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