About ReViva
What we’re building
ReViva is an AI examiner for surgical trainees preparing for UK surgical selection interviews. It conducts voice-based mock interviews across the station formats used in real selection panels — from clinical cases and management scenarios to consent, communication, presentation, and portfolio stations, depending on the specialty.
The aim is simple: give every trainee unlimited, deliberate rehearsal of the situations that actually come up on interview day, without needing to corner a consultant for the tenth time this week.
Why we built it
Surgical selection interviews are the gate to the next stage of training. The interview is high-stakes, time-limited, and graded against a published mark scheme. Almost everyone who sits it has done the clinical knowledge work — the difference between a strong score and a borderline one is usually fluency under pressure: how you structure an answer, how you handle being interrupted, how you redirect when you’ve missed a stage.
Fluency comes from repetition with feedback. ReViva exists to make that repetition cheap, available at midnight, and calibrated to the actual panel rubric.
How it works
- You pick a scenario, a station type, and an examiner difficulty (calm, neutral, or strict).
- The AI conducts a 5–8 minute interview by voice. It listens, asks follow-ups, redirects when you skip a stage, and presses on weak answers — same as a real examiner.
- At the end you get spoken feedback across six sections (knowledge, structure, safety, communication, prioritisation, overall) and a score calibrated to the panel rubric.
- You can run the same scenario again at a harder difficulty until it’s easy.
What’s in the library
The current release covers Plastic Surgery ST3 selection and Core Surgical Training selection, with 180+ scenarios in total. Plastic Surgery spans clinical cases (hand trauma, burns, skin cancer, head and neck, microsurgery, breast and aesthetic, and more), consent, “call the boss” communication, and structured interviews. Core Surgical Training spans clinical emergencies across the surgical specialties, management and professional dilemmas, presentations, and portfolio stations.
Other surgical and non-surgical specialties are on the roadmap. Architecture is already specialty-aware so adding the next one is a content job, not a rebuild.
What we don’t do
ReViva is interview practice. It is not medical advice, clinical decision support, or a substitute for formal training. The AI examiner produces responses generated by large language models — we curate the scenario content and tune the model, but it can still make mistakes. Don’t use it for any clinical decision; see the Terms of Service for full detail.
Behind ReViva
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I’m a UK plastic surgery trainee who built ReViva after sitting the ST3 interview myself and realising how thin the realistic rehearsal options were — especially for the “think aloud under pressure” stations. The scenario library, scoring rubric, and examiner personalities are all calibrated against the published ST3 plastic surgery person specification and the national selection mark scheme.
Get in touch
Questions, feedback, or partnership ideas: see the contact page, or email us at support@reviva.live.