Panel interview preparation
A panel of three assessors, a job you have applied for, and 10 minutes per scenario to convince them you could do it safely. You read the scenario, then the questions start — out loud, with three voices that take turns.
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Example scorecard
3 supervision conditions attached
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Independent practice tool
Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Australian Medical Council
Flexible and self-paced
Up to 20 scenarios per rolling 24 hours
How it works
A scenario end to end, on the clock the providers run.
You have 3 minutes with the position and the vignette, which is what the providers give you.
10 minutes of questions from three assessors who take turns, probe different things, and do not tell you how you are doing. You can cut in, and so can they.
Suitable or not suitable, the reason a panel would give, 6 domains scored and commented on, the conditions a panel would attach, and the transcript with every line against the assessor who asked it.
What comes back
An example scorecard, invented, so the feedback is something you have read rather than something the page promised.
Example — the finding
A scenario is suitable at 4 of 7, for the position in this scenario and on this scenario alone
Example — the conditions
You would start safely in this position with the supervision it describes. You were willing to say what you could not manage alone, which is what this position turns on — but your retrieval threshold was higher than the distance from a bed justifies.
A panel would attach
Example — the transcript
Solo general practice, Level 3 supervision. Single-doctor practice, four hours by road from the nearest inpatient bed.
Dr Helen Marsden (Chair)
Good morning, doctor. This position is a single-doctor practice, four hours from the nearest bed. Tell us how that changes your practice.
You
It changes the threshold for everything. I would be transferring earlier than I would in a town with a hospital.
Dr Anita Rao (Assessor)
Earlier than what, specifically? Give me the case.
You
Chest pain I could not rule out as cardiac. I would not wait for a second troponin before I called.
2 things that held it there, each with why it mattered and the words that would have answered it, are on the scorecard as well.
Why ClinicalVitals
Three assessors with names and jobs, taking turns in natural spoken conversation. They follow up on what you actually said, and they can cut across you the way a real panel does.
The same answer is safe in a regional hospital and unsafe in a solo practice four hours from a bed. Every scenario names the job, and every answer is judged against that job rather than against general practice in the abstract.
A panel that finds somebody suitable routinely attaches supervision and scope conditions to the finding. Those sentences say what you should not yet be doing alone, and they are the most useful thing on the scorecard.
Sit a scenario again whenever you want and watch the 6 domains move. No panel to convene, and no waiting for a tutor.
Pricing
Every pass is a single payment for a fixed period. Nothing renews, and there is nothing to cancel.
$0
No credit card
One full scenario, marked, with the verdict and the transcript
$70 AUD
14 days, one payment
Up to 20 scenarios per rolling 24 hours
$200 AUD
3 months, one payment
Up to 20 scenarios per rolling 24 hours
The Exam Pass opens every scenario and the mock interview for 3 months, at $200 AUD. The 14-Day Sprint Pass is the same access for 14 days, at $70 AUD, for an interview that is already in the diary. A pass bought here covers the PESCI and only the PESCI.
Human review $49 AUD per scenario, optional.
If the service is not what you expected, ask within 20 days of purchase and we will refund the pass. Use the contact button in the corner of any page. Full pricing details.
The scorecard
The verdict is the headline. Underneath it, every scenario is marked on these 6, each out of seven, with a sentence saying why.
Suitable is not awarded over a domain the panel was not satisfied with: the verdict and the domains have to agree, which is the one place a strong talker cannot average past the answer that would have ended the interview.
The full thing
The whole thing end to end: 5 scenarios in front of the same panel, a little over an hour, with no marks until it is over. It shows you whether the answers you give in the fifth still hold up as well as the ones you gave in the first.
A pass is 4 of the 5, and that number is ours rather than a panel's. A real interview ends in one decision about one position rather than a count of scenarios, and no provider publishes a bar across them.
How the mock worksOptional
$49 AUD for one scenario, requested from your scorecard after you have sat it. A ClinicalVitals reviewer reads your transcript and writes the feedback themselves, usually within 5 days. It is a one-off charge against that scenario and is separate from any pass.
Educational feedback, and not AMC marking. The reviewer is not an assessor of record for any provider and cannot tell you what a real panel would decide.
How marking works
The questions run for the length of the scenario, and the marking is bounded to the minutes you actually had.
Every line is recorded against the assessor who asked it, so you can read your answer beside the question it was an answer to.
All 6, each out of seven, each with a sentence giving the reason — against the position the scenario named rather than against practice in general.
Suitable or not suitable, with the reason a panel would give and the supervision conditions it would attach.
Marked automatically by AI, for practice. Indicative only — AI feedback can be incorrect or incomplete, it is not an official exam result, and this service is independent of any examining body.
Full-duplex audio: you can cut in and the assessors can do the same. Each one keeps the same voice every time you sit a scenario, so the chair sounds like the chair.
3 minutes reading, then 10 minutes of questions, with a chime at one minute left. The countdown runs against a real deadline and cannot be paused.
The chair says which job this is before the questions start, and it is in the marking prompt as well — because an answer that is safe in one position is unsafe in another, and both of you have to be weighing the same one.
ClinicalVitals assesses the content and structure of your answers, not whether you sound like a native English speaker. Speech recognition can occasionally produce transcription errors, so transcript-based feedback should be read with that limitation in mind.
Questions
Plainly
In short
3 minutes with the panel, free and without an account — then one full scenario marked, with the verdict and the conditions, once you have signed up. $200 AUD then opens every scenario and the mock interview for 3 months.