Built from the ground up by past and current ACF panellists, these resources have been designed to train First Choice ACF members to be world-class interview candidates.
There are typically only one or two posts region and specialty for the ACF of your choice. Become the field leading, #1 candidate with our structure course and answer guides.
ACF Interview Question Bank
Our question bank contains a comprehensive registry of past real-world ACF interview questions, with examples from the 2014/15/16/17/18/19/20/21 interview rounds and tailored First Choice ACF guidance on how to respond to these. This will provide all the preparation you need to respond fluently and in a structured manner.
We recommend that you take the time to tailor your own personalised responses using our ‘My notes’ sections, which can be saved, edited and printed or downloaded for review for your interview preparation.
Clinical scenarios
Approach clinical scenarios like a specialty registrar. A detailed presentation with an overview of how to score maximum marks in common acute care scenarios, and links to key revision resources and validated frameworks for emergency care. Once you have completed this overview, then take away structured common clinical scenarios to work through with a friend in a patient/assessor and doctor format.
Quick-fire Knowledge
A comprehensive back of quick-fire questions to bolster your understanding of core academic concepts in preparation for the ACF interview. These include: Study design; Protocols & planning; Data collection; Statistical analysis; Research reporting; Bias and confounding; Qualitative research. This will help you to prepare for critical appraisal components, and be agile in your responses to 'curve-ball' questions that can arise related to the specific research interests of interviewers.
Critical appraisal
Work through our cutting-edge structured critical appraisal framework in five real-world academic papers and then present and compare your critical appraisal to our expert First Choice ACF panel, which includes peer-reviewers for the Lancet, BMJ and several other world-leading journals.