Appointability, preferencing and offers

Below is a summary of post interview processes.

Ranking, outcomes and preferencing

The scores from the MSRA and the online interview will be added together to give a final score used for ranking and appointment. Please note that there will be scaling of the scores in order to get the final score. These are quality assured, if both your unscaled scores are similar, but on scaling then become different, this is because of scaling and statistical adjustment.  

Preferencing of posts will be available prior to offers being made. The preferencing window will reopen between offer iterations, in line with the enhanced preferencing process. For guidance on how to submit your preferences please refer to the Oriel Applicant User Guide.

Scoring

The MSRA score will be combined with the online interview scores to produce a total score and final rank. The MSRA will be weighted 40% and the interview score 60% of the total score. Please note that the final score will involve scaling of the scores.

Offers, references and scoresheet

Offers will be made to those appointable applicants that have ‘matched’ to a post and will be based on the applicant’s ranking and preferences. Offers will be made via Oriel no later than 4pm Tuesday 25 March 2025.

Following initial offers being released, further offers will be made in subsequent iterations. 

Applicants have 48 hours from the time of offer (excluding weekends) to confirm via Oriel whether they wish to accept, reject or hold their offer, the offer will expire automatically after 48 hours and your application will not be included in future iteration of offers.

Offers made after the hold deadline will only have the option to accept or reject.

Please only have one browser window of Oriel open at the time of accepting your offer. We are unable to reinstate offers due to IT issues.

If you are accepting an offer your Oriel status will change to ‘Offer accept’ and you will receive an email automatically.

Please note that it is your responsibility to keep checking Oriel directly for messages and updates. 

References will only be requested when an offer has been accepted.

Scoresheets will be released to all applicants on a specified date after offers have been finalised Wednesday 7 May 2025 and so you do not need to request your scoresheets after interview.

Allocation

Once an applicant has accepted an ACCS Emergency Medicine post, their information will be passed to the relevant region who will contact them directly to complete the allocation/new starter process.

Further information on how to request a deferred start date or train less than full time (LTFT) can be found on the Oriel resource bank.

Next steps/roles and responsibilities

Your details will be passed on to the local training programme director approximately 14 weeks prior to your start date and to the employing organisation you have been appointed to 12 weeks prior to your start date.

Therefore, you should not expect to receive any communication prior to this time. 

Enquiries

Should you have any queries relating to the recruitment process for ACCS Emergency Medicine please contact the recruitment team via our online enquiries portal.