Specialty Recruitment Round 1 2027

Applications open at 10am on 22 October 2026 and close at 4pm on 19 November 2026. Interviews run from 11 January to 2 April 2027, and initial offers are released on 6 April 2027.

What scores for each route

• Internal Medicine Training CT1

  Any medical meeting counts. How big the meeting is only changes how many points you get. You must be first or second author, and you must have presented by 19 Nov 2026. Papers only count if they have a PubMed ID.

• Core Surgical Training CT1

  Attending scores nothing: you must have presented it yourself. The conference must be run or accredited by a UK Royal College of Surgeons, a national or international surgical organisation, or a regional deanery, or be CPD accredited. Presentations are one of six domains, each scored A to E at interview.

• ACCS Emergency Medicine ST1

  You talk it through at a ten minute portfolio station. There is no points matrix.

• Clinical Radiology ST1

  Presentations sit in one academic section worth 4 points. An oral scores the same as a poster, and a radiology topic scores more than any other topic. The abstract has to have been peer reviewed, so invited talks do not count. You must have presented by 19 Nov 2026.

• Ophthalmology ST1

  Not yet verified for this year.

• Paediatrics ST1

  You describe your presentation in a written answer and upload nothing. Those answers only decide who gets an interview. The interview alone sets your rank.

• Anaesthetics CT1 (incl. ACCS Anaesthetics)

  Part 3 of the form was removed, so nothing you present is scored. Put the time into the MSRA instead.

• Core Psychiatry CT1

  Offers come from your MSRA score alone. There is no interview and no portfolio.

• Obstetrics & Gynaecology ST1

  There has been no portfolio since the 2016/17 round. You can only talk about research at interview.

• General Practice ST1

  GP is MSRA only. There is no interview and no portfolio.

• Public Health ST1

  Not yet verified for this year.