management and escalation.
Reflective practice
Show what you learnt from a significant experience and how that learning changed your approach.
Child-centred judgement
Keep safeguarding, developmental context and the child’s wider needs visible in your reasoning.
Child-centred communication
Clinical reasoning
Motivation & reflection
From preparation to practice · Coming at launch
Prepare with a programme. Rehearse with an interviewer.
Learn how to approach the questions, develop your own evidence and improve your answers. Add a live AI interviewer when you want to practise the conversation out loud.
Your preparation programme
Core Preparation
Learn the approach. Build your evidence. Improve your answers.
More than a question bank: a structured workspace to turn what you know and what you’ve done into stronger interview answers.
- Understand the question. Explore specialty questions, cases and study guides where available.
- Example bank. Develop your own leadership, teamwork, teaching and QI evidence, ready to use across different questions.
- Type or dictate. Get structured AI feedback on your answer, then make a focused improvement.
- Keep building. Return to saved answers, examples and feedback as your preparation develops.
Everything in Core, plus
Core + Live AI Interviewer
An interviewer, ready when you are.
A live AI interviewer on demand. It asks, listens and responds to what you actually say, helping you practise a natural conversation and handle the next question.
- Follow-ups that respond to you. Handle the next question based on the answer you’ve just given.
- Rehearse without hints. Interview Mode gives you a realistic mock, with feedback afterwards.
- Get coaching when you want it. Coach Mode helps you refine an answer with feedback and focused retries.
- Fit practice around your day. 120 shared voice minutes for coaching and interviews, alongside the full Core programme.
Spoken practice · Coming at launch
The interviewer speaks. You answer out loud. It responds to what you say.
Hear the question, explain your thinking and handle the next challenge. Follow-up draws on your answer and the evidence you provide.
- Hear the question
The AI interviewer asks the question aloud, so practice feels like a conversation rather than a text chat.
- Answer out loud
Use your microphone and answer naturally. Your spoken response becomes part of the interview transcript.
- Get follow-up based on your answer
The interviewer listens to the content of your answer and can probe what you said, your evidence and the gaps you leave.
- Coach it, then test it
Coach mode gives feedback and lets you retry. Interview mode removes the hints and keeps feedback until the mock is complete.
Built around your evidence
Personalisation should change the questions, not just your name.
The preparation context is deliberately specific to this interview route. The aim is to help you choose, explain and defend your own evidence rather than memorise someone else's answer.
Your paediatric and child-health exposure
Achievements and experiences for a virtual selected portfolio
A strong reflective-practice example
Communication, teamwork and clinical-reasoning experiences
Current published format
Two virtual stations covering four core domains.
The latest detailed RCPCH guide, for posts starting in 2026, used a virtual two-station multi-scenario interview. The next cycle guide is still pending.
View official Paediatrics ST1 recruitment guidancePrevious-cycle official. The 2027 person specification is published, but RCPCH has not yet replaced the detailed 2026-intake interview guide. Recheck before relying on format, marks or threshold.
Two virtual interview stations, each 20 minutes, with the whole process expected to take about 50 minutes.
Four domains of up to 10 minutes: Communication, Career Motivation, Reflective Practice and Paediatric Clinical Reasoning.
Each domain carried 40 marks in total; the previous appointability threshold was 88/160.
Free recruitment guide
Preparing the application as well as the interview?
Check the requirements, gather your evidence and prepare your next answer.
Two ways to practise
Learn with support. Then remove it.
Coach mode
Build the conversation, not a memorised script.
At launch, Coach Mode will help you improve family-facing communication, clinical explanations, motivation and reflection while keeping your answers grounded in your own experience.
- Practise patient/parent communication aloud
- Strengthen clinical reasoning and escalation
- Develop a coherent selected-portfolio narrative
- Turn reflection into specific learning and change
Interview mode
Then test the four domains without hints.
At launch, Interview Mode will move through communication, motivation, clinical reasoning and reflection without coaching and provide feedback after completion.
- Role-play style communication practice
- Clinical reasoning under time pressure
- Career-motivation questioning
- Reflective-practice follow-up
Paediatrics ST1 · Launching soon
Practise the conversations and reasoning the interview actually tests.
Get to know the format and work through original preparation questions while spoken practice prepares to launch.