Internal medicine residency interview practice
Diagnostic reasoning, acute medical care, safe escalation and sustained management of adults with complex conditions. Practise the 5 questions the real interviewer asks with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- 20 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About this interview
An internal medicine residency interview tests how you approach undifferentiated adult illness, urgent deterioration and chronic disease with several interacting problems. The panel wants clear clinical reasoning, safe priorities and honest communication when evidence is incomplete.
How to prepare
- Revise structured assessment and initial management of common acute medical presentations.
- Practise forming a prioritised differential diagnosis and explaining which findings would change it.
- Review how comorbidities, medicine interactions and patient preferences alter long-term plans.
- Prepare examples of escalation, multidisciplinary work and learning from a clinical case.
- Check the official training body and programme information for current eligibility and document requirements.
Common mistakes
- Listing an exhaustive differential without ranking the most dangerous possibilities.
- Focusing on diagnosis while overlooking immediate stabilisation and escalation.
- Ignoring the patient's goals when discussing long-term treatment.
What to expect
A real mock interview
5 questions the way the real interviewer asks, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 4 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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