# Practising for Intensive Care Medicine (ST3) with MedMock

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## What is the Intensive Care Medicine ST3 interview, and how do you practise for it?

Intensive Care Medicine ST3 national interview, run online via Qpercom by the ICM National Recruitment Office: three 10-minute stations (a clinical scenario, commitment to specialty and task prioritisation), about an hour in all. In each station two assessors each award up to 20 marks across five domains and up to 4 marks for a global rating, so a station is worth 48 marks and the interview 144; at least 72 is needed to be appointable. Here, one examiner asks the questions. MedMock lets you practise it out loud against an AI interview panel, with examiner-style feedback on any station you finish.

## About Intensive Care Medicine (ST3) recruitment (official sources, checked 2026-10-13)

- 2025 recruitment round, NHS England figures for Intensive Care Medicine ST3: 537 applications for 181 posts, a competition ratio of 2.97.
Most of the following describes the previous recruitment round; the official pages have not yet been updated for the next one.
- Intensive care medicine ST3 recruitment is coordinated by the Intensive Care Medicine National Recruitment Office at NHS England in the West Midlands, on behalf of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.
- Recruitment to intensive care medicine training programmes is conducted once a year, for August commencement.
- The intensive care medicine interview was held online via Qpercom in three stations of 10 minutes each: a clinical scenario, commitment to specialty and task prioritisation.
- Two assessors in each intensive care medicine interview station scored the applicant independently, each domain was scored twice, and the total overall interview score was out of 144.
- A clinical assessor adjusted an applicant's intensive care medicine self-assessment score during verification where the evidence did not support it, and verified self-assessment had a maximum of 44 marks.
- Approved dual CCT programmes with intensive care medicine are with Emergency Medicine and Anaesthetics.
- Since the 2024/2025 application window, applicants can apply for intensive care medicine training at the same time as applying to any of its GMC-approved partner specialties.

Sources: https://medical.hee.nhs.uk/medical-training-recruitment/medical-specialty-training/competition-ratios/2025-competition-ratios https://icmnro.wm.hee.nhs.uk/ https://icmnro.wm.hee.nhs.uk/Portals/7/ST3%20ICM%20Applicant%20Guidance%20August%202026%20-%20FINAL_1.pdf https://www.phstrecruitment.org.uk/specialties/intensive-care-medicine

Recruitment dates: Applications 19 November 2026 to 10 December 2026 (national Round 2); Interviews within the national Round 2 window, 11 January 2027 to 9 April 2027 (source: Physician Higher Specialty Training Recruitment (PHST), checked 2026-09-24).
All Intensive Care Medicine (ST3) dates: https://medmock.com/exams/intensive-care-medicine-st3#dates

## Stations you can practise

- **Clinical scenario** — A written critical-care scenario given to you before you enter, with 5 minutes to read it and make notes. The assessors add new information as the scenario unfolds. Marked on problem solving, diagnosis, decision making, situational awareness and judgement, and organisation and planning of ideas.
- **Commitment to specialty** — Questions on your understanding of intensive care medicine and its training pathway, your personal strengths and weaknesses, reflection on your experience, the wider NHS and its influence on intensive care, and your achievements to date.
- **Task prioritisation** — A list of intensive care tasks given to you before you enter. You prioritise and manage the workload with the assessors, who add further information during the station.

## Sample Intensive Care Medicine (ST3) questions

- *Commitment to specialty:* Present your commitment to a long-term career in intensive care medicine.
- *Commitment to specialty:* Discuss your audit work relevant to ICU service practice.

## Example scenarios

- *Clinical scenario:* A 58-year-old man has been admitted to the ICU with severe community-acquired pneumonia and worsening type-1 respiratory failure on 15 litres of oxygen. Talk me through your initial assessment and the decision to intubate.
- *Commitment to specialty:* Why intensive care medicine, and not anaesthesia or acute medicine? What have you done over the past two years to confirm that this is the right specialty for you?

## How a practice session works

1. **Choose a station** — Choose the kind of question or scenario you want to rehearse — ethics, motivation, a role-play, and more.
2. **Have the conversation** — Speak naturally, out loud. The AI interviewer listens and asks the demanding follow-ups, just as a real interviewer would.
3. **Get instant feedback** — The moment you finish, you get specific, examiner-style feedback and a score — what you did well, what cost you marks, and precisely what to fix before the next attempt.

## Price

Start with a one-off £5 taster: 30 credits (30 minutes of speaking practice), not a subscription. After that, or instead, £69 per month for 350 credits. One credit is one minute of spoken practice, or two typed exchanges, and where the examiner or patient speaks first, that opening line is free. Examiner scorecards, mark schemes and model answers for finished sessions are included at no extra credit cost. Cancel at any time. Full details: https://medmock.com/pricing

## Frequently asked questions

### How does the feedback work?

When you finish a station you can have it marked, and the scorecard comes back in seconds — what you did well, what cost you marks, and exactly what to work on next. Scorecards, mark schemes and model answers are included at no extra credit cost.

### Can I practise specific Intensive Care Medicine ST3 stations?

Yes. You can pick any of the 3 stations to drill a weak area, or run a mixed set to simulate the real interview.

### How much does it cost?

You can start with a one-off £5 taster: 30 credits, which is 30 minutes of speaking practice, with no subscription. After that, or at any time, you can choose a monthly plan, which includes a monthly credit allowance. Current prices are on the pricing page.

## About MedMock

MedMock is a web app for practising the spoken parts of UK medical and dental exams and interviews out loud. The candidate talks; an AI patient, examiner or interview panel answers in real time by voice; and when the station ends MedMock marks the performance against that exam's assessment domains and shows the model answer.

It covers 104 spoken exams and interviews — OSCEs, vivas, structured oral exams, simulated consultations, and specialty-training and consultant interviews. It does not cover written or multiple-choice papers, and it is not a question bank.

It was founded by Mr Sam Nahas, MBBS BSc MEd FRCS (Tr & Orth), a practising consultant orthopaedic surgeon in the UK, with co-founder and CTO Arjan Jandu. It is operated by VirtualPatients Ltd (company no. 16303492).

Pricing: a one-off £5 taster of 30 credits to try it (not a subscription, one per account), and a monthly subscription from £20 to £129 depending on the exam (student exams cost least, fellowship exit exams and consultant interviews most), or £199 to £275 for the Intensive plans, which carry more credits. One credit is one minute of spoken practice, or two typed exchanges, and where the examiner or patient speaks first, that opening line is free. Examiner scorecards, mark schemes and model answers for finished sessions are included at no extra credit cost. Subscriptions can be cancelled at any time.

It runs in a web browser on a laptop or phone; spoken practice needs a microphone. There is no public demo: practice needs an account with credits, usually from the taster or a monthly plan.

MedMock is for adults aged 18 or over. Sign-up asks every new account to confirm it.

MedMock is a revision tool. The patients, examiners and cases are fictional and AI-generated; it is not clinical guidance and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any Royal College, the GMC, the GDC or any examining body.

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