Shortlisting for all specialties will be carried out in mainly the same way, the key difference being whether that specialty is assessing commitment to specialty as part of the application scoring process:
- Using your application self-assessment
- Verifying your achievements and re-scoring your application
- Giving an organisation/evidence of thoroughness score for your evidence
- Depending on the specialty, marking your commitment to specialty score and assessing if you meet the minimum commitment standards for the specialty
- Using the total score awarded to your application to invite to interview in score order.
There is not a set minimum score required, other than for commitment to specialty, and a specialty will invite eligible candidates to interview in accordance with their interview capacity.
To view the scores awarded to all submitted applications, including average scores and distribution nationally, for previous years please visit the relevant specialty's page.
Timing of shortlisting
This will vary by specialty and we are not able to confirm exactly when each will complete this. The dates which it is anticipated you will be asked to load your evidence for verification are published in each specialties 'Interview & posts' section of their page. Shortlisting for a specialty will usually be completed after this date and no later than seven days prior to their first interview date,
By this date, all candidates will be emailed confirmation that they will be invited to interview or have been placed on a reserve list. Reserve list candidates will be subsequently invited if places become available due to higher scoring candidates withdrawing their application.
However, there a few exceptions to the timing noted above.
Specialties with capacity to interview all
If a specialty can interview all who apply, in some cases they may choose to do evidence verification after shortlisting, and in some cases after interview. Whilst the application score will not be needed for shortlisting, a proportion of the score is used in the total score used for ranking and offers, so the verification will be completed before this.
Specialties with applications far exceeding interview capacity
If a specialty has a significantly greater number of applications than their interview capacity, they may choose to shortlist out candidates whose self-assessment score is too far away from the interview capacity cut off to have a chance of being shortlisted. Where this is the case, the specialty will withdraw candidates at an early stage, usually soon after applications close once numbers can be assessed against capacity.