Internal Medicine Training scores your application out of 30 marks across six self-scored domains, from the published IMT application scoring for 2026. Evidence is not routinely uploaded, but a randomised audit can demand it, so every claim still needs to be backed by real documents. Separately from these 30 marks, applying only to the joint IMT and ACCS-IM vacancy in Round 1 adds 5 points to your shortlist score. The 2027 version of the framework publishes in autumn 2026.
What the sections are
- Postgraduate degrees and qualifications — 4 marks. Full marks looks like: "PhD or MD by research."
- Presentations and posters — 6 marks. Full marks looks like: "Oral presentation at a national or international medical meeting."
- Publications — 8 marks. Full marks looks like: "First author, joint-first author or corresponding author of PubMed-cited original research."
- Teaching experience — 5 marks. Full marks looks like: "Worked with local tutors to organise a teaching programme and taught regularly on it for around three months or longer, with formal feedback."
- Training in teaching — 3 marks. Full marks looks like: "Higher qualification in teaching, such as a PG Cert or PG Diploma."
- Quality improvement — 4 marks. Full marks looks like: "Involvement in all stages of two cycles of a quality improvement project."
What costs people marks
- Teaching without formal feedback evidence scores zero — every band in the teaching domain requires it.
- Degrees count highest-qualification-only, and presentations are marked on your single best one. Stacking more of the same adds nothing.
- Evidence is not routinely uploaded, but a randomised audit can demand it — self-scoring generously without documents to match is a real risk.
- Self-published books do not count as publications, and 'PubMed-cited' means the publication has a PubMed ID.
- Check the small print on the qualification bands before claiming: the diploma or certificate band covers courses lasting between one and ten months whole time equivalent, 'occasional' teaching means at least three sessions, and training in teaching below PG Cert level must include at least six hours of live teaching time.
Check the official document
This page is a plain-English summary of the framework as Docrr models it — it is not the framework itself. Before you rely on any number here, check the official source: IMT recruitment application scoring.
Scoring frameworks change annually, sometimes substantially, and the version that matters is the one attached to the round you are applying in. Last checked against the source on 2026-08-17.