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Paediatric Surgery ST3 Interview Question Bank & Course

This Paediatric Surgery ST3 Interview Question Bank prepares candidates for the UK national selection interview. It aligns with the NHS England 2026 Person Specification and covers every key domain…

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Included with enrolment

More than a question bank

Everything your enrolment includes.

Premium learning tools

Ask the tutor

Ask about any lesson and get a clear explanation with a short clinical example.

Live mock interviews

Get matched with another candidate and practise stations on a video call.

National study groups

Join candidates across the country to share tips and plan practice sessions.

Personal lesson notes

Write notes on each lesson and find them all again in your dashboard.

Course benefits

How to perform in the interview room

How to talk about your specialty convincingly

How to handle clinical scenarios under pressure

How to present your portfolio and academic work

How to navigate ethics and difficult situations

How to demonstrate leadership, teamwork, and NHS awareness

How to communicate professionally and show NHS values

How to put it all together

Through the mock station module, you'll be able to practise under realistic interview conditions, identify your weak spots, and walk in on the day with a clear strategy rather than hoping for the best.

How your practice works

  1. Step 1

    Learn the stations

    Work through worked scenarios with model answers and previous interviewer tips.

  2. Step 2

    Practise live

    Join a national mock night or get matched on demand, with a built-in station timer.

  3. Step 3

    Get scored

    Your partner marks you on a five-area examiner sheet so you know exactly what to fix.

About this course

This Paediatric Surgery ST3 Interview Question Bank prepares candidates for the UK national selection interview. It aligns with the NHS England 2026 Person Specification and covers every key domain assessed at interview, including clinical scenarios, CARE communication, career progression, and academic performance.

Paediatric Surgery ST3 is one of the most competitive surgical training pathways in the UK. Candidates must show more than clinical knowledge. They need structured thinking, specialty-specific insight, leadership, and academic achievement. They must also perform confidently under pressure in a formal interview setting.

Our paediatric surgery st3 interview course delivers realistic interview questions, high-yield model answers, and clear frameworks. It helps you approach each station with clarity, confidence, and a strategy for achieving top marks.

Course curriculum

4 topics · 55 lessons

01

Clinical Station

21 lessons

How to approach the clinical station
Neonate with bilious vomiting
Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
Infant with projectile non-bilious vomiting
Child with intermittent pain and red currant jelly stool
Infant with painful irreducible groin swelling
Preterm neonate with abdominal distension and pneumatosis
Newborn with imperforate anus / anorectal malformation
Hirschsprung-associated enterocolitis
School-age child with right iliac fossa pain
Acute scrotum
Newborn with excessive salivation and inability to pass NG tube
Newborn with bowel outside abdomen
Jaundiced infant with pale stools
Child after bicycle accident with LUQ pain
Neonatal bowel obstruction
Adolescent girl with sudden lower abdominal pain
Term neonate with delayed meconium
Child with recurrent painless rectal bleeding and iron-deficiency anaemia
Adhesive small-bowel obstruction
Blunt pancreatic trauma
02

CARE (Communication) Station

16 lessons

How to approach this station
Breaking Bad News (Oesophageal Atresia)
Consent
Delayed Torsion - Angry Patient
Safeguarding Concerns
Post operative concern - Anastomotic Leak
DNACPR / Limitation of Care Discussion
Parent Refusing Treatment
Communicating Uncertainty
Long Term Complication - Short Bowel Syndrome
High Risk Consent - Neonatal Laparotomy
Disclosing an Error (Duty of Candour)
Language Barrier
Discharge against medical advise
Waiting list delay
Unexpected intra-operative complication
03

Career Progression

10 lessons

What is this station testing?
What would you do if you didn’t get ST3 this year
What differentiates you from other candidates?
Talk me through your career progression
Why paediatric surgery
What have you done to prepare for paediatric surgery
Tell me about a weakness or gap
Why not general surgery?
Why should we appoint you?
What would your colleagues say about you?
04

Academic Station

8 lessons

What is the Academic Station?
How to Critically Appraise a Paper
Critical Appraisal of a Paper - Model Answer
Interpreting an RCT
Bias & Confounding
Statistics with application
Design your own study task
Present your research / audit

Student reviews

The only paeds surgery interview course out there, and an excellent one for structure and building confidence. Thank you!

Verified student · April 2026