Maximise your performance at the 2026 Ophthalmology ST1 interview

For 2026, the Ophthalmology ST1 interview comprises two components, each lasting 10 minutes, with the overall interview process taking approximately 45 minutes. Our question bank is fully aligned with this format to help you prepare effectively.

Ophthalmology ST1 gets more competitive each year. In 2025, there were more than 21 applicants for every single post. This is another increase on 2024, when the competition ratio was more than 14.

With competition this fierce, both a strong MSRA score and a well-prepared evidence folder are essential to progress to the interview. Once there, your interview performance will determine your final ranking.

To score well and get your first choice job, you need to prepare for the interview like you would your exams.

So how do I prepare for my interview?

Effective preparation focuses on two areas: Knowledge and Delivery.

The Ophthalmology ST1 interview is knowledge-intensive. If you don’t have the knowledge, it doesn’t matter how slick your delivery is, you won’t get the marks.

Equally, you might have consultant level knowledge, but if you don’t deliver it well, all those hours preparing will be for nothing!

This is your opportunity to demonstrate why you would make a good Ophthalmology trainee.

This is where we come in…

The Medibuddy Online 2026 Ophthalmology ST1 Interview Question Bank

We are proud to have developed more than 80 carefully crafted scenarios that mirror the interview, to help you prepare and maximise your chances of scoring your dream job. We’ve been doing this for a while now and know how important it is for the question bank to be up-to-date. Each year, our high-scoring editors make changes to the question bank to ensure it reflects the most recent interviews. Our team has secured some of the most competitive training jobs in previous rounds, and we want to help you do the same!

Best of all, we’ve presented it in an easy to understand format, on a platform that you can access anywhere.

What will I learn from the Ophthalmology ST1 Interview Question Bank?

The 2026 interview is broken down into two parts, each lasting 10 minutes. Both parts of the interview involve an actor, two consultant ophthalmologists who will be watching and listening, and a member of the recruitment team administrating.

Why have we done this?

When we were preparing for our specialty interviews, getting accurate and helpful advice felt near impossible. The recruitment websites only provide you with so much information, and whilst asking those who have done the interview is useful, sometimes all it did was make us more nervous, instead of actually helping us to prepare.

Since then, we have been filtering through all the good and bad resources, so you don’t have to, and our high-scoring core trainees have put it all together in one place, the Medibuddy Online Ophthalmology ST1 Training Interview Question Bank.

Sign up now to start preparing!