Core Surgery Interview Course Overview
Here at Core Surgery Interview we understand that the best way to succeed at the CST interview is with early, realistic practise. Our Core Surgery Interview Course is designed to simulate the interview experience and offer feedback and insider tips to help you ace the core surgery interviews and gain your preferred core surgery job. The focus of the course is Core Surgery Interview Mocks.
The course features keynote lectures covering the interview and tips from last year’s successful candidates before testing you with realistic interview stations via online mock interviews. The interactive lectures and mock interviews are delivered online to match the real interviews. Designed for foundation doctors and anyone applying for core surgery, places are limited to maintain a high tutor to candidate ratio. In 2024/25 our interview course was fully booked within 7 days of opening registration — please book early to avoid disappointment.
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We’ve coached the highest scoring successful candidates at Core Surgery Interviews every year for the past 5 years. We’re so confident that our question banks and courses are the best we GUARANTEE that you’ll get a job. If you don’t, we’ll work with you until you do — you’ll get access to all the preparation materials for the following year FREE of charge and we’ll personally work with you to analyse what went wrong. All we ask is that you sign up to the question bank, complete all of the questions and videos and attend a mock interview course.
Mock Cases
- Portfolio, Management and Clinical stations
- Feedback from SpRs, current CTs and peers
- Scenarios and past questions covering common topics
- Communication skills tutors
- Small groups to maximise questions covered
- Pre-Course CV Analysis
- Personalised feedback to highlight areas for improvement
- Critique from the highest scoring candidates from previous years
Interactive Lectures
- Portfolio, Management and Clinical stations covered in detail
- Evidence-based clinical management
- Common topics and themes covered
- Complete guide to improving interview skills
- Key papers, resources and syllabus for effective preparation
- Top tips from last year’s successful candidates
Core Surgery Interview Course Timetable
Our course begins at 10am and is held online. The programme features interactive lectures containing the latest evidence-based clinical information and tips on how to excel at the online interviews.
- 0930–1000 · Registration
- Arrive, grab a coffee and get ready for the day to start.
- 1000–1045 · Interview Technique
- An interactive talk focused on soft skills and online interview performance exercises to take your interview technique to the next level.
- 1045–1100 · Break
- Break time.
- 1100–1130 · Management Questions
- Understand the station format and learn key interview and communication techniques, with multiple examples of management scenarios, group discussion and frameworks for tackling challenging questions.
- 1130–1230 · Clinical Questions
- We cover as much of the core surgery syllabus as time allows and help you develop the communication skills and framework for answering clinical questions under pressure — demonstrating safety, knowledge and scoring maximum marks.
- 1230–1300 · Lunch
- Break for lunch.
- 1300–1600 · Mock Cases
- Half of the day is spent in 1-1 mock interviews where your knowledge and interview technique are tested, just like the real interviews, with the opportunity to learn from peers and last year’s highest scoring candidates.
- 1600–1630 · Final Discussion
- Any other topics are covered, feedback is given and remaining portfolios reviewed.