This section of the website gives guidance on the HST interview process. Covered in this section are five main areas; please select the relevent link below for further information.

  • Invitation & booking - should your application be assessed as eligible, and score highly enough to progress through shortlisting, then you will be invited to interview. Information is given here about how invitations to interview will be sent and how you can book your slot.

  • Interview preparation  information about things you should be doing before your interview day to prepare. Please carefully review the information on this page before attending your interview. 

  • General format - what to expect on the day. For further information on specialty specific interview content please refer to each specialty page.

  • Interview scoring - all candidates will be scored to the same range on the same areas within each specialty regardless of where they are interviewed. These scores will be used to determine if your application can be considered appointable.

  • After the interview - once all scores have been verified and compiled, appointable candidates are ranked in order of total score with this ranking used alongside programme preferences to determine offers.