Clinical Radiology ST1 interview
Clinical Radiology ST1 selection is built around scenario and commitment questions: why radiology, how you prioritise imaging requests and on-call findings, and how you handle discrepancies and professional problems. The stations below mirror the themes recent candidates describe; always confirm the current format in the official applicant guidance for your round.
Format based on published 2026 recruitment guidance. Last checked: September 2026. This is general information, not advice about your application — always confirm details with the official source for your round.
Structure
The stations, reproduced with real timings.
The simulator keeps to these durations and moves you on when the clock runs out.
Motivation and commitment
Why clinical radiology, what you have done to explore it, and your understanding of the specialty's future, including workforce pressures and AI.
Prioritisation and clinical scenario
Ordering competing imaging and intervention requests on call, and communicating time-critical findings to referrers.
Ethical and professional scenario
Reporting discrepancies, errors and professional dilemmas, with insight into discrepancy meetings and radiologists' miss rates.
Weighting
Where the marks sit.
Practice is weighted the same way, so your time goes where it counts.
What candidates work on here
- On-call prioritisation: clinical urgency, not scan type, and phoning through time-critical findings
- Discrepancy and error: the difference between an error and a miss, discrepancy meetings and published miss rates
- The wider radiology team, workforce pressures and a balanced, evidenced view of AI
Example questions
Original scenarios, written with clinicians.
Each question is mapped to the domains it assesses, so the summary you receive is specific rather than generic.
Prioritisation
“You are the on-call radiologist. Prioritise: a CTPA for a stable inpatient with chest pain; a staging CT for known bowel cancer; a chest drain for a haemodynamically unstable ITU patient with empyema; a CT head for a fallen patient on anticoagulation; and a screening CXR before immunomodulatory therapy.”
A panel would listen for
A systematic approach, safe prioritisation and knowing when to escalate
Professionalism
“You report a CT showing haemorrhage within a brain mass, and find the mass was present but not reported on a scan a year ago. How do you approach this?”
A panel would listen for
Structure, specificity and reflection
Commitment
“What have you done to explore a career in radiology, and what did those experiences teach you?”
A panel would listen for
Specific, honest reasons backed by your own evidence
Practise this interview until it feels routine.
One free mock interview, no card required. Scores describe your practice performance only.
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