Specialty training interviews in Australia
The questions specialty training panels ask, in the published formats of each programme, ranked by how often candidates report them, with the criteria panels score against.
Specialty Training Interview Questions Australia, ranked, with guidanceHot topics this round
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Interviews Aug to Oct
Australian anaesthetics training interviewThe candidate knows the acute scenario and, in a four minute answer to a silent panel, the answer drifts, stops early, or never reaches the escalation. The content is fine. The structure is poor, so the answer is poor.
Interviews Jul to Sep
Australian emergency medicine training interviewThe candidate can run the resus and tells the panel the interventions before the assessment, answers the ramped department as a clinical problem when it is a leadership one, and says they thrive on the pace when asked about burnout. The content is fine. The structure is poor, so the answer is poor.
Interviews Jul to Sep
Australian intensive care training interviewThe candidate knows the deteriorating ICU patient and gives the settings before going to the bedside; knows the family who want everything done and argues with them; decides the full unit by age. The content is fine. The structure is poor, so the answer is poor.
Interviews Jul to Sep
Australian basic physician training interviewThe candidate knows the role of a BPT and describes it as a list; knows the family refusing treatment is about respect and answers it as an argument; knows the deteriorating patient and gives the treatment without the escalation or the handover. The content is fine. The structure is poor, so the answer is poor.
Interviews Jul to Sep
Australian advanced physician training interviewThe candidate has passed the examinations and answers the unit's scenarios like a basic trainee: assesses, then defers. The research answer overstates and is found out. The content is fine. The structure is poor, so the answer is poor.
Interviews Mar to Jun
Australian surgical SET interviewThe candidate knows the acute surgical scenario and loses marks in the probing: the decision to operate deferred to a consultant two hours away, the complication described without the open disclosure, the cultural safety question answered as a definition. The content is fine. The structure is poor, so the answer is poor.
Interviews Jul to Sep
Australian paediatrics training interviewThe candidate knows the sick child and gives the management without the assessment that comes first, explains to the parent before listening, and confronts the parents in the child protection scenario. The content is fine. The structure is poor, so the answer is poor.
Interviews Jul to Sep
Australian psychiatry training interviewThe candidate can describe the biopsychosocial model and cannot describe a patient; knows risk assessment and lists factors without reaching a decision; faces a camera that does not respond and finishes with a minute left. The content is fine. The structure is poor, so the answer is poor.
Interviews May to Jul
Australian GP training (AGPT) interviewThe candidate knows the emergency three hours from the nearest hospital and describes the treatment without calling retrieval first; knows the neighbour at the shop is about confidentiality and refuses without warmth. In a six station MMI, each station is scored alone and a slow start cannot be recovered. The content is fine. The structure is poor, so the answer is poor.
Interviews Jun to Aug
Australian obstetrics and gynaecology training interviewThe candidate knows the obstetric emergency and starts the treatment before calling for help; knows the pregnancy loss conversation needs silence and fills it; argues with the woman who refuses the plan. The content is fine. The structure is poor, so the answer is poor.
Interviews Jul to Sep
Australian radiology training interviewThe candidate wants to read images and cannot say what they have done to find out; knows the acute reaction in the department and describes it without calling for help; agrees to the referrer's scan to avoid conflict. The content is fine. The structure is poor, so the answer is poor.
Interviews Jul to Sep
Australian pathology training interviewThe candidate wants the laboratory and sounds like they are leaving the ward; knows the critical result and leaves it in the system; works out the mislabelled specimen from the results. The content is fine. The structure is poor, so the answer is poor.
Interviews Jul to Sep
Australian ophthalmology training interviewThe candidate has years of commitment and recites it as a list; knows the eye emergency and examines before treating what cannot wait; faces a camera that does not respond and finishes with a minute left. The content is fine. The structure is poor, so the answer is poor.
Interviews Jul to Sep
Australian dermatology training interviewThe candidate has a research record they cannot explain under probing, a commitment assembled in six months, and knows the acute presentation but never says who they would call or when. The content is fine. The structure is poor, so the answer is poor.
Interviews Jul to Sep
Australian pain and palliative medicine training interviewThe candidate knows the biopsychosocial model and cannot describe a patient in whom all three mattered; knows the angry patient wants more opioids and either gives in or argues; is asked about assisted dying and deflects. The content is fine. The structure is poor, so the answer is poor.
Interviews May to Jul
Australian rural generalist training interviewThe candidate wants rural practice and answers the connection question with a rehearsed yes; chooses the advanced skill by interest and cannot say how they would keep it current; leads the small hospital by giving orders to nurses with thirty years of experience. The content is fine. The structure is poor, so the answer is poor.