Maximise your performance at the 2026 Paediatrics ST1 interview

For 2025, there were 2,780 applicants for just 476 posts, meaning more than five people applied for every place.

With the MSRA no longer part of the selection process, far greater weight is now placed on your self-assessment and, most importantly, your performance in the Paediatrics ST1 interview.

Once you have been shortlisted, the interview becomes the deciding factor, and to secure your first-choice job, you need to prepare for it with the same level of structure and discipline you would apply to exam preparation.

So how do I prepare for my interview?

Effective preparation focuses on two areas: Knowledge and Delivery.

The Paediatrics 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 Paediatrics trainee.

This is where we come in…

The Medibuddy Online 2026 Paediatrics ST1 Interview Question Bank

We are proud to have developed over 40 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 Paediatrics ST1 Interview Question Bank?

The 2026 interview is broken down into four domains, each lasting up to 10 minutes, and we have presented our questions exactly like they appear in the interview.

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 Paediatrics ST1 Training Interview Question Bank.

Sign up now to start preparing!