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IMT Interview Course 2027
Prepare for your 2027 Internal Medicine Training interview with a live, one-day course focused specifically on the national IMT interview format.
Learn how to present your achievements and suitability for IMT, approach ethical and professional scenarios, work through an unfamiliar clinical scenario and communicate your reasoning clearly under interview conditions.
Throughout the day, you will practise IMT-style questions and scenarios in a small group, receive personalised feedback and develop approaches you can adapt on the day rather than answers to memorise.
- Live, interactive IMT interview preparation via Zoom
- Maximum 8 candidates for meaningful practice and individual feedback
- Station 1: achievements, suitability for IMT, ethics, professionalism, governance and communication
- Station 2: clinical reasoning, investigation, diagnosis, management, communication and handover
- Preparation for the two-minute achievements presentation
- Practical IMT-style interview questions and scenarios
- Personalised feedback on the content, structure and delivery of your answers
- 6 CPD points
Course content is reviewed against the official IMT recruitment guidance and updated for the 2027 recruitment round as new guidance is published.
£325.00
10% discount when you book two places on this course or book another ISC Medical course at the same time.
Virtual course venue
The IMT Interview Course is delivered live online via Zoom. Joining instructions will be sent a couple of days before the course date.
Course timings
09:30 - Start of the course
17:45 - End of the course
Preparing for the IMT interview 2027
The Internal Medicine Training interview is a structured national interview designed to assess much more than clinical knowledge. You need to demonstrate your achievements and suitability for IMT, approach ethical and professional problems appropriately, work through an unfamiliar clinical scenario and communicate your reasoning clearly under pressure.
Our IMT Interview Course 2027 is designed around the national IMT interview format and gives you practical preparation for both stations. The course content is reviewed against the official recruitment guidance and updated as new information for the 2027 recruitment round is published.
The emphasis throughout is on interview performance. We do not attempt to reteach medicine or give you a bank of model answers. Instead, we help you understand what each part of the interview is assessing, organise your thinking quickly and communicate your own experience and judgement effectively.
You will practise IMT-style questions and scenarios throughout the day and receive individual feedback on the content, structure and delivery of your answers.
What the IMT interview assesses
The current national interview consists of two stations, each lasting approximately 11 minutes. Across the interview, candidates receive separate scores for seven areas of performance. The course prepares you for each part of that process.
Station 1: application, achievements and suitability for IMT
The interview begins with an exploration of your achievements and suitability for Internal Medicine Training. You need to do more than list what is on your application. The interviewers are interested in what your achievements demonstrate, which experiences are most relevant to becoming an internal medicine trainee and whether you can communicate your motivation and suitability convincingly.
During the course, we help you identify the strongest evidence from your own experience and present it concisely without turning your answer into a chronological tour of your CV.
Your two-minute IMT presentation
You are required to begin the interview with a two-minute verbal presentation on your achievements relevant to becoming a trainee in internal medicine. Two minutes is a very short time. The challenge is selecting the right evidence, creating a clear structure and giving enough context for your achievements to mean something without becoming lost in detail.
We work on how to decide what deserves to be included, how to create a coherent narrative and how to deliver the presentation naturally rather than sounding as though you are reciting a memorised script. The official 2027 presentation topic will be incorporated into the course as soon as it is confirmed. Until then, preparation is based on the most recently published official IMT format.
Station 1: ethics, professionalism and clinical governance
You will also be presented with an ethical, professional or governance scenario that you have not seen in advance. The course helps you approach these questions systematically: identifying the central issue, recognising the relevant professional principles, considering the people affected and explaining what you would actually do.
Topics may involve areas such as consent, capacity, confidentiality, safeguarding, mistakes, professional conduct, escalation and reflection. The objective is not to recite ethical principles or GMC guidance. You need to demonstrate that you can apply professional judgement to the situation you have been given.
Communication in Station 1
Communication is now scored separately in Station 1, so how you communicate your answers matters in its own right. You need to be structured and concise, answer the question directly and communicate your reasoning in a way that is easy for the interviewers to follow.
Throughout the course, feedback therefore considers not only what you say but how effectively you communicate it.
Station 2: the clinical scenario
In Station 2, you are given a clinical scenario and asked questions about how you would assess and manage the patient. The scenario may develop as the discussion progresses, with additional information or data provided by the interviewers.
You will learn how to:
- Identify the immediate priorities within an unfamiliar clinical scenario
- Develop an appropriate differential diagnosis
- Select and justify relevant investigations
- Explain management decisions clearly
- Demonstrate safe escalation and prioritisation
- Recognise communication, professional and patient-safety issues within the scenario
- Avoid turning your answer into an unfocused list of everything you know
The aim is not to test obscure medical knowledge. It is to help you demonstrate safe clinical reasoning at the level expected of an applicant to Internal Medicine Training.
Communication in the clinical scenario
Communication is also scored separately in Station 2. This includes how you would communicate with patients, relatives and colleagues within the scenario, as well as how clearly you communicate with the interviewers themselves. We therefore look at the way you explain decisions, adapt your communication to the people involved and maintain structure even when the scenario changes.
The one-minute clinical handover
The clinical scenario finishes with a one-minute handover of the patient to a colleague. A good handover needs to be concise, clinically relevant and easy for the recipient to follow. You cannot simply repeat everything that has been discussed during the scenario. The course gives you opportunities to practise selecting the information that matters, organising it logically and delivering it accurately within the time available.
How the IMT Interview Course prepares you
Turn your knowledge into interview performance
Knowing the answer and delivering a strong interview answer are not the same thing. Most IMT applicants already have the clinical knowledge expected at their stage of training. The challenge is identifying what matters, organising your thoughts quickly and communicating your reasoning clearly while the clock is running. We help you turn what you already know into focused interview answers that demonstrate judgement rather than simply knowledge.
Develop authentic answers rather than scripts
We do not teach formulaic model answers. Your motivation, achievements, reflections and professional experiences belong to you. The strongest answers are therefore based on genuine evidence from your own career and show that you have thought carefully about what you have learned.
We provide structures and approaches that help you organise those ideas, but your answers should still sound like you. This also makes you more adaptable. If the interviewer changes the wording of a question or asks an unexpected follow-up, you understand the reasoning behind your answer rather than depending on a memorised script.
Structure unfamiliar clinical scenarios
You cannot predict the exact clinical scenario you will receive on the day, so preparation needs to develop a transferable technique rather than familiarity with a small bank of cases. We help you establish priorities, organise your clinical reasoning and explain your decisions logically even when the scenario is unfamiliar.
Demonstrate safe prioritisation and escalation
Strong clinical answers are not simply comprehensive. They demonstrate that you recognise what needs to happen first, what can wait and when additional help is required. The course helps you make those priorities explicit rather than expecting the interviewer to infer them from a long list of investigations or management steps.
Handle ethical and professional scenarios thoughtfully
Professional scenarios often contain more than one issue. A response that immediately jumps to a policy or escalation route can miss important questions about the patient, colleagues, communication and the wider context. We help you analyse the situation before deciding what action is proportionate and how you would explain your reasoning.
Communicate clearly under time pressure
Because communication is separately assessed in both stations, clarity needs to run through your entire interview. You will work on answering the question directly, signposting your reasoning where useful, avoiding unnecessary repetition and knowing when you have said enough.
Small-group IMT interview practice
Interview technique cannot be developed simply by listening to somebody talk about interviews.
Our IMT Interview Course is therefore limited to a maximum of eight candidates. This creates time for genuine participation, practical exercises and personalised feedback throughout the day.
You will have opportunities to answer questions, work through scenarios and practise the techniques being discussed rather than spending the day watching a lecture.
Feedback can identify where your answer has become too long, where your structure is difficult to follow, where you have overlooked an important issue or where you have stronger evidence available than the example you initially chose.
You also learn by observing how other candidates approach the same question. There is rarely only one good answer, and seeing different approaches can help you recognise what makes an answer clear, convincing and authentic.
Most importantly, you can apply the feedback during the course. The objective is not simply to leave knowing what you did wrong; it is to practise doing it differently.
Designed and overseen by experienced NHS consultants
The IMT Interview Course is designed and overseen by experienced NHS consultants with an understanding of the standards expected in postgraduate medical recruitment.
This helps ensure that the course remains clinically credible, appropriately pitched and focused on the qualities expected of doctors progressing into Internal Medicine Training.
The course itself is delivered live in an interactive small-group format, with the emphasis on practical preparation, interview technique and individual feedback.
Preparing before your IMT Interview Course
You will get more from the course if you arrive having already thought about your own experience and the evidence you may want to use at interview.
Before attending, we ask you to:
- Review your CV, application and portfolio carefully
- Reflect on why you have chosen Internal Medicine Training
- Consider what attracts you to the IMT programme specifically
- Prepare examples of the achievements most relevant to your application
- Reflect on experiences involving mistakes, professionalism, ethics, conflict and learning
- Prepare the required two-minute verbal presentation
- Review your approach to common acute medical presentations
The purpose of this preparation is not to arrive with finished answers. It means that course time can be spent testing, developing and improving your responses rather than trying to remember your own examples for the first time.
Where the official 2027 recruitment guidance changes any part of the interview or presentation requirements, the pre-course preparation will be updated accordingly.
Put your IMT interview preparation into practice
Develop the structure, judgement and communication skills to perform confidently across both IMT interview stations.
Frequently asked questions about the IMT Interview Course
Our IMT Interview Course is designed for doctors preparing for an Internal Medicine Training interview.
It is suitable whether this is your first IMT application or you have applied previously and want to strengthen your interview technique and performance.
Yes. We review the course against the latest official IMT recruitment guidance and update the content as information for the 2027 recruitment round is published. Where final 2027 details have not yet been published, preparation is based on the most recent official national interview format rather than speculation about possible changes.
The current national IMT interview consists of two stations, each lasting approximately 11 minutes, with preparation time between them. Station 1 assesses achievements and suitability for IMT, ethics, professionalism and governance, as well as communication. Station 2 uses a clinical scenario and separately assesses clinical reasoning and management, communication and patient handover.
The current interview awards separate scores across seven areas:
- Application and achievements
- Suitability for IMT
- Ethical, professionalism and governance
- Communication in Station 1
- Clinical scenario: investigations, diagnosis and management
- Clinical scenario handover
- Communication in Station 2
The course prepares you for the different skills being assessed across these areas rather than treating the interview as one overall performance.
Your application is important for shortlisting, but under the current published process your self-assessment application score does not directly form part of the final interview score. Your achievements are assessed again at interview based on how you present and discuss the evidence from your own career.
The presentation needs to give a clear overview of the achievements most relevant to your application to become a trainee in internal medicine. The challenge is prioritisation. You only have two minutes, so you need to select the achievements that provide the strongest evidence rather than attempting to mention everything you have done. The course helps you decide what to include, structure the presentation clearly and deliver it naturally within the time limit.
No. Under the current official interview format, the two-minute presentation is verbal and visual aids such as PowerPoint are not permitted. You may use notes for your own reference, subject to the official interview requirements.
Communication is currently scored separately in both interview stations. This means that clear structure, appropriate language, concise explanations and your ability to communicate effectively with patients, colleagues and the interviewers themselves can directly influence your score. For that reason, communication is considered throughout the course rather than being treated as a separate topic at the end.
The clinical scenario is designed to assess how you analyse and manage an unfamiliar clinical problem rather than whether you can recite a memorised answer. You need to identify priorities, consider differential diagnoses, select appropriate investigations, explain management decisions and demonstrate safe escalation where appropriate. The course helps you develop a structured approach that can be adapted to different scenarios.
The handover needs to communicate the important information about the patient clearly, concisely and accurately within one minute. You need to distinguish essential information from detail that does not need to be repeated. We practise how to organise and deliver a focused handover within the time available.
Under the current official guidance, candidates may make notes during the interview to help structure their answers. Any notes made during the interview must not be shared and must be destroyed once the interview has finished. Candidates should always check the current official guidance before their interview in case requirements change.
Under the current published recruitment format, IMT interviews are conducted online using the national recruitment interview platform. Our preparation course is also delivered live online via Zoom, allowing you to practise verbal interview technique in an environment similar to the online format.
The course prepares you for both IMT interview stations, including achievements and suitability, the two-minute presentation, ethics and professionalism, communication, the clinical scenario and patient handover. We also focus extensively on interview technique: interpreting the question, prioritising what matters, structuring your thoughts quickly and delivering clear, convincing answers.
This course is designed specifically around the Internal Medicine Training interview rather than being a generic interview course adapted for IMT.
The teaching, exercises and practice focus on the national IMT interview structure and the skills candidates need to demonstrate in each station.
Yes. Practical interview preparation is central to the course.
You will have opportunities to answer IMT-style questions, work through scenarios and receive personalised feedback on your performance.
Courses are limited to a maximum of eight candidates so that there is meaningful opportunity to participate rather than simply observe.
Yes. Before the course, we ask you to review your CV and portfolio, reflect on your motivation and suitability for Internal Medicine Training and prepare examples from your experience that may be useful at interview. You will also be asked to prepare the two-minute verbal presentation, review your approach to common acute medical presentations and reflect on experiences involving professionalism, ethics, conflict, mistakes and learning. The presentation requirement will be updated to reflect the official 2027 guidance as soon as this is published.
We limit every IMT Interview Course to a maximum of eight candidates. This keeps the course highly interactive and creates time for practical exercises, discussion, individual participation and personalised feedback.
The course is delivered live online via Zoom. It is an interactive course rather than pre-recorded e-learning. You can participate in discussions, practise interview questions and receive feedback throughout the day.
Ideally, attend with enough time afterwards to practise and apply the feedback you receive. For many candidates, attending a few weeks before the interview works well. However, the approaches taught on the course can also be applied immediately if your interview is closer.
No. We want you to develop authentic, well-considered answers that reflect your own experience, judgement and understanding. We teach practical structures for approaching different types of question, but these are not scripts or algorithms to memorise. The aim is to help you organise your thoughts, identify what matters and communicate your own answer clearly and convincingly while remaining natural and adaptable.
The course is designed and overseen by experienced NHS consultants. This ensures that the content is appropriately pitched for doctors applying to Internal Medicine Training and remains focused on clinical judgement, professional behaviour and the standards expected within postgraduate medical training.
Make sure your preparation translates into performance
You have done the clinical work. Now practise how to select the right evidence, structure your answers, communicate your reasoning and perform confidently across both IMT interview stations.
What doctors say about our IMT Interview Course
Candidates particularly value the practical interview practice, small-group format and opportunity to receive individual feedback on their answers.
“The IMT interview preparation course completely transformed my approach. I went in feeling anxious and unsure, and came out with a clear strategy for tackling every type of question. The mock interviews and personalised feedback gave me the confidence I needed. I was delighted to be ranked in the top 5% of applicants for Internal Medicine Training. This is hands down the best IMT interview course out there.”
“This course broke down the interview process step by step, covering everything from clinical scenarios to ethical dilemmas. Ram’s advice on structuring answers was simple but powerful, and it made such a difference to my performance.”
“What I loved most was how interactive it was. Unlike other large group courses, this one had small numbers, which meant I got personal feedback on my answers. The role plays felt just like the real interview. By the end of the day, I felt well-prepared and confident.”
“I walked in nervous about how I’d come across, but by the end of the day I felt confident, polished, and ready. The trainer’s knowledge of NHS structure, management questions, and communication skills was second to none. I honestly think this course gave me the edge that helped me secure my IMT training post.”
“Excellent IMT interview preparation course! It covered all aspects of the process, from portfolio questions to clinical judgement. The teaching was clear, practical, and inspiring. I especially appreciated the insider tips on common pitfalls and how to avoid them.”
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