National Recruitment Office (NRO) Certification Testing

National Recruitment Office (NRO) Assessments

NRO assessments are designed to assess applicants with the required level of competence for joining the NHS postgraduate medical training programme or scheme they have applied to. The assessments provide scenarios in the workplace for applicants to demonstrate their judgement about the most appropriate behaviours in that context and, scenarios that test how applicants apply their clinical knowledge to make clinical decisions.

Scheduling an exam

Registration and scheduling

Scheduling a NRO assessment with Pearson VUE starts with registration on this site by creating a NRO specific Pearson VUE account. Once the window for applications has closed, applicants will receive correspondence from their recruitment lead containing specific account credentials and instructions that will enable them to register with an account. Upon the subsequent completion of essential eligibility checks, applicants will receive an invite correspondence from their recruitment lead confirming authorisation to the sit the relevant exam and instructions on how to schedule it.