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Testimonials

Feedback from across the cohorts — overall ratings at the top of the scale.

In their words

What candidates say

Anonymous feedback from ST7, ST8 and senior candidates across the 2026 cohorts.

Face-to-face element.
Course candidate
Lot of stations including 2 academic stations.
Course candidate
Multiple interactive stations… the more, the better.
Course candidate
Mimics exam, high intensity viva, great range of examiners.
Course candidate
Really useful to have the academic station practice and glad I got to do two over the two days. It was a really good opportunity to go through the exam process and mentally prepare for the upcoming exam.
Course candidate — Academic Surgery
★★★★★
Having a full circuit of exam stations with individual feedback was really helpful and not something available elsewhere. The subspecialty afternoon was also so helpful.
Course candidate — ST7, Breast
★★★★★
For HPB we essentially had private 1:1 tutoring covering the whole HPB syllabus on the Sunday afternoon. This was exceptional and more than made up for there being no pre-course lecture specific to HPB.
Course candidate — ST8, HPB
★★★★★
A fantastic course with the best faculty I have ever had at a course.
Course candidate — ST8, Colorectal
★★★★★
It mimicked the real exam. The advice given was concise and stressed exactly what questions will come up in the exam.
Course candidate — ST7, Colorectal
★★★★★
An excellent overview of Part 2.
Course candidate — ST7, Exam Orientation
★★★★★
A really big topic but very well covered without trying to do too much — and thank you for keeping to time, which was very much appreciated.
Course candidate — ST7, Trauma & Emergency
★★★★★
Excellent teaching. The presentation was very good and every slide was informative.
Course candidate — ST7, Academic Surgery
★★★★★
An excellent session — very thorough. The breadth of topics and the pace were great.
Course candidate — ST7, Upper GI
0%of candidates would recommend the course to colleagues
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