🗞 Recent AST Blog Posts

ANRO announces new timings for CT1 Anaesthetics/ ACCS interviews
As many of you would be aware of by now, ANRO have announced shortening the length of both the clinical and general interviews to account for junior doctor industrial action. Many candidates are...
New Mock Practice Interview Sessions and ANRO 2024 Mark Schemes
We are delighted to announce 3 additional mock practice workshops to help you practice for the 2024 anaesthetics interviews. With some uncertainty around when ANRO will reschedule interview dates that...
Ace your 2024 anaesthetics interviews
We’re pleased to announce that the anaesthetics CT1 course is open for sign-ups for the 2024 summer interview round! ACCS and core anaesthetics interviews are open, with the vacancies announced...
Podcast – Stress management and how to approach the interview
Ellie successfully applied to core anaesthetics training in 2022 on her second attempt. In this podcast she talks about what she did differently the second time round and useful techniques she used to...
New stations and tutors for 2023!
We’re proud to announce on the success of a pilot round in 2022 that we’ll be expanding the question bank for 2023. We are excited to announce the addition of new practice stations and top...
Safe Anaesthesia Worldwide
We are delighted to be supporting Safe Anaesthesia Worldwide (SAWW) in their incredible work with every sign-up to https://stinterview.com/ast/. SAWW provides anaesthesia equipment and training to...
An Interview with Doctor Maddy – a Top 10 scorer for Anaesthetics CT1 
An Interview with Doctor Maddy Dr Maddy is a successful top-ten scoring anaesthetic CT1 for the August 2022 intake who we interviewed to provide some helpful advice for people aspiring to...
Did you know? Interview preparation videos for CT1/ACCS (Anaesthetics) are now available on the RCoA Website
In case you haven’t come across these already, the RCoA Recruitment Committee have worked with past trainees to give you a snapshot of what to expect in the next recruitment round through their...
Applicant Rankings by Deanery for Anaesthetics!
How many jobs are there? How many people apply? What is the competition ratio?This information exists on a UK-wide level, but we want to know what the stats are for the specific deaneries that I want...