Interviews

Preparing for your interview.

Interview date

Friday 12 March 2027.

Online interview process

There is an Applicant Declaration which you must agree with and adhere to in order to sit an online interview. This is completed as part of your initial application. The declaration also contains a list of steps you must undertake before the day of interview.

All interviews will be undertaken online using virtual interview system Qpercom Recruit. This is a browser-based system. Please join at the time you have booked in to on Oriel. Further instructions will be provided with your invite to interview email. We do not recommend using either a mobile or tablet device and if you experience issues at interview due to your technology you will not be offered another interview.

You should ensure that your camera and microphone are turned on and working correctly prior to joining the call. Interviews will be terminated where the panel cannot see you. 

Interview document check

Before the interview commences, you will be briefed by an administrator on the interview process and will be required to confirm your identity (ID) with the interview administrator. It is therefore important that you have suitable photographic ID available (passport or UK photo driving license). In addition, you will be required to move your camera to show the entire room where you are undertaking the interview, to confirm that nobody else is present. 

Once identity has been confirmed, the administrator will advise the interview panel that the interview process can commence. 

The interview must not be recorded by either the applicant, the administrator or the panel members. You are able to take notes during the interview but must destroy these afterwards.

Interview

There will be 2 interview stations lasting up to 15 minutes each, which will cover different criteria from the person specification. It will assess your commitment to the specialty and communication skills.

On completion of the interview, you should terminate your connection to the call and the interview process is complete.

If you have any concerns about your interview, you have 1 hour post interview to contact us via the PGDME support portal. Any concerns raised after this time will fall out of scope of being reviewed.

If you applied for both Nuclear Medicine and Clinical Radiology

If you applied for both Nuclear Medicine and Clinical Radiology you will only need to attend 1 interview.

Below is a guide of the interview day, the panel will ask as many follow up questions as necessary to support candidates to score.

Station A – up to 15 minutes

Prior to interview day candidates will be invited to upload relevant evidence about their portfolio based on their responses on their Oriel application (they must also upload their support page from their Oriel application form). All information about this is on our ST3 Portfolio review guidance page.

Prior to candidate coming to the room a single panel member will review and score their evidence, they have up to 10 minutes. There is a 5-minute briefing with the second interviewer.

Once the candidate enters the interview station the first 2 questions will be about their portfolio. Details of this is under the ST3 Portfolio review guidance page.

There will be a remaining 2 scored sections where questions will be asked on areas of the 2027 ST3 Person specification.

Station B – up to 15 minutes

3 sections where questions will be asked on areas of the 2027 ST3 Person specification.