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Interview guides

Specialty interview guides

Source-led application structure, evidence requirements, interview format and original practice questions for supported specialties.

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NHS Consultant preparation

Research the post, organise your career evidence and prepare for panel questions, presentations and job planning.

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Portfolio tools

Check your portfolio and next steps with specialty calculators or readiness checklists. Print your evidence checklist.

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Specialty profiles

Compare work, portfolio ideas, current topics and official College or Faculty resources across the public specialty hubs.

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Interview preparation resources

Practical online-interview setup, spoken-practice principles and curated external material to support preparation.

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Prepare your presentation

Work from the employer’s brief, build a clear proposal and prepare to explain the resources, trade-offs and measures behind it.

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Specialty chooser

Explore broad specialty areas from the kind of work, clinical interests and working patterns you may enjoy.

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290 free MSRA practice questions

Explore 240 Clinical Problem Solving questions and 50 Professional Dilemmas scenarios with explanations. Use a free account to practise and keep your progress.

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Portfolio building

How to build a medical specialty portfolio you can actually talk about.

The aim is not to collect disconnected certificates. Build a small number of useful activities, understand your contribution and keep the evidence needed to verify them.

Keep evidence as you go

Save certificates, feedback, confirmation emails, project documents and your own role while the activity is fresh. Evidence that is easy to verify is more useful than a last-minute reconstruction.

Complete the improvement cycle

For audit or QI, start from a defensible standard, measure current practice, make a change and measure again where feasible. Be ready to explain what you personally did and what changed.

Make teaching longitudinal

A repeatable teaching contribution with learner feedback and visible improvement is usually more meaningful to discuss than a one-off session completed only for an application.

Turn specialty exposure into reflection

A taster, clinic, theatre list, MDT, project or conversation is useful when you can explain what it taught you about the everyday work and what you still need to test.

Describe leadership through outcomes

Keep the problem, your role, the people involved, the decision you made and the outcome. Titles alone give an interviewer little to explore.

Check the current scoring rules

Recruitment frameworks change. Build broadly useful evidence, then map it to the current official person specification and scoring guidance rather than relying on an old points table.

Consultant & senior appointments

Prepare for the consultant post you want.

Start from the actual post, person specification, job plan and service context. Prepare evidence of consultant-level leadership, governance and delivery, then rehearse how you will defend it to the panel.

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Understand the post

Use the job description and person specification to research the service, identify its priorities and prepare useful questions before your interview.

Research the job and organisation

Check your evidence

Review your application, consultant contribution and examples against the post. The readiness checklist is free to use without an account.

Open the consultant checklist

Prepare for the panel

Work through questions on motivation, leadership, governance and delivery. Choose examples that make your contribution and learning clear.

Read the panel question guide

Build your presentation

Follow the confirmed brief and time limit. Prepare to explain how your proposal would work and what you would do if the panel challenges it.

Plan the presentation

Job plans and service delivery

Review PAs, DCC, SPA, on-call, resources and objectives. Prepare questions about how the advertised service and responsibilities fit together.

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Current NHS hot topics

Detailed consultant-level teaching on national policy, patient safety, service pressures and digital change, including worked cases and primary sources.

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Online medical interviews

Make the technology boring.

Good setup cannot rescue a weak answer, but poor setup can distract from a good one. The recruiting organisation's instructions override generic advice.

Rehearse the exact setup

Use the device, browser, headset, camera position and room you expect to use. Test the recruitment platform early if the organiser provides a test route.

Frame for conversation, not presentation

Put the camera near eye level, keep your face well lit and remove avoidable visual or audio distractions. You should be able to speak naturally without watching your own thumbnail.

Keep notes genuinely minimal

A short prompt sheet can help with key evidence or questions, but reading prepared prose usually makes answers less responsive. Follow the organiser's rules on permitted materials.

Have a failure plan

Know the published contact route if audio, video or connectivity fails. Keep your phone available if instructed and do not improvise around recruitment rules.

Practise aloud and under time

Knowing your example is not the same as delivering it. Practise a clear opening, the important detail, reflection and a concise finish without scripting every sentence.

Curated third-party videos

Free medical interview videos

Road to UK

Internal Medicine Training: Portfolio & Interview Tips

A long-form discussion about assembling an IMT portfolio and preparing for interview. Useful for hearing how another doctor approached the process.

Published in 2020. Use it for preparation ideas, not current scoring or recruitment mechanics; check the official IMT recruitment site for the live cycle.Open on YouTube

Dr Rupali Sachdev with Dr Yuva Ravindran

How to get IMT in the UK? MRCP & Portfolio Tips

A trainee conversation covering the route into IMT, portfolio building and interview preparation from a candidate perspective.

Published in 2024. Treat personal experience as one perspective and verify all current recruitment requirements independently.Open on YouTube

Specialty-specific useful stuff

Royal College and Faculty resources by specialty.

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Start with what kind of work you might enjoy.

The specialty chooser connects work style and clinical interests to twelve broad specialty areas, then sends you into the relevant resource hub.

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