2025 Course Details
You can subscribe now (instant access) to the video recording of the 2025 course (3.25+ hours of videos) + PDF course booklet + topic review booklet for £125 for 1 month here:
Key Points:
- Focused preparation for the FY2 Standalone Interview
- Key tips and techniques to boost your interview score and help you get an offer
- Understand the interview format and how examiners mark you
- Cover key theory and have an opportunity to volunteer to practice interview questions
- Realistic mock FY2 Standalone interview scenarios with detailed feedback and explanations
- Cover key clinical and ethical scenarios
- Interview techniques to boost your scores
- Ideal for anyone sitting the FY2 standalone interview
- Includes access to the recording for 1 month after the course for revision
This intensive course is dedicated to helping you boost your scores in the FY2 Standalone Interview.
The course covers:
Key Theory and Techniques for the FY2 standalone interview - Key attributes and domains tested in the FY2 Standalone interview. How to approach CV / employment questions, clinical scenarios, and ethical scenarios. Key tips and techniques to boost your scores.
FY2 Standalone Mock Interview Practice A large part of the course will allow doctors the opportunity to volunteer to do mock interview questions with detailed feedback and discussion of key things to cover with demonstrations of how a high scoring candidate might approach different scenarios. We will cover key questions and scenarios for all stations in the interview.
Questions and Answers - Dedicated question and answer session - ask anything you want about interview preparation.
Course Feedback
“I want to say a very big thank you to Dr Rahman and the Emedica team. Your FY2 standalone interview preparation course really helped me out and gave me the confidence I needed to face the panel. I ranked 6th and had a score of 94/100. I am so thankful. Using emedica resources was the best decision I made. Hopefully, it will also be my go to resource in the future. Thanks” Dr A D
“I am very pleased to share that I have been ranked 13! Your interview was extremely helpful and I am very grateful for all your support and guidance. Thank you very much” Dr S M
“I ranked 21, I’m extremely happy about this as I’m only just a medical student. I owe it to both your courses and all your help. Thank you so much.” Dr R N
“I ranked 27th out of 492 people, and I would like to express my sincere thanks for your SJT and interview preparation course. I cannot recommend it enough to anyone applying for the F2 standalone programme. Thank you so much for all your help.” Dr A D
“I'm happy to share that I ranked 82 with a score of 79. I believe that safely puts me within the number of posts available… I thank you and your team for helping me prepare for the interview and the SJT and also keeping in touch throughout the process. I look forward to availing your services and guidance in the future, possibly for the MSRA.” Dr S P
“I just wanted to say a massive thank you for today's interview session. It was extremely informative and very clear and methodical. Thank you all for your time and effort, really appreciate it a lot. Special thanks to Dr Rahman for his wonderful explanations and helpful suggestions and to Ms Masuda for her interview answer analysis and how to improve answers.” Dr A S
“Thank you so much for the amazing session yesterday. It was very informative and prepared us for what to expect in the actual interview. Thank you for answering all our questions as well.” Dr M U N
“Thank you for the wonderful session with Dr Mahibur Rahman! I am sure it will be useful for my interview preparation as I was able to get a deeper understanding of the interview and scenarios to practice…I had used your SJT Qbank previously as well which proved quite useful for my SJT Preparation. I am happy to share that I scored a 387 on the SJT which got me shortlisted for the interview. I found your bank very similar to the actual test and the timed version enabled me to practice answering questions under time pressure. Thank you for all your kind help and support!” Dr A S
The course will be taught by Dr Mahibur Rahman - the author of the first article on Situational Judgement Tests in medical recruitment (Tackling Situational Judgement Tests - BMJ Careers 2007). Dr Rahman is a Portfolio GP and a consultant in medical education - he is an expert in medical careers, and has taught over 82,000 delegates since 2005.
Course Programme
13.30 Welcome and introduction
13.35 FY2 Standalone interview overview
13.50 CV / employment question practice
14.45 Break
15.00 Clinical scenario practice session
16.10 Break
16.20 Clinical + ethical scenario practice session
17.30 Q&A
17.40 Useful resources, summary and final tips
17.45 Close
