UK Internal Medicine Training: 2026 dates, format and scoring
Round 1 applications open in early November and close in early December on Oriel. Interviews run from late January to early March, with invitations issued in January.
Updated 27 October 2026
- When to apply
- Round 1 applications open in early November and close in early December on Oriel.
- Round 2, where run, opens in late spring for August posts left unfilled.
- When interviews run
- Interviews run from late January to early March, with invitations issued in January.
- Offers are released in March and early April.
- The format
- Two online stations with the same two assessors, about 25 minutes in total.
- Station 1: a two minute self presentation and suitability questions, then an ethical, professionalism or governance scenario. Station 2: a clinical scenario with investigations and management, then a handover.
- Who is on the panel
- Two assessors per station, physicians, scoring independently.
- The same pair sees both stations.
- How it is scored
- Seven scored areas: application and achievements, suitability, ethics and governance, clinical assessment and management, handover, and communication in each station.
- The interview score is combined with the self assessment portfolio score to rank candidates.
- What to prepare
- The two minute presentation on why you are suited to internal medicine, rehearsed to one minute fifty.
- The ten acute scenarios that recur, each with a forty second SBAR handover.
- Ethical scenarios with the second step ready for the follow up.
- One minute answers to the suitability questions with a specific in each.