Interviews

Nuclear Medicine

Preparing for your interview.

Interview dates and centres

You will need to book an interview slot using your Oriel account. An email will be sent to applicable applicants to their Oriel account messages to advise when interview slots are available to book. Slots are offered on a first come first served basis subject to availability and will need to be booked by the deadline stated in the invitation to interview. Administrators are not able to hold slots/change slots for candidates. Further information on how to book an interview slot can be found in the Oriel Applicant User Guide. You will need to attend only one interview regardless of where you wish to train in England, Wales and Scotland. Interviews will be held online using virtual interview system Qpercom Recruit.

Applies to: England, Scotland and Wales. See guidance for Northern Ireland.

Interview date

Friday 14 March 2025.

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 intial 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. 

Before the interview commences, you will be briefed 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. You are not allowed to bring notes into the interview, and this will be checked as part of your document checking process.

Interviewing stations

There will be 2 interview stations lasting up to 10 minutes and 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.

Sample interview questions

See below a sample of the questions that were used in 2023/2024 interviews.

Station A

Scenario 1

Clinical History: 33 Male RTA - GCS 13, pulse 114 BP 80/40 O2Sat 90 % 5 l O2

Head: There is a left, extradural haematoma, measuring a maximal depth of 5cm. This overlies, the left frontal temporal, and parietal lobes. There is no midline shift. The cerebellar tonsils above the level of the foramen magnum. The skull vault and base are unremarkable.

Chest: There is no mediastinal haematoma. The great vessels, opacify normally. There are multiple left sided rib fractures with a left-sided tension pneumothorax with a maximal depth of 8cm and 3cm mediastinal shift to the right.

Abdomen and pelvis: There is active extravasation of contrast arising from the left, renal parenchyma. There is a surrounding perinephric haematoma, 10cm left retroperitoneal haematoma and layering of blood within the pelvis. The liver, spleen pancreas, gallbladder, right, kidney, adrenals, and visualised, unprepared, bowel are unremarkable.

Musculoskeletal: No evidence of further bony injury in the axial or appendicular skeleton.

Question

You are the requesting clinician; how do you proceed with the findings in the report?

Station B

Question set 1

Question 1 - A surgical registrar does not feel your provisional diagnosis during on call reporting is correct - how do you deal with this?

Question 2 - Give me an example from your portfolio of team working? What role do you play?

Question 3 - What skills have you learnt that will make you an effective radiologist and why?

Contingency plan

In the event that we are unable to run the interviews the contingency plan is that we will rank candidates based on their MSRA scores and the verified self-assessment score.

Page last reviewed: 23 October 2024
Next review due: 23 October 2026