Resident Doctor (Paediatrics) practice interview
Assessing sick children, stabilising paediatric emergencies, prescribing safely and communicating with families. Practise the 5 questions interviewers ask for this role 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.
- Mid level
- 20 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
This interview tests how you assess children, recognise deterioration and make safe treatment decisions during paediatric residency. The panel also looks for careful dose calculation, useful escalation and communication that helps families understand what happens next.
How to prepare
- Revise structured assessment and stabilisation of common paediatric emergencies.
- Practise explaining a differential diagnosis from an age-specific history and examination.
- Review how you verify weight based doses and prevent prescribing errors.
- Prepare examples of escalation, multidisciplinary working and learning from feedback.
- Check the official licensing body for current registration and practising requirements.
Common mistakes
- Treating a child as a smaller adult instead of using age-specific findings.
- Giving a medicine dose without showing how you verified the weight and calculation.
- Forgetting escalation, reassessment or clear advice on when the family should return.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
5 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, 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 5 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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