# Practising for Sport & Exercise Medicine (ST3) with MedMock

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## What is the Sport & Exercise Medicine ST3 interview, and how do you practise for it?

Physician Higher Specialty Training national recruitment interview for Sport & Exercise Medicine ST3: three 10-minute stations, each with its own pair of interviewers. Station 1 is suitability and commitment; at its end you are given a written clinical scenario to review for a short time. Station 2 discusses that scenario and also marks your communication skills. Station 3 is a brief written ethical scenario. Both interviewers mark each of the four scored areas from 1 to 5, giving a raw score of 8 to 40; the areas are weighted 2.5 for suitability and commitment, 2.5 for the clinical scenario, 1.2 for communication and 1.8 for the ethical scenario. To be appointable you need no score of 1, no more than two scores of 2 and a raw score of 24 or more. Here one examiner voice runs each station and there is no simulated patient. MedMock lets you practise it out loud against an AI interview panel, with examiner-style feedback on any station you finish.

## About Sport & Exercise Medicine (ST3) recruitment (official sources, checked 2026-10-13)

- 2025 recruitment round, NHS England figures for Sport and Exercise Medicine ST3: 107 applications for 12 posts, a competition ratio of 8.92.
- The lead recruiter for sport and exercise medicine is the Midlands.
- The interview has three stations, each with a separate pair of interviewers, and takes about 40 minutes. It has three 10-minute questions, with communication skills marked in the clinical scenario, giving four scored areas.
- The three stations are suitability and commitment, a clinical scenario, and an ethical scenario.
- In the clinical scenario station, one mark is for the applicant's responses to the scenario and a second mark is for the communication skills displayed.
- Shortlisting scores applications purely through the self-assessment scoring framework. Commitment to specialty is assessed at interview instead.
- Besides physician training, sport and exercise medicine accepts applicants from emergency medicine and general practice training routes.
- In the previous round's person specification, emergency medicine applicants needed MRCEM or the FRCEM Intermediate Certificate by the offer date, and general practice applicants needed full MRCGP by the advertised start date.

Sources: https://medical.hee.nhs.uk/medical-training-recruitment/medical-specialty-training/competition-ratios/2025-competition-ratios https://www.phstrecruitment.org.uk/specialties/sport-exercise-medicine https://medical.hee.nhs.uk/medical-training-recruitment/medical-specialty-training/person-specifications/person-specifications-2026/sport-and-exercise-medicine-st3-2026

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 Sport & Exercise Medicine (ST3) dates: https://medmock.com/exams/sport-and-exercise-medicine-st3#dates

## Stations you can practise

- **Suitability and commitment** — Station 1: a 10-minute question on your commitment to ST3 training in the specialty, giving you the opportunity to expand on the information in your application form. (Physician Higher Specialty Training Recruitment)
- **Clinical scenario** — Station 2: a hypothetical clinical situation given to you in writing at the end of Station 1 and reviewed for a short time, then 10 minutes on the steps you would take, possible treatments, further information you would gather and how you would communicate with those involved. One mark is for your responses to the scenario and a separate mark is for your communication skills, with the people in the scenario and with the interviewers. (Physician Higher Specialty Training Recruitment)
- **Ethical scenario** — Station 3: a brief written ethical scenario to review and discuss for about ten minutes, focused on the moral, ethical and legal considerations rather than clinical management.

## Sample Sport & Exercise Medicine (ST3) questions

- *Suitability and commitment:* What is your understanding of the SEM curriculum and the subspecialty career options within it?
- *Suitability and commitment:* Walk us through your strongest closed-loop audit or QIP relevant to sport and exercise medicine.

## Example scenarios

- *Suitability and commitment:* Tell us about your commitment to ST3 training in sport and exercise medicine, expanding on what you wrote in your application form.
- *Clinical scenario:* A 25-year-old semi-professional footballer is referred to your MSK clinic three weeks after a non-contact knee injury with an audible pop, immediate effusion and a positive Lachman. He works full-time on a building site and is a year off his contract review. Walk us through how you would assess, investigate and manage him — and how you would communicate the operative and non-operative options to him in the room.
- *Ethical scenario:* You are the club doctor at a professional football club. The manager asks you to give the injured captain a local anaesthetic injection before tomorrow's play-off final. What are the ethical considerations, and what would you do?

## 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 Sport & Exercise 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

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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.

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