Public Health ST1 Programme 2025 Entry

i found this helpful with practicing for situational judgment test
https://foundationprogramme.nhs.uk/resources/situational-judgement-test-sjt/practice-sjt-papers/

In which case I wonder what sort of scores are needed to progress.

I've bought an SJT book designed for medics. I seem to be doing very badly! Can anyone clarify whether when you rank SJT answers separately, or whether you're giving an order in which you're doing things?
I had thought you had to consider every option individually but my book seems to suggest it's listing the order in which you would do things!

Could you share a link to the book? I don’t think I’ve heard about this

Hiya my first time applying to the specialty programme just wondering when will we hear back if we are successful in the application stage?

On or before the 18th Dec I believe

Not quite the scores, but a research paper looking into PH application numbers over the period 2018-2020 said
'Over the 3 years, 1432 candidates attended the Assessment Centre, of whom 710 (49.6%) scored sufficiently highly to ‘pass’ it (Table 2). Yet due to the limited number of Selection Centre places, only 601 (84.6%) ranked sufficiently highly to take-up their invitations to Selection Centre'.
Quite an interesting paper on the bias of the process......I wonder if this is why they changed to not counting the assessment centre scores in the final mark!

Not quite the scores, but a research paper looking into PH application numbers over the period 2018-2020 said
'Over the 3 years, 1432 candidates attended the Assessment Centre, of whom 710 (49.6%) scored sufficiently highly to ‘pass’ it (Table 2). Yet due to the limited number of Selection Centre places, only 601 (84.6%) ranked sufficiently highly to take-up their invitations to Selection Centre'.
Quite an interesting paper on the bias of the process......I wonder if this is why they changed to not counting the assessment centre scores in the final mark!

Does that mean once you’re invited to interview, only your interview score determines whether you’re offered a post and when you end up location wise?

That's my understanding yes - it was a recent change. I believe it would make it fairer for non medics, as medics tend to score higher on the tests (maybe because they're a population that will be used to sitting rubbish like the SJT - for example, if you're a GP trainee applying you would have already done a type of SJT exam three times already!)

On or before the 18th Dec I believe

That's quite a bit later than last 2 years!

I keep refreshing Oriel but still nothing yet.

Mine has just updated!!

Mine too - no email/unread message but it says 'longlist completed, shortlist in progress'

Yes same here - assume we'll be emailed over the next day or so to book a test slot?